Kottke, a true student of the John Fahey style of craftsmanship, manipulated his guitar in a host of imaginative ways producing an orchestral suite of sounds. They produce a host of minor sonic fractures that spin off in all directions and it takes a pretty capable hi-fi system to track them all. This sort of sound source is both simple and complex, at least for a set of speakers because the plucked guitar strings are quite complex in sound terms when plucked. I then turned to CD and Leo Kottke’s sublime acoustic guitar work on Regards From Chuck Pink (Private Music). The production quality of this pressing is pretty good but the boxes seemed to enhance that basic quality. The Motion 15i speakers also plugged into the emotion of the overall track so it was very easy to tap the foot and nod the head here. Tonally spot on and realistic and the Phil Lynott lead vocal? Detached, singing in his own space, allowed to express himself without interference from other frequencies, every nuance of his delivery spotted and absorbed by the ear. Underneath that? A chopping electric guitar (from Mr Snowy White, no less), bass was next door and under that? Percussion. This rock effort provided a delicate, detail-infused acoustic guitar with metallic filigree emerging from it. I then turned to Thin Lizzy’s Having a Good Time from the LP, Chinatown (reissued via Back on Black).Īnd the result? Glorious! Truly lovely. Treble was a joy here, that tweeter had a large part in the creation of the air and space in and around the upper frequencies while the cymbal hits were quite ethereal in nature. Again, though, the focus from the 15i speakers meant that heaps of low frequency information was forthcoming and what bass was available was delivered with impact and strength. Nothing more than you might expect from a speaker cabinet of this size. There was no doubt that a human was playing the thing, that there were micro-faults in and around the performance that only added to the organic nature of the solo and that there was real emotion to be had, even during a cursory listen.īass, in terms of heft and mass, was good. That focus was also notable in terms of the later trumpet solo where the precision of the instrument combined easily and effectively with the human aspect.
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