Anyone go to Rm 604 of the Hi-Fi show? It was too crowded to go in fully but they were playing these huge low speakers with the name Altec (Altec only, no Lansing) on them. There were horns mounted on the drivers and placed on top of the huge cabinets were enormous horn type tweeters (?).
Whatever, the setup produced the most amazing sound I've ever heard. They were playing heavy jazz fusion. I hate jazz fusion yet I got pulled in by the sound and I couldn't go away. The sheer realism, the incredible sustained high frequency shimmer, that 'in there' feeling, the attack of the sound, was mind blowing. I heard Rene's effervescent Proacs, 330T peso Coincidents, and the Von Schweikerts but nothing came close to the sound in room 604.