Any MSB fans here ?

[57gold]

Had a chance to listen to a few systems at the Florida Audio show last weekend here in Tampa.  Was at a hotel less than mile from home, which was pretty convenient!  Never been to an audio show before, plenty of guitar shows, but no audiophile one.

 

Was intending to check out some speakers, particularly the Perlisten ones that have gotten pretty good reviews.  Had also never heard the much reviewed Magico speakers nor the Joseph Audio ones.  All very nice in their own way with the Jospeh Pulsar2 Graphenes (whatever the hell that is) sounding like big towers or monitors with big subwoofers and they were small making big, dynamic, 3D music in a decent sized room...like to hear the bigger ones of that line!

 

Happened to see the MSB room and they were playing music I like to listen to when auditioning speakers, acoustic jazz as my reference as musician is live music (many rooms had weird electronic music with over processed vocals or movie soundtracks, which I thought was odd).  So I stopped in and was hoping in a kind of perverse way that the sound would be nice but nothing special given the mind numbing pricing of MSB gear. Was disappointed in this regard as the system (Reference DAC with two slabs of aluminum because it has a separate power supply and another slab that was a D to D converter/filter) sounded fantastic and in they are in the room moving around, fingers on the valves and keys noise, drum kit hardware rattle and squeak...everything!  The digital source > MSB CD/SACD transport, amps > MSB and speakers > Magico towers.

 

$150K in MSB electronics (not including the transport, which I guess they don't make anymore) about what my best vintage guitar is worth...I'll keep the guitar, for now.