camverton
pfm Member
Impossible to cover it all in a day but of what we did hear, the ATCs and JBL K2s were excellent and far better than many of the other speakers with their congested mids and soft boomy bass. Also very good were the Amphion speakers and Harbeth speakers. In fact the Harbeth room was an oasis away from the excitable pop stuff blasting out of so many rooms. We even heard Flanders and Swan, and what a pleasure to meet the genial Alan Shaw. The ATC speakers just sounded right and played music rather than just squirting out hifi.
The Chord electronics dem was a bit bizarre. They were demming the M-Scaler, perhaps a bit of a pointless excercise given the noise filtering in from the corridor. Having listened to without and then with the chap next to me asked if he could switch between with and without scaler on the fly. “I could but I am not going to” was the presenters no nonsense and somewhat arrogant sounding reply, apoarently we would have been confused. So off we shuffled bemused and with a poorer opinion of Chord. In complete contrast was the genial presenter in the Kef room. Informative, amusing and a good product to boot.
The PMC dem was impressive for home cinema film examples but when they played music, I found the sound sufficiently unpleasant that I vacated the room before the end of the session.
We finished the day back with the K2s, listening to a couple of orchestral tracks peaking at 99dB. My goodness those speakers could present the sheer scale of orchestral music like few others, albeit at a price tag of £40k per pair!
Oh, slightly away from the bar you can get a plate of curry and rice or jacket potato for not much more than £5; much better value than the rolls at the bar, but only IIRC between 12 and 2.
The Chord electronics dem was a bit bizarre. They were demming the M-Scaler, perhaps a bit of a pointless excercise given the noise filtering in from the corridor. Having listened to without and then with the chap next to me asked if he could switch between with and without scaler on the fly. “I could but I am not going to” was the presenters no nonsense and somewhat arrogant sounding reply, apoarently we would have been confused. So off we shuffled bemused and with a poorer opinion of Chord. In complete contrast was the genial presenter in the Kef room. Informative, amusing and a good product to boot.
The PMC dem was impressive for home cinema film examples but when they played music, I found the sound sufficiently unpleasant that I vacated the room before the end of the session.
We finished the day back with the K2s, listening to a couple of orchestral tracks peaking at 99dB. My goodness those speakers could present the sheer scale of orchestral music like few others, albeit at a price tag of £40k per pair!
Oh, slightly away from the bar you can get a plate of curry and rice or jacket potato for not much more than £5; much better value than the rolls at the bar, but only IIRC between 12 and 2.