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Melted away, oh well. Actually what melted us at CAF was a visit from Lyn Stanley.
Lyn asked us to put on Her CD. She began singing to the music and we could not tell the difference between live and the CD.
Several reviewers were present including Kemper Holt from enjoythemusic and some others.
Lyn after she stopped singing paused and made this statement. "I have sang in the so called highly touted rooms like VPI ,MBL today and your room is the ONLY one where I sound like me"
Cannot get a better endorsement then that. The Truth with no agenda or audio politics. Goosebumps baby.
Back to topic. I'll add audio politics.
charles
I think Lyn was singing to her take on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", and the CD playback sounded remarkedly like her live sing along. Lyn took a long time explaining how much care was taken in the recording/mixing chain to get it right, attention to details for a great result. Sitting through both solos on the Sheffield Drum disc, and enjoying the experience, confirmed how sensational the Sound Insight OB triple woofers sounded. Steve and Charlie played a number of bass spectaculars, as well as my compilation CAF CD, and from 100 hz down, not a room at CAF had better bass. Dynamics, speed, impact, no bloat or boom, the perfect compliment to a planar ( Maggie & Quad owners take note), or really any speaker that needs help down low.
Because it's Halloween, a Frankensteinish idea popped into my head. Recalling the HQD speaker mashup from Mark Levinson (Hartley 24" woofer, 2 pairs of Quad 57s stacked in a custom rack, and a Decca ribbon tucked in between the Quads), "Imagine if you will", the same rack, 2 pairs of Kent McCollum's rebuilt 57s, Enigma Acoustics Sopranino electrostatic tweeter, and a pair of Sound Insight S-300 OB Woofers, I would love to hear that contraption.
