You can visit Denmark at the fair that your PS audio dealer holds. You should probably get a room that fits and all the help you need with care for the acoustics.
Write it 25-26. May in your calendar, we invite to High-End Weekend at Frederiksdal Sinatur Hotel & Conference in Kongens Lyngby. We get a visit from a number of extremely exciting manufacturers of absolutely high-end audio equipment and will offer an experience beyond the usual.
Join the event and experience crème de la crème within dynamic speakers (including the flagship Stenheim Reference and the news Alumine THREE) and advanced ultra-highend systems from Soulution Audio, both 5-series and 3-series, experience delicious tube amplifiers from Trafomatic and more Avantgarde horns in beautiful colors and much more, including PS Audio, Innuos, Tellurium Q, Bassocontinuo and Data Conversion Systems. Listen to 4-5 systems, including a plant for DKK 3 million. Experience products that have never been in Denmark before, as well as more news that still has fresh print in the media. If you are in headphones, we also present a large range of Audeze and Chord Electronics.
The event has FREE access and is held on 25-26. May, the doors are open from 10 am to 5 pm, both Saturday and Sunday. We have visits from the producers from the big abroad, who would like to tell their stories. There are good and completely free parking as well as access by bus from the S-train stations Sorgenfri and Lyngby.
Frederiksdal Sinatur Hotel & Conference is located just 15 minutes drive from Copenhagen with the most beautiful location in the forest, suitable for the whole family with canoeing and walking to Bagsværd Lake or Furesøen.
Frederiksdal Sinatur Hotel & Conference
Frederiksdalsvej 360
2800 Kongens Lyngby
Developing new loudspeakers is a long and difficult process. We must remember that sound is subjective.
We do not speak the same audio language here in that thread. It is not which language we speak in our countries that is important. But the language we use when describing sound. The sound concepts are very loose, which means that when we pronounce ourselves on the sound of we have not previously agreed on a sound language and what sound concepts are used to mean.
How many speaker systems are correctly installed here?
I have been working for a long time with any similar system that PS audio mentions to their new speaker. It will no doubt help many. Whether it is the right way to go is completely duck on how to consider the hobby we are here to share and love. DSP is also pleased. In the new loudspeakers we make, we now leave many new options for settings of the speakers to the consumer. We will see more and more loudspeakers where you can update files from the producers for tuning the speaker and room, for example through usb input on the loudspeakers etc. In the same way as we example are being updated by our so much loved PS audio. We make voting files files from 20 hz, etc., which our consumer can download. Paul it becomes exciting which solutions come up with.
More love Michael/Denmark
my english is not so good … i hope i understand what i have written since it is google translate
Very interesting stuff! In the last couple of weeks I’ve heard Monte Alexander playing piano at the Disney concert hall in Los Angeles, John Scofield at a nice theatre in L.A., and Steely Dan and James Taylor at different venues in Las Vegas. It’s interesting to observe the quality of sound in these various venues, recognizing that some venues obviously rely on DSP to a greater degree than others. They all sounded good, but, the Disney concert hall is a mind blowing experience with any kind of music, or, just a pin dropping!
The Disney was done by Nagata Acoustics. More recently they did the Elbephilharmonie in Hamburg, which is considered by some to have the finest acoustic in the world. I recently tried getting tickets for the Elbephilharmonie - absolutely impossible. They also did the Mariinsky, I was about to get tickets last November but my wife decided it would be too cold! We were in LA for a few days in 2012 and could not get tickets for the Disney, but went on a tour. We like Gehry buildings, we even stayed in the only hotel he ever designed. Acoustics have come on leaps and bounds in the last decade or so, there’s no excuse for getting it wrong.
I’m going to Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, with an orchestra for a little longer. I have to see if I have time to make a little reportage, or write to you
Please do report back. Enjoy. I love going to live shows, and make mental notes about the sound characteristics, then using that as reference for my system.
Paul has laughed at me when I called for the world’s best EQ for my BHK system. Now you make one for your new speaker. Isn’t it time for PS audio to build an EQ device for the system, for those of us who don’t want the device in the speaker.
How does a forest, storm or car sound sound when it sounds right?
(Those who want to describe this, send me a PM. Then we can see how many different views there are of the above-mentioned sound questions.)
I am rather jealous, but will make it there sometime. The good thing about Hamburg is that I could probably stay in Denmark instead of Germany. The only country I have been to and stayed a shorter time than Germany was Zimbabwe. That excludes San Marino, which you can drive through without noticing you were ever there.
Hello Paul, one of the characteristics of the IRSV which you described as remarkable has always been its “effortlessness”. One of the higligths of the IRSV killers and then of the AN serie of speakers which should position these speakers above the IRSV is the mid bass coupler. You have been describing the mid bass as covering frequencies representing men voice and most of instruments in an orchestra making it, at least for the crowd “who does not know better :)” the perfect candidate for deploying multiple elements and divide the load and provide some of that effortlessness that you regarded as a prominent feature. Instead, on your AN serie, including in the AN1 mocks you seem to have included just one mid bass and instead multiple tweeters and midrange elements. Why is that? I am sure it makes sense, but it comes across as counter intuitive.
When there is an intermission in the performance, stand up and ask the entire audience, by show of hands, how many are audiophiles. You may be quickly escorted to a cheaper seat, though.
Seems there has been a major re-thinking of the AN3 design. Seems that the “not-ready-for-primetime” boobirds had more of an impact than the raving reviews of a speaker just needing minor tweaks before product launch.
I think the honest reconsideration is super commendable. The moving goalposts spin is less so.
An interesting commentary on the innovation process:
I don’t believe in quick success with speaker design either. With the marketing/communication effort in advance Paul achieved what’re wanted I guess and all components and ideas sound very promising.
Now it’s time to deliver and that probably needs time. How long must someone have experience with music listening with such a development and how much additionally with design variations and trials? A lot more than crosschecking some recordings with some design ideas I guess. Many of the best speakers have many years of continuous development behind them. It would seem like a wonder to me in case a really „complete“ (in terms of a multi layered, high approach) sounding version would be possible with just 1-2 years from scratch as there are a ton of characteristics to take care about… but maybe it’s not as difficult as I think it is. And a speaker doesn’t get better with its size…every model has to be designed for its own I guess (inspite of common ingredients). A speaker range within 1-3 years with tons of simultaneous other projects…hard to imagine but great if successful.
That is a very kind offer. I’d rather come to Copenhagen - my kids have been but not me. I heard the Goteborg Symphony in Oslo, Goteborg is about the same distance from Copenhagen and probably much nicer than Hamburg.
Every of these cities have their own charms, choosing between Hamburg and Göteborg, Hamburg has this really nice old harbor district with classic industrial buildings the turned into restaurants and meet places to hang out. But it’s rather flat, like The Netherlands. Göteborg is from Tradition one of Sweden’s industrial towns, quit some history too there. Between the two is Copenhagen, and it’s the nicest of the three Cities. Certainly. Budget wise, Hamburg-Stellar, Göteborg-AN3, Copenhagen-AN2, but truly worth it.
