Yamaha and Blumenhofer at Spinelli in Milano

This was the second part of a twin weekend event.
On the first weekend there was EAR and Blumenhofer and this weekend we played at Spinelli with a source and power amplification of Yamaha. They were the top stereo products the A-S3000 and the CD-S3000. The products were top and the sound matched the quality of the products used.
The whole cabling and power treatment, as usual in our events was completely Cammino.
Some of the people present the week before have come again to enjoy the difference and better understand the quality of the material involved in the presentation. They were not disappointed. The character of the 2 kind of amplification was clearly recognizable.

For me it has been a really successful weekend!! Here the Gallery of the pictures

EAR Yoshino and Blumenhofer at Spinelli HiFi in Milano

At Spinelli we made a presentation with our Genuin FS 2 and EAR Yoshino source and power amplification. Of course cabling and power treatment by Cammino.
Lot of people coming appreciated the quality of the reproduction and some of them spent there several hours to enjoy music in a way they only could appreciated in concerts.

Guangzhou HiFi Show 2013

The Blumenhofer presence at the 2013 HiFi show in Guangzhou was really extended. Our products have been shown off in 3 Rooms.
During the show a professional recording engineer came to our room and made some demonstration about his recordings. There was a singer and himself was playing a flute.
After that he did not move any further: this was the room that was demonstrating best how near can be a reproduction match the original sound... barely a difference.
Enjoy the pictures!! in our gallery.

Visit at ReMusic.it

A short visit at ReMusic.it, after a longer talk with Roberto, we enjoyed a listening section with our Fun 13. I forgot how good they are. In the future the plan is to extend the cooperation with this internet magazine. Looking forward for the upcoming news.

Groove into Bits Vol. 2 made 93% on Hifinews.co.uk

Groove into Bits Vol. 2 reached 93% points assigned by Ken Kessler on Hifinews.co.uk.
Here You can get more info on the CD and here You can buy it. Have Fun!!

Review of the Tempesta 17 on HiFi Platform.eu

On HiFi Platform.eu at this link appeared the first review of the Tempesta 17. According to some people able to read Duch it is a really positive one. Enjoy Your reading!!

Burning music at the HiFi Schmiede

At the HiFi Schmiede, in Ettlingen, Germany, we had a very nice surprise. We had more than twice as much participants as expected.
The HiFi Schmiede is situated in an idillic village not far from Karlsruhe, in the south west of Germany. In the ancient time there was a smith, an important one for the region. If You visit the store, other than real good music and ambient, You find remainings of this older use of the area.
The focus was music, and lots has been played. The original idea was to have 20 minutes music and then 40 minutes discussions. In the end there was music from the beginning to the end and always again one question in between.

The whole system was composed by:
- Lindemann 825 CD Player
- Rega RP8 Turntable with Quezo cartridge
- Octave Phonomodule
- Octave V110 Power amplifier
- Genuin FS 2
- Cammino cabling and power supply

With these components and with the fantastic LP collection of Mr. Baumer, it is useless to say how good it has been. If You are even just a little bit curious, You can check the pictures on our gallery here

Beauty Contest at Audio-Life in Buren - Netherlands

Here you find some pictures of the show at Audio-Life last week, this was the kick off of the "Tour of Beauty", a series of shows with Einstein-Audio products for the introduction of the "Tune" the new power amplifier. All this with the help of Blumenhofer and Dr. Feickert!

Warm up Your Soul with Blumenhofer today at Audio 21 in Wapenveld

Look familiar? With this event we want to welcome AUDIO21 in Wapenveld as new Blumenhofer Acoustics Dealer in his area, it was (and still is) very crowded.
A familiar ambient and a really professional support from Mark van Braam, near there a very cosy Bed and Breakfast to be able to enjoy Your own listening section until late at night and the whole day after.
Here some pictures of the event.

Vedere per credere, sentire per immaginare

Lots of first times this time in Palermo.
First time in Palermo, the first impression was great.
First time Sony 4k projection presentation, wow gorgeous
First time…
…first time appeared a Blumenhofer product (and myself) in TV.
Here, You can see the reportage of this interview on YouTube.
Here, You can see the reportage directly embedded in the news. Scroll to 23rd minutes and soon after will start the interview.

