Heathrow show - best rooms?

I asked for that dem, Gary said loads of people had requested it!
Initially I thought the Esoteric was better, sounded more detailed, I asked Gary he said he prefered the Opus, for example the piano on the Eso was really huge ,acrooss both speakers, on te Opus it was much more believable ( it was a three piece jazz track ) smaller image suspended between the speakers, also it sounded more like a piano, in fact the whole band sounded more like a band ,you would have to hear both at home and form an opinion.

 

I know how the Opus compares to a Chord64. Chord has more detail, while the opus is smoother. I wonder how the esoteric compares?

 

As mentioned earlier, Zanash and myself compared the Opus to the X-03 and both preferred the X-03, but that just goes to show how different people are.

Ref the Wavac. Frankly, I don't care how much it cost, IMO it really was streets ahead of anything else I heard all weekend. I will definitely be trying to listen to their MD-300B, which is MUCH more sensibly priced.

 

To be fair mate, those people are out there, or the heathrow high end show wouldn't have any rooms

..and it has to be said, if there weren't people out there buying the most expensive kit, it wouldn't be available for you and I on the used market a few years later.

Hopefully the sensible manufacturers/dealers out there appreciate the bottom feeders out there (like me!) - after all, knowing you can sell something second hand has got to help with an initial sale...


Not that I'm in the market.... bass means a 15" or an 18" speaker where I come from...