If you hear nothing else at Bristol, hear these

[John Duncan]

1) Arcam. No really.
2) Spendor A9s on the end of an Akurate DS
3) Wilson Benesch

 

[Diamond Joe]

JohnDuncan:1) Arcam. No really.
2) Spendor A9s on the end of an Akurate DS
3) Wilson BeneschFunnily enough when you asked the other day what you should see I was going to suggest Wilson Benesch, they always blow my mind, superb speakers - totally out of my price range though sadly.

 

[Alec]

And, er, PMC, eh?

 

[Scissor_digits]

First impressions of the Arcam Solo Neo?

 

[jaxwired]

Spendor A9? Huh? When? Where?

 

[John Duncan]

Scissor_digits:
First impressions of the Arcam Solo Neo?

None, didn't hear it. AVR500 and musos with two subs sounded gorgeous though. Al - the PMC demo was a bit too much for the room they were in IMO.

 

[John Duncan]

jaxwired:Spendor A9? Huh? When? Where?

I think that's what they were called. You can't afford them. 24/192 stream of neil young live - total realism. Stunning.

 

[Anonymous]

Fantastic. Wish I had the room. Well done Spendor

Wonder how they compare to the STs...

 

[jaxwired]

JohnDuncan:jaxwired:Spendor A9? Huh? When? Where? I think that's what they were called. You can't afford them.

True, but ouch! Hmmm....kids college....spendor A9....kids college....spendor A9....hmmmm....

 

[John Duncan]

Other highlights - winner of the Hopelessly Coloured But Gorgeous Nonetheless award goes to Pro-ject's new entry-level turntable through a Fatman valve amp and indeterminate speakers.

Best Turntable In The World But More Interesting Records Please award goes to the Michell room.

The Turn It Down We Have Neighbours award goes to Onkyo.

Most Interesting (But Won't It Get Dusty) Design goes to Isem for their eGo CD player (and hello to the charming people from Ikon Audio Consultants).

The It's What We've All Been Waiting For But I Liked The Old Box Better award is Leema's, no contest.

And the One Day Everyone WIll Have One Award goes to the UnitiQute plus straight-to-NAS matching ripper that was on show but not coming till the Autumn.

Oh and the special No Brainer Just Buy These award goes to the Q Acoustics 2010 cinema package.

 

[Tonya]

That last post from JD reminds me of "The Intro and The Outro" from The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band but I don't quite know why . . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bxv_HLwT7U

 

[plastic penguin]

JohnDuncan:1) Arcam. No really. 2) Spendor A9s on the end of an Akurate DS 3) Wilson Benesch

Have you yet to clap your eyes on the Exposure or Creek stuff?

 

[The_Lhc]

JohnDuncan:jaxwired:Spendor A9? Huh? When? Where? I think that's what they were called. You can't afford them. 24/192 stream of neil young live - total realism. Stunning.

Hmmm, the Spendor room was the first one I went to. Had Eva Cassidy playing (I nearly left straight away), maybe it's a bad recording, I don't know, I'm not familiar with the material (which was a constant problem) but her vocals had a horribly hard, harsh edge to them, if it had been loud it would have hurt, as it was I couldn't listen to it for long. Like I say it may have been the recording, if it was then they should have chosen the material a bit better. Unfortunately I was on a tight time schedule (the missus was in Cabot Circus, with a big chunk of my cash...), otherwise I'd have asked them play something else but I couldn't hang around.

 

[The_Lhc]

JohnDuncan:Other highlights - winner of the Hopelessly Coloured But Gorgeous Nonetheless award goes to Pro-ject's new entry-level turntable through a Fatman valve amp and indeterminate speakers.

Thank you to them for hunting down the only Ortofon 2m Red they had in the room! Just need to find my calibration thing to align it when I get home...

Most Interesting (But Won't It Get Dusty) Design goes to Isem for their eGo CD player (and hello to the charming people from Ikon Audio Consultants).

Yes charming and very good at talking me into putting my name down for a demo of a system I can never afford. Oops... I think I hid my terror quite well when he mentioned it'd run to 5 figures... Luckily he spelt my surname wrong, so the email address I gave him won't work...

 

[The_Lhc]

JohnDuncan: 3) Wilson Benesch

They were playing a live concert of someone, could have been Harry Belafonte, it was that kind of thing, on vinyl. Incredible, you might as well have been in the concert hall.

 

[drummerman]

JohnDuncan:1) Arcam. No really.
2) Spendor A9s on the end of an Akurate DS
3) Wilson Benesch

I wished I had the time this year. I'd be interested to hear your opinion on ATC on both speakers and amplification if they are displaying at all. Cheers

 

[Anonymous]

JohnDuncan:Arcam. No really.

Arcam what John?

 

[floyd droid]

Arcam, i saw, i got drunk !!.

 

[Andy Clough]

I believe John was referring to the Arcam demo of the AVR500 multichannel receiver with 5.1 Muso speaker system.

 

[John Duncan]

I was. Sounded fantastic, even more so because of the modest volume being used...

And to all those doing 'requests'...I'm not there any more.

 

[Big Chris]

JohnDuncan:1) Arcam. No really.

And what the hell is that supposed to mean?

 

[John Duncan]

Big Chris:
JohnDuncan:1) Arcam. No really.

And what the hell is that supposed to mean?

My views on Arcam's recent work have been well documenzzzzzzzzzz

But the AVR500/Muso setup was so good I went back to listen to it again just for pleasure...

 

[Anonymous]

Avr500 did sound good im think of getting one.

for me it was in the marantz room with Ken Ishiwata combo?.

 

[JoelSim]

JohnDuncan:Big Chris:
JohnDuncan:1) Arcam. No really.

And what the hell is that supposed to mean?My views on Arcam's recent work have been well documenzzzzzzzzzzBut the AVR500/Muso setup was so good I went back to listen to it again just for pleasure...

Welcome to the dark side

 

[Anonymous]

Andy Clough:I believe John was referring to the Arcam demo of the AVR500 multichannel receiver with 5.1 Muso speaker system.

JohnDuncan:I was. Sounded fantastic, even more so because of the modest volume being used...

And to all those doing 'requests'...I'm not there any more.

Ah, thank you both.