> www.zenph.com

> Big house in north Raleigh with a mini-concert hall containing 4
> concert grand pianos rigged with their hardware & connected to laptops
> - I got to basically sit in a room and hear Rachmaninoff, Glenn Gould
> and Art Tatum play piano live.  Read this review for a better
> explanation of what they do than I can give...

> http://www.zenph.com/pdf/Zenph%20-%20The%20Audiophile%20Voice%20Oct%2...

> What really made my jaw drop to the floor was the demo of their new
> "upright bass" - a thing that looks like "V...GER" from the first Star
> Trek movie (geek check) and was made by somebody in Germany.  They
> played me an old Oscar Peterson recording with the piano & drums in a
> pair of Magnepans and the bass separately reproduced on the gadget -
> if you didn't look you'd bet money that Ray Brown was standing there
> playing bass.

> Fun stuff.  They told me sax & drums are next.  When they figure out
> how to do this with acoustic guitar, I want to hear Robert Johnson.

> Wow - this is absolutely fascinating. Thanks a lot for sharing. If you
> ask me, this seems straight out of Star Trek. Why bother with high
> fidelity speakers, etc. when you can purchase an ultra-premium
> Bosendorfer player piano. The ultimate tool for audiophile one-
> upsmanship.

> In all seriousness, the business model they're proposing - providing
> ultra-high fidelity recordings of "re-performances" of classic
> performances to labels - is the most innovative "new format" idea I've
> seen yet (wax cylinder -> vinyl record -> tape -> CD -> mp3?). How the
> labels can manage to monetize the new recordings in today's music
> business ecosystem is another matter, but brilliantly, that's not this
> company's problem.

> I am skeptical of their ability to mechanically replicate the
> recordings of more tactile instruments like drums and guitars - for
> example, I'd love to stand in the room with a giant Marshall stack as
> Jimi Hendrix's performance at Monterrey is "re-performed", but I'm not
> sure how they would re-perform the guitar burning, etc. However, if
> these folks are smart enough to have come up with what they already
> have, I'm fascinated to see what they do come up with. I'd love to see
> that stand-up bass gadget in action.

> On Apr 9, 10:24 pm, DJ Golf <djg...@mindspring.com> wrote:

> >www.zenph.com

> > Big house in north Raleigh with a mini-concert hall containing 4
> > concert grand pianos rigged with their hardware & connected to laptops
> > - I got to basically sit in a room and hear Rachmaninoff, Glenn Gould
> > and Art Tatum play piano live.  Read this review for a better
> > explanation of what they do than I can give...

> >http://www.zenph.com/pdf/Zenph%20-%20The%20Audiophile%20Voice%20Oct%2...

> > What really made my jaw drop to the floor was the demo of their new
> > "upright bass" - a thing that looks like "V...GER" from the first Star
> > Trek movie (geek check) and was made by somebody in Germany.  They
> > played me an old Oscar Peterson recording with the piano & drums in a
> > pair of Magnepans and the bass separately reproduced on the gadget -
> > if you didn't look you'd bet money that Ray Brown was standing there
> > playing bass.

> > Fun stuff.  They told me sax & drums are next.  When they figure out
> > how to do this with acoustic guitar, I want to hear Robert Johnson.- Hide quoted text -

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