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In the Thread: High End Munich 2014 impressions ....

Post Subject: Who in the audience had heard taiko drums in person??Posted by steverino on: 5/29/2014

If the idea was to demonstrate the unbelievable fidelity of these speakers why wouldn't they use an instrument everyone had heard live or barring that bring in a set of taiko drums and let some taiko player have at it? It's hard to tell from an MP3 file exactly what it sounded like in-room but I have heard more realistic sounding drums in lossy files before. But never having heard taiko drums in person maybe that's what they sound like. I mean like a lossy file of someone banging on a countertop. Visually the speakers are quite ugly but no more so than many others. This does support the notion that the high end audio business is in a death spiral however.

As a side note Wiki indicates that Taiko drums aren't even standardized in size and are played with varying technique so we have an even greater muddle than appears on the surface.

Wiki: Taiko are a broad range of Japanese percussion instruments. Within Japan, the term refers to any kind of drum, but outside Japan, the term is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums called wadaiko... The process of constructing taiko varies between manufacturers ....Taiko performance consists of many components in technical rhythm, form, stick grip, clothing, and the instrumentation.

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