Med-Fi

We can't call the following system hi-fi. Some would call it low-fi. The electronics are integrated into the loudspeaker. Antoine Clararan has an interesting concept which would be good for the hi-fi enthusiast community: designing the room around the chosen loudspeakers, rather than designing the loudspeakers for the room. It's DIY in a reverse-sense. Still considering the collectables, and the location as elements essential for customer success, it's Focal to the scene.

He's chosen the Focal SM9,  and designed a far above typical listening station, with both solid and good looking room-treatment. Not the stands and the double vibration couplers which look like the IsoAcoustics ISO-L8R430, though we can't be sure. Note the excellent control surface he has chosen for his work.

Now with prominent mastering engineers choosing speakers such as the Duntech Sovereign 2001, Dunlavy SC-VI, or the Focal Grande Utopia EM for their very small monitoring rooms, one would expect an electronic musician to select a loud speaker such as the PMC QB-1A to handle the full range of dynamics and frequency that a stadium concert or club largely delivers.

Take a club like Space Ibiza. You're going to want a bit of pump to get it in your home.



Antoine Clararan [2:30] chooses a Rolex Deepsea, which is similar to the Submariner watch, but larger. He likes the look of aluminum, with a black face and dial, as do we. Personally, we prefer the earlier pre-Deep Sea Sea Dweller model, or the Submariner Date with the Rolex Cyclops-eye personally removed, though the Sea Dweller 4000 is a nice compromise. Rolex fans prefer the basic Rolex Submariner, No Date model.

For a good coverage of all things watches, see Hoodinkee.

He likely gets a lot of hump, regardless of Rolex, playing in Ibiza. We can see no reason for the number and variety of his wrist-bands, other than a personal notch system to help keep track of his conquests, during the day.

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See: Club Med [www.clubmed.com]

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Note: The PMC QB-1A delivers 132 dB at 1 meter, 20 Hz to 25 KHz, which would give Antoine a lot of pump, indeed.

Note: The Focal SM-9's deliver 30 Hz to 40 KHz, properly set up, or 40 Hz to to 20 KHz within 1 dB at 116 dB SPL. That's a little low, but plenty reasonable for hi-fi listening.

Up close and personal, Focal monitors outshine almost all others. We've listened to their Focal SM6 TWIN 6 BE Model at Tom Lee Music, and found it the only musical model in their lineup. You can't really get away with a Solo 6 BE in our opinion.

Now, that is not saying that a speaker like the KRK RP6 ($229.00) won't fit your project studio, or a speaker like the Adam Audio A8X ($1318.00) PRO won't fit your desktop with it's tiny ribbon-tweeter and Emotiva-geomics. Their (Emotiva) Stealth 6 and Stealth 8 look great!