Thank you all for taking this review kindly (I am purring as audibly as a full-grown cat when it has its fur smoothed in the right way by skillful hands.)
Albertporter, you certainly would have been an excellent listener for the WLMs and I would have been deeply interested in your judgement of them. But I can well understand how the thought of the injury of your wife would not allow you to contemplate the fascinating exhibits pulsating at CES. I personally would have felt like a drop of water imprisoned in a crystal (as good an image as any of the human being in relation to its impassible restrictions) if I had stayed at CES in your circumstances. You had a perfectly clear sense of what to do. I hope that your wife is in good health now.
Gregm wants the identity of the digital sources: the exhibitors used the Ensemble Dichrono CD transport and dCS Delius/Purcell DAC/upsampler. The WLM speakers were exhibited as part of an exhibit of Harmonix tuning devices: the cables were Harmonix.
To avoid misunderstanding, I did not hear the WLMs at CES (although they were certainly there), but at Frankfurt High End 2001, and I heard them more than once, scattered over several listening sessions. (Posts from those who heard the WLM in Franfkurt--or anywhere else--are warmly invited... "cela va sans dire".) In between, I heard a great many other systems: systems in which to look for nuances would be a waste of time; and others where the will to perfection was driven to such extremes that it frightened me. The VAIC/WLM system was one of the latter.
Albertporter, you certainly would have been an excellent listener for the WLMs and I would have been deeply interested in your judgement of them. But I can well understand how the thought of the injury of your wife would not allow you to contemplate the fascinating exhibits pulsating at CES. I personally would have felt like a drop of water imprisoned in a crystal (as good an image as any of the human being in relation to its impassible restrictions) if I had stayed at CES in your circumstances. You had a perfectly clear sense of what to do. I hope that your wife is in good health now.
Gregm wants the identity of the digital sources: the exhibitors used the Ensemble Dichrono CD transport and dCS Delius/Purcell DAC/upsampler. The WLM speakers were exhibited as part of an exhibit of Harmonix tuning devices: the cables were Harmonix.
To avoid misunderstanding, I did not hear the WLMs at CES (although they were certainly there), but at Frankfurt High End 2001, and I heard them more than once, scattered over several listening sessions. (Posts from those who heard the WLM in Franfkurt--or anywhere else--are warmly invited... "cela va sans dire".) In between, I heard a great many other systems: systems in which to look for nuances would be a waste of time; and others where the will to perfection was driven to such extremes that it frightened me. The VAIC/WLM system was one of the latter.