All of this happened at Pick-Up HiFi, a 47 years old HiFi institution in Palermo, founded from Father Cefalù which Vincenzo e Fabio are continuing with love and engagement. Here extensive information about the event, in Italian

Besides that, which is only a small part of the huge amount of surprises we enjoyed, there were dozens of beautiful people and beautiful opportunity during the 2 days. Stay tuned to read the review of a listening section on AVMagazine.
The affluence of public has been enthusiastic and the people were really fit on music listening, able to appreciate the quality and ready to give good hints. We had lots of nice talks. If You have the impression that the pictures are of empty rooms, it is because we took them late in the evening when we had already spent all of our strengths
Thank You Vincenzo, Fabio, Carlo for making this possible. See You soon!!

If I made You curious, You can visit Pick-Up HiFi and/or take a look at our gallery of the event

Swiss High End 2013 in Zürich

This was our first participation to the Zürich High End 2013 and I must say it was a really positive surprise. Blumenhofer is in Switzerland an already well known and estimated brand and the public knew what they were looking for. Really enjoyable. Sound Revolution, our distributor for Switzerland has been able to make a very astonishing setup in that room.

The system was composed by:
- Gato Audio CD Player from Denmark
- Hegel Music System DAC with integrated Preamplifier from Norway
- Sauermann Audio Power Amplifier from Germany
- Wireworld and Cammino cabling from USA and Italy
- Cammino H3.1 Power Harmonizer from Italy
- and of course our Genuin FS 2

I must say, it made music and the public liked it really a lot, the comments of the people going out of the room were really cheering and pleased me and the team exposing in Zürich.
Then the spectacular atmosphere created by the artistic tapestry and the very pleasant environment completed the charm. It was a long work, but it was worth it.
A big thank You to André and Gerd for making this possible.
If I made You a bit curious, here You can find the picture gallery.
And here the list of products presented.

Review of the Genuin FS 2 on The-Ear.net

The-Ear.net published today the review of the Genuin FS 2 written by René van Es and already published on Puresound.be (here). You can enjoy the reading in English here

Beijing HiFi Exhibition

During 2013 Beijing Hi-Fi Exhibition, we has 5 days very clear sky and comfortable temperature. We considered it a good lucky charm giving a nice omen to our participation to this event.
 
Then the 3 days show time, we had plenty of visitors staying in our room for longer time to enjoy the music and several potential dealers approached us too.

Faiaudio prised our new web outlook

Fairaudio.de commented positively on our new web look and the richer information coming in the pages.
After 3 positive reviews of our speaker (Fun 13, Genuin FS 3 and Genuin FS 2) and a nice company report about Blumenhofer. There is as well a positive short information on their web pages about ours…

Review of the Genuin FS 2 on Puresound.be

Pureaudio.be pubblished today the review of the Genuin FS 2 written by René van Es. You can enjoy the reading in Dutch here

The Audio review of the Genuin FS 2 is now online

Our review on Audio has now ben published online. Here You can read it in German

X-Fi Veldhoven HiFi show 2013

Even this year Marco de Wilde of Music2 presented an astonishing show in Veldhoven.
There have been 3 rooms with Blumenhofer Acoustics loudspeakers for a total of 5 systems playing.

Here You can enjoy a picture gallery of the systems playing.
Main rooms with Blumenhofer were:
- Music2 played a Genuin FS 2, a Tempesta 17 Surround set and a Tempesta 20
- STS Digital played a Genuin FS 1 and a Fun 17
- Sonore AC played a Gran Gioia

Like last year the atmosphere was really enthusiastic and during the show lot of people showed their interest for our products.

New Layout of the web pages

After 4 years and a little bit more is time to have a new layout for our web pages.
I hope You like the new design, we think it is a significant progress.

Just as souvenir, here the picture of the old web layout

A10 Audio Amsterdam - Streaming lessons

At A10, Alex Loth, has chosen our Genuin FS 2 for his demonstration about streaming systems. If You want to read a little bit more, feel free to find more news here

Puresound.be Report on Blumenhofer

The online magazine Puresound.be released a report about a visit to our company during the Munich High End 2013. Here You can read it… in Dutch

Review of the Genuin FS 2 on Audio

Wolfram Eifert of Audio tested our Genuin FS 2 on the 08/13.
He was enthusiastic!

