I just had an experience this week of why I built my speakers.
The concert of the
Montreal Symphony Orchestra's concert to inaugurate the new four million dollar pipe organ is now
running on Medici TV.
This organ is superb and unusual. From the console high in the organ, it is a mechanical tracker, that is to say the player operates the pipes entirely by mechanical action. There is also a movable console on stage that operates by electric action.
The organ was built by the renowned Canadian organ builder
Casavant Freres.
Although this is streamed, the picture and audio are superb. This is the finest bass definition I have heard. I do hope this concert makes its way onto BD.
The performance of the Saint Saens organ symphony is the best I have heard. The opening work the famous J.S. Bach D minor toccata and Fugue really showed the precise articulation of this instrument.
There is no boom on this instrument, the bass is clean deep and highly defined. I could feel frequencies I could not hear. My body cavities vibrated frequently. The recording by the Canadian engineers is top rate.
You can rent this concert from Medici without a membership. This is an ultimate test of the bass definition of a speaker system. I just can't imagine any other speaker system pulling this off like I heard here this week.