Post by ChrisB on Jul 3, 2016 12:04:50 GMT
Another dispatch from the Cranage Hall North-West Audio Show last week....
Looking a bit like a pair of Hornings in a beautifully rich walnut veneer, these are made in Athens and use modified Fostex drivers top and bottom - the larger driver running close to full range into a >2 metre long folded and downward firing horn and with a bullet super tweeter on top.
Apologies for the poor photo taken from my phone (camera packed up early in the day).
The amps were from Grandinote, the same Italian company as were represented in the room with the Soundkaos open baffles - they use a configuration of transistors coupled via output transformers.
I went into this room a couple of times and for my first visit, I stayed for quite a while and enjoyed immensely what I heard - the music chosen by the exhibitor was often conveyed quite spellbindingly. One piece of music which I don't know and featured organ and cello was superb. On the second visit, again I stayed a while and the room was quite busy, with people commenting how good it sounded, however, after a while Steve (Accudazed) asked the exhibitor to play a Steely Dan track from a CD/SACD that he had with him. This is where it all fell apart and the bass was quite obviously not being portrayed very well at all.
Until that moment, though the system had seemed quite superb.
Looking a bit like a pair of Hornings in a beautifully rich walnut veneer, these are made in Athens and use modified Fostex drivers top and bottom - the larger driver running close to full range into a >2 metre long folded and downward firing horn and with a bullet super tweeter on top.
Apologies for the poor photo taken from my phone (camera packed up early in the day).
The amps were from Grandinote, the same Italian company as were represented in the room with the Soundkaos open baffles - they use a configuration of transistors coupled via output transformers.
I went into this room a couple of times and for my first visit, I stayed for quite a while and enjoyed immensely what I heard - the music chosen by the exhibitor was often conveyed quite spellbindingly. One piece of music which I don't know and featured organ and cello was superb. On the second visit, again I stayed a while and the room was quite busy, with people commenting how good it sounded, however, after a while Steve (Accudazed) asked the exhibitor to play a Steely Dan track from a CD/SACD that he had with him. This is where it all fell apart and the bass was quite obviously not being portrayed very well at all.
Until that moment, though the system had seemed quite superb.
