[please forgive my poor English]
Would I be in Munich this weekend, I would be extremely pleased to hear the following brands/products:
-
Aries Cerat (of course). Room
A 4.2, E209 (with
Primary Control turntables). Indeed, I
own a AC preamplifier.
-
Living Voice
- Cessaro's
- AlsyVox (ribbon panels with impact (!), nearly HE, go down to 22Hz(!) - amazing; discovered in the Netherlands show, my short report
here)
Out of (gourmand) curiosity:
-
Sadurni Acoustics Staccato, horns (that
@Argonaut mentioned
here)
-
Stenheim: Swiss cones, fast, transparent, revealing, outstanding midrange clarity and expressiveness (for cones), nearly HE et super-easy to drive: a reviewers's dream. Partnered equipments have to be chosen very, very carefully, it seems though. In Munich, they will launch a new little floorstander, world premiere:
Alumine Two.Five (
website). I heard Stenheim's twice in excellent conditions. Stenheim is not even distributed in my country though, what a shame...
-
Vinyl - on a minor mode, probably sub-WBF's standards: as a vinyl-beginner, I had to chose a performant but affordable "vinyl engine" to explore the collection of original jazz LP's inherited from my late step father. I chosed one year ago an amazing little turntable with tangential arm (linear air-bearing tonearm, silent), granite base, at €4590, made by a little Polish company,
Pre-Audio (Munich, room
H 4, T15). See my signature's link for pics. I think they really deserve a "thumb up".
If some WBF's members need a little linear air-bearing tonearm granite-base turntable for their garden shed, I can testify that this one offers a value for money which seemed (to me at least) to be second to none.
My reference is live, unamplified music concerts (mainly classical), in the best seats of various concert halls, usually very good ones.
(BTW, for members from Belgium, Germany, North of France, or even Netherlands: this brand new concert hall in Namur, Belgium (
details & pics, in French), is already considered by specialists to be one of Europe's best; music labels already rent that concert hall for recordings - I attended a dozen of concerts there this year; I can testify that the acoustics is truly excellent, to say the least)
Have fun in Munich!
(I am already craving for your show reports, gentlemen ;-)
Orfeo