Had a long listen and a full technical work-up on the Blades today, and will try to put a more comprehensive blog together over the next couple of days, but have to say I was none too impressed.
Of course, it's hard to tell at any show, what with an unfamiliar and very huge room, unfamiliar equipment and a less than ideal listening position - not to mention some clown a few rooms down giving it some heavy subwooferage - but while admiring the stylistic bravery and engineering conviction behind the Blades, I'm not suire I 'got' what the sound was meant to be about.
Of course it could have been the choice of music, but the Blades sounded to me rather 'obvious', and not the triumph I had been led to expect.
As I say, this is only a snapshot opinion, and certainly not a magazine one - I'll try to pop back tomorrow and have another go with th em...