This year we did not participate directly to the Munich High End. But our products were present. On the stand of STS Digital, Fritz de With used a Fun 13 to present Groove into Bits Vol. 2.
We had our normal events during the whole week and the beginning of the week after. It was good, and the work was not less than exposing in the Munich High End, but not the same.

Next year come to Munich, You will enjoy our performance at the MOC: it will be the best music event, You will have ever seen!!

In Düren, at the Record-store, there have been an event focused on music. They concentrated on vinyl (if I understood correctly) and have chosen our loudspeakers to present their music.
It is a very charming compliment.

We have the winner for the Leserwahl contest of Stereoplay.
Alexander from Kalkar, we wish and send him Fun!

We sincerely hope he appreciate it :-)

horns n'tubes mit MuSiCa NoVa, Blumenhofer & Scheu Analog
Das Finale Furioso. Thomas Blumenhofer aus dem schönen Walkertshofen im Allgäu baut anerkannterweise mit die besten Hornlautsprecher in Deutschland. Seit geraumer Zeit gibt's sogar durchaus preiswerte Böxchen für den Hörnchen-Einsteiger. Wir spielen sowohl die Einstiegsdrogen als auch die großen Teile für fortgeschrittene Freaks. Die Elektronik ist von mir. MuSiCa NoVa halt, Röhre pur, kompromisslos und dennoch bezahlbar. Als Zuspieler dient zum einen der CD-Player ProMetheuS, ebenfalls aus meiner Manufaktur. Zum anderen kommt ein Plattenspieler von dem angesehenen Berliner Spezialisten Scheu Analog zum Einsatz. Somit können wir glatt sagen: Alles deutsche Wertarbeit.

What to tell about the Norddeutsche HiFi Tage.
It is one of the most appealing consumer HiFi shows in Germany and like in the last 4 years we had our chance to expose there.
This time it was not intended to be minimalistic it was a really huge system and played really good music.
The groove was there, the energy pushed us to the wall and the wish to increase the volume was there, but we had to spare the ears of our visitors.
The visitors came… and forgot to leave the room. At certain moments it was that full that we were not able to move.

We had a Genuin(e) good sound. This was the setup:

- Einstein Vorstufe - The Tube
- Einstein Endstufe - The Poweramp
- Einstein CD Player - The Source
- Einstein Phono Preamplifier - The Turntable's Choice
- Pluto Audio Plattenspieler
- Van den Hul Tonabnehmer
- Cammino H 3.1 Power Harmonizer
- Klangstube Phono Rack

- Blumenhofer Acoustics Lautsprecher - Genuin FS 2

And if You are curious to see some pictures, they are here in our Gallery.
Thank You and thank the whole Bramsfeld team for the wonderful organization. Here the link to the HiFi Tage pages.
See You in 2014!

At Musicanova, Harald Pensel presented our Fun 13 with his setup of components. I'm looking forward for the inauguration on the beginning of March. I'll plan to be there.

Straight before the Munich High End 2012 Wolfram Eifert tested our big Fun 17.
That article is a really good description of what our loudspeaker is able to do.

By chance I found the online version of the article some minutes ago. Here You can read it.
That article was a comparison between 3 horn loudspeaker following 3 different operating principles. Here You can find the whole comparison.

You can read it on Stereoplay 06/2012 on page 38 as well.

This year we participate to the Leserwahl of one of the main german Audio publisher.
You can reach the Stereoplay Leserwahl here

We participate in 2 products categories:
- our Fun 17 in the category "Standboxen bis 5.000€"
- our big Fun 17 in the category "Standboxen bis 10.000€"

Go there and give us Your vote!!
You might even win a Blumenhofer Fun 13 :-)

Sometimes friends ask us to support Art exhibitions and this time has been one of those.
Music joined sculpture, paintings and integrated itself in the Gaswerk in Augsburg, an monument to industry and industrialization, how production can become art itself.

The review of the Fun 17 of Stereoplay in German is now online, You can read it here

Even this year we participated to the analog Audio Forum in Krefeld.
As difference from the usual shows, this time we decided to have a bigger room to play bigger loudspeakers, and we played the Gioia.

Like last year, the room of the organizer used a Gran Gioia for its demonstration and it has been very well accepted.

