Sonist - deHavilland - Wireworld - Glow Audio



"Why have pot when you can have heroin?" - the owner of the tape reel

Yeah jackass, you know the point of a free sample is that people will come back for more, but when you have a one of a kind you kind of defeat the purpose!

This was by far the most emotionally engaging music I have ever heard. I got into the room early Friday morning and had center seat for a good 20min. The Duke Ellington reel that was played made my gut move. I was somewhere between wanted to cry and wanted to commit seppuku. It wasn't loud, it wasn't big, but it is was by far the best thing I think I've ever heard. Granted, I wouldn't want to listen to rock/pop/modern music on it. But I can't imagine ever hearing jazz again without wishing I had this set up.

On the flipside, when I went in again on Saturday the Glow amp had been replaced with some more powerful deHavilland (i believe) amplifiers. I guess the 5W into 95db sensitive Sonist Concerto 3 floorstander wasn't cutting it.

Sonist Room 2



These are another pair of Sonist speakers. They aren't on the Sonist website yet. They are being driven by another Glow Audio amplifier and I believe a Cambridge Audio $600 CDP. I'm guessing the Azur 650 or similar. I'm not really sure what to say about this room. The sound was distorted in the lows and mids when the sound was peaking. I am guessing that the amplifier was being over driven. Then again, there were about 4 older guys sitting in the room saying how wonderful the sound was when I was hearing distortion, so I wonder if my ears decided to take a nap while I was visiting this room. I didn't stop back unfortunately to see if anything had changed. I'm going to assume that these probably would have sounded better with a more powerful amplifier or at a quieter volume like they did in the other Sonist room with the tape reel.