http://www.avguide.com/news/2006/10/23/300k-megasystem-from-halcro-xlo-and-music-giants/ Fresh daily content for AVguide.com Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:46:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.avguide.com/news/2006/10/23/300k-megasystem-from-halcro-xlo-and-music-giants/#comment-624 Roger Vance Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:24:55 +0000 http://www.avguide.com/news/2006/10/23/300k-megasystem-from-halcro-xlo-and-music-giants/#comment-624 Don't forget to add the cost of the goon standing watch... Don’t forget to add the cost of the goon standing watch…

]]> http://www.avguide.com/news/2006/10/23/300k-megasystem-from-halcro-xlo-and-music-giants/#comment-605 Dave Ribsky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 16:12:12 +0000 http://www.avguide.com/news/2006/10/23/300k-megasystem-from-halcro-xlo-and-music-giants/#comment-605 Now this was a fun room to visit. I hit it several times each day, though the first two days were limited seating presentations and I had to get a ticket. It was worth it to hear the system uninterupted by people shuffling in and out and conversation. Each time the music being played was very different and totally not the tired old demo standards that you usually hear at these shows and that you would never ever in a million years actually listen to at home. You know - a perfectly exquisite recording of chanting tribesman accompanied by a solo sitar recorded in the rocks above sacred tribal burial grounds... or wailing choral music and strident stringed instruments that never should have survived the 16th century. This demo material was real music - Beatles, Sting, modern orchestral recordings. And the digital source didn't ruin it as it frequently does for me. Like Mr. Harley said, the soundstage was huge - wide and deep but with lifesized presentations of instruments and voices. The Halco -XLO - Wilson combination was really great. The best I've heard the Wilson's sound anywhere. The people running the demo gave plenty of time for questions and their answers were honest and made sense even to how they struggled with the acoustic problems of an echoey room that big - one of the problems I have at home. Now this was a fun room to visit. I hit it several times each day, though the first two days were limited seating presentations and I had to get a ticket. It was worth it to hear the system uninterupted by people shuffling in and out and conversation. Each time the music being played was very different and totally not the tired old demo standards that you usually hear at these shows and that you would never ever in a million years actually listen to at home. You know - a perfectly exquisite recording of chanting tribesman accompanied by a solo sitar recorded in the rocks above sacred tribal burial grounds… or wailing choral music and strident stringed instruments that never should have survived the 16th century. This demo material was real music - Beatles, Sting, modern orchestral recordings. And the digital source didn’t ruin it as it frequently does for me. Like Mr. Harley said, the soundstage was huge - wide and deep but with lifesized presentations of instruments and voices. The Halco -XLO - Wilson combination was really great. The best I’ve heard the Wilson’s sound anywhere. The people running the demo gave plenty of time for questions and their answers were honest and made sense even to how they struggled with the acoustic problems of an echoey room that big - one of the problems I have at home.

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