Zellaton Plural Evo

[Audioarts]

Tim, thanks for spending time with me last weekend in Seattle and glad you liked the music (no Nils Lofgren for sure...)

I'm laughing at the voodoo reference because it's often used to describe Zellaton sound. Tough to describe..., I get it. Because of Zellaton wide-band technology and uniform hand made in house drivers (as opposed to the ubiquitous outsourcing and resultant matching of different drivers), the speakers have a ribbon or electrostatic transparency but with the added benefit of incredibly wide and open dispersion which can account for the spatial experience you had. In addition, the open baffle in top rear of the Plural's allow the mids and highs to soar. It's a very beautiful and immersive psychoacoustic which in the end is just natural sound, really. Burmester brought their top of the range 159 monoblocks/175 turntable and I finessed the presentation with Schnerzinger accoutrement..., certainly helped the cause. Both sets of Plural's and Emotion's sold at the show so you were not alone in appreciating what they do

 

[dbeau]

Voodoo indeed. It was very entertaining, and seemed appropriate for Kraftwerk.

@Tim Link I don't understand what Kraftwerk does in your experience. Thanks

 

[Tim Link]

@Tim Link I don't understand what Kraftwerk does in your experience. Thanks

What was happening to me in that room with the Kraftwerk song is that some sounds were giving me the perception that they were moving forward and back across the ceiling of the room, as well as side to side. On my home system or on headphones they perceptually don't move at all. I don't fully understand what was happening there either, but I suspect it had to do with room reflections and diffractions caused by complex surfaces on at least one side of the room. The sounds would seem to move as they changed in pitch/modulation. Sometimes weird effects like this can happen even on basic systems. My dad used to marvel at how his TV's sound would seem to float out of the TV and come from all over the room when he sat in a particular place. On that particular Kraftwerk song, with all of its electronic synthesized sounds, such effects are an enjoyable enhancement. I wouldn't want a trombone to move around the room as they slid into different notes!

 

[Tim Link]

What was happening to me in that room with the Kraftwerk song is that some sounds were giving me the perception that they were moving forward and back across the ceiling of the room, as well as side to side. On my home system or on headphones they perceptually don't move at all. I don't fully understand what was happening there either, but I suspect it had to do with room reflections and diffractions caused by complex surfaces on at least one side of the room. The sounds would seem to move as they changed in pitch/modulation. Sometimes weird effects like this can happen even on basic systems. My dad used to marvel at how his TV's sound would seem to float out of the TV and come from all over the room when he sat in a particular place. On that particular Kraftwerk song, with all of its electronic synthesized sounds, such effects are an enjoyable enhancement. I wouldn't want a trombone to move around the room as they slid into different notes!

I got to hear these again at the Southwest AudioFest. They again did all the good and interesting things I heard up in Seattle, despite being in a different room, with no chance of strange room acoustics being the cause. The interesting imaging effects are different than other good sounding speakers I heard at the show. Other speakers were projecting apparent depth, while the Zellatons were also causing me to percieve some sounds as forward and above, as if there were speakers in the ceiling. That was again on the Kraftwerk Radioactivity track. Other tracks I heard did not do that sort of thing to me. They just sounded great.
To be fair, I did not hear the same track on any other speakers at the show.

 

[KPC]

I hoping to demo Zelleton the next time I’m in the LA area. Bummer it’s not available at the next AXPONA