AXPONA 2023 TrackingAngle Video Coverage Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Axpona 2023 was by far the largest AXPONA show yet. Both industry participation and attendance were "off the charts". Plus, it was truly an international show, with visitors and company executives from around the world flying in to be part of a show that's now well more than a "regional event".
Products were debuted in Chicago rather than being held until Munich. Many items debuted at last Munich's show made their first American appearance this year at AXPONA.
Day one began for me 10:30 Friday morning moderating a panel discussion "Reissues & Remastering: What's Involved? featuring Chad Kassem (Acoustic Sounds), Shane Buettner (Intervention Records), Abey Fonn (Impex Records) and Julia Miller (Delmark Records). We had a full house and attendees enjoyed a lively discussion about what's involved in 2023 trying to license and reissue major label titles. Unfortunately, I don't think it was recorded, which is a real shame. Perhaps next year?
Covering every room on every floor was impossible. TrackingAngle had a few writers on the scene who will report what they saw in print to augment the video coverage.
CDs were pretty much gone from the scene, with streaming and vinyl doing most of the music playing work. The trend towards musical nothingness continues, with most rooms playing little inspiring, or musically interesting. Something must be done about this! I don't know what.
I brought acetates of Patrick Leonard's new album (he produced Roger Waters' "Amused to Death" and the final 3 Leonard Cohen albums among many others). I'm helping him get the album out on vinyl and it's been a fun and rewarding experience.
I tried to "trip up" Charles Kirmuss by bringing two identical RCA classical albums, one cleaned using a 5 minute cavitation cycle on the KLAUDIO machine and one for which I spend about 1/2 hour doing the Kirmuss "restoration" process. I handed them over to Kirmuss in the "Marketplace" and asked him to identify which was which. In the video, you'll see what happened.
Friday evening we had our first "staff dinner" that included a few writers, advertisers, website developer/business partners Nick Despotopoulos and David L'Hereux and our vinyl/music loving corporate lawyer.
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I love these freakin' shows, only way i can enjoy it! My 3rd time watching! Thank you for making my day's Michael Fremer!😊
“And it’s your statement to begin with”. That’s why I watch/love Fremer. Keep up the good work
32:27 Also a wonderful Fremer moment.
@@thegrimyeaper before I even clicked the time stamp I knew what was behind it. Great stuff.
I laughed pretty hard when he said that. Love it
You Are (To Me!) The Best Tour Guide At Audio Shows! Thank You Mike!
Thank you Mike , for those of us unable to attend this is the next best view and always look forward to your videos, hope to run into you on the Pacific side .
Almost as good as being there. Thank you Michael.
The Luxman TT is beautiful. Thank you so much for the tour - highly appreciated from Johannesburg.
Thanks Michael😃
Awesome, thanks Michael!
Michael, good afternoon.A very interesting engineering solution of antiskating on Luxman.Thanks for the video!
Thank you! I hope part 2 will have more TT coverage. 🙏🏻🎼
This was my first hi-fi show ever. First thing that happens is I walk into the Stenheim/Nordost room and sit down only to realize Michael Fremer is sitting in front of me.
I didn't say anything since you were working, but you're clearly slacking off now reading youtube comments so "hi, Mikey!!!" 🤗
Michael - I hope your seminar on reissues was recorded and will be posted somewhere... ??
👍👍👍👍😊🙏
Crazy Lenny is practically giving it away!!!
As always, great to watch & thank for taking the time to put this all together.
As an observation Michael, if you spent 30 minutes following the Kirmuss process/method on one of those LPs & then brought it straight to the show. According to Mr Kirmuss, if his method is the best, there should have been none of this white product, because you had already spent 30 minutes doing it with his machine, method & products. This makes no sense at all. To me, there can only be two reasons for this to have occurred. You either didn't do it correctly, or the product sprayed onto the LP causes this foaming.
Keep bringing us these great video treats.
The small amount of white is what I sprayed onto the record which appears. The inspection is the second ap of fast evaporation.
To answer your question in more detail: First we never interrupt the restoration process. Mr. Fremer wanted to see if we can read which record was processed with the Kirmuss at his home and which record underwent another ultrasonic.
When we first apply the ionizing agent to a record, we will always see the colorant appear. The foaming as you term it saw on our record was par for the course.
No matter, it is only after the first cycle in our machine that one will start to use the decision tree we have listed in our instructions, as to whether we use four two minute cycles followed by a fixed 5 minute cycle, or, where we need to observe the rise and fall of the materials that were disturbed and softened and brought up in the prior cycle in the machine with ionizing colorant applied.
To change methods in mid stream was not expected. The result in this unique test saw us prove which record was processed by the Kirmuss and which was processed by another ultrasonic. Not allowed at the show, the continuance of the Kirmuss process to see the degree of cleaning and restoration needed on the previously cleaned record in another machine. You are correct in your observation of foam on first application and where Mr. Fremer processed and properly restored the record brought in for this unscripted test from home.
For your edification of our process, do visit our RUclips channel. There is a 10 part video filmed in Seoul at our dealer's location of our restoring a very well used favorite record of the owner. The record was previously processed a half dozen times in a vacuum system. You will see the rise and the fall of the materials coming out of the record.
