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    Rosso Fiorentino "Volterra" speakers at SouthWest Audio Fest

    What model where they showing? Did it have a rear-firing tweeter? Ime Von Schweikert does a very good job of integrating their rear-firing tweeters.
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    Rosso Fiorentino "Volterra" speakers at SouthWest Audio Fest

    Very interesting! I wonder if this could have played a role: We got to the Estelon room during the final hour of the show, so perhaps there was some tweakage that took place between your visit and ours? (Enjoying your video of the presentation of field coils - THANK YOU for hosting and...
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    Rosso Fiorentino "Volterra" speakers at SouthWest Audio Fest

    Oboy, everything! They were vivid and utterly relaxing at the same time. Timbre was rich and natural-sounding including all the way down; the soundstage ranged between huge and huger from one recording to the next; voices and instruments were clearly layered in ways I had never heard before on...
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    Rosso Fiorentino "Volterra" speakers at SouthWest Audio Fest

    No, and I'm kicking myself for that! Somehow I missed the Von Schweikert room. It was on my mental list of rooms to visit, I may have gotten distracted and walked past it somehow.
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    Rosso Fiorentino "Volterra" speakers at SouthWest Audio Fest

    My wife and I attended the SouthWest Audio Fest on Sunday. We didn't make it to all of the rooms. A bit of background: My wife and I are both very sensitive to harshness/edginess/shoutiness/shrillness. More than once she gave me the quick tap on the leg to signal her ears couldn't take it...
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    German Physiks Unicorn: An alternate take on single driver speakers. Did you ever have a chance to audition it? What did you think?

    VERY INTERESTING! Thanks for posting this insider information! There was another room with omnidirectional speakers and they used a lot of plants as diffusion, maybe they had some absorption as well that I didn't notice (the lighting was pretty dim). My wife and I both preferred your room by...
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    German Physiks Unicorn: An alternate take on single driver speakers. Did you ever have a chance to audition it? What did you think?

    @Basile: Locrian Audio: Your room at Southwest Audio Fest had absolutely beautiful, natural, warm, rich, relaxing tonality. And this was without room treatments in what was probably a narrower-than-ideal room. My wife and I both thought your room was among the very top rooms.
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    Mike Lavigne's new speakers

    I have noticed and admire this about you. You SHARE your journey for the sake of SHARING with kindred souls, knowing all along that a few will choose to react negatively. Fortunately this forum is effectively a safe place.
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    Introducing the Alana loudspeaker by Illusio Audio

    Thank you for running the music! Yup. Mom says hi.
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    Introducing the Alana loudspeaker by Illusio Audio

    Unfortunately I don't know whether any full orchestral was caught by anyone recording in the room. Michael Fremer came in and we played "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Eiji Oue directing the Minnesota Orchestra) and several times during the piece he said "very good" and when it was over he said...
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    Introducing the Alana loudspeaker by Illusio Audio

    One is just barely visible to the far right-hand side. Another is behind the screen, along the front wall, just so happened that location worked. The third was to our left, closer to the rear of the room and elevated atop the room's little refrigerator-in-a-cupboard. The fourth was along the...
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    Introducing the Alana loudspeaker by Illusio Audio

    Thursday evening before Capital Audio Fest (2022) opened, J.R. Boisclair of WAM Engineering came to our room (623) and performed his multiple-subwoofer setup procedure. The specifics of his procedure are proprietary but when he was finished we had bass that was flat (aside from a small dip in...
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    Introducing the Alana loudspeaker by Illusio Audio

    No, the enclosure is a fairly low-tuned bass reflex system. We wanted the midwoofer to go low enough to match up well with the distributed multi-sub system, and that's not practical with a cardioid system, at least not unless we go with something considerably larger and/or more complex. We...

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