Munich High End 2018

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Did anyone hear these?
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Yes, and we shot video with a listening session!
 
Mike said:
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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For one reason or another, my dealer also dropped the brand.
Although he was selling them well.
They do have a problem, yes.
 
Thanks for the link Audio 1. By far the best coverage of Munich High End 2018. Seems some of the manufactures brought entire collection of their products. This show is HUGE!!!:congrats:
 
The Magicos M6 were a star of the show for me. By far. I have spent 90 min in Magico's room. I don't recall spending that much time in a single room EVER on any show I've visited in the past 25+ years. The M6 alone were worth the trip to Munich.

It is also probably the first time I really liked a Soulution based system. The system sounded better when the Kronos TT was in action instead of the Soulution CD - another proof that the less Soulution in a system, the more music.

I have the smaller M3s, so certain qualities like incredible smoothness and resolution, lack of gran and coloration, were sth I was accustomed to. But the effortless bass and macrodynamics, transformed this great speaker into sth rather spectacular.

I liked the M6 much better then the Rockoprt Lyra in another room (although in all fairness - the Rockoports system was based on the cheaper Soulution 500-series components, not the top of the line 700 like Magico's). Somehow I expected the speakers to be much closer in performance. I did not hear that smoothness coupled with infinite resolution of the Magicos and the uncany palpability.

Another pair of Lyras in the Absolare room sounded very 'nice', but way too slow and colored on the Absolare hybrids.

BTW - spending 90min in one room let me notice things that I haven't noticed before: how much the system balance changes depending on how many people were in the room and where are you sitting. The system went from upfront (on bright recordings with less people in the room), to rolled off, warm and beguiling kind of sound when sitting in row 2-3, with the room full of people.

Sth to keep in mind when visiting hi-fi shows.

But certain qualities of the speaker shone through irrespective of music and # of ppl in the room - namely infinite resolution, lack of coloration and effortless of sound.

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I don't understand why they always have to play those cheese covers with female voice and simple accompaniment. Why not play the original, or some serious heavy rock, or some serious blasting jazz, or some orchestral thunder. Oh, I understand, the system is not set up to be able to do that...

Exhibitors don't want to risk that all those set-ups are exposed as fake.
 
Elberoth said:
The Magicos M6 were a star of the show for me. By far. I have spent 90 min in Magico's room. I don't recall spending that much time in a single room EVER on any show I've visited in the past 25+ years. The M6 alone were worth the trip to Munich.

It is also probably the first time I really liked a Soulution based system. The system sounded better when the Kronos TT was in action instead of the Soulution CD - another proof that the less Soulution in a system, the more music.

I have the smaller M3s, so certain qualities like incredible smoothness and resolution, lack of gran and coloration, were sth I was accustomed to. But the effortless bass and macrodynamics, transformed this great speaker into sth rather spectacular.

I liked the M6 much better then the Rockoprt Lyra in another room (although in all fairness - the Rockoports system was based on the cheaper Soulution 500-series components, not the top of the line 700 like Magico's). Somehow I expected the speakers to be much closer in performance. I did not hear that smoothness coupled with infinite resolution of the Magicos and the uncany palpability.

Another pair of Lyras in the Absolare room sounded very 'nice', but way too slow and colored on the Absolare hybrids.

BTW - spending 90min in one room let me notice things that I haven't noticed before: how much the system balance changes depending on how many people were in the room and where are you sitting. The system went from upfront (on bright recordings with less people in the room), to rolled off, warm and beguiling kind of sound when sitting in row 2-3, with the room full of people.

Sth to keep in mind when visiting hi-fi shows.

But certain qualities of the speaker shone through irrespective of music and # of ppl in the room - namely infinite resolution, lack of coloration and effortless of sound.
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Thanks for report and image. Also interesting the observation about changing acoustics depending on circumstances.

A small critical remark: there is no such thing as "infinite resolution". For credibility of a report it is better to refrain from unnecessary hyperbole.
 
Elberoth said:
The Magicos M6 were a star of the show for me. By far. I have spent 90 min in Magico's room. I don't recall spending that much time in a single room EVER on any show I've visited in the past 25+ years. The M6 alone were worth the trip to Munich.

It is also probably the first time I really liked a Soulution based system. The system sounded better when the Kronos TT was in action instead of the Soulution CD - another proof that the less Soulution in a system, the more music.

I have the smaller M3s, so certain qualities like incredible smoothness and resolution, lack of gran and coloration, were sth I was accustomed to. But the effortless bass and macrodynamics, transformed this great speaker into sth rather spectacular.

I liked the M6 much better then the Rockoprt Lyra in another room (although in all fairness - the Rockoports system was based on the cheaper Soulution 500-series components, not the top of the line 700 like Magico's). Somehow I expected the speakers to be much closer in performance. I did not hear that smoothness coupled with infinite resolution of the Magicos and the uncany palpability.

Another pair of Lyras in the Absolare room sounded very 'nice', but way too slow and colored on the Absolare hybrids.

BTW - spending 90min in one room let me notice things that I haven't noticed before: how much the system balance changes depending on how many people were in the room and where are you sitting. The system went from upfront (on bright recordings with less people in the room), to rolled off, warm and beguiling kind of sound when sitting in row 2-3, with the room full of people.

Sth to keep in mind when visiting hi-fi shows.

But certain qualities of the speaker shone through irrespective of music and # of ppl in the room - namely infinite resolution, lack of coloration and effortless of sound.

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I knew it was just a matter of time until the M3s were leaving your domicile for the M6.

You can say no all you want, but let me be the first to congratulate you on your new purchase!
 
Al M. said:
I don't understand why they always have to play those cheese covers with female voice and simple accompaniment. Why not play the original, or some serious heavy rock, or some serious blasting jazz, or some orchestral thunder. Oh, I understand, the system is not set up to be able to do that...

Exhibitors don't want to risk that all those set-ups are exposed as fake.
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I understand what you are saying but, there those of us that would either not enter the room or leave with music played to loud. It's just a personal preference as is our equipment.
 
brad225 said:
I understand what you are saying but, there those of us that would either not enter the room or leave with music played to loud. It's just a personal preference as is our equipment.
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You don't have to play it too loud. What if I'm fed up entering a room with a cheesy female voice?

I hope as a music lover you can take diverse musical genre's. But don't ask me to take the same narrow genre, cheesy female voice, in each and every room! That's just unfair :)
 
Priaptor said:
I knew it was just a matter of time until the M3s were leaving your domicile for the M6.

You can say no all you want, but let me be the first to congratulate you on your new purchase!
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I remember his room as being fairly small, so I'm not sure the M6 would fit. There must be some minimum seating distance from the baffle in order for the sound from the drivers to properly coalesce.

And I would love to hear them at that distance, but I'll have to wait for Mike's to arrive in Florida.
 
Al M. said:
You don't have to play it too loud. What if I'm fed up entering a room with a cheesy female voice?

I hope as a music lover you can take diverse musical genre's. But don't ask me to take the same narrow genre, cheesy female voice, in each and every room! That's just unfair :)
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Maybe I mistook you Blasting Jazz and Orchestral Thunder for loud. I can listening to a bit of just about anything with a few exceptions.
 
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