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THE EXPERIENCE WITH AUDIBLE IMAGES : VIDEO

Exceptional Audio & Video Entertainment Systems

Our Showroom in the Downtown Eau Gallie Art District

(Transcript)
The first time we came here was during the design process of our system and I drove by and I said where do I park I didn’t really catch the parking lot adjacent to the house no I think I drove up drove back drove up drove back and finally saw this parking lot but I said what out what a fantastic place in such a nice area so I was really impressed just on the outset of Wow what’s what’s behind those doors. 

Relax and Enjoy A World Class Showroom

Yeah I was actually amazed that that he actually had a store here and I went over there and I got to see stuff that I only read in magazines so you know like the Sonus Faber, Martin Logan, McIntosh so I was very amazed at the products that he had in house the Wilsons and everything.

Real Systems In Real Rooms – Listen for Yourself

The first thing you’ll notice is that it’s a whole old Florida home you get this at no other facility I mean this is different this is you feel relaxed in this place here finally wooden floors the floors what are authentic to the house it is just like you’re in your own living room and nothing is put in place or its touch it’s just like you would put things in corners and that’s how your room is so you can imagine that if you reproduce them by the system what’s there that’s the exactly this kind of sound in your own house.

Trusted – Experience – Advice

Well he says to me it’s really really good then it’s fantastic he doesn’t embellish it and then that’s when I take the leap of faith and I say I think I’ll give it a try and I bring it in you know I live with it for a day or two and I call him back or I shoot him a text and I say Ed it’s really really good.

AV System Design & Installation

So he was involved from the beginning and then in the design of the AV room including all the not only the sound proofing but all the acoustic panels and the cabinet’s where were the the wires go, so the thing with Ed  is that we had a lot of fun always discussing the different options and there’s always lots of different options to them and we still do because I’m never happy I always want to upgrade something rather but the so we have lots of fun talking about it but then knowing that it’s going to be set up right and then if anything goes wrong and just a short text away or a phone call away and then we usually within a day I either Ed or Miguel come over and deal with whatever issue or problem I had.

Training Support & Results

In fact today he’s still training me and he’s always there I call him email you know you know few minutes later an hour later I get a call back and he’s always got a good good advice and gets me back on track so they want to get it right and they’ll stick with it and stick with it I can’t tell you how many hours that they spent tuning this thing in and checking this and redoing that and trying that not they’re not happy with that effect I would say their standard for how this theater would have performed audibly exceeds what mine would have been and that’s a pretty good feeling to know that somebody cares maybe even more than you do about how terrific the outcome is.

A Showroom Packed With Our Favorite Gear – From Best in Class to Cost No Object

There’s products for all different price range and Ed kind of covers that so you can come in here with just your wanting to get into your first audio system and He’s got you covered with the best in every single price bracket.

Creating One Masterpiece At A Time

We enjoy being your go to source for all Your High Performance to Ultra High End Home Stereo two Channel systems, Modest to Ultra High End Home Theater home entertainment systems.  We also enjoy Audiophiles just dropping in to talk the hobby, ask questions and even pick Ed Masterson’s brain on questions about your system and also about used and pre-owned gear sales, Audiogon Dealer, upgrading thoughts that you may have on down the road.

 

 

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Who Needs Sleep

Who Needs Sleep

It sounds just as good as a real concert hall or even better and then you can see the musicians on the screen if you’ve got a concert video and you can actually appreciate it more than if even if you’re in row 8 because you can’t see all the musicians but because of the way they film things and they focus on whenever somebody’s soloing on them you can see how of their finger movements and all that it’s totally an out-of-this-world experience and it’s like, my goodness the only problem I have with it is that I don’t wanna go to sleep because once I start listening to my music at night or watching my concert videos or watching a movie in here I want to do another one and then another one and then all of a sudden it’s 3 o’clock in the morning and I still haven’t gone to bed so I’m looking forward to retirement.”

We enjoy being your go to source for all Your High Performance to Ultra High End Home Stereo two Channel systems, Modest to Ultra High End Home Theater home entertainment systems.  We also enjoy Audiophiles just dropping in to talk the hobby, ask questions and even pick Ed Masterson’s brain on questions about your system and also about used and pre-owned gear sales, Audiogon Dealer, upgrading thoughts that you may have on down the road.

 

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Rabbit Hole Redux

Rabbit Hole Redux

You know when you get to this level the the cost of diminishing returns is, it’s something that you have to be aware of all the time, and you know to that’s what’s fun about this hobby is you’re kind of chasing that last little percentage is to try to eat that much more out of it and and you know it’s the proverbial chasing the rabbit down the hole so to speak but that’s what makes it fun you’re never going to catch the rabbit but you can keep chasing them.”

We enjoy being your go to source for all Your High Performance to Ultra High End Home Stereo two Channel systems, Modest to Ultra High End Home Theater home entertainment systems.  We also enjoy Audiophiles just dropping in to talk the hobby, ask questions and even pick Ed Masterson’s brain on questions about your system and also about used and pre-owned gear sales, upgrading thoughts that you may have on down the road.

