RMAF 2007 Day 1
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MiTT
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I did indeed, they will be in part of my Day 2 report. I don't want to spoil it, but I liked their little brothers better...
MiTT
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They still take orders in the US, and I know they have shipped some to Israel as well. My friend manages all of their shipping and I've met Yoav a few times. I think they sound better than they did the first time I heard them 2 years ago. They are exceptionally tonally accurate, but I think they are a little dry, and, at least on the material I listened to when I was in the room on Saturday night, the soundstage was very shallow. Don't get me wrong, they sounded good - but for me to part with 70 Large, I'd expect them to sound EXCEPTIONAL in all regards. I thought there were a lot of less expensive speakers that sounded as good or even better.
He did show them with better equipment than in the past - full dCS stack, Krell pre-amp and FBP-400 monoblocks. I wonder what they would sound like with some even higher end amplification?
I didn't like the blue anodized front baffles either, they just didn't do it for me...
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Tim, my friend your making me just a tad jealous !! I'm sure the feeling must be like a herion addict @ an Opium Convention !
Love the "as usual" excellent coverage.
I told Shirley next year our fall trip out to visit our son WILL coincide with RMAF !!
Love the "as usual" excellent coverage.
I told Shirley next year our fall trip out to visit our son WILL coincide with RMAF !!
Tim:
My hearing sucks, so I really can't say something is better or worse. The thing I did notice about these speakers, they were TIGHT.
Sorry, I didn't mean to ruin the Acapellas for you.
MiTT
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No appologies necessary. I thought both of the rooms with the Acapellas were very good sounding and they are an exciting speaker to experience. Those plasma tweeters are almost a bit unnerving huh? I was wondering if they might just unleash spits of flame like a dragon when there were passages with a lot of sibilants like brushes riding a high hat or something. I'll have a lot more to say about them in the other thread.
The YG's were definately TIGHT. That's kind of what I meant when I said they were tonally accurate, and particularly in the bass, they had an extreemly fast attack, but not much of a decay that would give me a clue to differentiate say one type of drum from another, or a viola from a cello very easily were they playing the same note - i.e, it would be hard to determine the body of an instrument on them, something that comes very easily to a speaker like the JM Labs Nova Utopias, the Usher Be400's and the Avalons. I think this same tightness also is a factor in the lack of spatial clues.
