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Post Subject: A Vegas event.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/22/2017
It was back in 2001-2002.
David Karmeli brought to Vegas a pair of original Vitavox CN-191 that he
did not show publicly. They just were sitting in “another” room, unconnected with
no purpose. One night he was experimenting with them and the stars suddenly got
aligned. I heard a few times CN-191 in a different rooms and it was never
interesting but what they did in that Vegas room was beyond believe. They were
driven my Lamm electronics with CEC front end. I very much remember that Sound
and I could give a long list of what I did not like in that Sound but it was
musical like hell and since that day I adopted S2 as Macondo default MF driver.
The playback system made
the room to float and to breathe with sound, filing it with spectacular sparkles
of all imaginable colors, it was like looking into some kind of mysterious 3D kaleidoscope.
I honesty to that day did not hear anything as spectacular and hypnotizing. For
a few year I was straggling to recreate something similar, in many way I did
better but in some way I never came even close. As I got more listening intelligence
I do not compete with neither live sound nor with my memories about anything sonically
and today I have no any about that sound. Still, I need to confess that for
many years I was drive by some jealousy for that sound that I head in that
Vegas room.
Luckily, that day I had my
recordings with me. I picked a stunning CD, Kurt Masur with Chicago play Shostakovich
5. It is WFMT live broadcast from 1987 with Norm Pellegrini announcement. THAT interpretation
of Shostakovich 5 is beyond believe and I tend over the years to dot listen any
other Shostakovich 5. So, I was playing the recording on that ad hoc Vitavox
playback and it was like a trip to another side of the Moon. David and I have slightly
different views about philosophies and effects in playbacks and I heard a
number of his endeavors. In my estimation what he did in Vegas with that
Vitavox was just heads and shoulder more meaningful that anytime he ever did,
or I did for that matter.
The memory about that Vitavox
in Vegas event is living with me over the years. The most remarkable was that
that David did not make any efforts to make that Sound. He literally just damped
two speakers in two corners and the rest was the history that will be living
with us, I am pretty sure to the rest of our lives, as the events like this do
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