 

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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I’m All In – A Home Theatre of Distinction – Star Wars

I'm All In - A Home Theatre of Distinction - by Rick

I know that this is a home that I’m gonna be in for a while I decided to really really go all-in but I, I think that it’s worth every dime you spend because what else can you spend your money on that can last five and ten and 15 and 20 years and continue to give you that enjoyment and that peace and that escape and to enjoy it and then the share it with friends and family as well and you think about that for a minute it’s pretty cheap relatively speaking so I would highly recommend that you skip the Starbucks everyday put the money in the bank and buy the best stereo theater system that you can begin to afford. [Music]”

We are authorized dealers for many fine lines which include Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino, Transparent Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, dCS, HRS, NAD, Pro-Ject, Rel Acoustics, Martin Logan, Aerial Acoustics, JL Audio, Kef, Bluesound, Wireworld, Ayre, Rogue Audio, Sumiko Audio, PSB and more.

Audible Images AV is pleased to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Listen Party – College student Frank

Listen Party - College student Frank Garafalo

Every couple months or so I’ll take my speakers for my bedroom and move them out to my living room and invite a dozen or so friends over, I’d have a listening party, and a lot of them never heard a decent stereo system before so when they actually do you know they’re amazed they’ve never heard anything like that they’ve only heard for their life is the Apple stock earbuds or ear pods and you know kind of blows their mind so I actually had a couple of friends after having an experience they themselves have gotten into audio and I’ve started them out with some small used systems and I’m sure that they’ll grow from there and eventually become a customer of Ed [Music]”

We are authorized dealers for many fine lines which include Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino, Transparent Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, dCS, HRS, NAD, Pro-Ject, Rel Acoustics, Martin Logan, Aerial Acoustics, JL Audio, Kef, Bluesound, Wireworld, Ayre, Rogue Audio, Sumiko Audio, PSB and more.

Audible Images AV is excited to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando,  The Butler Chain of lakes including Lake Butler, Lake Tibet, Lake Down, Lake Sheen, Lake Louise, Lake Chase, Pocket Lake, Lake Blanche, Wauseon Bay, Lake Isleworth, and Little Fish Lake, along with Bay Hill, The Villages, Lady Lake, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Even Wives Love It

Byron and Sonja sharing about Byron’s passion. (Actually both of theirs)

Even Wives Love It

I wouldn’t call it my system, her system in fact we usually when I go to places and there is equipment to be chosen and there is a set (or system) I’m usually going for the I would say the most reasonable one and she said well you’re here so just get the best one and be done with it.

Just get the top-of-the-line one because you’re gonna regret not getting it now anyway you’re gonna go home and talk about it so let’s just get it now and be done with it and he is not regretted doing that you know he always comments on you made me buy this but I’m glad that I did because it’s really what he wanted but he was just trying you know just to be polite. I guess to compromise.

Do you know that you’ve been nominated for the audiophiles wife of the Year award?

I doubt that. I enjoyed myself too so it’s not really a burden at all, I love doing it I love going with them.”

We are authorized dealers for many fine lines which include Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino, Transparent Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, dCS, HRS, NAD, Pro-Ject, Rel Acoustics, Martin Logan, Aerial Acoustics, JL Audio, Kef, Bluesound, Wireworld, Ayre, Rogue Audio, Sumiko Audio, PSB and more.

Audible Images AV is excited to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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Music Therapy as shared by a Customer

A friend and customer shares how Music played a large role in healing from a disease.  Enjoy.

Music Therapy

I think Music actually extended my life I’m just coming out of hibernation as I told Ed and I’ve been dealing with cancer for the past two years and because I was immunocompromised I had to stay in after my treatments or during my treatments to make sure that I didn’t catch anything. Because again being immuno compromised is a little dangerous thing. So to be able to sit on my couch and listen to music or listen to home theater just relaxed me and I think helped me get on with what was a really tedious process of treatment for a malady so music therapy is exactly yeah.”

We are authorized dealers for many fine lines which include Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino, Transparent Audio, McIntosh, Sonus Faber, dCS, HRS, NAD, Pro-Ject, Rel Acoustics, Martin Logan, Aerial Acoustics, JL Audio, Kef, Bluesound, Wireworld, Ayre, Rogue Audio, Sumiko Audio, PSB and more.

Audible Images AV is excited to be serving: Melbourne, Florida, Rockledge, Merritt Island, Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral, Port St. John, Satellite Beach, Space Coast, Vero Beach, Orlando, Daytona, Kissimmee, Central Florida, the entire state of Florida…and even the greater USA, for all their Stereo two channel and Home Theater systems.

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New Listening / Showroom Hours for Audible Images

We have expanded our “Walk-In” hours for our showroom.

