News about Blumenhofer Acoustics

HiFi and Multimedia Show in Ljubljana - Slovenia

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It was not the biggest room in the show, but is was for sure one of the best positioned and worst to reach ;-)
In the entrance… not everyone noted it but I think that everyone did hear as and then came to visit our room and listen to our system.
I think that this was one of the most expensive setups I've ever done in a show. Let's start from the source:
- 35 years old Linn Sondek LP 12 turntable
- Ortofon Windfeld cartridge
- Trafomatic Luna Phono Preamplifier
- Rockna Wavedream DA Converter
- Trafomatic Lara line preamplifier
- Trafomatic Elysium power amps
- Genuin FS 1 MK 2 loudspeakers
- 2x Cammino Power Harmonizer H3.1
- complete Cammino cabling

…I think that the loudspeakers were the cheapest part of the whole system ;-)

At first we had a surprise, the room was smaller than we all remembered and we started wondering how to set up all the things and where to put the loudspeakers. Mapping, that was the first thing to do, to have a rough estimation on the available space.
Then the most difficult part: moving the power amps to the right position. 80kg amps plus another 35 kg of marble plate where they were set… can You imagine?
Setting up was more difficult than expected, because our expectations were really high and the products presented are top products that deserve to be exposed in the best possible way. It is a 200.000€ system, it MUST play like a 200.000€ system to be honest to our guests. It is useless to have a top system playing bad and then arguing about the room qualities, or that the time was to short, or that the logistic was not good, or whatever other thing. IT MUST PLAY. Without excuses. Only in this way we have the chance to convince the people that to enjoy music they need our system and not one of the other.

And I think that we reached our goal. Lots of people came and stayed in the room for longer time. They were impressed by the power and the energy flowing in the room. They appreciated the quality of the music reproduction.
Saša Čokiċ from Trafomatic stated that he had never heard a turntable playing that well before and his goosebumps during The Wall of the Pink Floyd were the demonstration of this - well, these are satisfactions ;-)

If You are curious to see more pictures of the event and of our system there, You can find them here

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We discontinue the big Fun 17

This was the first loudspeaker we realized with a real bass horn. With bass compression chamber.
Introduced back in 2009, now it is time to discontinue it.
It is a small loudspeaker with astonishing sound qualities. I know several people, who would not even think about changing it, not even for the bigger ones: they have become addicted to the bass horn!
Should You wish to have more information about it, You can find them here in Blumenhofer History.

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The painted big Fun 17 - a unique piece of art

HiFi Nationaal Leeuwarden

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In Leeuwarden, Holland, there the Nationaal HiFi Multimedia Event. Our distributor Music2.nl participated.
Here You can access the Facebook page event for the more up to date information.

Small set-up this time, but very nice sound!
Also introduction of the new Octave V110 SE with adjustable damping factor!
The most beautiful part is to have a turntable matching the loudspeakers. It is something that only the cooperation between us and Dr. Feickert can deliver! Playing it is a Woodpecker.

Here You can have a few more pictures

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Fotografic session

After a longer time, we have found a good format and a competent partner for making professional pictures of our loudspeakers. Andrea Pecchiari, the son of a friend is in love with photography and does have an actual competence in working with lights and shadows.
You will soon see some of his pictures in our web pages. The step forward is amazing and we are looking forward for the progressive implementation.
Here You can see some pictures on how we worked today.


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Westdeutsche HiFi Tage

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Thinking out of the box, the event is happening on Sunday Monday instead of Saturday Sunday. Well.
Armin Kern, our Representative North of the WeißWurst-Equator will present our products together with the products of Supra, Nottingham Analog and Synthesis. A quite good promising setup. Enjoy and book a personal presentation directly with him.
It was a really crowded event, lots of people talking and getting in contact eager to know and understand the news on the music reproduction.
This time our loudspeakers were just as static display. Next time… probably…
Here You can enjoy more pictures

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Meeting with MastersounD

Today we had a very pleasant meeting with one of the new key persons inside MastersounD. It was a good exchange of ideas and some ways of future cooperation, there was a really good understanding of some ways ahead. Stay tuned and You will soon know more.


