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In the Thread: The 5-ways from Germany.
Post Subject: One hell of experiencePosted by martinshorn on: 2/4/2018
Hi everyone 

Guess what! Just had a visit to this system last night. Upfront, the owner - thank you Klaus again - is a very welcoming and friendly fellow. But also remarkably reasonable and decent. Total absence of any need to show off. You rather need to nail down with questions...

Recently, i had quiet few  accidental listening sessions in some folks places who own such stunning systems others keep pinning hornography about.I was lucky to experience that majority of exotic vintage and out of space look & price tags sound worse than my stock car radio, no joke!It was even better than listening to something “soooo adorable “. Why? Because you drive home with a smile in your faceSmile its all not important anymore. 

So, i got willing to travel to Klaus. Never heard Goto before.  Neither such conequent installation. Klaus doesn’t only have a decent attitude. Its reflected in his whole setup. Shiny chrome, silver cables, price tag equipment... non of them you can find here. Normal DIY cable. Normal Toshiba SS class AB amps. A DIY DAC and Preamp and Sony ES CD Player. Well the preamp looked very serious. Amongst the rest. So in total, nothing of the things you expect from a Goto owner (having prejudice against em). 

Let me tell you how this sounds. If you’re searching for the absolute tone, this system is worth a travel around the globe!Its healing you. It heals the desire for absolute audio heaven. The sick hunting for next better audiophile “xxxxx” (put any fancy vocabular there) 

At the end of the evening, i noticed i did not analyze and memorize consciously the list of specific audio preferences. Like how is the resolution, how are the heights, and how is the speed of transients... you know why? It doesnt f*in matter! Did you ever sit a stinky smoky bar in the basement, with best buddies and a hot girl around, 200 drunken sweaty people in the neon light, that foggy late night atmosphere and mr “extra fucked up tattoos all over” plays the most amazing riffs on his guitar on that small stage? If the answer is yes... ask yourself, what contributes to the quality of experience that night?Did you think of resolution and heights and transients in such a moment?Did you ever think about some audio BS when listening to live performances that you really raved about?

No. It just is way too much fun to experience this, than to think about audio BS. So this describes how this Goto system sounds.It is really like real. Like live. It has all the emotions of a live performance. It gives you 100% of what you seek in the magic of an artist performance in public environment. Though you’re still on the damn sofa. Which you totally forget! 

Still, transients, crispyness of lows, brilliance of heights, coloration, whatever - no wasnt there! No speaker sound, no artifact in any kind was present that was bugging you or that could wake a desire to tune. Just allright. What was remarkable was the ability to recreate the dynamics from litterally any recording back to stage. The total drama. Yes. But also the micro dynamics, that lay between the notes when the artist just plays a little over ambitious that night.The full scale of colors and emotions came alive. You cannot highlight the word color strong enough here! Of course dynamics on dirty blues is one thing. But playing classical music with a colour richness of emotions, so deep, you just want to listen more and more and more Smile 

No BS. No trying to review in audio manners. No praying to the big expensive stuff. Absolutely, straight honest and only “music devoted “ minded approach: this system rocks!And no matter what, WE mirrorphonic??Vox olympian living voice????Trash them all! Hell get away with that! You don’t want a piece of them, not even for free! 

Goto is no toy. Goto needs proper systems and setup. The owner himself admitted majority of Goto Owners does not install them properly. But i see, they so much deserve it! And the crazy prices... are they worth it? I dont know. Depends on your income SmileDefinitely, 30 years ago, the YEN was not as crazy instable as today. Goto was priced more reasonable than TAD today!So back those days, it was the best buy Smile

Cheers Josh 

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