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Walk the halls, corridors and sound rooms of High End Munich 2023 with Tracking Angle editor Michael Fremer, with special emphasis on turntables, phono preamplifiers and cartridges at the show.
Day two began for me as a panel discussion participant in an event titled "Future-Fi" hosted by Olaf Adam, Chief Editor of the German hi-fi website hifi.de. The other panelists were Ljubiša Miodragović from Serbia, who write for "Hi-Files Audio Video Magazin", and from Great Britain, Hi-Fi Pig's editor in chief, Stuart Smith.
We had a full house for a lively discussion. I began my participation by saying that if predicting the future was easy, we'd all be at the race track. I quoted something I'd written mid-'80s in the Los Angeles music magazine Music Connection, which was "Compact Discs are not the future. They don't sound better than records and soon very few people will still have CD players," which was a direct refutation of a "futurist's claim back then that CD players are the future, that CDs sound better than records and that soon very few people will have turntables." It took quite a while for my prediction to come true, but it has!
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Among the highlights are TechDAS's introduction of its Air Force 10 pivoted air bearing tonearm and Wilson-benesch's active play debut of its GMT One System turntable that has been under development for more than a decade. While an unfinished version was shown at last year's show, this time Wilson benesch showed the final production model and played records on it throughout the show. This video includes press conference highlights.
It's priced out of reach of most viewers, and no doubt the usual whiners will be outraged by the turntable's price and the rest will say the money is better spent feeding the poor, but for vinyl fans the education provided in the video clip about what constitutes good turntable design and what Wilson-benesch and its team did to address and solve the problems, many or most of which most of us have never considered, will cost you nothing to watch and it will be time well spent for when you decide to buy a new turntable regardless of price.
Background music copyright strikes required muting the sound on a few clips. For those, a ticker runs below explaining what's being seen, though I inadvertently omitted mention of the Grand Prix Audio direct drive turntable seen in one review. My apologies!
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