Tuesday – Saturday: 12 – 5:00 PM

All other hours by appointment or luck 🙂

The video below shares a quick glance of our 4 listening rooms. There is a new listening room in the video: “The Office”.  (page coming soon)

Note: We welcome a walk-in at 4:50 Pm if that is when you need to come in, and we are in no rush to close the doors at the posted hours.  As long as you have questions or desire to listen we will enjoy staying until your visit is complete, if you will.

The Audible Images Team

New Showroom Hours for Listening Rooms

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E1 Isolation Base – Removed noise in a Night and Day Comparison for a turntable

We just got this HRS E1 Isolation platform in for people to hear the noise reduction in more modest systems. (This just happens to be the only system that we could try it on 🙂 )

A customer friend of ours used our platform and heard the noise drop out on his $1600 Project turntable. Dramatic noise drop.  He was blown away.  So I had to test it out for myself, the next day when I got into work. 

Jaw dropping is how I describe my personal observation in the noise reduction here on the MT5 turntable when I loaded the Eric Clapton – Unplugged album.

As soon as I dropped the needle down on “Hey Hey” with the platform, you actually didn’t hear the main noise of needle drop you normally would. 

Then Ed Masterson, played “Signe” the 1st song on the album to hear the noise from the crowd clapping in the concert. The soundstage of clapping went from stadium wide, not because that was the actual width of the soundstage, but more because it was one aspect of the recording that perhaps was not as coherent as the instrumental  (felt like it) and opened the reproduction to a very distinct width and natural soundstage. (When I looked up the background on his “Unplugged” album, I discovered Unplugged is a 1992 album by Eric Clapton, recorded at Bray Studios, England in front of an audience for the MTV Unplugged television series.)

The noise floor just dropped out, the high quality recording become distinctly more transparent, airy, natural and so many other terms of clarity I could use.

A Note I’d like to Add; Before I wrote this blog post about my own personal experience. Having been an Audiophile for less than 3 years, I wanted to read from another person’s perspective in regards to noise reduction and specifically if I could find, an article on an isolation platform. In my search I found one from the best, a very interesting and relevant point made by Robert Harley, Editor in Chief of The Absolute Sound Magazine, (and author of the book I am reading called “The Complete Guide To High-End Audio“) in an article he shared in 2015 called ‘Critical Mass Systems Maxxum Amplifier Stand Disappearing Act’.  I quote Mr. Harley below from the article:

“In my editorial in Issue 246 (“The Law of Accelerating Returns”) I suggested that the goal of assembling the most realistic-sounding audio system is best realized by investing in products that are demonstrably more transparent and resolving.

All too often, audiophiles swap components only to trade one set of colorations for a different, perhaps initially appealing, set of colorations. Years of such “upgrades” don’t bring you closer to musical realism in the long run. It’s better to spend your money on components or accessories that improve the sound without any sonic tradeoffs.”

During our test, Ed made the comment that being an electrical engineer, this platform made more Engineering sense than other noise reduction/isolation products or methods, because it was based on applying mechanical noise reduction. So, I stayed the course on my post here.

My summary: It was very much a Night and Day difference.  Two turntables were tested.  The first one was a $1600 Project turntable and the second was a $7000 one.  The same friend/customer Dave heard both. And from what I understood him to say, was they both had about the same results. An $1100 isolation platform by HRS did this.  Very simple test. Amazing results.  I encourage you to come in and hear what I did.

The gear used:

The McIntosh MC462 Solid State Amplifer, the McIntosh C2600 2-Channel Vacuum Tube Preamplifier, the McIntosh MT5 2-Channel Precision Turntable, and Sonus Faber Olympica Nova III Floorstander Speakers with the REL sub-base woofers turned off. (because one happened to sell the other day) 

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Audible Images is hosting our 2nd Annual Music Appreciation Event on Saturday December 14th 2019

Audible Images invites everyone to join us, Saturday December 14th from 12 to 5 pm, for our “2nd Annual – Music Appreciation Event”.

Music stirs the soul. We all strive to build music reproduction systems that achieve that total “acoustic immersion”. When it happens all other thoughts are washed away as the sound overwhelms the other senses leaving you only listening. We believe that this is how it was meant to be heard. So it is our goal to help you achieve that or at least be exposed to it at our event.

This year we are introducing new products from Wilson Audio, Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems, NAD Electronics, REL Acoustics, McIntosh Labs and Sonus Faber . We will have factory representatives from REL Acoustics, McIntosh and Sonus Faber available to answer questions. We encourage you to bring your favorite music. We will do our best to play it.

Come have a great time with other hobbyists & audiophiles!  Delectable Hors D’ Oeuvres and Appetizers will be served.  

New Gear, a New Room, New & Old Friends.  Come Join Us for a fun Saturday music and theater afternoon in the beautiful downtown Eau Gallie Art District.  Hang out on the front porch with us.

Contact Ed Masterson at  321-626-3898 or Email: edmasterson@audibleimagesav.com for further information.

 

Download PDF Flyer of the Event below:

Audible Images - 2nd Annual Music Appreciation Event - PDF Flyer

 

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