Filip Strauch
Pianist Denmark
Based on my experience so far, I didn’t expect to be able to hear the sound of a concert grand in all its sonic shades and positions from speakers without reservation in the near future. Like many of my fellow concert artists, I have always viewed reproduced music as a pleasant diversion in my free time, but in a reserved way. Regardless of the price of the audio systems and setups I have had the opportunity to hear, I have always had significant reservations about reproduced sound, especially when it comes to acoustic instruments.
It seems that after the experience with the products from “AAI” I will have to reconsider my critical attitude towards reproduced music as such, because after the experience with these products it must be clear to any artist, especially to a player of an acoustic instrument, that this is something absolutely extraordinary.
Using these products puts sound in a category of its own. Not only does the source of the sound become the reflection of the musical instrument placed in the space, but also the timbre of the sound of the instruments is incredibly natural, in all positions of the acoustic instruments. The sound is alive, not flat, it breathes, it is possible to perceive even the subtlest microdynamic changes and colour shades in the sound of individual instruments in an unrecognised way, which will be appreciated not only by the listener, but especially by the artist, the performer, because in this way the recording of the performance takes on a new dimension and quality. What is also extraordinary, the sound of acoustic instruments “does not suffer” from synthetic colouration “even in extreme positions and dynamic contrasts.
To achieve such a significant and fundamental shift in sound reproduction by replacing the cabling and power distribution strip is something that is difficult to report on vicariously in this case, it is something that everyone simply has to hear about!
Filip Strauch,
Pianist, Denmark
