April, 2005
A lovely (true!) story ...
Mr Phillip Carmody, the assistant Director of Music of the prestigious Melbourne Grammar School was
visiting the Home Show / HiFi show in April 2003 and so his professional interests led him to the
HiFi rooms upstairs to see what was available. As he was leaving
one of them, he
heard a piano being played further down the corridor, and thought to himself,
"What a nice idea - to bring a piano into a HiFi show for reference!
Doesn't sound like a Yamaha. Wonder what it is?"
Yes, you guessed it ! He
entered the REDGUM demonstration room, fully expecting to see a
piano being played but was astounded to find just a REDGUM system playing a
piano track. The
experience so impressed him that he reported the event to the Director
of Music (Mr Martin Rutherford ).Some persuasion was required to overcome Martin's scepticism
(as it "Sounds too good to be true!"), but being curious, he visited REDGUM's Demonstration room at the factory.
Martin, too, was instantly impressed, and preceded with the fastest demo on record!
- 5 seconds, at worst 10 seconds, per section was sufficient to get the nod. On
hearing the recordings he had made of the school orchestra on its European tours, he knew it
was exactly how it sounded when he conducted the events!
In short, what followed is that the final
year (VCE) student's music room has a complete REDGUM RGM175 / RGCD5ENR / RGS38i system
as
reference, and the school's new Rehearsal Hall has the 'flagship' RGM300
system! Now the students of the 100+ orchestra can immediately hear their practice/performance played back,
and sounding
EXACTLY like the piece just completed (for better or for worse)!
Once again, a most satisfying example of the ultimate validation in Audio - music professionals
comparing the REDGUM System directly with "live" instruments playing. The REDGUM gets the
nod for "That's what I hear in the orchestra", a far more desirable
experience for the listener, rather than it just being
equated to the sound of other
HiFi systems playing recordings of music!
Moral of this tale ... If you are thinking that this REDGUM RGM300
system may not be "big" enough for your room (?), consider the following
measurements of the Melbourne
Grammar School underground Rehearsal Hall:
18m by 12m, with an 8m clear ceiling height, that is 60ft x 40ft x 26ft
- a total volume of over 62,000 cubic feet!!!!! Hard to visualize? Just fine
to seat any major
international orchestra. And filled just fine by the RGM300
system playing their recordings.