Last spring's Axpona show in Jacksonville gave me a first opportunity to audition some of Grant Fidelity's bargain-priced Chinese imports. I really liked what I heard. Despite cries of foul from a few of those posting comments to the blog who depicted Grant as the cause of the entire high-end slowdown in the US, and me as a conspirator in the eventual collapse of Western Civilization, the word is clearly out. Grant's room at RMAF was mobbed, so mobbed by attendees who were eager to chat away while the music played that nothing short of blowing a police whistle would have quieted them down. (A few systems at RMAF sounded like police whistles, but that's another story).
Needless to say, the system was playing loud, loud enough to incite some midrange resonance somewhere. (It was too noisy to figure out where it came from). Knowing that underneath it all, fine sound was possible, I asked for an equipment list and departed to foreign lands, where I could conspire in peace and quiet.
Rather than type a huge list without knowing what was actually playing when I entered—the Grant folks were mobbed, and basically unreachable—I followed the post-demo email trail
here. I invite you to do the same.
