I will try to explain how it started why my focus is on 3D sound these days.
I started to work in audio in 1998. In the first years I was addicted to it. I went to many shows, distributers and other shops. You hear a lot. You remember the things you like.
In 1999 I bought the 802 Nautilus. I bought it because I loved the sharp individual focus. I knew it did not have a lot of depth, but for me the individuel focus was more important than depth.
We sold Avalon, and I liked the deep and wide stage a lot. But the individual focus of instruments and voices was of a much lower level than my 802N. It was not perfect either.
When you hear and test a lot your knowledge and insight in music and audio grows. Audio can become quite addictive. Also for me. You want more and better. After time I had it in my head what I wanted.
I wanted a big and wide stage, but within this wide and deep stage I wanted the same sharp and realistic focus of instruments as my B&W 800 Signature.
I thought about buying the B&W 800D. But after audition them a few times, I thought; Noooooo...I want a wide and deep stage as well. As a perfectionist you want more and better. It could not give me the thing I wanted.
In 2007 I started to sell Monitor Audio. I bought the whole Platinum series for the shop I worked. I had all the freedom to choose my own products.
These days Monitor Audio gives me the freedom to build a big and wide stage with a sharp and intimate focus within this stage.
When you test and compare all the time. You can create much easier a higher quality in sound.
My way of testing gives me the different properties each tool owns. When you understand and know the properties you can make combinations of tools togheter.
Tools togheter make a sound and stage. You can create it as you want it to become.
I use the properties of the brands I sell. Only these togheter can give me a wide and deep stage, a stunning sharp individual focus, blacks, resolution and an involving sound.
That it why I choose speakers, amps, sources, cables, conditioners who all can build a wide and deep stage.
Because I know that there are a lot more who do not have the quality to build this stage as I want it to be.
I am Always open for new products. I like to audition new audio. When it does not give the properties where I am looking for it is not interesting for me.
Until now I did not find a better way to create a higher endresult. For me it is very effective. But I only can speak for myself.
I understand that it is a lot different than others do. But that is who I am; different!
