Visit to Detlof' place - Techdas, Kronos, you name it

[Detlof]

PS: I trust that Shelving is substantial![/QUOTE]

So do I. So far it's held up.

 

[DaveC]

Nice report and pics!

Congrats on a fantastic system Detlof!

 

[gian60]

Congrats from Italy
In Italy we have a lot of very good top system but i never saw all these incredible products in the same room belong to someone!

Gianluigi

 

[XV-1]

Absolutely awesome.

I love every messy hifi room I see, as mine is pretty messy. You know the owner spends a lot of time in the room, no doubt enjoying the system.

 

[bonzo75]

Detlof ^ 10

18 monos. Westlake audio and Jadis. Popped up on HiFi audio for passionates

 

[Steve williams]

18 monos. Westlake audio and Jadis. Popped up on HiFi audio for passionates

That room must sizzle at full throttle

 

[thedudeabides]

Anyone care to guess why he needs 18 mono amps for two speakers.

 

[Zero000]

Not at all. Tone is the tone of violin and brass, for example. Nothing to do with colour. You know how much I dislike AN-E.

As long as the tone of the original instrument comes through convincingly then that's real tone. If it somehow gets "enhanced" it is more to do with the "tone" of the actual speaker, like an AN/E or various other loudspeakers with questionable accuracy e.g. quite a large number of lesser horns.

 

[Zero000]

Anyone care to guess why he needs 18 mono amps for two speakers.

Dry sauna? He probably gets about 30 minutes before he has to leave the room

Gotta admire the craziness factor, though

 

[bonzo75]

Anyone care to guess why he needs 18 mono amps for two speakers.

There are 4 box Jadis as well, with a separate power supply for each mono.

 

[microstrip]

18 monos. Westlake audio and Jadis. Popped up on HiFi audio for passionates

Did you mistype? I can see just 8 mono Jadis 500 and their power supplies - 8000 watt consumption.

 

[bonzo75]

Did you mistype? I can see just 8 mono Jadis 500 and their power supplies - 8000 watt consumption.

Hi I copied the 18 from the HiFi audio post on Facebook. But followed up with a post that some might be power supplies

 

[BruceD]

Yep--Another View

BruceD

 

[microstrip]

Yep--Another View

BruceD

Exactly - 144 tubes in all, each mono block has 18 tubes! We can see the active crossover between the power supplies.

These speakers have an efficiency around 100 dB/W, fortunately the guy is not my next door neighbor!

 

[marty]

I'm still not sure how he is connecting 18 mono amps to 2 channels. Even with tri-amping, I don't get it.

And BTW, who is this guy? I swear he looks like Cato from the Pink Panther movies

 

[Folsom]

I count 9 banks of separate drivers. 18 seems correct.

 

[NorthStar]

Is this all legal?

 

[caesar]

The MBLs I don't like at all. Real music is not thin and transparent. It is transparent and dense. GP does that. Also these kind of set ups can't be heard at shows.

Agree with the apogees, so one has to make an offer for a speaker he has heard.

Chat later guys, about to watch Rattle and the LSO do symphony fantastique (berlioz)

Hi Bonzo,

Thanks for the report. Meeting outstanding people and listening to their great systems and is a hobby in its own right. Out of curiosity, how much have you spent on these kinds of adventures?

Also, curious as what your definition of "dense" is. Obviously definitions are determined by tastes and references.

A rich, powerful midbass is one of my main fetishes and that's why I own the speaker. Also, tonality needs to be right for me - no thin amps like Sanders can do. Currently run mine with 4 very powerful class a monos just for the dynamics and tonality. But curious as where you are coming from.

 

[microstrip]

(...) Currently run mine with 4 very powerful class a monos just for the dynamics and tonality.

Out of curiosity, can you remember us of the details of the section in bold?

 

[bonzo75]

Hi Caesar, that's interesting. I have heard them with MBL 2008 and 2011 amps, spectral dma 360, and ypsilon integrated. They sounded the best with Spectral.

I think 4 class A amps would be a step above and I can see you could possibly get a denser sound.


I have also heard them couple of years ago with Levinson