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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/101213-Odyssey-600.jpg" /></p> It was all psychedelic retro in Room 9000, as Odyssey’s Klaus Bunge dimmed the lights and headed to Fillmore West as he played Iron Butterfly’s "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Given that I was hardly prepared to drop acid in the midst of blogging the show (as in who is that strange person from <i>Stereophile</i> who has spent the last 15 minutes staring at our turntable while muttering something about God being the deepest groove of all?), I didn’t know what was going on equipment-wise until I found Klaus outside the room and asked which way was up.
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At that point, he decided to enter the room, turn up the lights and play something else. Before I could make a request or offer one of my CDs, another visitor to the room asked to hear his newly purchased used copy of an Argo LP of Neville Marriner and the Academy of you know what in-the-Fields playing Vaughan Williams’ <i>The Lark Ascending</i>. Around the same time, Jonathan Valin of <i>The Absolute Sound</i> walked past me as he headed to a seat in front row. Within a split second after he passed by, an empty cardboard box fell on my head. “Is this what happens when someone from <i>TAS</i> walks in and spots a writer from <i>Stereophile</i>?” I asked, while musing silently over the fact that this was not my preferred way to get stoned.
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After a good laugh, we all settled down to the business at hand. Lots of strings are hardly a good way to evaluate bass, but the system’s highs were warm, gorgeous and transparent. . . until volume increased, and hardness intruded. Klaus informs me that, a half hour later, he and the visitor went downstairs and had the very dirty record cleaned on a Ultrasonic Record Cleaner ($1500). The transformation was so significant
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/odyssey-gik-acoustics-and-more]
<p>
At that point, he decided to enter the room, turn up the lights and play something else. Before I could make a request or offer one of my CDs, another visitor to the room asked to hear his newly purchased used copy of an Argo LP of Neville Marriner and the Academy of you know what in-the-Fields playing Vaughan Williams’ <i>The Lark Ascending</i>. Around the same time, Jonathan Valin of <i>The Absolute Sound</i> walked past me as he headed to a seat in front row. Within a split second after he passed by, an empty cardboard box fell on my head. “Is this what happens when someone from <i>TAS</i> walks in and spots a writer from <i>Stereophile</i>?” I asked, while musing silently over the fact that this was not my preferred way to get stoned.
</p><p>
After a good laugh, we all settled down to the business at hand. Lots of strings are hardly a good way to evaluate bass, but the system’s highs were warm, gorgeous and transparent. . . until volume increased, and hardness intruded. Klaus informs me that, a half hour later, he and the visitor went downstairs and had the very dirty record cleaned on a Ultrasonic Record Cleaner ($1500). The transformation was so significant
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/odyssey-gik-acoustics-and-more]