A couple of weeks ago I finally became owner of a Harmoni rack (for spec. see
http://lejonklou.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2399) thanks to at decision by Fredrik L. to sell his old one. Due to a holiday trip, the rack first became standing unused in my home in a temporary position for a week or so. Back at home I finally had the time to put the rack in it’s proper and final position. It’s now housing my system (ADS/0/1, Kikkin 2.2, Tundra Stereo 1.2) that was earlier placed in a Quadraspire Q4 rack.
After this I have now also had the opportunity to listen to the system on and off for almost a week. During the first day or so with the Harmoni rack in it’s final position, the music sounded a bit strange, words as disintegrated, not coherent comes to my mind. I guess this could be the same thing that Fredrik wrote about in the first post in this thread: it seems that the Harmoni rack needs a day or so to settle down in it’s new environment and final positioning to perform.
After this first day or so, what about my impressions and what about the most important stuff – the music?
I can sum it up in one word: WOW!!! The improvement is indeed veeeery big and the system now plays absolutely stunning compared to before! The music comes to me effortless, swingin’ and organically in a way much, much better than before. Precision, musicality and joy - this regardless of if it is Miles Davis, Academy of S:t Martin in the Fields or Eva Cassidy that is playing/singing. It’s not a subtle change, I’m talking about a really big improvement! It is truly amazing that a rack can make such a big improvement, I would not have guessed beforehand that the improvement was going to be of this magnitude.
As I said, you really have to hear it to believe that it’s possible for a rack to make this kind of change and I recommend everyone to hear it if you have a possibility. (If you happen to pass by Stockholm and would like to come by and have a coffee and a listen, please PM! Though please at least a couple of days in advance, my daily schedule is often quite packed.)
Finally: much respect to Anders at Tonläget who developed this truly amazing product. What an achievement!