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    CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    "Powered by Soulution 701 monoblocks and 725 linestage preamp, Magico’s stalwart, four-way, five-driver, aluminum-bodied Q7 was being shown with the new Q Sub 18 (two 18** woofers in a 570-pound, sealed aluminum enclosure), crossed over (low-pass-only) via the sub’s built-in DSP crossover and powered by its built-in amp. The combo was fast, powerful, and room-shudderingly extended on hard-driving jazz, and also showed excellent speed, color, and low-level resolution of texture and articulation on the smaller-scale Kodaly Duo for Violin and Cello. Having said this, I still thought Magico’s beryllium tweeter was too bright, adding edginess, forwardness, and sibilance to male and female vocals on Leonard Cohen’s “Ain’t No Cure For Love,” while also bleaching out some of the richly saturated color of Javier Mas’ accompanying acoustic guitar and Dino Soldo’s sax. On top of this, the chucking bass line of the Cohen song wasn’t as chewy or as well defined as I’m used to hearing. On a revisit to the Magico room, adjustments to the subwoofer improved overall balance, blend, and bass definition, reducing much of the brightness and edginess I heard on the first go-round." - JV

    Ouch!!

    Now, this is interesting. Everyone I spoke to who was there said this was their favorite room. Proving once again, I have no idea what he hears. Not a fan of JV.

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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    I haven't kept up-does JV still have any Magico speakers in house?
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Where's your score card? What happened to the Raidho's?
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Here is the latest (but he really needs a Twitter account for his latest "new reference", "best I've ever heard", "flavor of the month", "who's running the biggest ads?")

    JV’s Reference System
    Loudspeakers: Raidho D-5, Raidho D-1, Avantgarde Zero 1, MartinLogan CLX , Magnepan 1.7, Magnepan 3.7, Magnepan 20.7
    Linestage preamps: Soulution 520, Constellation Virgo, Audio Research Reference 10, Siltech SAGA System C1, Zanden 3100
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    Analog source: TW Acustic Black Knight, Walker Audio Proscenium Black Diamond Mk V, AMG Viella 12
    Tape deck: United Home Audio UHA-Q Phase 11 OPS
    Phono cartridges: Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement, Ortofon MC A90, Ortofon MC Anna, Benz LP S-MR
    Digital source: Berkeley Alpha DAC 2
    Cable and interconnect: Synergistic Research Galileo LE, Crystal Cable Absolute Dream, Anzus Diamond
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    One TAS subscriber writes:

    gun_clutcher • 2 months ago
    Jon I enjoy reading your reviews and fantasizing about owning stuff like these Raidho bad boys but what I find especially mystifying is your "reference" system...or should it read "your" reference system. I didn't take the time and won't to add up the $$ for all of those top shelf components but it's gotta be well over a million dollars. And you've had those components for quite some time now. No offense intended but there's no way you own all that stuff. I would have to assume that it's a long term loan situation so my question is how long is long term? My other question is do you just hang on to a component until the mfr rings you and says "hey Jon about that LAMM amplifier we loaned you back in aught whatever..." Next question...where do I sign up to become an audio journalist?

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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Mike-Assuming you have the latest version of JV's system, he no longer has Magico speakers in his house. I was wondering why he was ragging on Magico's tweeter.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by mep View Post
    Mike-Assuming you have the latest version of JV's system, he no longer has Magico speakers in his house. I was wondering why he was ragging on Magico's tweeter.
    Alon must have taken his toys and went home. Little Jon Jon was not happy.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Is the tweeter in the Q7 different than the ones that were in the Magico speakers he used to have in house?
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by mep View Post
    Is the tweeter in the Q7 different than the ones that were in the Magico speakers he used to have in house?
    Not to my knowledge. And certainly not substantially.

    All my friends said that Q7/Soulution room was unfreaking believable.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    My worst nightmare as an audio reviewer would be to have a 'killer' system made of up of top notch components and I didn't own a single damn one of them. That's why I don't list components under review as part of my "reference system."
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Doesn't JV live in just a NYC apartment? Realizing that some of those can be sizable, still where does he keep all that stuff?? And I have a lot of trouble believing that he is physically able to swap in and out some of those pieces (since I would describe as a somewhat frail late middle-age man)?
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by rbbert View Post
    Doesn't JV live in just a NYC apartment? Realizing that some of those can be sizable, still where does he keep all that stuff?? And I have a lot of trouble believing that he is physically able to swap in and out some of those pieces (since I would describe as a somewhat frail late middle-age man)?
    First of all, JV lives in Cincinnati, OH. I believe he owns a home. When you are an elite reviewer like JV who is able to secure long-term loans of mega-expensive gear, the companies take care of delivering the gear and setting it up. I believe that Andre Jennings sets up JV's cartridges/tonearms for him. If heavy gear has to be swapped in out of the system, I'm sure JV has helpers do that as well.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Here is the latest (but he really needs a Twitter account for his latest "new reference", "best I've ever heard", "flavor of the month", "who's running the biggest ads?")

