So last night I went to this superb audio shop. Man, they have ALL the beauties we all dream of, but only one pair of JBL. The 250Ti Limited, for the matter...
I brought my own amps and after installation and half an hour warming time (yes, these amps really need that) the session went off.
One of the store emps, a young guy, assisted me the first 10 minutes and I let him choose a few of his favourites. He was really impressed by the performance of my almost 40 year old amps. And so was I. He left and I played a couple tracks I like and know particularly well (Yasmin Levy, Agnes Obel, Mighty Sam McCain and a Dutch singer, Frank Boeijen, of which a few incredible good recorded tracks are around. It was goosebumps with each new track. The occasional tear as well. These speakers moved my soul big time.
And then I continued with my beloved 'dance classics', including tracks like Donna Summer's I feel Love (my all time no. 1), several Patrick Cowley, Sylvester, Paul Parker, Divine, Lime, Kat Mandu, Shirley Lee Ralph, but by then I had switched to vinyl already. To my surprise the vinyl had just a tad more control in the low end, streamed Divine Native's Love did some nasty things in the sub low's (the only track I discovered this behaviour), but the vinyl version was flawless. We moved on with Gat Decors Passion, Master C&J's Face It and some more of that style (old school House from Detroit). Oh another favourite is E.G. Daily's Love in the shadows. It has LOWs I was not able to reproduce on all speakers I have owned till now.
I was back in the clubs like it was 1985. Man. What an output. What a CONTROL!!! What an 'air' and 'lightness' even with all these dance classics. The amp played all evening in class A and didn't sniff or snooze. Full control. Full of detail even at insane levels. I am so impressed by this combo...
I got tears in my eyes, goosebumps and wanted to dance.
Tomorrow they will arrive in my living room so I can test them in my own environment for a week. The physical dimensions of the auditing room are even a tad smaller than my living room.
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