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In the Thread: A new kid in the block: Sadurni Acoustics

Post Subject: An old man with very large wingsPosted by Jorge on: 5/6/2014

I would have to say that loosing Gabo is a far bigger tragedy than damaging any sort of reputation I might have.

About making horns I don’t yet see this obsession as a full time career, and if you ask I just as well would not be able to answer what drives a man to do what he does, maybe we are taken by our passions and loose clear sight of what is ahead of us. I can claim I have also fallen to horrid peer pressure put on me by similar maniacs who against any better judgment decide to build amplifiers or spend their life recording jazz tapes or neglect a high paying job to write and rewrite about the most intimate fall backs and minor achievements of a wall socket!

I is extremely funny to watch all those soft tissued audiophiles, loading and double boxing a 3 ton truck with the most expensive, heavy and delicate equipment, then armed with deficient dolly handling capabilities travel long miles for a senseless 3 day love affair inside an acoustically challenged hotel room.

The plot thickens, class D amplifiers no less! Yes we could have blown the whole Westin out of its zip code, but our neighboring Home Theater buffs were anchoring the very foundation of the building with six 2.4 kilowatt one note subwoofers already. Contradictions appear always and I must say that the megawatt amps we used have a particular way of controlling sound, clear transparent, and able to throw a wonderful gradation of dynamic levels without losing tonality. Tunning was a bitch, of course, but If I might say so myself, our biggest success was bass integration this time (I was at RMAF too with other personal challenges and successes).

We received a lot of praise from show goers, high efficiency aficionados would claim our horns are not big enough, with the thumbs up of surprised wives who absolutely loved the looks of our speakers but would not have them in their living rooms, taking the place of old grandma’s quilted rocking chair and the dust covered five buck plaster figurine filled Ikea cabinet on the opposing side.

Everyone we talked to said it was the best sound they heard and clearly Best of show, happily those who hated it didn’t comment it with us. It seems we will get a Gold Award from a known magazine but most importantly, it was a lot of fun.

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