Our Blog has been active for about a year now…

… and we have plans to expand its scope over the course of the next few weeks and months.

Yes, we know that we review something when we get it, saying we will say more when it is broken in, only to pull a Harry Pearson (sorry HP 🙂 ) and never end up getting back to saying anythnig about it. It is not that we don’t have anything to say, but there just really hasn’t been the context – something else is always going on.

Well, we have ideas on how to fix this – so we will have sections in which it makes perfect sense to ‘get back’ to components. Hopefully this will help get me in the head-space required – none of our products here suck, or we wouldn’t carry it (which I think makes us unique, but I digress) – but it still requires some effort to come up with the necessary delicacy to talk about plusses and minuses, and just exactly where something fits into the n-dimensional sonic character space that we call high-end audio reproduction.

Coming up:

* We got the new Sound Lab Ultimate 1 loudspeaker upgrade in today. We will write about the before and after….[we know from other reports on the web that the efficiency is better, but we have heard nada about how the sound has changed – I guess it isn’t important? A big WTF to all those people.]

* We are getting the Audio Note M10 preamplifier, which finally squeeeeeeeked through customs today, in tomorrow. That is going into the Marten Coltrane system, along with the Audio Note Kegons and the Emm Labs CDSD and DCC2 digital equipment on the HRS MXR rack, with Brinkmann’s Balance turntable (with Lamm Lp2 phono preamplifier) heading the show. Anyone else notice that this will take 7 – 8 shelves? And we have 4? Should we add this as a Fundamental Law that the number of shelves will always be exceeded by the number of components?

[The solution is to put the 3-box M10 on the floor on HRS M3 platforms with the Kegons (and Balance powersupply and heater). Can you just see is dancing a jig to get to the turntable through all the cables and powercords and platforms for 5 (five) f-i-v-e components? Too bad my daughter isn’t here… at least SHE took ballet lessons and knows a little about tiptoeing]

* Harmonic Resolution Systems is sending out a MXR equipment rack, in silver paint, to the show for our room (thanks guys!).

* The Marten Coltrane Supreme loudspeakers should be in Denver tomorrow to start their squeeeeeeeeeezing through customs.

* With the Audio Note Kegon amplifiers on the Marten Coltrane speakers, we will move the Lamm ML2.1 amplifiers, which were on the Coltranes (a match made in heaven, and I think most people who visit would agree) to be on the Audio Note AN/E SEC Silver Signature loudspeakers. I am not sure this has ever been tried before – never heard of it anyway – so this should be interesting.

The Acoustic Zen Adagio loudspeakers have been playing 24×7 since we got ’em. Seems like it has been awhile… so we will take a more serious listen – before the Sound Labs take back that system in listening room #2.

There is probably more…. Comcast has been down for 5 out of the last 7 days (they are usually down just a day or two a month). Kind of puts a crimp in our surfing habit – but we have a dial up connection through Earthlink that allows us to do this blog and write and answer emails – to do just about everything except post show reports…..