Munich High End 2018

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WOW! Cool looking amp.

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The regular model has been around for a while.

They do sound great, heard a very nice demo with Tannoy Canterbury GRs a while back.


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I heard the Marten Mingus twice. Unfortunately, that was just after M6, so I was spoiled. My impression was that they would require at least twice the room they were in. Bass articulation and control problems, but part of those must relate to the room. Overall, they were one of the nicest systems, MSB Select II DAC and all. God knows what was the grand total price of the system, speakers alone 310000 eur.

Did anyone hear the Exelon Extremes? Vassiliokovs run them also with an all-Vitus front end.

Just to clarify, Marten Mingus 20 is the smaller speaker and Momento 2 is the larger speaker and costs approx. €300K. So not sure which one you heard? Both were used with Vitus amps.
 
I heard the Marten Mingus twice. Unfortunately, that was just after M6, so I was spoiled. My impression was that they would require at least twice the room they were in. Bass articulation and control problems, but part of those must relate to the room. Overall, they were one of the nicest systems, MSB Select II DAC and all. God knows what was the grand total price of the system, speakers alone 310000 eur.

Did anyone hear the Exelon Extremes? Vassiliokovs run them also with an all-Vitus front end.

Yes. I heard them and the new lynx. They were great and the best of the “larger than a person” speakers that I sampled.


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Did anyone hear these?

Yes and they sounded pretty nice compared to other rooms. The tweeter is that thin rubber part between the 2 speakers!!

Room filling 3D sound (kind of german physiks like) but a bit indirect and unfocussed. For the longtime - i'm not so sure.

And I think for an exotic, but simple 3-way PASSIVE speaker from a new and unknown eastern-europe company the askingprice of € 39.000 is very, very "optimistic".
 
It has a deliberately designed non-linear frequency response, in theory ompensating the non-linear way human ear reacts to different frequencies. Combined with a ported design, the bigger Raidho speakers tend to have way too much bass.

Interesting. I own the X-3 I don't think they have way too much bass. I've heard the 3.1 and don't think they are that bass heavy. But I could be mistaken. (Could be owners bias :) ). The Blumenhofer speakers I tried gave me bigger bass problems. But I am thinking about buy some bass traps in the future.
 
Yes and they sounded pretty nice compared to other rooms. The tweeter is that thin rubber part between the 2 speakers!!

Room filling 3D sound (kind of german physiks like) but a bit indirect and unfocussed. For the longtime - i'm not so sure.

And I think for an exotic, but simple 3-way PASSIVE speaker from a new and unknown eastern-europe company the askingprice of € 39.000 is very, very "optimistic".

Its not a simple speaker at all , i really don't see how 39K is outlandish , looks like a carbon fiber shell too ..
 
Exactly. I understand that some people prefer ported, but for me there is no contest.

Although, I have to admit that the new PMC sounded super impressive. I would like to hear that speaker with some serious amplification.


If you like the other properties of the ported speaker, as to looks , mid / treble, et al , you can cram it full of stuffing till it has no bass ..

Sealed :)
 
It has a deliberately designed non-linear frequency response, in theory ompensating the non-linear way human ear reacts to different frequencies. Combined with a ported design, the bigger Raidho speakers tend to have way too much bass.

Agreed. At least all of their bigger speakers that I've heard. Don't have any experience with the latest models, though.
 
2 Companies that we not on the high end: Devialet and B & O.

Seems they just don't have the right strategy.
 
2 Companies that we not on the high end: Devialet and B & O.

Seems they just don't have the right strategy.

Totally agree. Devialet had it going on with a great distributor in Audio Plus Services. But then they decided to go it alone and fell off the face of the planet (or so it seems). For me, when they took over, they got stupid and started saying things like: "you need to bring in every Devialet model into your store and also one extra to sell of every unit." You can imagine my laughter at that one. First of all: no, I won't. Second, they all sound the same (just more power as you go up the line), so that's not even sensible.
 
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