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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions ....

Post Subject: Further thoughts IIPosted by Stitch on: 5/21/2014

The Rockports have a very light platter and a carbon Arm....the one I listened to was the latest, it had simply no Bass reproduction, nada, nothing and the Arm resonances are also inferior to any energy transfer from any cartridge. The lead wires are wrapped in a rubber hose and that one has an own force against Arm movement. It will damage any cantilever sooner or later. In the same System was a Seiki 8000 (like Romy's) and when we switched to that one it was a dramatic improvement in ALL areas. The Rockport owner had problems to believe what he heard (The Rockport is for some audiophiles the holy grail ...or EMT...or Thorens Reference or ....- mostly based on pics or when they listened to it and think it is good, then they have no idea what a really well done Turntable can do) but track after track he lost interest in his Rockport and he sold it 3 weeks later finally ....

I also agree with Romys explanation about the last 80 years and the vegetables. Was 15 years ago in the eastern Part of Europe and I got vegetables/food in an area which was far away from any "civilization" and the taste was outstanding natural. Never had this again .... you find "old" cartridges or speakers they have magnets from a material which is no longer available today and yes, there are differences to "modern" parts ....

Most audiophiles think, they only need enough cash and then they will be delivered with better parts. Nonsense. You buy brain or you buy no-Brain (mostly you buy no brain), it is replaced with Marketing blubber....Got a nice story from one of my friends, that one knows someone very well who bought a Violon speaker from Acapella. Very expensive. That owner is technically in the car industry and clever. Anyway, 3 weeks ago he opened the Violon to look inside. Based on his contacts he can get any part he needs and to make a long story short...he was totally shocked when he realized that every single part of this Box, be it caps, chassis, wire, resistors are cheap, cheap, cheap. He said, he saw absolutely nothing which was even a little bit above cheap. He replaced the parts with better ones...but that's the truth about that Business....High End? When you want to be High, smoke something or educate yourself. No one will help you. It is frustrating.
1 million Living voice.... I got that from a Great Britain Forum..someone wrote there who seems to know that company that they are 465.000 GBP + Kondo etc.....anyway, it is only a number :-) and a total different group of clients. It is normal that such a manufacturer has some "friends" everywhere for whatever reason and you find all over the world audiophiles who praise something you, me, others have the opposite "opinion" about ... but interestingly, when a System sounds real, right, lifelike, EVERYONE notices it ... but then all start to think what they like or not like, price, color, size, weight, manufacturer .... and this forms their "opinion" about something

Magico started very fast from unknown brand to a very well known brand. They must have investors that they can afford the marketing (I guess). Family business manufacturers can not afford that, no matter how good their products are. No one cares in that business about "good" or better...You can offer the best speaker in the world for 10k and no one wants to have it. The demand starts with positive reviews, positive "private" opinions from "reviewers, Class A listing in Stereophile and so on and on... And of course, when the 10k speaker really is the best on that planet, it will get no reputation. The Designer has to make a new "improved" model for 150.000$. That is serious and then the Fan group will grow ... And every Magico Speaker I listened to gave me the impression that listening to music is pain. But I also know owners who tell me that their Magico speakers are the best development after sliced bred ...

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