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That room was a total visual ripoff.
I demand satisfaction
Those speakers are the Genesis 450XS - very few were made, and they all went to Asia about 10 years ago. So, they did make it to the market.Jason, you didn't say a word about imaging. Probably because the speakers were set up left to right. The tweeters should have been on the inside :-)
Thanks for your input, Gary. Thank God I didn't proclaim the imaging best of the show. It seems the dunce cap that inevitably gets projected onto my head after people discover all the errors I've made in my blogs needs to be shared with someone at PS Audio. Regardless, I loved the sound.
PS. Kevin. Nowhere in my blog do I say that the sound in this room stole the show. I quote: "It was the best sound I've ever heard from a PS Audio show set-up. This bodes very well for their forthcoming amplifier."Rooms really do fluctuate hour by hour and day-by-day. Some of this has to do with how cables and other components settle in. Bright one day, flat the next, and okay by the third is a mantra I've heard repeated on numerous occasions. VTL/Wilson's room, for example, changed totally by Sunday; it held me mesmerized as I played a stupendous recording by the late Joan Sutherland. It's quite possible that when I heard the system, it sounded different than when I visited. And besides the difference in quality of source material, it really is a case of different strokes for different folks.jason
Posting corrected. PS. Kevin. Nowhere in my blog do I say that the sound in this room stole the show. I quote: "It was the best sound I've ever heard from a PS Audio show set-up. This bodes very well for their forthcoming amplifier."Rooms really do fluctuate hour by hour and day-by-day. Some of this has to do with how cables and other components settle in. Bright one day, flat the next, and okay by the third is a mantra I've heard repeated on numerous occasions. VTL/Wilson's room, for example, changed totally by Sunday; it held me mesmerized as I played a stupendous recording by the late Joan Sutherland. It's quite possible that when I heard the PS Audio system, it sounded different than when you visited. And besides the difference in quality of source material playing when each of us entered, it really is a case of different strokes for different folks.jason
Really?? Third and Fourth line of your blog "PS Audio's electronics stole the show." I agree that the VTL/Wilson room was wonderfull when I heard it on Saturday. It should be Damnit! ;-) It's VTL and Wilson! $150K or so system. I pretty much agree with your opinons of the other rooms you have highlighted her in you report.
Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. This is what happens when you write blogs late at night, trying to keep up. I meant, stole the show in the room, not in the show as a whole. My apologies. If JA has the time, I'll request an edit to my copy.
I was disappointed with the sonics here too, Sat pm. It was also a very noisy room with people talking loudly throughout so my disappointment is in part due to that, I suppose. So now the speakers were not positioned correctly? That's how you sell a new product then.....