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dc10audio Best Sound at RMAF?

apparently several from the media were thrilled at the look and sound in the dc10audio / tektron / VPI room featuring the dc10audio Berlin studio monitor the newest biggest VPI turntable and the little Tektron S.E.T tube amp and played high volume music with only 2 watts S.E.T power man what would 20 watts sounded like?? The highly efficient Berlin is the only stand/bookshelf speaker in the world that has an internal tone-wood resonator called the instrument / bass reflex horn ported tweeter and an active tone-wood baffle! Serious new technology!

Supposedly amongst the reviewers was the head of Kondo who was at RMAF from Japan...yes, Kondo!! Anyone out there that can verify this? and post a link. The gentleman from Japan was quoted to have said Q: That this was the only room in the entire show that could actually play the piano with the right tone and energy he also asked how was a ported tweeter possible but sounded like a very good idea and he apparently took lots and lots of notes!

I've owned my dc10audio 8 PS speakers Sapele / white gloss combo for over 3 years they are drop dead gorgeous! I would only trade them for another pair of dc10audio loudspeakers of greater value! haha
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Best?

What is the Best?? Very hard to quantify. If we approach loudspeakers like art it will be the ability for the loudspeaker to surpass it's construction and the sum of its parts in its ability to correctly reproduce music.

To compare the construction a new pair of Magico speakers to the Berlin is foolish as they are totally different one is mostly wood one is mostly aluminum or posting that one loudspeaker kills another is foolish considering all the variables: lets remember that there are 7 Billion pairs of ears (true some can deceiver music better than others) millions of recordings and a hundred million different component combinations possible so again it is subjective.

If you want a wooden horn and with high efficiency the Berlin might just be the best choice. If want truly heroic construction with heroic sound Magico might be the way to go two choices out of a thousand.

Lastly, someone (carl) keeps emailing us asking to do a face-off with other brands.... We'll participate if asked to but after the review what do you do?

Art is not fixed and should have no ending but keep transcending.

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Yes, we were honored to have the Gentleman from Kondo spend quite a long time with us at RMAF he was interested in our tektron amplifier and Berlin loudspeakers.
I must admit I was a little embarrassed though as I felt like our amp a 3950.00 tektron tube integrated was underpowered for the show the tektron 22 watt integrated we brought was out of commission. I felt that some of the music we played was not appropriate for an audiophiles ears I could tell by the snarls I saw not to mention our speakers were fresh off the shelf and had almost zero hours on them.
If there was someone I wanted to impress at RMAF it was this man or Peter from the UK as I still think their products are sublime.

We'll be ready for Newport!
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Dracule1,

I agree with you! At times our system was way too bright and sharp as my partner pushed the tektron amp well beyond it's limit most especially with jazz brass it was killing me and others. We did a nice job with vocals as the sound was the correct tone and timbre. Acoustic strings were very good and once in a while the bass was very nice. The Berlin is capable of exciting round bass with a bigger amplifier and better brass when the loudspeaker is fully broken in.

Cheers,

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I did speak to Hiroshi from Kondo at RMAF What he said to me is that he was impressed with the volume of music achieved with the small tube amplifier and was amazed at the Tektrons ability to play 5 different kinds of tubes!

After a bit of listening He asked about the loudspeakers and was perplexed by the Berlin's horn and asked if it was a compression unit we told him no but that it was both the tweeter and the bass reflex port for the speaker at the same time he said WOW! very, very, interesting.. it's like unique point source we also explained that inside the bent ply cabinet was a wooden resonator made of a special tone-wood it was here we seemed to lose him so he sat back down and took some more notes..What this means? I don't know but it was a fun interchange as I got to use my very limited Japanese language repertoire.

He spoke to some other people in our room about the sound quality while playing Diana Krall and it seemed to have gotten his attention. ?? If you were their what did he say to you??

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Carl?, we do not have any B stock in the Berlin R. Please stop touting the product it does not help.

Thank you,

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Yes. www.dc10audio.com
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Krell man is correct! I work for dc10audio!!

Kevin and David will be at this years RMAF and will have Berlin R and the new dc10audio tube monoblocks / pre-amp all trimmed in zebra-wood! This year should be great!!!

Regards
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