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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
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?
plato
1,543 posts
 
Tekunda, you pose an intriguing question, "How can opinions on sound quality differ so much?" Of course it depends on one's listening biases, his/her individual hearing curve, and familiarity (like or disdain) for the particular music being played. Even one's own past listening experience comes into play. I think folks tend not to like presentations that are radically different from what they hear from their personal systems, even if the radical differences are for the better. Having attended my fair share of audiophile demonstrations, I know, first-hand, that it is not uncommon for 'philes to totally disagree on whether what they have heard was good or bad. Interestingly, they usually agreed on what they had heard -- but some would like it and others would not. I used to say that if musicians were playing live behind a curtain, that half the audiophiles in the room would swear that the sound was totally unnatural and inaccurate. It seems to be the nature of the beast.

The only reason that I even posted about the MBLs was because the other fellow who posted insisted that they had the "worst" sound at the show. That just seemed too far left of center for me to ignore. If he had merely said he disliked them I could have let that lie. But he is entitled to his opinion -- as are we all.

Even if there were such a thing as a "perfect speaker," there would be those who would insist it was flawed and not to their liking. Of that, I am entirely certain. :)
avnut
153 posts
 
I felt that overall the best sound of the show was the Wilson/ VTL room. The setup was perfectly suited to the room. Also, Mr. Wilson probably personally set this room up as he did (as I understand) at this years CES.

I have never been quite sure about the base output of the WP 6's. The 7's bass is probably a little better. But this setup included the Pow-WOW sub. It really worked well to smooth out the whole sonic picture. Basicly, the speaker did not have to work as hard.

The sound was sweet, liquid, smooth ans incredibly fast!!

This is the only speaker demo I have ever heard that actually sounded truly...a - live. How do they do that? Really. What drivers and technology are being used to achieve this? BTW, I am not a Wilson fan but I am fascinated by my experience.
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