28. Mai 2025
JV’s Best of High End Munich 2025
" Well…this is gonna sound familiar, I’m afraid, but what am I supposed to do? I call them as I hear them, and the $500k MBL 101 X-Treme MKIIsourced by MBL’s C41 streamer and driven by four MBL 9011 monoblocks were the best in the deep bass, the most boxlessly open in staging, the most delicate in the treble, the most three dimensional in imaging, the hardest-hittting in the midbass, and the most naturally rich in tone color top to bottom of any speaker in Munich. In short, they were Best of Show…again, Superb on synth, bass, and voice on VTT’s Vital Tech Tones. Nat Cole on “Route 66” sounded there, as did the muted trumpet, bass, and piano comping him. Charlie Hunter Quartet’s “Day Is Done” was marvelously realistic on drums, bass, congas, percussion, and vocal. Marc Cohn’s voice and those of The Blind Boys of Alabama were in the room with me on “One Safe Place.” The winner and still champion. "
by Jon Valin, Executive Editor of The Absolute Sound Magazine, May 28, 2025
