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post #1 of 9
1/20/04 at 7:58pm
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I had a chance to stop in at Glen Poor Audio in Chicago today, looking for some affordable horn speakers. Guess it depends on how you define affordable. For horns, they "only" carry Avantegarde, and "only" had the Trio Classico with basshorns hooked up to BAT amps with Linn's top of the line CDP for audition. Poor me, my ears will NEVER be the same. Yes, you too can have these speakers for $80K (including cables)! I could probably come up with all kinds of sexual references as to what happened upon hearing these, but that's actually kinda gross in this context. I have heard many truly high-end speakers, but none that made me think I just had to find a way to get them. I only had about a half hour audition until I had to get to a meeting, even though they encouraged me to stay for a while and enjoy an espresso made on site and served by a very pretty young lady. Maybe if she offered to sit and listen with me for a while...(oops, there I go). Anyway, these were just so enjoyable, lifelike, dynamic, real - everything. I recently saw Patricia Barber live at the Green Mill, so I brought along her latest CD to hear. If you blindfolded me and told me she was there, I would have believed you. Instruments just sounded so real. Snares & cymbals popped and crashed, the vibration of the strings on the double bass, Patricia's breath in between strings of words, even the air passing over the reed on the trumpet. All with amazingly lifelike impact. I am spoiled. I was thinking of settling for some vintage Klipsch speakers, but now I've at least got to try Oris horns (even Avantegarde's base Uno model starts at $12K). It sure was fun though.
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post #2 of 9
1/20/04 at 8:25pm
I hear ya - I had a similar experience with some Electrocompaniet gear driving AvantGarde Duos. I have not had much experience with high-end gear, but this system totally floored me. I can't even begin to imagine what the Trios sound like...
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post #3 of 9
1/20/04 at 10:23pm
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The room they had them in was about as wide as the Green Mill stage is, so the soundstage was very lifelike. If you closed your eyes, you could never pinpoint speakers anywhere, only musicians.
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post #4 of 9
1/22/04 at 12:06am
*ahem* you can have it.

www.bd-design.com
www.welbornelabs.com

Oris delivers 90%-110% of what you heard for 10% of the cost.



I agree. There is no going back.
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post #5 of 9
1/23/04 at 12:51am
I wish I could have heard that; especially the "reed of the trumpet"!

Anyway, Patricia Barber is pretty cool.

I wouldn't be surprised if that setup didn't sound better than live if her voice was amped at the concert.
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post #6 of 9
1/23/04 at 1:27am
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especially the "reed of the trumpet"!
Ooh, that's a mean one
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post #7 of 9
1/23/04 at 5:02am
There's a dealer here that's got a set of avantgarde duo set up with ayre gear. Anywyays, the avantgarde duo were huge. Sitting in front of them, I was thinking I could get blown away... I mean literally. He was running them with the top Ayre cd and Ayre ss poweramp. I'm still not sure what I heard. It's like having the whole orchestra standing just a few feet in front of me and let loose.... and then I ran home to mama. mama!

Now I have to summon up the courage to go back there and do it right this time. with my cds control of the volume.
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post #8 of 9
1/23/04 at 6:42am
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Originally posted by daycart1
I wish I could have heard that; especially the "reed of the trumpet"!
I guess it was a better turn of phrase than "shank of the trumpet" or "backbore of the trumpet" or something.

D.
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post #9 of 9
1/24/04 at 12:55am
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O.K., so there is no reed in a trumpet. What do you expect, I'm a drummer

Hey Nick, Which driver do you have in your Oris system? The price varies so much I wondered If I'd be missing something if I didn't get the AER's
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