    JV’s Reference System
    Loudspeakers: Raidho D-5, Raidho D-1, Avantgarde Zero 1, MartinLogan CLX , Magnepan 1.7, Magnepan 3.7, Magnepan 20.7
    Linestage preamps: Soulution 520, Constellation Virgo, Audio Research Reference 10, Siltech SAGA System C1, Zanden 3100
    Phonostage preamps: Audio Research Corporation Reference Phono 10, Innovative Cohesion Engineering Raptor, Soulution 520, Zanden 120
    Power amplifiers: Soulution 711, Siltech SAGA System V1/P1, Constellation Centaur, Audio Research Reference 250, Lamm ML2.2, Zanden 8120
    Analog source: TW Acustic Black Knight, Walker Audio Proscenium Black Diamond Mk V, AMG Viella 12
    Tape deck: United Home Audio UHA-Q Phase 11 OPS
    Phono cartridges: Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement, Ortofon MC A90, Ortofon MC Anna, Benz LP S-MR
    Digital source: Berkeley Alpha DAC 2
    Cable and interconnect: Synergistic Research Galileo LE, Crystal Cable Absolute Dream, Anzus Diamond
    Power Cords: Synergistic Research Galileo LE, Crystal Cable Absolute Dream, Anzus Diamond
    Power Conditioner: Synergistic Research Galileo LE, Technical Brain
    Accessories: Synergistic ART and HFT/FEQ system, Shakti Hallographs (6), Zanden room treatment, A/V Room Services Metu panels and traps, ASC Tube Traps, Critical Mass MAXXUM equipment and amp stands, Symposium Isis and Ultra equipment platforms, Symposium Rollerblocks and Fat Padz, Walker Prologue Reference equipment and amp stands, Walker Valid Points and Resonance Control discs, Clearaudio Double Matrix SE record cleaner, Synergistic Research RED Quantum fuses, HiFi-Tuning silver/gold fuses


    One TAS subscriber writes:

    gun_clutcher • 2 months ago
    Jon I enjoy reading your reviews and fantasizing about owning stuff like these Raidho bad boys but what I find especially mystifying is your "reference" system...or should it read "your" reference system. I didn't take the time and won't to add up the $$ for all of those top shelf components but it's gotta be well over a million dollars. And you've had those components for quite some time now. No offense intended but there's no way you own all that stuff. I would have to assume that it's a long term loan situation so my question is how long is long term? My other question is do you just hang on to a component until the mfr rings you and says "hey Jon about that LAMM amplifier we loaned you back in aught whatever..." Next question...where do I sign up to become an audio journalist?

    Hell with that. Where does Valin keep all this stuff? At least HP had a garage.
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    Technics RS1506 reel-to-reel with low inductance Flux Magnetic heads, Doshi Audio EVO tapestage, AudioQuest Dragon Zero, Audience FrontRow, Ensemble PC, Skogrand, Kubala-Sosna Realization speaker cable, Ikigai Kangai speaker cable, SRA Craz 3/OHIO 2.3 platforms and Symposium ISIS/Ultra rack/platforms, Silver Circle Tchaik 6 PLC.

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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    I really enjoy Andre Jennings reviews, I like his writing style.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    My point was more that all that stuff can't be in his "reference" system, in that it's not all truly available for listening to and thereby being used as a reference.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by MDP View Post
    I really enjoy Andre Jennings reviews, I like his writing style.
    +1. Plus he's truly a nice guy without any attitude. Imagine that in high-end audio!
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by MDP View Post
    I really enjoy Andre Jennings reviews, I like his writing style.
    Ditto. Andre is both thoughtful and intelligent and he writes great reviews. When he reviewed a turntable for TAS and the table he reviewed was the cover picture of TAS, I was very happy for him. I posted that on Who's Deaf Forum and some morons came out and attacked. They did the same thing when JV did a sidebar in TAS about Andre's cartridge setup skills. I made the mistake of posting that on Who's Deaf Forum and Andre came under attack again. I didn't get it and I was bummed about it. Thankfully we don't have those type of people here on AS.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by mep View Post
    Ditto. Andre is both thoughtful and intelligent and he writes great reviews. When he reviewed a turntable for TAS and the table he reviewed was the cover picture of TAS, I was very happy for him. I posted that on Who's Deaf Forum and some morons came out and attacked. They did the same thing when JV did a sidebar in TAS about Andre's cartridge setup skills. I made the mistake of posting that on Who's Deaf Forum and Andre came under attack again. I didn't get it and I was bummed about it. Thankfully we don't have those type of people here on AS.
    Whatever. You blankety blank son of a blankin' blanker.


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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by kev313 View Post
    Whatever. You blankety blank son of a blankin' blanker.


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    No, no, you're supposed to say "wrong! If it doesn't measure well, it can't sound good and if it measures well, it must be great!"


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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by mep View Post
    Ditto. Andre is both thoughtful and intelligent and he writes great reviews. When he reviewed a turntable for TAS and the table he reviewed was the cover picture of TAS, I was very happy for him. I posted that on Who's Deaf Forum and some morons came out and attacked. They did the same thing when JV did a sidebar in TAS about Andre's cartridge setup skills. I made the mistake of posting that on Who's Deaf Forum and Andre came under attack again. I didn't get it and I was bummed about it. Thankfully we don't have those type of people here on AS.
    Andre clearly wasn't one of the chosen few. Perhaps if he converted all his analog signals to 24/96, it would have been a different story.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by Myles B. Astor View Post
    +1. Plus he's truly a nice guy without any attitude. Imagine that in high-end audio!
    Myles, I want to tell everybody what a great guy Dre is. When I was posting about my issues with bass on certain recordings with the D3's, he PM'ed me and offered his help.
    I won't forget his interest in my problems. I didn't ask him, he asked me !

    He's obviously a true gentleman.
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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post

    All my friends said that Q7/Soulution room was unfreaking believable.
    It sure was, and not by a small margin. Clearly the most “complete” sound at the show, with bass performance I never knew is possible. IMO, the best sound Magico ever had at a show.

    Also killer was Synergistic with the S3…

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    Re: CES 2015: TAS Show Report

    Quote Originally Posted by MDP View Post
    Myles, I want to tell everybody what a great guy Dre is. When I was posting about my issues with bass on certain recordings with the D3's, he PM'ed me and offered his help.
    I won't forget his interest in my problems. I didn't ask him, he asked me !

    He's obviously a true gentleman.
    Dre also helped me by introducing Stirling Trayle to me last year, who has been great setting up my TT/cartridges.

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