Stockholm HiFi Show 2013

Jan, from Old School HiFi presented in Stockholm our Genuin FS 3 and big Fun 20. We are intrigued :-)

Listening session: Sonore AC, Netherlands

Incredible the content of these wooden boxes. I've never heard these kind of power amplifier playing this way. Cock and Arnold from Sonore AC explained us the concept and the ideas behind them and it was really astonishing to understand the deepness of the know how involved and the technical solution adopted to pursue the philosophy behind them trough and trough.
It is always good to learn something.

Sound Revolution is our new distributor for Switzerland

Sound Revolution is our new distributor for Switzerland.

Here You can contact him:
Sound Revolution Sàrl
Rte de Vevey 39
1616 Attalens
Tel.: +41 21 947 35 63
Mobile: +41 79 217 56 51
Fax: +41 21 947 35 64
Email: contact@soundrevolution.ch
Website: http://www.soundrevolution.ch

Review of Groove into Bits Vol. 2 from Puresound.be

Onno Kiviet pubblished on his puresound.be webpage the review of Groove into Bits Vol. 2. Here You can read it in Dutch.

We discontinue the Genuin FS 5

Genuin FS 5, the first bookshelf in the Genuin serie, horn for the mid-high and bass reflex woofer.
We originally did not expect a success for this loudspeaker, but sold quite well.
We just decided to discontinue it, because the Tempesta 17 bookshelf delivered the same quality at a much reasonable price

Audioreview.nl report on Blumenhofer Acoustics

Roger Poulussen of Audioreview.nl wrote an article in Dutch about his visit at Blumenhofer Acoustics.
You can find it here

Munich High End 2013

This year we did not participate directly to the Munich High End. But our products were present. On the stand of STS Digital, Fritz de With used a Fun 13 to present Groove into Bits Vol. 2. We had our normal events during the whole week and the beginning of the week after. It was good, and the work was not less than exposing in the Munich High End, but not the same.

Groove into Bits Vol. 2 comes to the market

On the first day of the Munich High End Fritz de With of STS Digital presented us the Groove into Bits CD Vol. 2.
The CD presents good pieces of music. In the first issue there has been an error on the cover that will be corrected in the reissues of the CD. One song, the one of Bob Dylan, due to rights problems, did not manage to get into the final release of the CD, but it is still in our hearts. Maybe we will be able to add it in the next Groove into Bits.

We introduce the Tempesta series

After a longer development time in a cooperation with our new american partner, the Tempesta series has the right to come to the market. It has been a longer effort to get this series of product mature. Aimed at Home cinema, with a stronger attention on music reproduction.
For the time being the whole series consists of:

- 3 main loudspeakers:
Tempesta 20
Tempesta 17
Tempesta 17 Bookshelf
- 3 Centers:
Center 15
Center 17
Center 20
- 3 Subwoofers:
Sub 10"
Sub 15"
Sub 21"

We are still working on the surround components.

The Power Harmonizer of Cammino received a Blue Moon award

The Power Harmonizer of Cammino, our partner for Cabling and Power Supply has received a Blue Moon Award from 6moons. Normally we do not inform about the review of our partners, but in this case is a Blue Moon Award!! And, at least since 2008, is the first one related to electricity. Congratulations Claudio!
Here You can read the whole story written by Henk and Marja
Here You can get more information about the Blue Moon Awards 2013

Event at RitsArt

After the cooperation in the X-Fi Show in Veldhoven, last fall, Marco and Rits decided to make another event together directly in the venues of RitsArt in Maassluis in the Netherlands. During the Event René Visker started to paint the big Fun 17, as Blumenhofer unique editions
Here You can read some more in German.

The setup was composed by:
- Blumenhofer Acoustics Gioia
- Einstein integrated Power Amplifier
- Dr. Feickert Blackbird

They told me that the acoustics was not the best. But the Ambient has been exceptional.

p.s.: all pictures © Peter Vellekoop 2013

Recordstore Day in Düren

In Düren, at the Record-store, there have been an event focused on music. They concentrated on vinyl (if I understood correctly) and have chosen our loudspeakers to present their music.
It is a very charming compliment.

