New Genesis Products at CES2014
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Gary you gotta play some Black Box from your Black Box!
Haha! I haven't listened to Black Box for a decade! I don't even have any in my server. Will be sure to rectify that when I get home from Vegas.
The new Genesis ribbon tweeter is more of a ring radiator than the old Genesis tweeter. Because it's only a 4.5mm ring, it can disperse better.
The long ribbons have totally different radiation characteristics, so it isn't simple to just lengthen a ribbon.
The first day of the show is pretty slow, but we've already got great sound. It will only get better tomorrow, so I hope that the crowds come then.
Here's where the rubber hits the road - the G-force loudspeakers (many visitors said that the name was wholly appropriate because it is so dynamic), and the GRA1440 monoblock power amplifiers.
The rack with the Roksan Xerses with Artemiz and Magic Diamond as the source. The SMcAudio VRE-1C preamplifier, and my preamplifier the Genesis SMc-1 playing the role of the phono stage. The G-Source is the digital source.
Here's where the rubber hits the road - the G-force loudspeakers (many visitors said that the name was wholly appropriate because it is so dynamic), and the GRA1440 monoblock power amplifiers.
The rack with the Roksan Xerses with Artemiz and Magic Diamond as the source. The SMcAudio VRE-1C preamplifier, and my preamplifier the Genesis SMc-1 playing the role of the phono stage. The G-Source is the digital source.
Since you're in Vegas how about Air on a G-String?
Hope you're having a good show Gary, wish I could be there!
Hope you're having a good show Gary, wish I could be there!
That's in D Major, but I'll play that!! I must have it somewhere in the G-Source or the 2 slaves I brought
Thanks, Jack. So far, I've met 5 or 6 WBF members already. Ken Golden even requested one of the albums that I've recommended here. Seems that WBF members have bought up all the available copies of Count Basie's Me and You. Looks like time for Chad to make a re-issue!!
Thanks, Jack. So far, I've met 5 or 6 WBF members already. Ken Golden even requested one of the albums that I've recommended here. Seems that WBF members have bought up all the available copies of Count Basie's Me and You. Looks like time for Chad to make a re-issue!!
Because of spammers in The Venetian, I was locked out of WBF the past few days, so - a bit of catching up to do. When a visitor asks for "something unusual" even though I tell them that I don't demo the usual "audiophile soundtracks", I pull out Theme from Shaft - one of the tracks from my test pressing of the Thorens 125th Anniversary box set.
And when asked for more, more, then this has to come out.
Most of the time, I get a huge appreciative grin.
And when asked for more, more, then this has to come out.
Most of the time, I get a huge appreciative grin.
On digital, this one was played a LOT. Besides the infectiously happy music, Willie Nelson's voice and Wynton Marsalis' trumpet was excellently recorded.
Alison Krauss' voice brought a depth of emotion to Jacob's Dream that kept driving my sister to tears every time I played it. It took a few days to inoculate her enough so that she could stay in the room.
Something more unusual - Infected Mushroom. I play this band fairly often because it is excellent music with excellent production. Infected Mushroom is not a group of DJ's. They are the root and foundation of a lot of DJ music. Because DJs will use their music, sample and loop it and make their own remixes, if the source is not sufficiently high fidelity, the result will sound bad. Hence, to show off the fidelity of my speakers - especially the top to bottom coherence - if it is an audience receptive to something other than classical and jazz, I use this.
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Good lord, yes. In the office, we played it quietly enough that it was background sound when working. Jacob's Dream is about two little boys getting lost in the woods and DYING! Sitting IN the room and with the sound cranked up, her voice just grabs you by the heart strings as it goes into that crescendo...
"Mommy and Daddy, why can't you hear our cries? The day is almost over and soon it will be night."
*sniff*
While I was being antisocial and irritating the neighbours with Infected Mushroom, two young kids came in as they said that it was awesome that I would play music like that. Then, they introduced this to me...... I think that it will be in my play list from now on:
The room next door also used some Genesis products.
Plinius Audio used the new Genesis Foundation Rack for their 'big' system - comprising the SA-Reference power amplifier, Kaitaki preamplifier and Koru phonostage. The Thorens TD350 turntable sounded fabulous with the prototype Ortofon Quintet Black cartridge. The guys kept coming over to kidnap my Touch Yello album to demo. Genesis Power Interface cables made sure that bass extension and resolution was top-notch.
Plinius Audio used the new Genesis Foundation Rack for their 'big' system - comprising the SA-Reference power amplifier, Kaitaki preamplifier and Koru phonostage. The Thorens TD350 turntable sounded fabulous with the prototype Ortofon Quintet Black cartridge. The guys kept coming over to kidnap my Touch Yello album to demo. Genesis Power Interface cables made sure that bass extension and resolution was top-notch.
I'll see Joe in a few days. Get to see his recent studio updates and do a little cartridge work!
Dre
Will do. I told him back in October I had infected a few Northwest left-cost fellas recently in addition to some RMAF 2013 attendees.
Dre
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