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Part 4: Audio

There were very- very few interesting products that attacked my attention.

Steven Klein, the Vibraplane guy form NH, who keep buying the audio toys in Japan and selling them to the Americans for quadruple price this time brought an interesting device. It is some kind of optical finalizer for CD. I it relay another little gizmo when you radiate a CD with very strong light source that perusable make it better. There is some big theory behind that I do not know or care. I have heard many or them and have trued many of the different CD improvements. I can personally testify that all of them are garbage (Clark do not even start with the Reality CD ;-) and all of them false as soon you begin to use a REAL good CD. So, when I visited the Steven room and he took my CD and without asking me (!) ran in he stupid optical finalizer machine I was very much annoyed.  To my surprised the CDD after this machine did perfumed way more interfering and it was auditable even in context of that challenged Condo playback. When I heard that the optical finalized CD made those Condo little monitors to sound like a honky horns I said that I wonna it. There was an array of other quite positive employments…. I am  not rally a big fun of Steven Klein, he know it quite well but let pay the dues where it should – his optical finalizer did demonstrated itself very affectively.  Of could wherever the Steven Klein is his stinky dealer nature rush from Earth like an eruption from the Vesuvius! When I told him that I wont the unit he begin his typical disgusting dancing around the prices: your price, his price, list price, dealer price, industry prices, near-industry price… I like to play all those game but for whatever reasons I hate when he does it and he is very series about it. Each single word he is saying, each single thoughts flying in his head has very district association in his mind with receivable cash and I do not feel comfortable to be a subject of it. “Romy, I would give you a better price if you were the industry person”. I wonder what I have to do to become the industry person: to French-kiss with Atkinson, reduce my IQ on 100 pint, demote my listening intelligence o the kindergarten level, begin to blab on the subjects that I have no clew and begin o shake the hand with the morons who I do not respect and no interest? Thanks! Anyhow, I decided do not buy the unit in Japan for a fraction of the price and let Steve to make his profit – he well deserved it discovering this gismo. Well, the Steven Klein remains to be the Steven Klein with all his little miserable thighs…. still, his optical finalizer works and deserved to be used.

Another interesting think come from AudioPax. Somewhere between the Brazilian bananas plantation and football fields (do not confuse with the game for the Morons – the American Football) there is Eduardo de Lima. Eduardo is Brazilian engineer and as many times I met him I rely liked the way in whish he thinks. I also, like him personally as there is something in him that make him very much not the “industry type”. Anyhow, Eduardo brought his new 30W fully SS, Class A, single-ended amp that I find might be very interesting and I appreciate some objectives that he put into this amsp. It was hared to listen anything in his room as there was no real loudspeakers in his room (the box loudspeakers of 90dB driver by SET are not loudspeakers for me) but what I have heard in context even his installation made me wonder how this 30W single-ended amp would drive a properly designed and built horn. I do not know the answers but the direction that Eduardo went might be very prospective.

The last interning product that I spotted was brought into US by estimable Victor Goldstein of Fanfare International. It is French made little monitors that all together sounded very accurate. Yes, the did sound like small speakers and I usually do not even try to listen any speakers that have the short side sorter then the longest starch of my Cat but the “Acoustic Production ASA” (Grand Monitor) did OK. Yes, choked with large musk but very-very gentry and non-annoying. All together for the very little space that they take, for the very little money that they cost and for many little affords they required they produced the very reasonable result. I was lucky to get the when the elasticity was good and they form my point of view produced the best among all handicapped sounds that I had head at that Show. Interesting that I returned there in 30 min and it was already much sharper and with much rubbery bass. Among the problem that I detected with then was the they completely change the response with the distance and if you are not in the optimism position then the FH will destroy your listening experiences. Another problem is the price. For the idiotic American consumers those speakers would not be popular for this money.  Victor should jack up the price over $20K then this baby would fly….

Anyhow, it was pretty much it and I do not remember anything else that I would fine worth to mention. I do not know if what I did mention was worth to mention but at least it was what stand above for me or exited me …

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