It’s all over…
and our favourite lunch seem a distant dream.
Everything is now packed up and on it’s way back to Sweden. It’s been a great show with many new exiting opportunities.
We’ll be back soon with some more bits from it all.
Yesterday was a busy day as usual here at the High End Show so it was real nice to hear some chilled tunes from solo bassist Dean Peer having our daily Weißwurst & pretzel. The beats was very soft sounding and the percussionist made use of one of those cool brazilian cube drums, Cajón. The setting might not have been the most inspiring but they didn’t seem to care, it sounded great anyway.
Now, this is pretty cool. When we took part in the Munich HiFi Show earlier this year, the guys from Nagra brought this little old school gadget called Nagra SN ‘Série Noire’ recorder. I had a chat with Matthieu Latour and found out some interesting facts about it.
Nagra started making it back in the early sixties on a request from the CIA. The CIA used it solidly for about a decade and so it didn’t exist to the rest of the world. However, technology eventually caught up and spies started using detection devices that read frequencies that the ‘Série Noire’ recorder used and in the end it was fairly common to use both the recorder as well as the detection device.
There’s a story about an American spy meeting a Russian ditto that started chatting about their Nagra gadgets without any other introduction, they just both knew they both were wired. Probably a similar conversation to what goes on today, comparing iPhones and other gadgets.
When it was released to the general public it became very popular with film making as it’s so small that the actors can fit it in a pocket and then record their lines. It was also used by NASA in space travel.
When it’s closed it looks like it could have been made by Apple, only 50 years earlier. An inspiration for the macbook perhaps?
I really wanted to sneak it into my pocket and ‘borrow’ it but I guess that would’ve been downright stealing, not sneaking. I’m surprised none else did. Maybe the prospect of having the CIA after you scared people off:)
It’s all over now but we still have some stuff to show. We finally managed to find some time to have a look at this HUGE show.
We have featured these guys before but they are so cool that we had to stay for a listen again. Gigantic antique restored theatre and cinema speakers from Silbatone Acoustics. Very impressive.
This is what we are premiering today at High End 2012, The brand new Heritage Series: Bird 2, Getz 2, Miles 5 and Duke 2. Quite some upgrade we think:) Please have a look at our updated site here or download the press release here.
We finished fine tuning it right on time. Here are a few quick shots of the room.
The main setup with Django XL, M•Amp Mono Power block and Nagra electronics on M•Furniture Audio Bench.
The premiere of the new Miles 5 that we will tell you more about soon.
Collage type panorama of the whole room. Click to enlarge.
We’ll be back soon with more news.
The room is really getting there and it already sounds good. There’s always a slight worry before that one of the ‘links in the chain’ will not work or so, so now we can relax. At least until it opens tomorrow.
This is a bit like that huge storage space at the end of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’:)
Every year on this day the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra performs a free concert in Slottsskogen conducted by the young, world famous and very talented Gustavo Dudamel. Jörgen took this photo when he went last year. He said it was pretty amazing and it seem to have been a really nice day. I hope it is the same this year.
We have a lot more from Munich so we’ll be back soon.
Lars
There’s this amazing huge park in munich, called Englisher Garten where there are a lot of canals that you actually can swim in. At the last day of our visit last week, the weather was so warm and the park filled up with sunbathers and also surfers.
No records found, please check your short codeOne of the canals has a constant wave you can surf on. Pretty cool eh?
She didn’t keep still for very long but she seemed to enjoy listening for a bit:)
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