Munich Hi-End Show 2014 in Pics

[square_wave]

The Blumenhofer and Allnic room. I wonder which model they have connected to the system. They dont look like the Grand Gioia although it looks similar.

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[square_wave]

Yes, they are. Have a look see

PureAudioProject | Open Baffle sets, speakers and drivers

Love that open baffle model with a widebander in the middle and a woofer each on either side taking care of the bass. Must sound good.

 

[denom]

The Blumenhofer and Allnic room. I wonder which model they have connected to the system. They dont look like the Grand Gioia although it looks similar.

New model that currently is nameless & shown for first time to gauge response of the clientele. Price am told will be announced @ time of naming ceremony

 

[Jacob George]

We had a good show at Munich.

Made probably the best sound we have made at a show. 3 reasons for that: firstly, we had a reasonably large room; second, we were showing the Saadhana for the first time; and third, we had excellent amplification in the Audiopax electronics. The Antelope Zodiac Platinum DAC was very good as well.

The Audiopax amps are very interesting -- they are actually two SET amps per channel, connected in parallel ( hence the two KT88 tubes on each chassis ). Yes, not just 2 tubes run in parallel, but two separate amps, apparently biased differently to cancel out distortions. And the other interesting thing about this system was that the preamp is solid state.....very much the reverse of the direction most people tend to take. Anyone who wants to know more about this technology, i shall be happy to provide you with Silvio's email address, and he will be happy to explain. Silvio is a wonderful guy, who is taking the company forward after the premature and untimely demise of its founder Eduardo. Silvio is also an Indophile!

Another very interesting problem we ran into: when we fired up the system late at night, the night before the show, it was not sounding good. Silvio, being an engineer, checked the power supply cabling coming into the room, and felt the cables were too thin, and was passing thru too many junctions before getting to the wall sockets ( including all the light switches for the room etc. ) which was increasing the resistance in the power supply to unacceptable levels and hence, affecting the sound. Being a conference room converted to a listening room, there was a floor socket in the room which we decided to try. This seemed to have much better cabling.... and was a more direct connection as it was not looped into other circuits. We tried this -- and it transformed the sound of the system.

Moral of the story: try and get as good a power supply as possible to your system. It will make a world of difference to the sound you get.

Silvio and i did visit the MOC exhbits very briefly ( as we had to get back to our own room ) one morning, but we could not spend enough time in any of the rooms to do any serious evaluations. But it was packed and noisy and energised and exciting, with lots of new products....which told us that music listening and audio were still much alive and thriving.....

We were at the offsite show at the Marriott this year. We are hoping that we will be able to move to the MOC next year, as that is where most of the action is.

One big bonus of sharing a room with others ( in this case Silvio of Audiopax and Geoffrey, our European distributor ) is that i get to hear great new music from their collections. Srajan played some amazing cuts too. I have asked for the names. I shall post some of these titles when they send them to me.

cheers,

jacob

 

[bhagwan]

Looks like Blumenhofer was at the show with Allnic electronics.

??????? 2014??????High End???????: Munich High End Show - ?2?

My Ex- Pre Amplifier - Comes into lime light - after it leaves my house - sad - but glad it found a happy home;

Yes, S Korean - but nice - Mr. Park is a good designer.

 

[bhagwan]

We had a good show at Munich.

One big bonus of sharing a room with others ( in this case Silvio of Audiopax and Geoffrey, our European distributor ) is that i get to hear great new music from their collections. Srajan played some amazing cuts too. I have asked for the names. I shall post some of these titles when they send them to me.

This was the room.

Sir,
Thank you for your comments;
Yes, the music list - would be much appreciated.

I did meet Mr. Silvio in 2003 @ Frankfurt Audio SHow - when Audio Pax has come for the 1st time from Brazil & they had entered with Ecosse Cables & Avant Carde Speakers.

Good Amps - Great Price point;

You must try to go to MOC instead of Hi Fi Deluxe - I remember - you were @ MOC a few years back with Emille [Again S Korean] & Triangle [French Speaker] - when I had last heard your Speakers in Germany - may have been 3 or 5 years back - I am not sure - I have the pics somewhere.

All the Best !

 

[hydra]

HiFi Deluxe 2014

The AVShowrooms website have given a "Gold Show Award" to the Soundgalleries/Rethm/Audiopax/Antelope/Tellurium Q Room.

