Winter of 1970. Shacked up at a girl's house for a couple of weeks and she had in her living room a tube Fisher receiver and a pair of KLH speaker's. The sound had a very silky ultra smooth midrange that would stop you dead in your tracks. That got me hooked. One thing I will never get is this. When Henry Kloss left KLH and started Advent in 1968, his Advent design's were inferior to his KLH model's, especially the three way KLH model with its electrostatic tweeter that was the best model, and best sounding speaker him and his design team ever produced from 1964. I had a large pair of Advent's from 1976, which had much better bass slam than his previous KLH model's but the mid-range and high frequencies were no match against KLH. The Advent's were harder sounding and lacked the top end smoothness of KLH.
What was the first system you heard that made you think the high end made sense
I am sure I cannot be the only person here who can recall the day, and indeed the very system that made them think 'oooohhhhh yesssss - I get it - I understand - and I absolutely love it!'
In my case I attended a HiFi Show in Heathrow at the Renaissance Hotel. It was the GT Audio room hosted by Graham Tricker. The parts comprised:
DPS turntable- Schroeder arm - jan allaerts cartridge
Tron Pre-amp
Avante Garde Uno's
In all honesty I still remember the day now. It was so musical and had the ability to connect me to the music. When I went for a full demo at Grahams home I came to understand the magic of horns, valves and imaging.
In my case I attended a HiFi Show in Heathrow at the Renaissance Hotel. It was the GT Audio room hosted by Graham Tricker. The parts comprised:
DPS turntable- Schroeder arm - jan allaerts cartridge
Tron Pre-amp
Avante Garde Uno's
In all honesty I still remember the day now. It was so musical and had the ability to connect me to the music. When I went for a full demo at Grahams home I came to understand the magic of horns, valves and imaging.