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X-Fi Veldhoven - a crowded event

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The easiest thing is to quote our distributor, Marco, the owner of Music2.nl

The Setup? Feickert Blackbird, Jelco, Zyx, Octave Jubilees, BH Gran Gioia's... More or less my idea of the best possible set-up you can imagine...
Statements? We were told about 100 times:
- "absolutely the best sound if the show"
- "finally a set-up that sounds as it should be"
We had about 4000 visitors in total, think they all came to our room and, well, it was SO crowded in the room that it became almost impossible to do a demo at all!!
It is true... 105m2 and sometimes having over 100 people in...


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This was 10 minutes after the show started...

Göteborg HiFi Show

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We were in room Björkö, in the boot of OldSchoolHiFi at the Scandic Opalen Hotel.
The Setup was impressive, pure analog sources:
- Pluto Turntable with Pluto Tonearm and Ikeda 9TT cartridge
- Audiomat Phono Preamplifier
- Reed Turntable with Reed Tonearm and Van den Hul Condor Cartridge
- Octave Phono Preamplifier
- Audiomat integrated Amplifier
- Cammino cabling
- Cammino Power Harmonizer
- Loudspeakers Genuin FS 3 MK 2.

The biggest problem we had was the electricity quality. The room had very old unearthed sockets. Fact is that we had quite some grounding problems and an enormous hmm during setup…
…and these problems have been solved: we got our power from the corridor with a 15m long power cable brought in the local warehouse.

Despite these problems, we have been able to reach a quite satisfactory level of sound reproduction quality with that impressive analogue setup and the people were pleased by the sound that put the Music in focus…

This event has been possible thanks to our Dutch distributor, Marco de Wilde: he took over were Jan could not be part of the event. We are getting a nice Blumenhofer family that support each other, when for any personal reason some of us can’t, the other jump in. This is friendship!!

Here You can enjoy more pictures

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SI Works is our new distributor for Korea

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I do not know whether we already met or not, and if yes, then where. SI Works, is our new distributor for Korea. We are looking forward for the cooperation.

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SI-Works co.
Royal Bldg. B1F
23 Dogok-ro 46-gil
05574 Songpa-gu
Seoul

Tel.: 02-400-9988
Mobile: 010-6315-9971
E-mail: jungknah@gmail.com
Website: http://siworks.co.kr

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Things change in the UK

Sometimes it is better to go for new opportunities. Tim and us, therefore we decided together not to continue anymore. Jordan Acoustics is not more our distributor for the United Kingdom. We will see what will come up in the future in the UK.

Tafos, our new point of Contact for Croatia

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The relation, business and personal, developed to a really good point with Igor Opassi from Tafos Audio.
And after the recent developments, we decided to work closely together even for Croatia.
You can contact him for Slovenia, Istria and Croatia to get in touch with our products!

Tafos d.o.o.
Gažon 36/A
6274 Šmarje pri Kopru
Tel: +386 (0)5 656 95 30
Mobile: + 386 (0)41 693 043
e- mail :
tafos@siol.net
web:
www.tafosaudio.com

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Schule Lautsprecherbau

Some Students of a school in Augsburg attended to some teaching session about how to build loudspeakers.
They appreciated the experience and it has been good for us as well to get new ideas.
Here some pictures

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Viet Challenge 211 ART

The name sounds like a new tube amplifier but it is not. In fact it is the last mosaic tile for our production. Now we have the whole wood processing in our hands.
The Viet Challenge 211 ART is a professional calibrating machine that allows us to work with higher precision in our constructions.

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Tafos Audio's Event: The Munich After

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Tafos Audio, our partner for Slovenia, organized a flabbergasting event. We spent the whole day in an olive tree plantation. A wonderful relaxing landscape. Not to mention the rich food catering organized by a friend and the astonishing quality of the music reproduction in the cave… Just to get Your mouth watering:
- Trafomatic Elysium Power Amp
- Trafomatic Luna Phono Preamp
- Trafomatic Lara Preamp
- Rockna Wavedream DAC
- Cabling by Cammino
- Power treatment by Cammino
- and of course our Genuin FS 1 MK 2 performing

Have a look at our picture gallery with the text of the invitation for the event. Here.

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Report about our Munich High End on Part Time Audiophile

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Panagiotis visited us in our booth at the Munich High End 2016. He was surprised how well the Blumenhofer are playing with triodes and the pairing with Air Tight. Old style HiFi is simply great. He did not want to believe that the big loudspeaker in the window was meant for a customer. In fact it is, soon I'll post some pictures of this fabulous Cinema near Munich.

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