Check it out. It is run by the previous Audio Note distributer, ‘Triode Dave’, in the hopes of being able to both provide information on the Audio Note product line as well as insight into The Mind of the Designer.
Believe it, this is going to be interesting.
Why?
Because it is focused, unlike the magazines out there, and
Because it is about high-end audio, unlike most of the forums out there.
It arrived right before we left for the HE 2006 Show and we left it playing while we were there, and for the weeks we have been back.
Still changing on a day-to-day basis…
It looks great on the piano black Harmonic Resolutions Systems’ MXR rack with the gloss black Audio Note 4.1x Balanced DAC and matte black Lamm L2 linestage and power supply.
Soon now we are going to tear apart this very synergistic, or is it synerblisstic, system replacing the front end with the Audio Aero Prestige CD / SACD player.
Why?
1. In order to be able to put the Brinkmann over on the HRS rack with the Lamm LP2 phono preamplifier
AND
2. to put together a 100%, well 90% because we do not have any Audio Note cables here right now, a 90% complete Audio Note system:
Audio Note CDT Three transport
Audio Note 4.1x Balanced DAC
Audio Note M10 preamplifier
Audio Note Kegon amplifiers
Audio Note SEC Silver Signature loudspeakers
and eventually we will have to find a way to get a turntable into listenng room #3 in order to add:
Audio Note M8 Phono preamplifier
Audio Note AN-S4 step-up transformer
All this to ‘Hear What it Sounds Like’.
Ain’t life fun?
Ha! No we didn’t go.
It does seem like every blog post these days is about yet another of our show reports. Whew!
Maybe Munich next year, though. It looks like it was a very high-end and well-attended show.
Here are some links to a few domestic reports:
EnjoyTheMusic Munich 2006 Show Report
SoundStageLive Munch 2006 Show Report
oh, just found a nice one at:
Munich 2006 Show Report by Maria and Henk at Six Moons
And some links to a couple of reports with most of the comments in other languages These have lots of pictures(!) , and help one get a real feel for what it was like there:
[There is some English at the bottom]
HiFiForum Munich 2006 Show Report
and
[in 5 parts]
HiFi Musik Munich 2006 Show Report part 1
HiFi Musik Munich 2006 Show Report part 2
HiFi Musik Munich 2006 Show Report part 3
HiFi Musik Munich 2006 Show Report part 4
HiFi Musik Munich 2006 Show Report part 5
It looks like the Swedish Statement room with the Marten Design Coltrane Supreme loudspeakers was even smaller than the one they had at CES 2006.
It also looks like the Kharma room with the Kharma Grand Exquisite loudspeakers was not only a larger room, but made quite an impression on the HiFiForum show reporter. The room also featured the Continuum turntable with both WAVAC amplifiers and the new Kharma MP350 amplifiers [perhaps in a bi-amp configuration? or perhaps taking turns at amplification duties during the show? I don’t know].