Shanghai HiFi Expo 2013

The German Chamber of Commerce supported the German industry in the participation to the Shanghai High End Show 2013, they gave us an extraordinary logistic support and a big opportunity to present our products in Shanghai.
It was a long time that we did not go to China and we appreciated the opportunity.

In the end there were 3 rooms playing Blumenhofer Loudspeakers:
- the room of the German chamber of commerce playing a Fun 10 and a Tempesta 17 on the 3rd day
- our room with a Genuin FS 2
- the room of Mr. Amari with the Genuin FS 3 he purchased some years ago

what to say, we are small player, but apparently well appreciated :-)

WSR Sales is our new distributor for USA

It seems like an April's fool. But it is true.
Since longer time we started our cooperation based on the development of certain products to comply with the needs of the American market.
The result is the Tempesta series, complete with Center, Surround and Subwoofers. Still there is some work to do to complete the range, but the product line has born.

The partner of this cooperation was and is Robert Thompson of WSR|Sales.

Now, our new distributor for USA is

WSR|Sales
Robert Thompson
6072 Lake Melrose Dr
32829 Orlando FL

Mobile: +1 (407) 491-9116
e-mail: Robert@WSRsales.com
Web: http://www.wsrsales.com/

Analogue Extrema Rotterdam 2013

Marco our distributor surpassed himself.
He organized the show with an exceptional presence of our brand: our loudspeakers were present in 3 rooms.

In one room there was:
- Genuin FS 1
- in a setup with 4 Turntables from Pluto and Acoustics Signature
- 4 Phono preamplifiers from Einstein, van den Hul, Octave and Monk Audio
- and the Octave V110 with a (silver) black box.
- 2 H3.1 Power Harmonizer from Cammino

a really impressive setup.
On the sunday, in this room have been recorded and replayed a live concert of Case Mayfield. It was astonishing to have the artist sitting there and the music playing 1 to 1 and hardly notice a difference between the live and the playback performance.

The second room had:
- Blumenhofer Acoustics Genuin FS 2
- Einstein integrated amplifier
- Einstein Phono Preamplifier
- Dr. Feickert Blackbird

The third room showed:
- Blumenhofer Acoustics big Fun 20
- Hans Acoustics Turntables

We have the winner

We have the winner for the Leserwahl contest of Stereoplay.
Alexander from Kalkar, we wish and send him Fun!

We sincerely hope he appreciate it :-)

Stereoplay Lautsprecher Jahrbuch 2013

We did not manage to get the cover, but our Wiki has been chosen by Holger Biermann to be included in the Stereoplay Loudspeaker yearbook 2013.
Take a look at page 247, there is something nice about the Wiki.

"Battle of the Best!" Event in Amsterdam at A10 Audio

Alex Loth organized at A10 Audio an event, where our Gran Gioia played on an Octave Jubilee system. They tell me that it was astonishing good. I'll hear it next week ;-)

"horns n'tubes" event at MuSiCa NoVa in Nürnberg

horns n'tubes mit MuSiCa NoVa, Blumenhofer & Scheu Analog
Das Finale Furioso. Thomas Blumenhofer aus dem schönen Walkertshofen im Allgäu baut anerkannterweise mit die besten Hornlautsprecher in Deutschland. Seit geraumer Zeit gibt's sogar durchaus preiswerte Böxchen für den Hörnchen-Einsteiger. Wir spielen sowohl die Einstiegsdrogen als auch die großen Teile für fortgeschrittene Freaks. Die Elektronik ist von mir. MuSiCa NoVa halt, Röhre pur, kompromisslos und dennoch bezahlbar. Als Zuspieler dient zum einen der CD-Player ProMetheuS, ebenfalls aus meiner Manufaktur. Zum anderen kommt ein Plattenspieler von dem angesehenen Berliner Spezialisten Scheu Analog zum Einsatz. Somit können wir glatt sagen: Alles deutsche Wertarbeit.

Inauguration of the Organ in the Church of Bibione

This is not a really Blumenhofer Event, is something that Blumenhofer supported.

