Genuin Audio is an German company operated by former high-end dealer and recording studio owner Thomas Wendt.
“I’m the CEO of a telecommunications network company, which develops its own software. I am very familiar with digital technology,” Wendt explained from his corner room in Halle 2. “That's why I developed my own music server, with an eye to avoiding jitter and high-frequency interference.”
After operating a recording studio, Wendt developed his own DSP-based loudspeakers. He’s currently developing a digital preamplifier to feed digital sources into the loudspeakers' DSP without conversion or loss. “Our aim is to offer a complete system of a few highly integrated devices in order,” he stated. “For example, it is better to amplify the fine signal of an MC pickup directly behind the tonearm cable and not two meters behind it. So, we integrated the phono stage into the record player. At the same time, we are addressing a modern audience with our smart concept.”
I was taken by Wendt’s system, which included the debut of a suspended turntable called Drive (€9950), the Pearl MC/MM phono stage (€4990), and a unipivot carbon fiber tonearm called the Point (€3950), mounted with a nude MC cartridge called Sting (€2950). Good names. A 1TB "Tars" Music Server (€9900) fed digits over Wendt’s Genuin cable to the 93dB-sensitive Ava active bookshelf speakers, which employs a 1" tweeter and a side-mounted 8" bass driver and is powered by a class-D amp with Pascal modules (€19,500/pair).
Sometimes, DSP software and active speakers make me run for the hills, but the Genuin Audio system was a revelation. Music flowed with a disarming humanity, naturalness, effortlessness, and infectious energy. Amid the cacophony of Munich, Wendt's modest setup delivered music that brimmed with heart and soul.
Cecile McLorin’s Salvant’s “Devil May Care” played with appropriate swing feel and intimacy, while a classical piece by Delibes had outstanding dynamics and punch. Musicality turned up to 11.
COMMENTS
I think that speaker is a coax with side mounted woofer but the image quality is not great (see next paragraph).
Also, I don't know what software y'all use to compress your images but it's not good at all. Full of aliasing "jaggies". It's on every image on the site, not just this article. been driving me mad for years. even when I open the image in a new tab with no zoom-in on my browser it's 1996 all over again.
https://www.genuin-audio.de/en/produkte/ava/
There is another audio review site (who's acronym is the same as used for "Pain in The Arse") that takes their photography seriously and offers clickable, good resolution photos. Perhaps S'phile can get some pointers from their own sister site, Shutterbug?
In the course of a show I take 100s of photographs. Photos are subject to obstructions, human heads, bad lighting (too dark, too bright), glare, all manner of obstacles. This particular photo was taken by the manufacturer, as I misplaced five of my hundreds of High End Munich photos spread out over external hard drives, USB sticks, and camera memory. It's the first ever show photo I've lost.
It's the compression on the photos that's used when building the web page that is problematic. It's a back end issue where the photos are processed to a smaller file size and the aliasing appears; the visual equivalent of an mp3. Don't get me started on the random dead links because the article naming format changed at some point many years ago.
I did not intend to imply you were taking bad pictures, you are not.
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