 

[hydra]

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One big bonus of sharing a room with others ( in this case Silvio of Audiopax and Geoffrey, our European distributor ) is that i get to hear great new music from their collections. Srajan played some amazing cuts too. I have asked for the names. I shall post some of these titles when they send them to me.
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New music is always great! I've always marvelled at the amount of music, movies, books and art that already exists, and that we're certain to love, but haven't yet been exposed to.

Srajan seems to have travelled to Munich with a LOT of music. He'd listed the (large) selection of music he'd taken with him in the 6moons coverage of Munich 2014.

I think you were lucky enough to get to listen to some good music! The Stereophile coverage (Art Dudley) of Munich 2014 was lamenting the lack of good music being played by most exhibitors.

Munich High End 2014: Day 3 wrap-up | Stereophile.com

Finally, a word about music. The only respect in which High End 2014 failed to mop the floor with every other show I've attended was this: For some crazy reason, many if not most of the exhibitors who chose to play music at the show did so with either gritty, bass-boosted recordings of inane techno-pop, or the lamest audiophile chestnuts imaginable. By my reckoning, American shows have, in recent years, made laudable progress along those linesbut in Munich, those gains were either lost, forgotten, or lost and forgotten: We were back to Stevie Ray Vaughan's "Tin Pan Alley" and Rebecca Pigeon's "Spanish Harlem," for God's sake. Worst of all, I even heard Jazz at the Pawnshop (shudder! ) in one room. No one but audiophiles and the recording artists' immediate families listen to the last two; the first one is a lame choice that has been played to death and ought to be banned from public performance for at least the next 80 years.

Exhibitors: Playing any of these selections at an audio show pegs you as someone who doesn't really care all that much about music; is that the attitude you want to reflect upon your gear?

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Nicely said by Art Dudley. Send the man a copy of Hotel California! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[square_wave]

I have Rebecca Pigeon's album which contains Spanish Harlem. The only track I skip is the Spanish Harlem. Almost all the other tracks are more creative. I have to admit that the entire album has been sprinkled with audiophile music dust which makes it a touch artificial. Not as bad as Patricia Barber though..

 

[bhagwan]

High End 2014: Come One, Come All - The Audio Beat - www.TheAudioBeat.com
Another Show Report

 

[bhagwan]

Blumenhoffer Acoustics were showing a new horn speaker design, driven by an all Allnic DHT setup, including the massive new A10000 monoblocks, each featuring a pair of Kron 1610 output tubes that look more like something youd see in Duty Free than an electronic device. These are big -- and at $89,000 a pair the Allnic amps that use them are expensive. Indeed, past experience with Allnic electronics suggests that they are never less than interesting and often extremely impressive, which kind of points the finger for this one firmly at those speakers.

The problem with high-efficiency loudspeaker systems is that with this much amplifier doing the driving they can get real bad real quick, and that was the case here. Multi-cell horns are prone to integration and coloration issues, a sentence that barely scratches the surface of the tonal, spatial and phase anomalies being fired out of the Blumenhoffers. Youve heard commentators describing speakers in which you can hear each driver separately? How did these manage to sound like they had more separate drivers than they really did? The sound was so disjointed and all over the place that it was disturbing as well as painful. Painful? Oh, yes, the other problem with having that much amplifier (and being next door to Silbatone) is the tendency to play things loud. We definitely ducked for cover, making Blumenhoffer Acoustics worthy winners of this years award.

This was c/c/p/ from the link that I posted on the earlier post.

 

[Staxxx]

Thanks for the link to the new report on the Show. Great fun to read. I read the excerpt above from the report and could not quite understand the conclusion....but on reading the show report I realized they were referring to winning the Duck for Cover award ! At least they have a good sense of humor.

 

[square_wave]

Badly matched amplification can screw up the best of loudspeakers. This particular anomaly ( multi driver sound ) is exactly that is missing even from blumenhofers lower end speakers. With appropriate associate equipment, the speakers look like a dead ghost when they are playing that it is almost eerie. This was the first observation when I heard the fun 17.

Not sure what is going on at the show

Blumenhofer should have stuck to Einstein electronics as always..

 

[bhagwan]

Badly matched amplification can screw up the best of loudspeakers.
Not sure what is going on at the show

Possible;
I have heard the BH Speakers in Munich - few times & they played a respectable 5.5 to 6.0 on 10 [very good in my books - considering their price]

I guess Allnic was to blame - in this case...
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