In our room the setup consistsed of:

- Rui Borges - Uno Turntable
- Einstein Audio Components - The Turntable's choice Phono Preamplifier
- Einstein Audio Components - The Tube Preamplifier
- Einstein Audio Components - The Light in the Dark Stereo Power Amplifier
- Blumenhofer Acoustics - Gioia Loudspeakers
- Cammino HP - complete power supply and cabling including its extraordinary Power Harmonizer

On the first day we had a straight setup, it played, but it was not possible to turn up the volume. The people were already satisfied, but we did not. We knew what was reachable with that setup and we reached maximum 60% of that. Not satisfactory. Not at all for us.
In the night from Saturday to Sunday, after a good dinner in a nearby restaurant, we spent half of the night to start from scratch. What a wonder, on the second day, music was playing, finally music was in the room and cheered our ears. Thanks to Claudio and Marco for the big effort.
Thanks to Hanna as well for taking care about the customers and to Jürgen from HiFi Studio Fuchs for the LPs.

And most of all thank You to the whole AAA Team for the great organization of the event and the great support during the days of the show!!! See You again next year!

In the Stereoplay 11/2012 there is a very enthusiastic review of our Fun 17.
Enjoy Your reading!!

A very nice review of our Genuin FS 2 has come out today on Fairaudio.de.
Here You can read it, on German.
The reviewer writes:
- 'one of the best loudspeaker I've ever tested'
- 'that authentic is rare'
- …

Enjoy!!

We just received the short version of the report, You can download it here

Straight before the Munich High End 2012 Wolfram Eifert tested our big Fun 17.
That article is a really good description of what our loudspeaker is able to do.

You can read it on Stereoplay 06/2012 on page 38

We needed more than 3kg of caffe in 3 evenings. We drove more than 3000km, we had more than 30 guests at our company during the show days. Our official catering and host service, the Gasthof zum Adler of the Zott family, was nearly fully booked by us for the entire exposition time. The support has been great. But this is only side program, like side program was the chance that our guest had in enjoying typical bavarian food and good music.

Group Fotos

The idea to participate has borne by chance during one of my visit to STS-Digital to evaluate the quality of the Groove into Bits CD and discuss some more points about marketing. And this is the question we had: how can we promote the brands in the most effective ways. Then we crosschecked our resources and decided to go again an unconventional way: we have the Blumenhofer Acoustics CD, why not to sell it at the show?
Some dazzling some phone call after we had the space at the fair and the equipment for displaying and playing the CDs.

The electronic of Pro-Ject has been supplied by ATR, the cabling and the power supply harmonizer by Cammino-HP. We used the stand as static display and as point of contact for the people interested in our products. And the interest was big. Nearly every person took a picture of our Gran Gioia: a great eye catcher!

During the show we had several visit of old friends and new potential distributors.
The visit of Van den Hul himself, the owner of the famous Van den Hul brand, brought some emotion to Mr. Trevisanello, the owner of Cammino. Mr. Van den Hul appreciated the look of our Gran Gioia.
Mr. Heinz Lichtenegger, director of Project, has been pleased by the quality of our CDs and recordings.

As usual we made lot of pictures, you can see them here:

For the third year in a row we participate to the Norddeutsche HiFi Tage.
This time has been a different show, I spent a lot of time talking with final customer in our room and it has been really enjoyable.
Volker of Einstein Audio had as usual really great music and was fun.
Fun 13, our new speaker was the star of the room and the people were surprised by the range and musicality that it has been able to express for the 2 days.
It has been driven by:
- The Source, the gorgeous CD Player of Einstein Audio
- The absolute Tune, the integrated Einstein Amplifier
and on the analog side there was
- Roksan Xerses turntable
- The Turntable Choice, phono preamplifier of Einstein Audio

Power Harmonization by Cammino, Italy

Ralph Werner of Fairaudio.de had for some time the Fun 13 at home. Here you can read his mind on German.

on page 6 of Stereoplay 1/2012 You can read a short information about the Wiky. We are expecting Holger Biermann to visit us early next year to give more news to our german customers

Stereoplay's chief redactor Holger Bierman has chosen the Genuin FS 1 among the 100 best loudspeaker of the world.
"Die 100 beste Lautsprecher der Welt" is the name of the publication, it is a special issue for this season. It is going to be available in the next few days in Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

Stereoplay was recalling the experience they've had with the Genuin FS 1 at beginning of 2009, when they tested it. You can read the report of 2009 here.
You can read the report about the Genuin FS 1 on the special edition at page 92 and 93.

