True high end stands for silly prices, feel free to move along if you have issues with that. For those who care this was a rather interesting and must admit well sounding room. I have never been a huge fan of Göbel, not only because of the steep prices, clearly out of my league but mostly because Oliver Göbel insisted on bringing those humongous bass towers consisting of 16 drivers that simply wrecked havoc on Munich’s rooms. Standing waves a go go and the sound was a so so for several editions of the High End show. This year he showed up with only two of those puny little 8 driver subs! Electronics might had something to do with it too, the pairing with AD for example was not my cup of tea. This year it was different and much, much better. CH Precision provided the whole rig with gobs of quality juice and more importantly Louis Desjardins, designer of Kronos turntables came in with his latest Sparta Pro fitted with his new, tube phono stage with external power supply, all within the Kronos dedicated stand. The complete set up including cables came down to three quarters of a million [...]![]()
