Kresten Osgood
“If heaven is made of sound, I visited it on may 19th and 20th. Listening to the way my drumming sounded in the Van Gelder studio with Maureen Sickler at the mixing board was an absolute thrill. Such clarity in the recording that it was almost textural. On the next day, hearing the mixed version on the TCA speakers was simply the best representation of my sound I have ever experienced on a recording. It was literally like being in the room at the drums while I was playing. As musicians we spend so much time perfecting our touch so we get the best acoustic sound on our instruments. So much time goes into working on that from all angles. During my 25+ year long career I have grown accustomed to the fact that my touch cannot be captured in the studio and is usually poorly represented on sound systems. I am not saying that all sound systems or recordings I have made sound bad..many are enjoyable but they are something else than what i am doing acoustically...and i have gotten used to that. So on may 20th when everything came together: amazing musicians, amazing studio, amazing engineer and amazing speakers I was in heaven.”
"Treble Clef Audio is an interesting new Danish startup making innovative and exciting loudspeakers. Not Boring’s Eric van Spelde flew out to Copenhagen to chat with the head of the company, Ole Siig, about the concept and inspiration for the project."
"The first thing that strikes you is that, like with real instruments playing, the sound is completely uniform no matter where you sit or stand in the room."
"There are no artefacts to reveal there's a loudspeaker system producing those deep notes rather than a natural sound source, and nor does it at any time – or at any location inside or even outside the venue – seem less than fully integrated with the rest of the frequency band."
"This isn't just a frilly industrial design exercise. There's sophisticated engineering involved."
"I went to have a look and a listen and I’m happy I did. You can argue whether the Treble Clef is beautiful as a sculptural object (I think it is), but there is no discussion that it is a VERY interesting loudspeaker system. It managed to play beautifully in a acousticly very poor environment. Somewhat baffling it sounded very good and certainly whetted my appetite for more. Well done."
"I remember a soundscape that I haven't really heard anywhere else. Not necessarily a sign of quality that something is new or stands out from other experiences. But when there is so much presence, punch through and lack of enclosure sound, it's good - it was like hearing hi-fi all over again.”
"Siig has the visual aspect covered in spades with an imaginative treble clef structure that elegantly symbolizes the point of the exercise: the enjoyment of music. Explaining what may well be the ultimate expression of form following function, Siig says: “To deliver highly accurate and reliably authentic sound experiences, we must fundamentally break the conventions of passive and box loudspeaker design.” In breaking the rules, the company is using “acoustic science, patented innovation, design, and precise engineering” to turn traditional box speaker design on its ear."
