Two watts of beauty - the ‘65 Telefunken 6080 magical sound 💫

 

The 120 dB Gotorama 2.0 allows impressive, unique experiences: this morning I optimized cabling (‘30s Siemens Klangfilm 32 VGA solid core copper with silk dielectric between Goto drivers and crossover and Audio Consulting cryogenic solid core silver between crossover and amp, all carefully cut at minimum length) and switched from Quad II/22 combo I used yesterday as very first listening to my beloved handmade Telefunken 6080/Brimar 5V4G/Haltron SJ7GT and Audio Consulting  “Silver Rock” passive preamp, with cryo silver Audio Consulting boxwood RCA signal cables.

As I’m “only” enjoying some cherry-picked CDs, I’m almost worried I’ll be not able to handle the possible tsunami of emotions, the overdose of beauty when I’ll soon switch ON Misho’s Audio Antiquary phono-stage and my Garrardzilla or the mighty Studer C37!

I simply didn’t expect such a result also if I was aware of the “ingredients” of the recipe: the whole “thing” is far more than the sum of the single parts, indeed.

What makes me utmost happy is that - like a concert pianist friend says - difficult things should be showed as easy; in my (humble) case, cables are barely visible, for example… everything is cherry-picked, chosen for best sound quality.

… also the uninterested (or even the audio hater) is hooked by shape & function, and then… Music comes 💫

Will this daily immersive emotional depth experience be too much for my old battered heart?

What I’m getting is a dream: smooth and hyper-detailed sound, rich in texture and natural, with perfect decays and an immersive character, a live effect where you hear music coming from musicians but not, never, ever beaming like on (sad to say)  most of commercially available “loud”speakers!

Seiya Goto was an alien from Antares who came to bring happiness to the men of good will… how right was Reinhard Huttemberg talking about the merits of Goto SG146LD: it’s everything about cohesion and integration among the drivers, where usually a woofer is below-par sounding… here everything is playing unison, like a One.

Yes, specifically and speculating a bit on this concept of “loudness”: my deep feeling is that the boom-boom, high SPL sound commonly found at audio fairs is an industry trick to mask poor micro dynamics and nuanced uniqueness so present in real music and in musical instruments, never shouting also when played FFF!

What I’m hearing right now is untiring sound, the piano pedals and felt on strings… the roaring quietness of large drums and cymbals, barely hit by mallets, the trumpet keys and breathing of Wadada Leo Smith and all the music in between.

That’s what justifies all the hassles and expenses and expectations… this sense of bliss, the innocent need to shed a few tears (which, as my mother used to say, makes the eyes beautiful) and the deepest ever feeling to be a whole with the highest, best, infinite Universe, where only stars and love exist… no wars or evils… the consciousness and contemplation of the Highest Beauty.

Only audio? 

Only music?

Don’t think so: when done “right” (at the best of everyone’s possibilities, with purest of intents), it’s a stargate to satori.

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