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Nordost’s Joe Reynolds at High End Munich 2024
Among the many presentations in the Audio Excellent room was one by the elusive Joe Reynolds. Too long absent from audio shows, head honcho Reynolds followed up presentations in Nordost’s own exhibit space with a short talk on the company’s new, relatively low-priced Leif Series 3 that includes White Lightning 3, Purple Flare 3, Blue Heaven 3, and Red Dawn 3.
Video by Jason Victor Serinus
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Icons of Audio: Bill Low of AudioQuest
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This is the first in a series of interviews with icons of the audio world. Here, Ken Micallef interviews AudioQuest founder Bill Low. Check out AudioQuest's website at bit.ly/3zljnOr for more information. 0:00 - Intro 1:00 - Emotional transportation 1:43 - Narrow down the variables 5:50 - It's the little things 6:18 - Speaker crossovers 7:32 - On Richard Vandersteen. speaker designer 7:49 - On ...
Tannoy 70th Anniversary Autograph 12 Prototype Loudspeaker at High End Munich 2024
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Tannoy's Danny Cooklin talks to Ken Micallef from Stereophile about the 70th Anniversary Autograph 12 speaker prototype shown at High End Munich 2024. Read the written blog post: www.stereophile.com/content/tannoy-linn-primaluna-atlas Website: www.stereophile.com Facebook: stereophile Instagram: stereophile
Thuono Turntables
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Read the written blog post: www.stereophile.com/content/thuono-audio Website: www.stereophile.com Facebook: stereophile Instagram: stereophile
Voxativ Andagio Debuts at High End Munich 2024
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Read the written blog post: www.stereophile.com/content/voxativ-e206 Website: www.stereophile.com Facebook: stereophile
Daryl Wilson reintroduces the re-envisioned WATT/Puppy at High End Munich 2024
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Read the written blog post: www.stereophile.com/content/daryl-wilson-reintroduces-re-envisioned-wattpuppy-video Website: www.stereophile.com Facebook: stereophile
High End Munich 2024 Pre-Show Sneak Peek with Jason Victor Serinus
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You can see the difference between the more casual, hotel-based U.S. audio shows and High End Munich, which resembles a major industry trade show, in this sneak peek video featuring Jason Victor Serinus. Website: www.stereophile.com Facebook: stereophile
MoFi SourcePoint 888 Speakers at AXPONA 2024
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Focal at AXPONA 2024
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Fyne Audio Interview: Paul Mills and Andrzej Sosna at AXPONA 2024
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Happy 150 Herb and Steve!
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Herb Reichert and Steve Guttenberg Birthday Celebration at AXPONA 2024
Estelon, Crystal Cable, and Vitus Audio at AXPONA 2024
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Børresen X6 Speakers, Axxess, and Ansuz at SWAF 2024
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This system featured Børresen X6 speakers ($22,000/pair) and shared a room with the flagship Børresen M6 speakers ($550,000). There is a significant difference in cost, performance, and aesthetics between the X6 and the M6. The main contrast between the two is that the M6 is designed without budget constraints, focusing on flagship-level performance regardless of the cost. On the other hand, th...
Børresen M6 Speakers, and Aavik Electronics at SWAF 2024
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When a pair of speakers sells for more than half a million dollars, there are high expectations for performance. The Børresen X6 speakers ($550,000/pair) are a perfect example. Demoed at the Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas, these speakers exhibited astonishing agility and seemingly boundless dynamics. The electronics and cables for this stellar system feature Aavik components: C-880 preamplifier...
Estelon Forza Speakers, MSB Electronics, Synergistic Research Demo System at SWAF 2024
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A superb high-end audio system featured at the Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas included Estelon Forza speakers ($170,000) in dark silver liquid gloss, powered by MSB M500 mono amplifiers ($75,000 each). The system used an MSB Select DAC ($115,000) and Select Digital Director ($27,500) for digital processing. The music server was a Taiko GSM Extreme ($30,000). The setup also featured Synergistic ...
sounds and looks very oily and very snake, thanks i will pass
Did your hear some of the products?
@@theomindschrddr7983 i did, had the nr power cord and those little thing cant remember whats called, kv1 cv2 or something else that you plug to your wall and do nothing except cost you a whole lot
@@liran547 Oke fair enough
Cant wait to see the videos of everyone passing an ABX double blind listening test, and continually picking out the Nordorst cable over the others. Im sure itll be posted very soon 😉
Awesome speakers, made about ten miles from me.
Does Bill Low moonlight as a hypnotist? That voice........you are very relaxed, your feeling sleepy, your eyes are getting heavy...... When I snap my fingers, you will wake up and love the music......... :)
Bill Low is quite knowledgeable and inspiring. Thank you for this interview.
the music does not challenge the system....
Wow, look at all the room treatments. It's obvious this guy doesn't know what he's doing. L O L.
