Genesis 10th Anniversary Show: International CES 2013

[garylkoh]

I always thought amplification is most important.Any mistake you make gets amplified. It's just the speakers are so much harder to get right.

The amplifiers amplify any mistake, but I think that at the current state of the art, the amplifiers add the least distortion in the chain. Some amplification add euphonic distortion, and I don't like that, but I know some do.

According to Touraj: of the turntable/tonearm/cartridge triumvirate, he thought that the weak link was the tonearm, and hence his work on the tonearm.

One element that I did not mention because so many on this forum do not believe in cables making a difference, is that all the cables in the system was also designed by Touraj. He thought that the weakest link in many systems was the cables, and hence that was his first product.

 

[Gregadd]

The problems with cables is they should do nothing. Like a window we should see it only when it's dirty.Cables should be seen and not heard. try describing the qualities of a good window pane.
When we think about amplification We go from the tiny little signal emerging form a moving coli cart to thunderous output of a speaker. There is lot of room for error in that process.
So what version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow was that? Detail has a lot to do with emotional response.

 

[A.wayne]

Cables are very much system dependent , seeing we are dealing with what is effectively an RLC circuit, the biggest difference being noise rejection, this again was proven out last night when comparing 4 different types of cables, the changes were astonishing ....

Good in one system may not translate to good in all systems ....

 

[garylkoh]

So what version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow was that? Detail has a lot to do with emotional response.

Eva Cassidy Songbird. Last track, side 2. I mentioned why I picked this album to demo here:
http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showt...ional-CES-2013&p=159407&viewfull=1#post159407

 

[Gregadd]

thanks Gary. I was thinking Judy Garland or Patty La Belle.

 

[garylkoh]

Songbird was the posthumous LP release by Eva Cassidy's father - comprising tracks from all her albums.

The last song, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, on the LP is a different version from all the CDs - I've heard that it's a studio version recorded after she found out that she had cancer, and she's singing with heartfelt emotion - she would soon be somewhere over the rainbow looking down on people who loved her.

Here's the story of the track from her website: http://evacassidy.org/eva/otr.htm

 

[microstrip]

(...) One element that I did not mention because so many on this forum do not believe in cables making a difference, is that all the cables in the system was also designed by Touraj. He thought that the weakest link in many systems was the cables, and hence that was his first product.

Gary,
Were you using cables from the standard Pulse series or some Vertere custom designs?

 

[garylkoh]

Gary,
Were you using cables from the standard Pulse series or some Vertere custom designs?

The cables were all standard Pulse series. 0.8m Pulse Handmade for Ph100 to preamp, 7m Pulse-R for preamp to power amp, 2m Pulse-X Reference speaker cables.

The Vertere Reference Tonearm had its own cable, and we used the Pulse Reference for the Graham arm.

 

[Gregadd]

the girl with the five octave voice

She also died of cancer in her prime. Mor widely known for her rendition of Loving you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94nDCm4NqIA

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Songbird was the posthumous LP release by Eva Cassidy's father - comprising tracks from all her albums.

The last song, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, on the LP is a different version from all the CDs - I've heard that it's a studio version recorded after she found out that she had cancer, and she's singing with heartfelt emotion - she would soon be somewhere over the rainbow looking down on people who loved her.

Here's the story of the track from her website: http://evacassidy.org/eva/otr.htm

some of us have been enthralled with Eva for awhile....

http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/music/messages/3/37831.html

 

[microstrip]

The cables were all standard Pulse series. 0.8m Pulse Handmade for Ph100 to preamp, 7m Pulse-R for preamp to power amp, 2m Pulse-X Reference speaker cables.

The Vertere Reference Tonearm had its own cable, and we used the Pulse Reference for the Graham arm.

Considering the price of the total system we can say that you were sparing on cables!

 

[garylkoh]

Considering the price of the total system we can say that you were sparing on cables!

I would have said that considering the price of the total system, the cables were great value for money!!

 

[NorthStar]

thanks Gary. I was thinking Judy Garland or Patty La Belle.

---- She was who I had in mind.

 

[garylkoh]

Thanks to John Atkinson of Stereophile for coming by and sharing a couple of songs in the Genesis room:
http://www.stereophile.com/content/genesis-22-junior

He thought that Anne Bisson sounded superbly natural with the G2jr's. He'd heard her sing live at the Newport Beach show, and she also performed a couple of sets at T.H.E.Show next door in the Flamingo.

 

[Gregadd]

Did JA request a review sample?

 

[NorthStar]

-- Thanks again (for the zillion times) for sharing it us all Gary.

 

[garylkoh]

-- Thanks again (for the zillion times) for sharing it us all Gary.

You're most welcome. The album I shared with JA was

 

[NorthStar]

Anne Bisson - Blue Mind :: Just a simple sample ::

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* She is purely lovely, all the way, in & out, as a person and as an artist (musician/singer),
and she fits perfectly in my music bag. :b

 

[Bruce B]

* She is purely lovely, all the way, in & out, as a person and as an artist (musician/singer),
and she fits perfectly in my music bag. :b

With all your references to her I assume Ms. Bisson is a Canuck...

 

[garylkoh]

With all your references to her I assume Ms. Bisson is a Canuck...

Yes, she is. From Quebec.