Hello from the beautiful city of Lindau in Germany
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I open my house (Germany, west of Cologne) and invite regular for bigger music listening and gear comparing sessions,
called "high end workshop" (next one will be 15'of June 2019)
Mostly around 20 to 30 people come over to enjoy the event in two rooms.
The guests can bring their own gear (one day before for better set up) and manufacturers offer their stuff as well to support the workshop,
most likely they like to attend as well.
Themes of the workshops were as example:
- amplifiers (NAT, Air Tight, Devialet, Jeff Rowland, Mark Levinson, Hypex)
- pre amplifiers (Audio Note, Kondo, BAT, Krell, Mark Levinson, Koda, VTL, Einstein, Octave)
- Phono Pre (Kondo, Grandinote, Einstein, Octave, NAT, AirTIght, VTL, Thoeress)
- DACs (Lampizator, Ypsilon, Jeff Rowland, BAT, Linn, TotalDAc, Aqua, T&A and many more)
- Cartridges (various Koetsu, various SPU, Lyra, various Audio technica, air tight, Shun Mook, Ikea)
- turntables (Micro Seiki, TechDAS, Reed, seismograph, Linn, VPI)
- speakers (horns, Wilson Audio, Kii, BD- Design, Zingali, RD Acoustic, Thoeress)
We are all not "blinded", even level adjustment is not done properly.
Our experience after some of those workshops is, that the difference and the character of many of the products on comparison is so
clear, that you can identify them even on different listening levels.
The last comparison of High End DACs was done a year ago, so it might be a good idea to plan the next one
I will see in Munich some of the smaller manufacturers, may be they like to support.
(maybe again with the SGM server
In the history I never invited the WBF community to this kind of workshops,
this was done so far only in the three major German forums.
But as the Cologne airport is not far away and some WBF members do live in Europe, same with some of the best High End manufacturers
I will do invite WBF for the next workshop as well.
Just looking for the best WBF Forums section to post such an invitation,
may be under "other Audioshows"?
any suggestions?
as "audioshow" does not fit properly...
Hey Shakti,
Sounds a really interesting event - congrats.
With respect to the point about it being so clear without blinding - great but don’t confuse that with the audience not being biased in some way - it is always the case. Therefore under more rigorous conditions it might also be that way but might not. Therefore, other than the slight hassle of doing things blinded, it is obviously preferable (even necessary) to really do such evaluations and come to robust conclusions. That said, if the event is more for fun, socialising and hearing gear then doing it without more rigour is clearly the way to go.
Enjoy.
I’m not going to Shakti’s listening room and getting blindfolded.
He’s got his own stripper pole for god sake !
I’m not going to Shakti’s listening room and getting blindfolded.
He’s got his own stripper pole for god sake !
That is the real reason his events are so awesome
If you are blindfolded how are you possibly going to know who is up on the pole?I’m not going to Shakti’s listening room and getting blindfolded.
He’s got his own stripper pole for god sake !
If only I was so adept... and yes, then you would definitely want to be double-blind.
Apologies Thomas, a number of us have gone off at a tangent here. There is however an underlying interest in your dac and it would be great to get a demo.
Although I can understand how you might wish to keep the specifics under wrap ahead of a formal launch at the Munich show, perhaps you can tell us a bit more about about your development program? What type of source player / media storage / input format did you use and which dacs have you used to benchmark it against? You are, after all, VinylSavor so there is understandably some curiousity about your choice to branch out in this direction.
Hi!
Maybe I should not have shown that pic as it is a bit early. Those who already heard some of my electronics will have a feel how this sounds as it follows the same sound philosophy. Others who are seriously interested can always visit me for a demo
Thomas
Maybe I should not have shown that pic as it is a bit early. Those who already heard some of my electronics will have a feel how this sounds as it follows the same sound philosophy. Others who are seriously interested can always visit me for a demo
Thomas
I will see in Munich some of the smaller manufacturers, may be they like to support.
(maybe again with the SGM server
I’d be happy to oblige.
I posted the next "Shakti" workshop in the "other Audio Show" section of WBF:
https://www.whatsbestforum.com/thre...june-2019-germany-western-cologne-area.27905/
to not longer stress this thread
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Says who of all people?You people scare the hell out the manufacturers.. not with the shootouts...but with your ears..hehe
Tang
Sorry, Thomas.
Bill asked and I answered and then the thread got carried away, sorry again
More teaser photos. A set of 845 mono blocks. This time using all silver transformers.
This is power supply and amplifier of one channel
This is power supply and amplifier of one channel
The new ELROG ER888 driver tube and ER284 (molybdenum version of ER845) output tube
all glowing with the filaments visible through the slotted plates
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