The $25,000/pair M-2000 Self-Analyzing Balanced mono power amplifiers are built like (fashionably luxurious) tanks and output 600W into 8 ohms. They weigh in at 170 lbs each. "They have an S/N Ratio of greater than 110dB," Gong confessed, "so they are very quiet."
Lord, yes, when Gong played Rutter's Requiem through Dynaudio…
Of course, none of that is interesting if the speakers aren't good and I thought the 533-Ts were very good. Paired…
"Did you get my picture, yet?" Lucette asked.
I hadn't. What was I waiting for?
Frustrated by the dead internet connection in my suite, I sat before the computer screen in the press room, checking in on all the Show coverage that I couldn't post.
At least, in the press room, there were cookies.
I dropped my peanut butter cookie, grabbed my camera, and asked the ladies to smile.
Jay explained that Bluebird Music had brought in the Neat line for their larger Ultimatum MF7 loudspeakers ($15,000/pair), but when they heard the Motives, they knew they'd have to make room for them, too.
"We want to show that enjoyable music doesn’t have to cost a zillion dollars. This is about enjoying music and having fun. We're having fun now."
Paired with the Exposure 2010S amplifier and CD player…
"May I see the photo?" Totem's Nico Bruzzese asked.
"Sure," I said, bringing my little digital camera around for him to see.
The look on his face. I laughed.
"I know where you live," Nico threatened, "I've got your shipping address!"
I think he was trying to say that he didn't want me to post this photo of him standing beside the Native American mask. I'm sorry, Nico. But please feel free to use…
Louis Armstrong, take me away.
So we adjourned to an upstairs hotel room where we were exposed to an assault of another sort. Now it’s only my opinion but some of the "components" that are in the rooms at the Sheraton Gateway at LAX are less than whatcha might call Hi Fidelity. Under the television, there was a musical device, bolted to the shelf of the entertainment center.…