Jason from Audiophile Junkie also has videos of the restoration process and where you for yourself will see the visual confirmation of end of process when we are at the 6 PM position with the brush and where at the noon position where the colorant has all but evaporated.
As I mentioned in the video one can tell whether a record was processed by a manual cleaning system or a vaccum.
Thanks for your question.
Good coverage. The directional audio was interesting... 😄
Curiosavo sul sito b&c... Che ne pensi del triaxial 18HTX100? Per che utilizzi è pensato?
The wisecracks alone are worth the tour!
Each speaker has been test installed and pre-broken in in a Formula 1 car for 200k then installed in a Formula E car for an additional 300k of break-in. That’s an incredible 500 k of break-in at high velocity! These speakers are fast!
Arthur Fiedler ‘Whole Lotta Love’ 😂
13:52 I think I'm gonna NEED this one.
I especially enjoyed the Kirmuss record cleaning segment.
I think he’s on to something by combining wet brushing and electro sonic cleaning.
A Loricraft or Munk machine in combination with electro sonic might eliminate the hand scrubbing.
A record flattening machine might be worth having available as needed.
Hand application of the ionizing agent we supply by brush applied on both sides of the record over several cycles is needed as the induced charge applied to the record so that it is opposite to that of water wears off as the record spins. The charge attracts the effects of cavitation.
In the first few cycles we remove films air or vacuum dried on the record's surface from prior cleaning methods used, then finally we remove the record's release agent. This is where contaminants fused into the cooling pressing oil at the pressing plant that is cause in part of some of those annoying pops heard in new records, are removed.
49:25 - anyone know the name of this singer/LP ? I could not read the cover. Thanks!
@ 10.34. August? Isn't that today, April 19th?
Record Wonderland and the Vinyl Community’s own Chris Cole was at this event.
That would be great to film with a camera with a better dynamic range. Black devices appear as a deep black brick.
PS Yet more report with 50% spent on a vinyl washing machines. Sir, do you have an issue with dirty disks? ))) If it's worn, no washers help really.
On the contrary one does not want the stylus to be the cleaning agent.
Those record cleaners look like some high-school science fair stuff.
Wow that Luxman rep was struggling to differentiate the new turntable from any other. Know your product at least!
I thought he did an excellent job
your fair dinkum mate...
Charles Kirmuss for president 🤣
Bet Mikey gets major kick backs for recommending that overpriced joke!
@@agsp4785 i don’t agree one bit.
President of BS. or should I say "smultz"😂
@@nudebaboon4874 I believe in Charles and his methods and science. And I love when he says schmuts. Has a nice ring to it 😃😃
19:09 $5 for a selfie, don't sell yourself short. J/K 😁
Bayonne NJ! 😂
Comments are hilarious!
:: saved the best for last - luxman
those suctioning cleaning machines are like wind up gramophones compared even the cheapest ultrasonic cleaners ...
Someone needs to tell Pro-Ject that there is no benefit to XLR connections for phono cables. The RCA connections are inherently balanced anyway. 😅
Cartridges aren't balanced but floating 😅
never understand the crazy prices....you could buy a bloody house for the monies these guys can charge. Would love to know the mark up on these products. Yes product development will be costly but the material involved suggests that supra profits are being made. As such I think so much of this is sheer vanity (mine is bigger and better AND MORE EXPENSIVE than yours type of mindset) and obviously aimed at a tiny market. There is only a limited amount of sound data a human ear can digest and wonder if there is a so much difference between, for example, a system valued at say £100k and one that is say £150k?
I'm glad you ask questions rather than bark answers. It's mostly not about vanity. The final costs are usually 5X parts costs. That factors in labor, factory, taxes, running a business, packaging (which is costly) etc. You really need to experience a truly large high end system in a good space to understand why people spend the money. Vanity is a tiny part of this compared to watches and cars consumed in public.
@@trackingangle929 I did in Birmingham (England version) back in 2018. Yes the sound quality is stupendous but during a comparative session i decided to take courage and suggest that a system that was approx twice the cost of the other was not noticeably better to effect such a price differential. To my surprise there seemed to be a general consensus once i opened the floodgates with my comment. Anyway i bow to your vastly superior knowledge but packaging costs....sorry that is not much of an overhead to compare with the price of the product. There is still the limiting factor of audio data that can be assimilated and that the cost / benefit must reach a point of dislocation. Would still like to know the mark up.
Interesting those classic receivers, Pioneer etc., were the kind of products Absolute Sound and Stereophile snobishly ignored. There was this false impression that those old made in Japan receivers and amps weren't "high end" and couldn't compete with the ugly "made in a garage" stuff that those mags routinely reviewed. Nothing could be further from the truth as many of those classic pieces from Sansui, Pioneer, Marantz, Kenwood, etc, not only competed but often sounded noticeably better than the early Hafler, PS Audio, Holman, etc., products raved by TAS and Stereophile.
If you want to hear crap music, go to an audio show...
Lenny, avoid any one that noisy
That bloke with the beard and loud mouth near the beginning has got to be the most annoying person in hifi, tf he's only in mono.😂
I get nauseous watching these..
Then don’t watch!
@@trackingangle929 Ha! I'm watching anyways! About 45mins in. Sometimes the handheld vids get me.. just like watching my nephew play Call of Duty haha. Love the vids Michael and all that you do for the hobby.
Surprised to see Just Audio there.