Oxford Audio Consultants Phantom launch 15th July

[GuillaumeB]

It was a great day at OAC and as usual Jon paid me back for the free food and drink with grief and insults   its a good job that Alisdair is there as well or I could not stand it anymore (well not till next time anyway)

Great to meet Gordy, Guillame and Confused and listen to some good music. Have to say that when we moved the Phantoms into the small room (both white and silver) the difference was not subtle. When SWMBO opens the purse strings again I will be after at least 1 silver to take to Spain for the winter.

Had a great chat with Guillame and Confused. Guillame and I played with switching SAM on and off with the expert system in the small room before the Phantoms were moved and kind of came to the conclusion that with the Wilsons and D800 it was not needed really and sounded better without!!!

Having got back and checked my system found I was still on V8.1.0 software and using SAM at 100%. Have just upgraded to V8.1.2 and set up the system with no SAM and have to say the Magico's probably do not need any help in the bass and I think it sounds better vanilla.

Perhaps we should arrange some sessions at each others houses and have a listen to other set ups sometimes, if I catch the boss in a good mood she will knock up a nice lunch as well !!!

Hi Nick, do you mean the Phantoms sounded much better in the smaller room (where the Sashas were)?

Re SAM I didn't switch it off but dialled it down to 0, whatever that means. I'm assuming it still does the phase correction thing.

By the way please tell Greg that I bought a copy of Herbert Von Karajan's Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony 9  (Deutsche Grammophon 2008) see attached image. The version I really wanted was the 1976 Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra recording, it's possible that the copy I have is the same thing but that was the closest I could find on Qobuz (and I couldn't be bothered to buy the CD on Amazon then have to wait for delivery and rip!).

   

Guillaume