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It was a teriffic day, lovely to meet Electro at long last, a thrill to listen to his superb set up and very good of him to pick me up and drop me back to my house.
Firstly we had a bit of a listening session to my gear, whilst I obviously love it, you'll have to wait for Electro's thoughts on it.
When we arrived at Electro's house I was introduced to Mrs Electro, a very nice lady and obviously a HiFi widow like mine. I was quickly ushered into the listening room and I was immediately struck by the size of it! Although I can't see, I could sense the space around me. I was then shown by Electro, each piece of kit, pre amp, mono blocks, speakers etc... the mono's were much bigger than I imagined and very impressive
I was then settled in a nice comfy chair in the middle of the room and furnished with a soft beveridge.
We started with a track via Spotify called Keith don't go by Nills Lofgren, as it was one that we had listened to on my kit earlier.
It's a live track, highly recommended, and as I expected the scale and sound stage was much bigger than I'm used to. To my ears the top end was a little more forward, but think this was down to the recording rather than the speakers.
Then we went through a few CD's that I brought along starting with a band called August and After, an album called Embers. I brought this along mainly because I thought Electro would like it and he certainly did. Best described as a chamber Folk outfit consisting of male/female vocals, acoustic guitar and Cello... this came across as beautifully natural with the Cello sweeping across both speakers accompanied by the guitar and vocal positioned in the middle as if on the stage in front of us.
I then made the poor chap suffer listening to The National, High Violet, not his cuppa at all, I just wanted to see how the system handled that kind of genre, well enough, but I didn't get that live gig sensation with it.
For me the Electro kit came really alive once we started playing the likes of Dead Can Dance in concert and Jeff Beck live at Ronny Scotts... I can only describe the sound as phenomenal! I was totally submerged in the Dead Can Dance tracks, almost hypnotised, by it's mesmeric rhythms., but I was soon stirred from my revery by Jeff Beck and his stunning guitar skills.
Electro has attempted to recreate the live experience in his listening room and certainly with the size of the room 24ft by 14ft and the excellent Electrocompaniet plus PMC floor standers, he has come as close as anyone can.
I am releived to say, I didn't come away feeling disatisfied with my own kit, as I had feared before hand. I think this is because when it comes to a certain level of HiFi the overall SQ is essentially of a quality that would satisfy most people.
The only thing I was left feeling with a touch of envy over was the listening room... O how I wish I had one that size!
A fabulous day, thank you Electro and one I'm sure we will repeat, perhaps even swap some kit about i.e my speakers with your amps.
Mac
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