Goto vs. HiFi or PA loudspeakers: my experience, after years fiddling with Altec, Westrex and RCA’s drivers, proved the above drivers were not “harmonically richer”, but - IMO - just adding their romantic, thicker, slower euphonic character… in a few words: colored, interpretative.
When switching to Goto, about 20 years ago, myself and everyone I hosted at my music room(s), remained baffled to their fast, ever-changing, eerie yet organic and true to life character… not dry or hyper-analytical, only sometimes violently fast and pitiless, like real music is…
Enter real music…
A couple of days ago I was at Teatro Olimpico attending to a Mary Halvorson Quartet concert.
I was seated at first row, only 3 meters from the trumpet player and I admit I almost fell from my seat when I experienced “something”… only a couple of hours before, I listened to a Wadada Leo Smith’s disk, at home… not my mind, but my ears, recognized the very spiked, tense and impressively strong and punchy sound of a real trumpet at close distance.
My aural memory clearly told me, reminding me about this… hic et nunc!
High SPL, bell-like pure sound, whose focus was changing within a few inches movement… same like at home!
That’s the most sincere kudos and appreciation I can pay to my Gotorama: not a simpatico loudspeaker, an always smart ear-pleaser, but a magnificent stargate bringing a quite convincing replica in size, dynamics and weight of real instruments… all this and more delivered at home.
BTW - something similarly surprising happens with distorted electric guitars: an oxymoronic “clean distortion” is experienced - i.e. - no further distortion is added to the fuzz distortion and it’s an epiphany, as every nuance is appreciated, like an absolute premiere.
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