The Church Santa Maria Assunta in Bibione received a new organ from one beloved member of his community, Rino Benedett.

Then we discovered that Fritz de With from STS-Digital has a spleen for organ music and loves to record organs.
Agreements were made and quite fast the decision was taken.
With the support of the community in Bibione the Church has been able to finance the production of the CD of the inaugural concert of the organ.

The CD is only for internal use of the Church and for the local community. You can contact Don Andrea Vena here if You wish to have more information about it.

Under magistral conduction of Maestro Daniel Roth from Saint Sulpice in Paris, the result and the sound were really moving.
These were the music played
This concert was the opening concert for the Summer organ concert season in Bibione.

The Organ comes from the Francesco Zanin company of Codroipo. The site is still in construction but You can reach them here.
Some data of the organ can be read in this document

To perform the recording Fritz de With used a 4 microphone setup, placing 2 microphones in front of the altar directed to the two wings of the organ plus 2 more microphones about 10 meters behind to be able to generate the ambience of the church and eliminate some of the unavoidable disturbs arising during a live concert.
The microphones from Shoeps were connected to a Nagra VI pro 8-channel recorder. The power supply chain of the electronic involved was from Cammino-HP.
Blumenhofer's involvement? We made the whole possible and our loudspeakers will be used in the post-processing of the recorded tracks to reach the quality needed to realize the CD.

After enjoying the concert in the church, we spent the whole sunday playing the tracks again and again to understand the quality and start a first remixing process to decide the relative levels of the tracks. We were astonished, I've never had the experience of listening for a concert a second time in that quality. It beamed me away into a meditative status: fantastic! I'm looking forward for hearing the CD at my place.

Norddeutsche HiFi Tage 2013

What to tell about the Norddeutsche HiFi Tage.
It is one of the most appealing consumer HiFi shows in Germany and like in the last 4 years we had our chance to expose there.
This time it was not intended to be minimalistic it was a really huge system and played really good music.
The groove was there, the energy pushed us to the wall and the wish to increase the volume was there, but we had to spare the ears of our visitors.
The visitors came… and forgot to leave the room. At certain moments it was that full that we were not able to move.

We had a Genuin(e) good sound. This was the setup:

- Einstein Vorstufe - The Tube
- Einstein Endstufe - The Poweramp
- Einstein CD Player - The Source
- Einstein Phono Preamplifier - The Turntable's Choice
- Pluto Audio Plattenspieler
- Van den Hul Tonabnehmer
- Cammino H 3.1 Power Harmonizer
- Klangstube Phono Rack

- Blumenhofer Acoustics Lautsprecher - Genuin FS 2

And if You are curious to see some pictures, they are here in our Gallery.
Thank You and thank the whole Bramsfeld team for the wonderful organization. Here the link to the HiFi Tage pages.
See You in 2014!

Visit at STS Digital

On the 30ies of January Thomas and Andrea, after a long trip paid a visit to Fritz de With of STS-Digital. We had a longer music session with several kind of music. We forgot how good the Genuin FS 1 is playing, when it is really burned in. Really good!

Groove into Bits Vol. 2

The Setup was impressive.

- Pluto Audio Turntable
- Van den Hul Canary cartridge
- Octave Phono Module
- Octave Jubilee Preamplifier
- Octave MRE 220 Power Amplifier
- complete Cammino-HP cabling
- Cammino HP Power Harmonisation
- Astin Trew Concord DAC 1 USB
and of course
- Blumenhofer Acoustics Wiki

I think there is nothing left to say. This list answers all the questions.

Participation:
- Andreas Hoffmann - Octave
- Claudio Trevisanello - Cammino HP
- Fritz de With - STS Digital
- Onno Kivet - Puresound.be
- Conny Englmeier - DJ
- Marco de Wilde - Music2.nl
- Bernd Berling - Klangstube
- Eddy - Pluto
- Micael Osborne - Astin Trew
and of course
- Thomas Blumenhofer
- Andrea Vitali

Hörabend bei Musicanova

At Musicanova, Harald Pensel presented our Fun 13 with his setup of components. I'm looking forward for the inauguration on the beginning of March. I'll plan to be there.