I sort of live vicariously through my friend Kip. Kip is smarter than I am, takes better vacations and has way better swag. No middle aged paunch, he has a more refined taste in music, favoring late fifties Verve and Blue Note vinyl, rides a killer Ducati and owns a stereo that blows mine away. How come the smart guys get the really good jobs, it just isn't very fair?
When I was young and flush with lucre, I once had a great audiophile system. I would thumb through the latest Absolute Sound with a look of disdain and pinkie aloft in the air, preparing to throw down with any audiophile gunslinger about arcane arguments of soundstage and midrange bloom. But somewhere along the way I realized that it was tough for married guys to build really good systems. The prices have always been obscene. Relationships would quickly end if we tried to pull that stuff. So honestly I haven't had a system upgrade in twenty five years. I had the early morning epiphany that somewhere along the line I had forsaken or stopped chasing the perfectly manicured life, and it honestly shows in the worn holes in my ride, my jargon, my dress, my ever growing antiquity. And my dated audio system.
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Kip can contact me for rare vinyl. i might have something on his wish list.
Had to respond to your friend's comment on those Magico speakers. I too have heard Magico speakers sound sort of bland at shows, not that great, but at the Bay Area Dagogo show this year, that same model sounded great. Really great.
The designer, Alon Wolf, is an acquaintance of mine, we both like horn loudspeakers and he's visited here several times to hear mine. He's an interesting guy, an Israeli immigrant who used to design and engineer rocket nozzles.
Here is a link to his most extreme speakers The Magico Ultimate ( 5-way loudspeaker, four horns + direct radiator bass, $229,000 ! ) which use the same DEQX digital crossover/processor I use on my horns.
http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/magico/magico.html
IMO Alon's sealed-bass direct radiator speakers are about the best 'conventional' speakers there are. Expensive, but really really really good.
Not sure if the photo shows the latest iteration, probably though. The first version looked different. Apparently only three pairs have been built so far, not sure if that includes the original pair, but two of them are installed in a Bay Area luxury home… if you read the review I sent you and you can search the 6 Moons site to see a pic of the original configuration ( which I think look better ).
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