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Jim N.

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« on: 3 Jun 2006, 09:14 am »
Well, I managed to meet Klaus and briefly chat with him. I guess he figured that I was there to badger him about my amp  :wink: as he started mentioning dates that it would be done and said he'd let me know Saturday or Sunday. Heck, I'm shocked he even remebered it!

I went there just to meet him! Really, seriously. He has quite a bit of "presence". A huge Grand Funk Railroad fan. He was busy so the chat was brief but I wish I had his energy and enthusiasm. I'll being checking back in over the weekend.

The room had two Symphonic CD players, Loreleis, a Tempest, a Khartago and a pair of Stratos. Oh yeah, and a Candela in an Etesian chassis. Klaus is really pumped about the Candela. The chassis will be roughly Tempest size.

The wall art speakers were playing when I was in the room. Peter (Peter59 here I believe, who is quite nice) is handling them as Art and Audio Fusion Technologies. They were impressive sounding despite their physical constraints (flush wall mount rectangles about 3" deep) when driven by the Khartago.

The CIA/Von Schweikert room was very impressive. I didn't get a chance to meet Dusty Vawter but it looked like his new passive pre and 400 watt monos were on the rack.

Most disappointing sound to me? Wilson. Guess I'm no golden ear!

Still have a lot of rooms to go!

Biggest negative of the show? 11 bucks a day to park my 11 year old Camry.
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djbnh

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« Reply #1 on: 3 Jun 2006, 09:37 am »
Go about 3/4 down this page (4th pic from the end), there's a pic of the Odyssey room...
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bunky

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« Reply #2 on: 3 Jun 2006, 09:34 pm »
Quote from: djbnh
Go about 3/4 down this page (4th pic from the end), there's a pic of the Odyssey room...
Cool!
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Jim N.

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« Reply #3 on: 4 Jun 2006, 02:29 am »
The wall art speakers have those abstract prints covering them.
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BobC

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« Reply #4 on: 5 Jun 2006, 12:06 am »
Jim,

He didn't happen to mention any more detail re the final Candela design?  Thought I read in an earlier thread that he was targeting a ship date in July or Aug.  I assume this will be in the larger chassis.

Thanks, Bob
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Jim N.

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« Reply #5 on: 5 Jun 2006, 01:22 am »
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Jim,

He didn't happen to mention any more detail re the final Candela design?  Thought I read in an earlier thread that he was targeting a ship date in July or Aug.  I assume this will be in the larger chassis.

Thanks, Bob


It will be a larger chassis, close to the size of the Tempest, per Klaus. The Etesian chassis is just a prototype, not the production version. Give The Man a call for more details but it sounds like it is almost finalized.

Klaus also said that it (Candela) is optimized for use with solid state amps (not a shock given Odyssey only has solid state amps). It won't be euphonic. He's seems to be doing some niche marketing here, given how many people are mating tubed pre's with solid state amps.

I didn't get a chance to really listen to the Candela. Klaus was busy and work/health issues precluded me from attending day 4.

Great show, though. It was a blast seeing and hearing all that gear that I have read so much about.
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