Kanso audio furniture9/20/2023 My reference system reflects my fondness for an enduring design aesthetic in which extraordinary electronics are encased in beautifully crafted cases of metal and wood. What Kondo proposes requires that you ask yourself a different question: Will the next upgrade be that destination piece, that holy grail - a purchase that will bring me lasting joy? To me, such an audio component must be utterly transparent and relentlessly musical in sound, timelessly drop-dead gorgeous in appearance, easy to use, absolutely reliable, and provide state-of-the-art sound quality that won’t be significantly bettered for years. At some point you might ask yourself, “When does this quest end? When can I start to focus again on the message - the music - and stop obsessing about the medium?” What does this have to do with stereo gear? Stimulating the brain’s reward center with music can unfortunately lead to an addictive, obsessive-compulsive search for an elusive holy grail of auditory nirvana, and along the way we can accumulate too much stuff. Clutter could be a roadblock in the neural highway to the brain’s reward center: the nucleus accumbens, a small, almond-shaped structure deep in the midbrain that has been shown to be an important part of the positive emotion our brain senses when we hear music we like. In this age of distraction and materialism, too much information and too much stuff could be obscuring or interfering with our brains’ pathway to joy. Kondo encourages us to keep only what brings us joy, and to get rid of everything that doesn’t.Īs a psychiatrist entrusted with the responsibility of helping people take care of their inner worlds, I can see the interesting neuroscientific premise behind this. The path to reorganization, however, involves a ruthlessly deliberate shedding of some of our things. Declutter your life and you’ll feel better, she promises. Kondo makes a simple but powerful claim: a dramatic reorganization of your outer world can result in correspondingly profound changes in your inner world. I’m a fan.I’ve been reading a compelling self-improvement bestseller by Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing. I’ll take it! The Pan is smokin’ hot, and the combo with with ModWright and WyWires is “keeper” class audio. Here’s the skinny on the sound - sign me up. You might remember seeing this recently, here on Part-Time Audiophile. A Daedalus/WyWires joint effort produced the Power Broker ($2,499), distributing all the power to the system. WyWires Platinum cabling makes a debut here at CAF (prices start at $2,299 for speaker cables), and was matched with a mix of power cords from the Silver and Gold lines. As configured, the Kata series rack is $6,412. Kanso Audio Furniture held everything upright. Price as configured, with the ModWright “Truth” mods, is now $4,350 (including the player, purchased separately). Lou calls the Pan a “point-source” as opposed to a “line-source”, like his other designs, so using them in near-field is most definitely encouraged - and that front-ported design gives some serious placement flexibility.Ī ModWright KWI-200 integrated ($5,000) was paired with the the highly modded Oppo BDP-105 that I’ve been drooling on curious about. The drivers and crossover come directly from the rest of the line (mostly poly). The front baffle is angled, like it is on the Argos, giving some non-parallel surfaces to help with sound. Scott Dalzell of Viva HiFi was demoing some very, brand new, sweet stand-mounted monitors from Daedalus Audio, the $4,600 Pan. Sensitivity 95/96dB, -3dB at 40Hz, and yes, they’re heavy - Scott says they’re maybe 50lbs each.
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