New Genesis Products for 2015

garylkoh · Dec 25, 2014

After showing the prototypes last year, the new products are finally production ready. The G4 shown last year is being launched as the G-Force. It's grown up 10-inches (a hair over 1.5m tall), now sports a carbon fiber composite structure, twin spun-carbon-fiber servo-bass woofers and crossover improvements.

garylkoh · Dec 30, 2014

The Genesis Phono was shown at CES2014 almost by accident. We had a phono stage built into the Genesis SMc-1 preamplifier. But since we had the services of the stupendously good SMcAudio VRE-1C, we disabled all the circuitry in the Genesis preamp, channeled all the considerable power supply to the phono stage and that turned out to be stupendously good.

In fact, interest in the phono stage among our international dealers was higher than for the loudspeakers!! So, it's taken a year of concentrated work, but the Genesis Phono is production ready, and sounds even better than last year.

garylkoh · Dec 30, 2014

To show off the new phono stage, I'll be bringing my usual stash of albums. How I pick demo music is very simple - it must be fun and engaging. Unlike show-goers who can walk out if they find the music boring or sounding bad, I'm stuck in the room. I can't walk out if I don't like what I hear. Secondly, the music must have the dynamics, clarity and fidelity to show off the system. Instruments must sound like real instruments, and voices will have to sound like real voices.

The first album I put into my stash this year is my new reference standard - Lyn Stanley's fabulous Potions from the 50's. She's going to be hanging around at the room - and if anyone asks her to sing along with the album, the system MUST sound like her, or I'll have egg on my face.

audioarcher · Dec 31, 2014

garylkoh said:
The Genesis Phono was shown at CES2014 almost by accident. We had a phono stage built into the Genesis SMc-1 preamplifier. But since we had the services of the stupendously good SMcAudio VRE-1C, we disabled all the circuitry in the Genesis preamp, channeled all the considerable power supply to the phono stage and that turned out to be stupendously good.

In fact, interest in the phono stage among our international dealers was higher than for the loudspeakers!! So, it's taken a year of concentrated work, but the Genesis Phono is production ready, and sounds even better than last year.

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Yes. Have heard it sound very good indeed! Is your final design one box or two?

carolkoh · Dec 31, 2014

Power supplies are always outboard.

So two box.

{Edit} Gary just corrected me. The one I've been staring at for a year is the Platinum version (of course!) so it's two box. The Gold and Silver is only one box.

ack · Dec 31, 2014

Nice. How would one be able to evaluate the phono?

Steve Williams · Dec 31, 2014

Gary

I for one am interested in the features of your phono stage

garylkoh · Dec 31, 2014

The Phono will be 2-box only for the Platinum version. Gold and Silver will be one-box.

garylkoh · Dec 31, 2014

Steve Williams said:
Gary

I for one am interested in the features of your phono stage

All in good time..... specs and docs coming soon. As Carol tells me, if I hadn't been so anal about getting it to sound perfect, we'd have been ready much earlier for CES and not have to totally stress out over the holiday season again.

The Phono stage is very, very simple - and no simpler. Instead of bells and whistles, I went for sound - transparency and RIAA accuracy.

I'll work out a WBF Special where members can try it out in their own systems.

garylkoh · Dec 31, 2014

audioarcher said:
Yes. Have heard it sound very good indeed! Is your final design one box or two?

Yep - most of you have been privy to the prototypes. Were you at the first EXCO meeting where I had the battery-powered version? It's been 9 months of gestation

garylkoh · Dec 31, 2014

This was the second album I packed. It's an oddball. It's strange, weird but enjoyable all the same. Then, it becomes like a guilty pleasure and you only play it when you think that no one else is listening.

This is my guilty pleasure. The King's Singers are a British a cappella ensemble named after King's College Cambridge. Their popularity peaked in the early 1980's when I was in college in London. However, I found this CD a couple of years later and had been enjoying it off and on since then.... as a guilty pleasure.

Lately, I also managed to find a vinyl copy, and if you think that you're already got every interpretation of the Beatles already, you still need to get this one if you love the Beatles. It brings exquisite polyphonic singing to popular rock.

As a reference album, it is challenging. When the system is set up right, you get the soundstage, the air around each voice, and yet have all six voices in perfect harmony. Magical!!

