The Bosh Report, such as it is. Life's realities saw to it that I only attended on opening day. However, that single day was far more productive than any three at past shows. Attendance was, by most experienced estimates, light ("even for a press-only day", I heard someone remark). But your 6moons Action Force was there in spades and I wouldn't be surprised to learn that we took the door prize for near-perfect attendance by a media outlet. I luxuriated in the comparative ease of getting from floor to floor and the breezy access/egress of almost every uncrowded room. Between the hours of 11AM and 7PM, I managed to cover every floor twice; dragging a found friend or fellow moonie back to selected rooms on yet a third pass. This was a real improvement over previous years when, attending on general admittance days, I was lucky to cover two full floors out of four or five and would often find the same, usual-suspect rooms too full to enter day after frustrating day. I certainly didn't miss past years' characteristic cheek-to-jowl compression of the upper floor hallways. Wedged among so many Japanese audiophiles, I felt like a shorter version of Bill Murray in "Lost in Translation". And what is it about this hobby that either attracts or creates such a pushy phalanx of people of predominantly portly proportions? If your amp is placed close enough to the floor, you should at least be able to work in a toe-touching tummy bend every once in a while. Keep your albums on a high enough shelf and you'll have a downright calisthenics program going and the rest of us won't be clotted behind you missing yet another elevator. |
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Chaos Theory. "Nature finds a way." It was great. The same room had a second big pair of vintage horneys, Tannoy Autographs that because of technical troubles had been relegated to static display by the time I arrived. Unfortunate - but being anything other than grateful for this wonderful museum-quality room would have been greedy and stupid. |
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Most Jazz for the Jump and My Best of Show contender? |
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factured in 1933, I realized a person could live to be 200 and not hear all there was to hear out there. Let's just say '33 was a very good year. Here was a full system consisting of the Tektron integrated, Omega Grande 8 speakers, Pioneer DV563A SACD/DVD-A/MP3 deck and a pair of Sophia Electric 300Bs for a total of $3,203! And this system gave up little to nothing compared to similar sized systems costing nearly $40,000 - and it easily bested the majority of them in aliveness, excitement and immediacy. |
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I just have got to get my hands on this integrated and Tektron's little phono stage too which, while not included in the showcased "basic system", also sounded implausibly excellent. Could real value be making high-end headway at long long last, no longer the almost soul responsibility of Joe Lau of Antique Sound Lab? Tektron seems ample reason to hope. [Exchanging e-mails with Robin Wyatt while formatting this very paragraph, he informs us that Art Dudley of Stereophile expressed a similar interest. Depending on schedules, Art may scoop you on this - but you're on the books as well and no matter what, Robin and Tektron will get their well-deserved 2-for-1 coverage. And while Candyman went ape over Tektron as well, Bosh is the man on this one - Ed.] |
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Grooviest name for a new product and the I Want Those Speakers room: |
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There's more to his amp than meets the eye. His 26-point patent was awarded without denying a single one of the 26 claims. If you didn't think there was anything new under the transistor-amp sun, think again. I did and can't wait to get the details of Daniel's unique circuitry. It' got to do with a form of feedback that only operates when needed and otherwise removes itself from the signal path. Mating a high-power solid-state amp with 100dB speakers just isn't done - but here it sounded excellent indeed. Once I understand the hows and whys, we'll report on it, promise - Ed.] A little unusual to run horns with oceans of transistor power but I'll tell you one thing: With these amazing Lowthers being pushed by Red Planet's crisp muscle, you'd never even consider adding a sub. And I'm a bass ninny if ever there was one. |
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