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Best sound at Stereophile show.

I got to rate the Dynaudio room as the best sounding Room. They used the Dynaudio C4 speakers which listed for 16,000. All I can say is, they sounded incredible. They sound very smooth with an amazing soundstage. Bass was really good.

I also liked the Gamut Room. Gamut used probably the largest Amp I'v ever seen. The Amp weighed 400 pounds. Speakers were the Pipedreams with the Gamut CD Player. The system sounded very 3 dimentional with a good bass response. I also got to thank Ole Lund Christensen. He's the designer of Gamut. He played by far the best music. He played upbeat classical, where you could judge the midrange and bass of the speakers. He also played brick in the wall by Pink Floyd. I felt to many rooms played to much Jazz and violin music, where you just couldn't judge the speakers. Also, Ole played what ever CD you gave him.

I also loved the Wilson Watt Puppies 7. What totally amazed me. Wilson played alot of the time, the Watt Puppies 7 with the massive Wilson Sub. I thought that Sub would totally boom up the bass on the Watt Puppies. But it was the exact opposite. The Wilson Sub blended in so perfectly with the Wilson Watt Puppy 7 speakers.

I also liked the Tact room. They had those new Tact speakers that must have been 7 feet tall. They sounded great.

Most amazing home theater performance had to be in the Audio Video Creations room. They used a Pioneer 50 inch Plasma TV. Krell multichannel Amps, Krell Preamp processor, Krell DVD Player, Piega speakers and Piega Sub. They played clips from Jurassic Park and Matrix. Holy Moley did this system sound unbelievable. It was so incredible sounding.

Another thing that really impressed me. In the NAD room, one of the people there downloaded a Jewel peformance from the Jay Leno show on High Definition TV. They downloaded the Jewel performance to a hard drive, then transferred it to a DVD recorder. This picture quality was amazing. It was so perfect the picture.

I also really liked this Antique Sound Headphone Amp with Senheiser headphones. It listed for 1200 dollars. You could also used this as a preamp. The Antique Headphone Amp used 2A3 Tubes. It sounded so perfect and could go very loud without breaking up. Plus it had that nice tube sound.

Also alot of the designers were really nice. I mentioned Ole. Al from Dynaudio, Mark O'brien from Rougue Audio, Dale Fontenot from Roman Audio speakers, Alan Yun from Silverline, Tash Goka from Divergent technologies and Gilbert Young from Blue Circle were really good guys.
twilo
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marakanetz
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I cannot say that I listen to only the hard rock or overdriven guitars but in my opinion if the speakers can't follow the rock guitar slams(i.e. slow) won't suit the music that I listen to. MBL in these terms are handycapped pedestrians. I like "BMW" type better. And indeed maybe for blues it's good enough to be a pedestrian but not for 300 drum hits per minute rhythms! The demo guys were always taking proposals from the listeners(which is nice) but I've never found anything I've asked to play sound right.
MBL transport/dac with different speakers/amps(dyna??/Plinius 8200) I've heard much more successfull and probably 10x cheaper.
plato
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Well Marakanetz, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on the MBL's. Everything they played when I visited sounded quite good and natural to me and I was familiar with a couple of the selections. For you to say that they had the worst sound at the show based on how poorly it reproduced Ozzie Osbourne really makes me chuckle. :)

Unsound, thank you for your comments -- I'm with you on this one.
twilo OP
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I also wanted to mention the Innersound room. The Innersound electrostatics using the Innersound amp and the Smart Theatre amp 2X150VT Hybrid Power Amplifier.
They were also using a Dat player. The speakers sounded very open with a layered type midrange. The bass was really good. By the way, did anyone hear the reproduction Classic speakers in the Atmosphere room. There horn speakers. Those speakers sounded horrible. I also didn't like the Eggleston speakers with the Manley tube amps. The system sounded way to bright.
twilo OP
357 posts
 
I finally heard the Montana EP speakers. They use 2 8 inch Scanspeak woofers, 2 5 inch Scanspeak Kelvar midbase drivers and the Scanspeak tweeter inbetween the Kelvar midbases. I heard them on this cool looking Swiss amp called Dartzeel amp. I was so disappointed with them. The Montana's sounded to bright. It was obvious, those Scanspeak Kelvar midbase drivers aren't good. I would love to hear these speakers with the 5 inch Scanspeak Revalator midbase. Those Scanspeak Kelvar midbase drivers have got to go. The Focal Kelvar midbase is superior then the Scanspeak Kelvar midbase. Scanspeak makes amazing paper drivers and there new Revalator midbase, which i heard on the tact speakers sounded great. Montana must get rid of these Scanspeak Kelvar drivers and use the new Revalator midbase drivers.
tekunda
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After reading through all the posts I think its easy to agree on one thing: the perfect speaker does not exist.
The opinions are not even close on agreeing what the best sound was at the show.
Look at the MBL speakers, some say it was just awful, some say it was one of the best rooms. How is this possible
Any idea why the opinions can differ that much? Has it only to do with perception or personal taste, or what other reasons could it be?
I heard the LumenWhite - Vaic setup once, great components, great speakers, but far too civilized, too lean for my taste. I have to have speakers which present the music with a certain weight and authority.
BTw, I did not visit the show, so anybody knows if they had Soundlab electrostats at the show?
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