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If you can do any of the above, then you too can realize what a high end stereo can do for you! And that IS what we get, rarely, with a system built with your own hands and with the help of a brain and a little lady luck. The system...
I was not shocked when it had lost the ability to sing What a wonderful world. And rightly so! When was the last time you said to someone you love them and it felt something? Was it when you were alone with your passion, or when the room was full of ACA members? Of course it was when you were in the right place! That is where the room becomes so much part of the experience, the subtle spaces between the sighs and the drummers' cymbal, and your ears and soul come together to form what in reality is a point of homeostasis between music and man, man and music. The meeting in itself, if we speak in terms of love, metaphorically, was an orgy. And the music the same system. But played in another room with a couple listening, was true love. That is how much the difference was and is at Nikos home. Frightening to imagine, but true to the bone. So how do you create this one might ask, and what machines were used to convey this love is in order. The DIY design with Bastanis drivers, separated sub woofers, and a dipole setup allows for the breadth of the acoustic energy inside the room to develop true to life vocals, with superb channel separation and intense spatial three dimensionality, only seen in the best of set ups. Or in live, unplugged concerts. The deadly silence between notes and the a gentle whisper can be heard immaculately. The room was playing along with the system, and if we want to be perfectly honest, the room itself is a part of the speaker in an ever so much spread of notes throughout space. Back impression...The first time I listened and LIVED the system was with an unplugged Leonard Skinner album, recorded from my Dynalab tuner to pcm on a CD and replayed here. The guitars were so well heard and placed that I had to move position on the couch as I felt uncomfortable that Leonard was in the room and I was wearing shorts!! The vocals were so on spot, I was ashamed that I had never heard it like this before, and the bass, oh the bass was absolutely heart warming and sinfully tight yet round.... I use the word sinful only since sin and being good for you, was never mutually exclusive until now! The audition...But back to the ACA meeting on June, 2010.
J. Heifetz, Mozart concerto in D major, RCA Living Stereo LP was second with the piano not blaring on the extreme higher notes, exactly on tone and as Stamatis Giannoulis said, speed and immediacy were directly the first thing that showed face here. The Beat Goes On, by Patricia Barber put us into an excellent mood and was a pure treat to want to get up and dance with my wife sitting next to me, and Satistam even closer!! What a song! What posture it can have when played..........with a FLAC recording!!
Conclusion...As a man from the other side of the river, The Man from Ipanema. Our own Nikos Protos came to Greece to prove that having what a man needs, may not be as far fetched as we all think. But by careful thinking, some work, and an open mind, it doesn't take much to really say .......WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD! System description
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