Steve Williams · Dec 31, 2014

I always use the King's Singers as demo disk for soundstage , melody and harmony

garylkoh · Dec 31, 2014

I've been demo-ing with a music server since CES 2006 when people laughed at me. Over the past 8 years, everytime I've been asked if I will sell my music server, the response has always been No, but here's the recipe and you can roll your own. Unfortunately, too many people take the recipe, decide that they can take short cuts and substitute ingredients and get the same result. Not! There have been quite a number of successful implementations, including the members of the local audio club who were guided to build one during a workshop.

http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?1201-Music-Server-Project&p=20972&viewfull=1#post20972

Still, there are things that are just unexplainable. We can hear the difference, yet with nearly 30 years of computer science and IT experience under my belt, I can't come up with a good technical explanation for it. I've published a new recipe every year up to 2012, each one sounding better, but because the ingredients change over so fast, I can't keep up.

This CES, I will finally have a music server that someone could buy if they really wanted one. Sonically, it is a leap forward by moving away from the $%&@ Windows and Apple operating systems, firewalls and anti-virus programs. It is a dedicated, stand-alone stereo digital music source with a remote control. Don't expect it to also act as a music server for the ceiling speakers in your kitchen. It is purpose built and purpose designed for one thing only - Absolute Fidelity in your main stereo system.

garylkoh · Dec 31, 2014

Here's an album that is positively different, and yet absolutely enjoyable. I was very blessed to have been present at Stephane Grappelli's last public concert. I was in the front row at the Singapore Concert Hall when he played sitting in a wheel chair. That concert left a very deep impression on me, and my love of jazz.

This is a live album of a jazz trio - playing violin, guitar and double bass. There may be other albums with this unusual combo, but I don't have any, nor have I heard of any other.

Three of my favourite jazz instrumentalists, recorded live, remixed by Dennis Sands. What could be better?

garylkoh · Dec 31, 2014

With the Muse on duty, a few digital albums to demo with......

This is a great album with Ben Webster on tenor sax. Great sound, great music from the DSD files ripped off the SACD.

It swings, and it cooks - the quintet is in the groove and it shows. The recording was also exemplary - capturing perfectly over 60 minutes of straight-ahead jazz. An album to be enjoyed all the way through. I don't think that this one is available on high-rez. But the recording is so good that you would think that it is. No LP is available either..... as far as I know anyway.

One of my favorite high-rez downloads of the year. I generally prefer first pressings, but these two LPs originally released by Roulette as Together for the First Time and The Great Reunion in the early 1960's are hard to find in NM. IMHO, the high-rez re-master from the original tapes was exceptionally well done.

audioarcher · Dec 31, 2014

garylkoh said:
Yep - most of you have been privy to the prototypes. Were you at the first EXCO meeting where I had the battery-powered version? It's been 9 months of gestation

Yes I was at that EC meeting. I think it was at Jerry's? At the regular meeting we got to hear battery vs linear PS. I think most everyone preferred the linear PS. It will be interesting to hear what you have done since then.

garylkoh · Jan 4, 2015

I think that this has been the fastest I've ever set-up. Before noon, everything except for the speakers were already set-up.

Unfortunately, the speakers were just three steps above the rest of the system and we had to hire labour to help us move the crates "downstairs". But we were done by lunch.

I even have Ki Choi's travelling Nagra waiting for a master tape from Lyn Stanley to appear!!

JackD201 · Jan 5, 2015

Great to hear! Knock 'em dead Gary! I'll be cheering you on from here!

garylkoh · Jan 5, 2015

JackD201 said:
Great to hear! Knock 'em dead Gary! I'll be cheering you on from here!

Thanks, Jack!

I tried to update from The Venetian, but it looks like the IP address of the hotel is still banned by WBF - for those of you with Fecebook accounts, I'll be posting my music demos there as I conduct them. Here's the room after completion of set-up today.

garylkoh · Jan 5, 2015

One of the most enjoyable albums I brought to demo with at CES this year came about as a popular request. Toots Theilemans whistles while he plays. A single he recorded was so popular and got so much airplay on the radio that radio stations, DJs and the record-buying public clamoured for a whole album. This is the result.

Toots is unique as he whistles the melody that he plays on the guitar, only an octave higher. Like in real life, the whistle can be piercing. Shocking if you are not prepared for it.

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