Audio Note presentation

VinylCd had a public presentation in Jazz Club "Ptica" on June 26th, 2010. The Club is well known in Belgrade for live jazz music on Saturdays and Sundays.

Therefore it was quite unusual to promote HiFi products in the area of Cafe. Club itself is a converted private villa in the narrow and short Šantićeva street in Belgrade downtown. It actually consist of 4 rooms on the groundfloor and big tucked yard. Club owner put brown bricks on the ground thus enabling to be used throughout the year.

The weather was changable - afternoon was quiet and warm, then suddenly changed to drizzling shower in the evening.

Inside the premises the stand was offered to put the equipment on. For the sake of the first presentation the setup was ready - Audio Note system Zero.

The playback system itself consisted of CD transport CDT Zero, Digital to Analog Converter DAC 0.1x and Integrated Amplifier I Zero.

This is how it looked on the stage ... the lights were put down and the simple blue display on the CD Transport showed track number and the time elapsed. The stand for the products was created from the old hand sewing machine with foot-pedal, and a very interesting wall poster on the back created additional atmosphere

The final product in the audio line was prepaired for Audio Note loudspeaker, model AN-K/Lx. Although created for small rooms and compact space, K proved to be able to demonstrate precise and clear sound at pleasant and low levels. It was evident that the quality of recording and production is a vital part of a good music peace.

And as for the music, selected jazz pieces were put - attention was drawn to Dave Brubeck and his famous Time Out (Columbia Legacy) - Blue Ronto A La Turk, Take Five, Thre To Get Ready ... Too conventional? Could be, but the same pieces played on the live concert (Avis Autovermietung Gift CD) showed real enthusiasm of the author. Compared to the studio recording the live event proved how much Dave liked these pieces.

Guests are like all guests - wishfull! One of the guest was a huge fan of Led Zepellin group, so for him selected pieces from Remastered compilation from 1997. He said he was satisfied ... next time he will bring live LZ concert recording.