Thought this was great. I did not mind the length at all. Wish he would have answered the question about what the he believes the differences are between the different product lines and levels a little more fully. But he answered how he answered, and generally it was really interesting. Thanks!
Bill Low here: I believe you are referring to Ken's question about the AQ Folk Heroes and Mythical Creatures -- in which case I said the fundamental truth, which is simply "price vs. ability to disappear and reveal." But there are important details --- The nuance that makes those models somewhat more complicated than my quip acknowledges is exemplified by the SILVER models of Robin Hood and William Tell. Is it a simple price hierarchy, or is ThunderBird sometimes a superior cable for less money than the SLIVER Folk Heroes? As made visible in my reply below to a question about my systems, I use RH Silver and WT Silver in 2 of my systems -- because they are smaller cables (ergonomics of a desk system), in a context in which damping factor is of minimum importance, and the lengths (cumulative impedance) are short. I use the Silver versions of those cables because they are more transparent. However, if was driving speakers that were much more dependent on the amp to control them, and/or significantly less efficient, I would use the less expensive ThunderBird because its big-block V8 torque would be more important than the top 2 octaves finesse advantage of the Silver Folk Heroes. In comparison, Richard Vandersteen offers William Tell SILVER with his Model Seven XTRM speakers and M7-HPA amplifiers combination because the mono amps are meant to be used right next to the speakers with short speaker cables. Length in a speaker cable reduces performance (though much less with ZERO-tech models) and raises the price. Considering only the amount of metal and cable impedance, a 4 ft William Tell has lower impedance than an 8 ft ThunderBird -- so with mono amps next to the speakers, the Silver Folk Heroes might cost less than a longer ThunderBird, give up nothing in impedance, and offer the highest most-cost-effective performance. Another variable in the matrix of Folk Hero and Mythical Creature speaker cables is BiWiring. For roughly the same money, is it better to single wire with ThunderBird ZERO, or BiWire with William Tell ZERO? For almost all BiWireable speakers, the William Tell COMBO will be better in every way, including bass slam, despite the higher impedance -- because significantly reducing current-modulation in the treble cable (taking the bass waves out of the water where the treble is trying to swim), is so very cost-effective. And that's without considering the very big benefit of the Folk Hero and Mythical Creature BASS cables including a cancelation "circuit" that pulls RF off the output of the amplifier -- a relevant/significant benefit for transformer-coupled amplifiers, and a very important benefit for solid state amplifiers. This circuit can't be included in full-range cables because the filter/noise-trap is too effective about 10kHz, really screwing up the tweeter signal. It's also valid to use only a full-range ThunderBird in order to be able to add the ThunderBird BASS cable later. Even if the BASS cable is only added years later or never, it won't have been a mistake -- nothing that good is a mistake :-) Does that answer your question?
Next do Ray Kimber, always love to hear his talks about cable design, plus I always feel that we don't hear enough from him you know what I mean
Great! Mr. Low has very precisely formulated several thoughts that have been running through my mind for some time. Reflection on AB tests, the way we perceive music, that we are not really an oscilloscope and that changes in the time domain can be considered problems in the frequency energy domain and many others. Despite the energy and enthusiasm that Mr. Low has. That's two hours well spent.
Thanks for sharing!
I hope this actually becomes a series and doesn't just fall by the wayside like everything else Stereophile tries to get going.
Thank you for your enthusiasm! We're committed to making this series a lasting success
ugh, what a slog. 2 hours is a bit long. You should have cut this down to just the most pertinent bits.
Consider watching it in bite-sized chunks instead. We created chapters, so that you can jump to any particular topic and catch a couple minutes of it instead of watching the whole thing.
Really nice to hear his history and insight
WooWoo
Seems like a very erudite & thoughtful chap.
really informative, in-depth interview. thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'd be interested to know what's in his current home audio system.
There are several systems, we can ask Bill for details. Check back in a few days...
