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Warm yet no lack of detail was what caught my interest. Expensive but oh well...
The turntable looked great high quality yet understated.
One of the better sounding rooms I thought.
Analog source in this room was the Bergmann Sleipner air-bearing, vacuum-holddown turntable and parallel-tracking tonearm ($54,000) from Denmark, fitted with a Lyra Atlas phono cartridge. Despite its over-familiarity, Harry Belafonte’s Carnegie Hall concert on LP sounded on this system as good as I have heard.
Warm yet no lack of detail was what caught my interest. Expensive but oh well...
The turntable looked great high quality yet understated.
One of the better sounding rooms I thought.
It looks like the $400k system, or whatever, was setup in a utility hallway.
Whether it sounded great or not I think my eye would be drawn to that door. Should I exit there at the end of the demo? Is the door alarmed? What is on the other side? Wilson Audio? Perhaps a nether realm where Mike Kay will great me just prior to ejecting me....