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hifichoice.com Issue No. 522 January 2025 News of the recent passing of the Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh reminded me of the monstrous Alembic ‘Wall Of Sound’ system the band briefly took out on tour back in 1974. Designed to deliver the highest possible sound quality, it accommodated Lesh’s bass through a quadraphonic encoder that sent signals from each of the four strings to a separate channel and speakers for each individual string! The setup sounded incredible, but was so enormous it all-but bankrupted the band trying to transport it from venue to venue and had to be scrapped after seven months. A folly, then, but a fine one. No such problems, luckily, with the quartet of standmounts featured in this issue. Monitor Audio’s Studio 89, System Audio’s Signature 5, Chario’s…

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