Well I would like to thank Ken ,Denis, George and Bob for coming out . It was a blast. The Theme for the night seemed to be acoustic and Flamenco guitar music. Ken started us out with a disc he so graciously gave all of us . With track #1 "while My Guitar Gently Weeps" by Jake Shimabukuro. It was a great recording of acoustical guitar-Ukulele work with a slight oriental feel. It was so good we went on to listen to track #2 by the same artist , He did a wonderful version of "The Star Spangled Banner " , all acoustic . Man what a treat!
Next George broke out some light vocal music the we mulled over ,I cant recall the name , (It was a obscure recording that he said he just found, and has not had a long listen to) We started to speed it up a bit with some Dire Straits , On Every Street, It is always a good demo disc to get a feel for the system. With that we went back to a live recording of Michael Hedges , A special treat from George that was Acoustical guitar again. It was great. I felt like he was right there playing as we chatted. Another must have for me! A great compliment was then given by George that it sounded Like he was sitting in the small venue he seen him at in Ann Arbor MI.
Bob arrived shortly after and man did he blow us away with a fantastic recording of Rodrigo Y Gabriela. WOW ! What a treat in recording and talent. (I will be getting that today if possible ) These two can play. The sound was fantastic , Denis who was so polite and gracious to come and listen with Ken even got his pen out and was taking names and notes. I Thank you BOB for introducing me to this treat.
With that it was a few more beers and munchies, the DB started to go up a bit as I broke out the Eagles, "Hell Freezes Over " and gave Bob and George a taste of the sweet seat and some bass that was felt. Bob had a few more recordings that were great , (Ill be contacting all of you for names and such) but the fun really started to happen when George broke out a old recording of Candy O by the Cars. Suddenly George wanted a bit more DB. I told him and any one , Its a Krell you wont run out of volume. (As Ken over heard me and grinned) .
George then took me up on that and broke out Deep Purple, and proceeded to "Turn it up " as they say. I had Ritchie Blackmore front row center pounding out those famous opening guitar riffs. As george sipped his beer and looked like a 17 year old at a concert.
I did make a profit from the event as Ken and I had a wager ($1.00). Upon my wifes arrival ,I told him to ask her what disc she wanted to hear. I guaranteed it would be Dr. Hook ! Instead We Got Captian Hook out of her.
Again I would like to thank Ken, Denis, George, Bob, and My wife. It was great fun and there were some great recordings listened too. As with any system you are used to the sound of your own. I was curious as to the opinions of others. I was surprised as I got some great reviews from you all. George liked the really high crisp detail of the system , Bob said it wasn't to LIVE for him, Which I was a bit worried about. (There are a lot of hard surfaces). Bob said he loved the ability to turn it up and it just gets louder and stays clean. Denis liked the punchiness it seemed, as him and the rest said you could feel it at times.
We were having so much fun we never found the time to try Kens interconnects,(thanks Ken for bringing , I would love to try them later) Bob was very eager to measure the system but we ran into a small glitch, My system is so simple I have no pre outs on my Theta. He and I were leary of hooking a lap top directly to a small welder (the Krell) . George made friends fast with my wife as he presented her with a fine White micro brew as a warming gift, that was great.
The system consisted of : AMPLIFICATION...Krell FPB300C , feeding a Theta Miles Balanced player with Analysis Plus Copper Oval one interconnects. The speaker cable was a Proto type from a manufacture in Chicago. The Sub that was just hooked into the system was a Sunfire True sub. ran 90*out of Phase, x-over at 50 hz and at 0db on the attenuation. This was a big risk as I never ran a sub with this system. It was a seamless blend as I asked every one if they could tell where it was and the consensus was NO ! It blends well.
Again thanks GUYS, Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did.
C.A.P
.........Man I should not!
