Bastanis Showroom

Author: Mark
Date: 04/07/2009 - 16:00:00
Comment:
I am living in a bubble.  In the last year I have been renovating my house and have bought several pieces of audio equipment that are just coming together in my listening room (4.5X8.5m).  I have been listening to these pieces in various configurations including a 3.5 watt 1626 amp, an 8 watt 300B, various source equipment powering the Bastanis Prometheus widebands with regular tweeters.  Most notable are the  changes to the Gemini tweeters (on the Prometheus) and of course the coup de gras (no upgrade) woofer shearer horn which has been updated by Robert Bastani.  If you can believe it, the woofers are powered by the 300Bs.  If this sound could come from a small box it would be beneficial but it doesn’t......it comes from a folded horn that is about 150kg per channel.  I am sorry to say that you have not heard something like this before.  With the 3.5 watts on the Prometheus and 8 watts on the shearer horn we have a very nice balance.   Forget the words tight bass.  What is that?????? It is not music.....this is music.   You can put on Toccata and Fugue in D minor and it goes looowww. .. but perhaps most important is pianissimo string bass.  You can hear it without turning it up.  Its balanced with actual tone not just feel.  Being in a small city we have an average symphony orchestra, but I have heard Chicago, Montreal, Concertgebau etc.  The difference is simply a big string section which makes pianissimo come across in with ease.  With a small string section you can’t help but play harder so that it can be heard, but this changes the character of the sound.   This is the sound I am trying to get across by these bass horns....completely unrestrained playing music like music not like a sound system.   I could go on about this but now time to turn to the Geminis.  Mind blowing....clear and open like only an open baffle can do.  I can imagine that these do not sound good with poor quality electronics....far too reavealing.   I am waiting breathlessly for new tubes to be shipped to me because I can so easily hear differences.  And now that the reference point is being built it is really difficult to listen to other systems.   Bass cannot be matched.  My classically trained professional musician brothers (trombone and bass) are beside themselves.  “it is not bass it is music”.  The system is so detailed and open like very few systems I have heard can match.  Congratulations to Robert Bastani for his creativity and wisdom.