Musical Artisans – Axpona 2018

Weird. The Kharma speakers here sounded so underdriven, I actually asked the exhibitor if the speakers were new. As most of you know, we love sound of the Kharma speakers and they sound pretty darn good on the YouTube video of this room by AVShowrooms where you can hear just a little of the bass’s failure to open up.

He said they were two years old. There are still a wide-ranging number of possibilities of why I heard what I heard, including them not playing the speakers loud enough to break them in during that time, not having played them much recently and the speakers still warming up here on the second day of the show, and, of course, the Nagra not being able to drive the speakers. Typically, Kharma bass is hard to get right, but this reticence also included much of the midrange. Weird.

Kharma loudspeakers and Nagra electronics

Kharma loudspeakers and Nagra electronics

Nagra electronics

Nagra electronics