I’m really far too close to the recent Japanese experience and am not in the mood to put a decent review of what I heard and enjoyed…
I’d say over-dosed by audio?
Maybe… but never of music, of course.
Sure I’ll share with you, folks, a true personal (universal?) belief: technical redundancies and musical bliss not always come hand-in-hand!
Shinzo’s system at his superb music-bar in Fukuoka, with BHT amp, Westrex Acoustilens speakers, EMT 930st, Marantz model 1 preamps and Revox G36s was – maybe – the best overall sound.
Kato system in Toyama was another league, so talking about viable music systems…
Sato-san in Sapporo was so elegant, yet sound-wise, quite “slow”, hi-fish/coldsih, uninvolving.
Kyohara’s WE16s system in Ukiha? What a system, visually so impressive, unique!
Sound-wise?
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Yoshihara’s system and his private pole?
Impressive system, but… sound-wise?
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A big lesson: everything sounds, yet music only seldom blossoms.
Stefano Bertoncello
