Can anyone tell me where the progress in audio went?

tannoy:

The sound of the speakers you linked on YouTube video is not very good (and that's putting it mildly).

I went the extra step and played it (the video) through my mini-system via the iMac  and the sound was even worse.

I have a small vinyl collection of Maori tribal music and it sounds a LOT BETTER on my vintage single driver speakers than it does on the speakers in that video.

Whether the problem is with the video/recording quality, or not I do not know, but I do know that it (the video) sounds awful.

DeKay

What I posted was original and not a recording of speakers. It shows all that is missing and was added.  YouTube videos are near worthless to determine anything about audio components.

dekay

The video I presented to you is not to be evaluated as a critical listening experience of the system, but to provide the viewer with some ideas and hint of what is possible to achieve with vintage drivers, transformers, capacitors etc. In addition, the recording was made in a hotel room at the Munich hi-fi show - not in a professional studio/environment with the best possible tools for recording. Furthermore, I was present in the room and can tell you that under those inadequate recording  conditions ,  that the sound reproduction by the system was near spectacular.

"The video I presented to you is not to be evaluated as a critical listening experience of the system, but to provide the viewer with some ideas and hint of what is possible to achieve with vintage drivers, transformers, capacitors etc."

Really? How were you supposed to be demonstrating that with such poor material and bad sound? I think that I have heard sound just as spectacular made by garbage collectors in alleyways...with better dynamic range.

That looked like a great system. Why wouldn't he choose a demo track with a combination of percussion, human voice. strings and brass instruments to showcase its capabilities?

Roxy54

As I mentioned prior, the demo was provide by a professional audio reviewer , who dropped  by the room, asked for his cd to be played and made a video recording of it. Later on, he posted the video on youtube. Obviously, he did like this recording or he was trying to hear a specific sound reproduction from the CD track he was familiar with. That’s all.

Judging from you posting logo of yours, you must be big on SS Mcintosh gears. If this is what makes you happy - Enjoy the music!