{"id":568,"date":"2015-09-29T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T17:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/?p=568"},"modified":"2015-09-29T13:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T18:01:29","slug":"st-louis-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/st-louis-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus on St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Sound Room presents<br \/>\nMusic Matters<br \/>\non Thursday, October 1 from 5 PM to 9 PM<br \/>\nFood, wine, and\u00a0door prizes.<\/h2>\n<h2>Demonstrations\u00a0by factory representatives.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>GoldenEar Technology<\/strong>\u00a0will be\u00a0represented\u00a0by Mike Lang, showing the<strong>\u00a0Triton Five.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s only pair of the concept speaker\u00a0<strong>Paradigm Concept 4F<\/strong>\u00a0will be shown before\u00a0going\u00a0to another\u00a0location in its world\u00a0tour.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very interesting looking speaker and\u00a0presumably\u00a0a version of it will be go into production. Price? Even with the Internet it&#8217;s hard to find pricing on\u00a0prototypes, but Soundstageglobal.com said &#8220;The $20,000 price point is one where a customer can expect to get a full-range loudspeaker a mere stone&#8217;s throw away from reference-level performance&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n( Yes, that&#8217;s a direct quote. I wonder what &#8220;reference-level&#8221; costs and how far he can throw a stone, as measured in dollars?\u00a0)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Concept 4F looks like a terrific speaker with many innovations. Even I, discouraged as I am at the proliferation of un-affordable components, am tempted to go have a look and\u00a0listen. It would be like going to a car show to test drive a Lamborghini.<\/p>\n<h1>Vintage Vinyl\u00a0named one of\u00a0the\u00a0top 21 Record stores in America by Thrillist.com<\/h1>\n<p>&#8220;The clientele:\u00a0Fans of home-grown Americana, hard rockers, and bluesmen&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regarded by vinyl addicts as one of the best-curated shops in the Midwest, this is a general-interest store if there ever was one. You can find nearly everything under the hot St. Louis sun, and in multiple formats: Punk CDs and hip-hop tapes fly off the shelves here as quickly as the wax does. But beyond what you can purchase, Vintage Vinyl is known for its ear-shattering in-store shows where free beer often flows. What else would you expect from St. Louis?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h1> The Speaker and Stereo Store, where music always matters .<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sound Room presents Music Matters on Thursday, October 1 from 5 PM to 9 PM Food, wine, and\u00a0door prizes. Demonstrations\u00a0by factory representatives. GoldenEar Technology\u00a0will be\u00a0represented\u00a0by Mike Lang, showing the\u00a0Triton Five. The world&#8217;s only pair of the concept speaker\u00a0Paradigm Concept &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/st-louis-issue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[160,4,74],"tags":[208,207,141,123,124,77,157,209],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goldenear-technology","category-speakers","category-tower-speakers","tag-concept-4f","tag-paradigm","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-stereo","tag-the-sound-room","tag-the-speaker-and-stereo-store","tag-triton-five","tag-vintage-vinyl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6f3d7-9a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speakerandstereostore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}