And now you can carry them as well, and use them to move your system to an entirely different level, with a service designed to help you establish a rock-solid reference. I call it RoomPlay Reference™.

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For what it's worth, my goal has been that my personal system not be priced in the super stratosphere, but be priced at or below other “typical” high-end systems. After all, it’s about the set-up in the room, not the components. I’ve achieved similar results (written about on the Internet) with other components in the same room.

 

RoomPlay Reference™ visitors to my listening room sit in the hot seat, and we listen together. But this is a no-excuse demo. No excuses for the bass, presence, soundstaging, tonality, dynamics, musical involvement, etc. No excuses.

 

Although I obviously have thousands of cuts I could play, during our reference session, I’ll be focusing on "The RoomPlay 48," the selections that I choose to play depending on the outcome of our demos, and your reactions and needs for your system. Each cut will be evaluated as to its relevance and how it can be used as a reference cut in your own system. We will focus on these cuts in a way that will burn into your consciousness how they sounded and why they sound the way they do.

 

At seminars, I often ask attendees this question: "Do you remember how a concert can affect your emotions, so that it’s not uncommon to feel its effects the next day, even at work?" Most will agree that they have had that experience. Then, when I ask them how often have they experienced it the next day after a listening session at home, all I get is blank stares. I’m not sure they really believe me when I tell them they deserve that experience and that it is possible.

 

In fact, voicing a system with a goal to deliver that effect is what I call the Art of the Possible. You should still feel the effects of the listening session the next day. You certainly will after a RoomPlay Reference™ session. In fact, a recent visitor, not an audiophile, someone who is very musically sensitive, said, as she was leaving the demo room to go back downstairs, “I feel like I’m leaving a musical sanctuary.”

 

If we can escape the mechanical aspects of music listening and move into another realm, then we finally have something. Yes, there are always some technical issues to be resolved, but once they are handled, what remains is the music. I cannot think of a simpler way of saying this - it’s the audio equivalent of hard-wiring your ears to your heart.