Natural Sound

[PeterA]

After finding an advertisement of the Vitavox CN-191 corner horn on the net and reading the reference to the February 1962 Hi-Fi News magazine article, I tracked down a copy of the magazine on Ebay. It is kind of fun to read the old magazine and see the advertisements for my speakers. Below are some images of:

1. The original Vitavox advertisement
2. The front and back cover of the magazine
3. A full two page advertisement of the speakers in the magazine
4. Page 1 of the article on folded horn speakers
5. Page 2 of the article on folded horn speakers
6. Page 3 of the article on folded horn speakers

 

[Lagonda]

After finding an advertisement of the Vitavox CN-191 corner horn on the net and reading the reference to the February 1962 Hi-Fi News magazine article, I tracked down a copy of the magazine on Ebay. It is kind of fun to read the old magazine and see the advertisements for my speakers. Below are some images of:

1. The original Vitavox advertisement
2. The front and back cover of the magazine
3. A full two page advertisement of the speakers in the magazine
4. Page 1 of the article on folded horn speakers
5. Page 2 of the article on folded horn speakers
6. Page 3 of the article on folded horn speakers

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Very cool !

 

[Argonaut]

I had no conception that DDK was writing adverts for Vitavox back in the day

 

[Amir]

Peter,
Last night I read a comment in goodsoundclub from Romy the Cat about Vitavox S2 :


“It was back in 2001-2002. David Karmeli brought to Vegas a pair of original Vitavox CN-191 that he did not show publicly. They just were sitting in “another” room, unconnected with no purpose. One night he was experimenting with them and the stars suddenly got aligned. I heard a few times CN-191 in a different rooms and it was never interesting but what they did in that Vegas room was beyond believe. They were driven my Lamm electronics with CEC front end. I very much remember that Sound and I could give a long list of what I did not like in that Sound but it was musical like hell and since that day I adopted S2 as Macondo default MF driver.

The playback system made the room to float and to breathe with sound, filing it with spectacular sparkles of all imaginable colors, it was like looking into some kind of mysterious 3D kaleidoscope. I honesty to that day did not hear anything as spectacular and hypnotizing. For a few year I was straggling to recreate something similar, in many way I did better but in some way I never came even close. As I got more listening intelligence I do not compete with neither live sound nor with my memories about anything sonically and today I have no any about that sound. Still, I need to confess that for many years I was drive by some jealousy for that sound that I head in that Vegas room.

Luckily, that day I had my recordings with me. I picked a stunning CD, Kurt Masur with Chicago play Shostakovich 5. It is WFMT live broadcast from 1987 with Norm Pellegrini announcement. THAT interpretation of Shostakovich 5 is beyond believe and I tend over the years to dot listen any other Shostakovich 5. So, I was playing the recording on that ad hoc Vitavox playback and it was like a trip to another side of the Moon. David and I have slightly different views about philosophies and effects in playbacks and I heard a number of his endeavors. In my estimation what he did in Vegas with that Vitavox was just heads and shoulder more meaningful that anytime he ever did, or I did for that matter.

The memory about that Vitavox in Vegas event is living with me over the years. The most remarkable was that that David did not make any efforts to make that Sound. He literally just damped two speakers in two corners and the rest was the history that will be living with us, I am pretty sure to the rest of our lives, as the events like this do not repeat themselves.

Romy the Cat”

 

[Amir]

I did not know David Karmeli @ddk was manager of Damoka Audio.
I remember around 2004 I visited Damoka website and It was interesting to see CEC Lamm … after 20 years I find David was behind Damoka Audio.