Bill Low here: Even though revealing my systems won't make everyone happy, and will seem wasteful and way too-much to others -- I can't resist. After all, I have a serious lifetime case of the healthy version (don't we all claim that?) of having been bitten by the audiophile bug at age 12, 60 years ago. The systems listed below are all subject to revision/curation over time, though some of the best gear is 10+ years old. The 3 music systems, one of which is indulged in every day, are the bedroom systems where the bed is the "hot-seat" for listening while awake, and while going to sleep. All 3 systems are 100% equally effective, enthralling and engaging -- the 3rd system proves that context and relationship to the music is everything. - NYC: AQ Niagara 7000, Aurender N20, Aesthetix Romulus CD/DAC w/variable-out, Riviera Labs AFM25 mono amps, Rockport Avior II speakers, AQ Dragon cables. - California: AQ Niagara 7000, Aurender N30, Aesthetix Romulus CD/DAC w/variable-out, Riviera Labs AFM25 mono amps, DeVore Fidelity Gibbon X speakers, AQ Dragon cables. - When traveling: Bose Flex (Bluetooth-only) and an iPhone. Placing the Flex generally out of line of sight, usually on the floor, maximizing its fill-the-room capability while minimizing room nodes (generally a 2 or 3 position experiment taking 90 seconds). - NYC home theater: AQ Niagara 5000, 77" Sony OLED, Aesthetix Mimas integrated amp with DAC card, Wilson TuneTots. Dragon cables and Vodka Toslink from the TV - California living room, home theater 80%, music-only 20%: AQ Niagara 7000, Sony 83" OLED, Acoustic Signature Ascona Neo turntable, 6000 arm, Lyra Atlas Lambda, PS Audio Stellar phono, dCS Vivaldi One Apex, Riviera Labs APL01SE preamp and AFM50 mono amps, Rockport Cygnus speakers, Dragon cables and Vodka Toslink from the TV. - NYC desk Zoom and UA-cam: AQ Niagara 1200, Auralic Vega 2.1, PS Audio Stellar S300 amp, Devore Fidelity Micr/O speakers, Diamond USB, Dragon interconnect, Robin Hood Silver speaker cable. - California desk Zoom and UA-cam: AQ Niagara 5000, Aesthetix Mimas integrated amp with DAC card, Devore Fidelity Micr/O speakers, Diamond USB, William Tell Silver speaker cable. I can't state strongly enough that the Bose Flex really is that important to me -- and how very much more tolerable days full of Zoom calls are with quality electronics driving the extremely natural DeVore speakers.
Ace!
wow even through my Kanto yu6 on UA-cam that is nuts can't wait to hear MBL in person one day
Still waiting on P5Xe follow-up
Go with Open Baffle Speakers that will make these sound closed in, a lively etc. A box speaker sound like a box pushing sound. No life to it like live music.
Mr. Catalano really gets HiFi, tubes, horns and turntables.
Happiest Birthday 🎂🎂
2 5" drivers can go down up to a point (A woofer cannot work below its fs and also around the fs is not working good ) I would cut the speaker below the lower woofer an place it above a separate bass box with a pair of 10" or 1 12" That would be something Very easily doable
Holy shit, that bass is insane
Is it true that stereophile sends its reviews to manufacturers to “fact check” before it gets published? I hope that’s not happening. Thats not how actual journalism works. ua-cam.com/video/tJJGBpfz4ek/v-deo.htmlsi=UM_W-ff5ypNQpkNf
Do they still ship with fire extinguishers?
Sitting at an audio show using a shit mic in a shit room. Oy. I love how the speakers look but after seeing the response of the super tweeter there is no way I could listen to them. Very high signals over 17K hurts my ears and gives me a headache. On the other hand I have not heard your speakers, so...? Good luck.
please shave.
I wouldn't buy anything from anyone that looks that slimy
Good lord, setup sounds amazing even on youtube
AlsyVox Panel Speakers matched with all new Apurna TM Audio Gear from France and nothing on the Planet can beat it...Period !
Back in VAC!
I celebrate my Watt Puppy 7s everyday. Driven by Devialet they are just pure magic. Had horns speakers and tubes - you name it. But that´s my personal endgame!
Not a humble guy to say the least haha. Although he might have the right to act in such a way
I would like to hear your design theory's solutions about why you have your solutions in your turntables. Great vid!!!!
The watt on the new one is nearly parallel to the puppy? That’s a drastic design change. Personally, I’d rather own WP8. The best of the old design
much ado about nothing
I’m the heavyweight champion of the world.
Voxativ has always the best sound on the High-End!
I used to be the great fans of Audioques
I was the final inspector at WMI for VPI stuff! I love your products! Miss those days. Good luck with everything Dan Jacobs
I don't want to come across as having a go at Michael, but when he says "paid for" I believe him, but I can't help asking the question, he paid a lot but did he pay as much as we would paying the same gear. Well, in this video about the Swedish arm, he comes clear. Don't get me wrong, if I am in the "trade" then it usually works that way, and in my "trade" I know how it works out. Enjoyed the video.
Ines is a very knowledgeable designer and gracious person. I greatly enjoyed our interactions over the course of the Ampeggio 2024 review.
GREAT VIDEO. THANKS FOR SHARING. on a different note. some of the comments are very rude !!.
I just found out that first track is a Chesky record, which is kinda cheating. 😄 Still, for the record, I thought it sounded bloody great - with the same to be said for what came afterwards. Given that I am on one of the worst sounding laptops I've had in a while - and has to be more of a step down than a Chesky record is a step up - that's quite an achievement. It also wasn't at all the style of sound that I was expecting, though I'll check that on a hi fi system before elaborating further. They're also disturbingly cheap for speakers that, so far and to these ears, appear to by largely flawless. Cor!
Met Jeff at XPONA 2019. Really nice and easy-going guy. We shared same interest in music and played some records.
Great personality….even if I cannot afford his exceptional products.