Are Audio Tekne there?
Watching a Youtube vid the ESD Acoustic looks impressive!
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Watching the same Youtube video I just mentioned makes it look like they are some sort of acoustic panel, they look about 6-8" deep.
1hr 1 min in.
To hide the banks of battery power supply Iâd guess
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So not everything being played sounds like someone pushing a piano down a flight of stairs?
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It was good to see you, and good on you for sitting through the whole 20 minutes of one side, it did move onto different styles of music, but just after you left 
It is a good album mind, and glad u enjoyed it 
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This
was pretty âimprovisedâ 
A little more detail on HiFi Deluxe now Iâm no longer just on a phone.
You can preface everything that follows with âin my opinionâ.
Despite the actual speakers being absurdly large, the Acapella room was indeed very good. Although the guy needs to step back from exclusively playing jazz. At least it wasnât all Chris Barber parp-parp-parp like the last Acapella demo I saw there.
Big shout out to the ghost of Chelsea Dave (really quite unnerving when I first saw him) in a vinyl LP motif shirt and a purple smoking cap with gold tassels. He unsurprisingly turned out to be a Brit.
These guys were actually very good.
Theyâre from
with a claimed sensitivity of 97dB at 1w / 1m Iâm not sure that they needed the 400w into 8Ω that this thing
kicks out.
Next in my preferences was the Marco Serri Design.
https://www.marcoserridesign.com/copia-di-venezia-1
I guess 42cm and 38cm woofers donât hurt the sound. No idea about the oil rig amplification.
Finally a special mention for Diesis Audio
I have a nasty feeling that the âtwo pairs of speakersâ arenât an either/or, rather the âRoma Triodesâ
were being backed up by some mental undocumented subwoofers. This room was playing kind of ambient music with (to my uneducated ears) Chinese lyrics - see later.
Overall the show was very sparsely attended. The web site is appalling and it was unclear to me whether the show was even going ahead. The guy from Oxford Audio on the plane in expressed surprise when I said I was attending âshowsâ (plural).
You could be forgiven for thinking that it might not go ahead next year. However (probably straying into casual racism) the attendees appeared to be a good 30% from the Far East, and they werenât there for giggles. I heard multiple active negotiations about âhow much?â and âhow are we going to get these giant bastards back to Japan / China / Korea?â.
I really enjoy getting vicarious kicks out of other folksâ combined dedication to batshit audio (and the money to finance the dedication - most of the speakers appeared to weigh in at around âŹ150k). I hope the show continues next year.
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Ha ha, we got all classical when we were in the room, best of Deluxe for me. The Bayz sounded promising in a really difficult room with modest by the standards of these shows system. Much better than Whittlebury.
We bumped into the Harbeth guys on the way to the airport Sunday and went for a beer with them. They had no idea there was another show, how many years have they been going to Munich, probably not years, more like decades.
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I only discovered this year that Atrium 3.1 at the MOC even existed
Iâve always assumed that there was only an atrium above hall 4.
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Alan Shaw would just say that all hifi shows look the same.
Iâd hazard a guess heâd never leave the confines of the Harbeth room at any event
