Monthly Meeting ACA at Antonis Koniotakis
By George Heropoulos
After the epic invasion of Salonica, the audiophile community of Greece decided, it is time to expand ACA to other major cities towards the opposite direction this time around, in the South.
For this reason three brave Caballeros, following orders in a secret mission rode their horses armed with raki and other fatal nuclear ACA weapons, to attack early in the morning (11:30 a.m), the castle of the famous Iraklion city.
To our surprise the city defense was undertaken by only one rider, the one and only Antonis, who was fortified in his own hill in his own audiophile castle, as a modern Don Quixote.
Upon arriving we were astonished, because the doors were unlocked....
Even more Antonis with other friends welcomed us with music, coffee and cakes. We immediately surrendered...
After a few minutes we found ourselves imprisoned in a strange room isolated from the rest of the world. This was a non-typical audiophile "place", because beside an unlimited number of audio equipments, vinyl, CD and book libraries and his excellent isolators and absorbers, in the peripheral there were bikes, motorcycles, gym instruments, other unexpected apparatus and some strange constructions.
The odd thing was that, as it all served one singly purpose.
The goal was to transform a typical audio room to an eccentric yet extremely well tuned and pleasant audiophile room.
It was to late when we realized that although we were free, we could not walk away. So Antonis begun firing against us, music notes through his famous canon Rockport speakers, fueled by two hot Griffon monoblock monsters, that over time became extremely hot and began bursting flames of universal melodies.
Three different analog sources (Kronos, SME, Horning) and one digital, were used to persuade us.
We could not resist anymore and we were asked to CONFESS.
But Antonis didn't stop. He continued vinyl after vinyl, CD after CD, note after note to please us.
Excellent music, opera, jazz, classic, blues, cretan, were
complimenting each other in an unexpected fantastic dance.
Very few times in my life I have felt like this during an audiophile session...
Nothing can be said about the extraordinary EQUI-TECH electric
powering of the whole system.
I must admit that we totally gave in and signed all the papers, when he ordered us to follow him outside. There he asked us to sit down, he disappeared for a few moments and when he came back he served us the last meal of the day.
Although he never forced us, we ate and finished all the raki without hesitation. I must say that, No violence was used against us.
It is more than sure that Antonis is a UNIQUE PERSON in the audiophile community and that ACA is proud and honored to have him as a member.
