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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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Sweetspot Stockholm

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The Sweetspot in Stockholm was one of the first trips in the last year that I started with joy, here You can find the page of the show in Stockholm. Although Jan, our distributor, was sick and Marco (our Dutch distributor) and me had to prepare and setup everything.
Well we managed and almost all the people were talking english without problems, therefor we can say that we achieved a good result level.

The setup was amazing:
- Kronzilla stereo power amp, with the big tubes
- Kron preamplifier
- Reed turntable and tonarm
- Van den Hul Canary cartridge

All in all a very sounding system, with an extraordinary look and an extraordinary sex appeal in post industrial design.
My compliments to Maria from OldSchool HiFi to have had these beautiful ideas for the setup: we will copy them :-) and You can have a look at the pictures of the event here

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Blumenhofer Presence on Rock n Roll Magazine from Sweden

On Rock'n'Roll Magazine Number 6 of 2014 at page 70, there is a good article about the experience at the Göteborg HiFi Show. What will surprise You is the big picture of Jan and Andrea in front of the system presented at the show, here some pictures of the event.

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Old School HiFi is our new distributor for Sweden

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We have been in contact with Jan from Old School HiFi since a longer time. And the personal relationship is working pretty well. We have fun together, we like the same kind of music and the way we listen to music is the same. It feels good drinking a beer and turn the volume up and up and rock until it makes fun!

After some uncertainty on both sides, we decided to work together. Jan Öström is our new distributor for Sweden.

Old School HiFi
Jan Öström

Näckrosvägen 13
90352 Umeå

Tel +46 90-12 59 00
Mob +46 70-659 35 00
E-mail info@oldschoolhifi.se
http://www.oldschoolfifi.se

Göteborg Ljud & Bild 2014

...and now is time to tell the story of our Göteborg Ljud & Bild
We were playing in Hotel Hotel Scandic Opalen, Room Bohus 1, under the flag of Old School HiFi.

The system was an "
old school" system:
- Power Amplifier:
McIntosh MC75 Jubilee edition
- Preamplifier:
McIntosh C220 60 Years edition
- Source: Turntable
McIntosh MT5
- Cartridge: London Decca Special Gold
- Loudspeaker: our new
Genuin FS 1 MK 2
- Cabling and Power Treatment from
Cammino

The show was great!
Plenty of people interested in what we were making, people appreciating a lot our sound, people enjoying our kind of music and presentation, people spending hours at our booth.
Journalists enthusiastic about the result of our efforts.

Well, I must admit, it has been really convincing and really enjoyable, and honestly sometimes breathtaking for me!!
It made me eager for more. If You are curious,
here You can browse the pictures of the show. See You soon in Scandinavia.

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New way in Scandinavia

An optimistic and a pessimistic sales manager have been sent to Africa to sell shoes.
They both send their market assessment back to the main company.
The Optimistic wrote: "Good news: nobody wears shoes here!"
The Pessimistic wrote: "Bad news: nobody wears shoes here!"

Stolen somewhere... I do not remember from whom, sorry

We split from VälLjuD and from Exotic Audio. It was a common decision taken together with Henrik and Kim.
Wait and see... we will probably meet again in Göteborg, in September.

Stockholm HiFi Show 2013

Jan, from Old School HiFi presented in Stockholm our Genuin FS 3 and big Fun 20. We are intrigued :-)

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Participation to the HiFi Mässa in Göteborg, Sweden

Our distributor VälLjuD participated to the Göteborg Ljud & Bild 2012. He was very pleased with the result. Next time I'll be there myself to enjoy the chance of enjoy the music in the north!!


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Sweetspot 2011 in Jönköping

VälLjud, the Swedish distributor for Blumenhofer Acoustics, was at the Swedish show Sweetspot 2001 showing the Blumenhofer FS3 and furthermore a dealer showing the Blumenhofer FS1.
 
VälLjud was playing on a system consisting of Kondo Ongaku, Kondo M7 Phono and Kondo SFZ Stepup and a Oracle Delphi turntable, there was also an EAR Acute cd player for the digital playback. All cables was also Kondo, and a Shunyata netfilter.
 
The show was a big success with a lot of compliments on the exquisite sound coming from the Blumenhofer speakers.

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Stockholm Highend 2011

After a short cooperation ValLjuD used the Genuin FS 3 to present his system at the Stockholm High End

The chain VälLjuD played on was composed by:
Oracle Audio mk VI Turntable
• Oracle SME reference tonearm
• Kondo IO-M pickup
• Kondo KSL-SFz step-up transformer
• Kondo KSL-M7/Phono
Kondo Ongaku
• Kondo KSL-SPz speaker cable
• Kondo KSL-LP interconnect cables
• Blumenhofer Acoustics Genuin FS 3

A lot of people were in the room and sat there for a long time listening to the system, more than one noted how enjoyable and engaging the system played.

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