We have been present at the Westdeutsche HiFi Tage in Bonn.

Jürgen Fuchs of HiFi Studio Fuchs presented our Loudspeakers.
The show has been a real success of public with over 2000 people visiting the show.
In my humble opinion, this is what music needs to find back its place in the houses of the people: the place it deservs.

I asked Jürgen a statement about the event. These are his words:

am Samstag haben Grandinote Shinai und Celio die Fun 17 auf Touren gebracht.
Sonntag haben eine Trigon Phonovorstufe und ein Mastersound 300B / PSE die Musik übernommen.
An beiden Tagen spielte ein Rui Borges UNO Plattenspieler mit Reed 2A Tonarm und Phase Tech 3G Tonabnehmersystem. Die Verkabelung stammte von dolphin audio.
Die Veranstaltung wurde von ca. 3000 interessierten Musikliebhabern besucht. Das Interesse verteilte sich gleichmäßig auf Plattenspieler, Elektronik und Lautsprecher.
Insgesamt wurde jedoch immer wieder die Homogenität der angeschlossenen Musikgeräte hervorgehoben.
Resultat: One of the best sounds of the show!!!
Also eine Wiederholung der Meinungen vom Analog Forum in Krefeld von vor drei Wochen.

here the english translation:

on saturday Grandinote Shinai and Celio powered the big Fun 17
Sunday a MastersounD 300B/PSE and a Trigon Phono-preamplifier took over.
On both days the Rui Borges UNO turntable with REED 2A Tonearm and Phase Tech 3G cartridge. Cables from Dolphin Audio.
About 3000 people have been present at the show and the interest has been distributed between turntable, electronic and loudspeakers.
Always has been appreciated the homogeneity of the whole chain. This lead to the common statement of the public 'Best sound of the show'!!!
Again, the same opinion and feedback coming from the analog audio forum in Krefeld 3 weeks ago.

We had our vintage event in Walkertshofen.

Two systems were playing,
- one with an vintage Thorens turntable and a vintage 2250B Marantz receiver playing our new Fun 13 loudspeaker
- one with a Technics SP-15 and a Marantz nineteen (19) receiver playing our new Genuin FS 2 loudspeaker

The only modern components were our speakers,

Well, we all agreed, with modern loudspeaker technology older systems are able to deliver better performance than lot of new systems on the market.
Coffee and cheese were a roundup to the music enjoyment.

We will have another retro evening on the 10th of December. Feel free to come and participate.

This year our participation to the Analog Audio Forum has been really relaxing. The hard part was before and after: there were 4 rooms playing Blumenhofer Acoustics:
- Room 'Ausdauer' - the organizer's room used a Gran Gioia for its presentation and seminars. The final amplification was a Grandinote Prestigio and the cabling was as well made in Italy by Cammino
- Room 'Königsregel' - was Einstein Audio and Blumenhofer official Room, played a big Fun 17
- Room 119 - was Peter Steinfad's Room. The setup of the frankfurter hörgesellschaft was based on Musica from Japan and Crayon Audio from Austria, played a big Fun 17
- Room 122 - was Jürgen Fuchs from HiFi Studio Fuchs the setup was based on Mastersound, Rui Borges Turntable, Grandinote Phono Preamplifier, played a big Fun 17

I'm really satisfied with the result our rooms achieved during the show.
I have to say a great thank You to the whole organization team and the really kind people working for the Music in its original form.

At the end of the Show, Eric from Essen won a Pair of Blumenhofer Acoustics Satellite PC Loudspeakers and Marion from Oberhausen one set of DynAris by Aktyna.

Sometimes friends ask us to support Art exhibitions and this time has been one of those.
Music joined sculpture, paintings and integrated itself in the Gaswerk in Augsburg, an monument to industry and industrialization, how production can become art itself.

@imoprt((2011_07_27-Gaswerk Augsburg))

The review of the Genuin FS 5 written by Frank Borowski of Mactechnews.de on Macrewind.de in German is available here for download

We all know that the Munich High End is the most important european HiFi exposition.
We have been present in area A03-B04. A show without playing music but lot of time to talk with lot of people.
At the show we presented:
- the complete cabling by Cammino HP and his Power Harmonizer
- the complete line of Grandinote Power Amplifiers
- the Loit Passeri CD Player
- our nearly complete product range including the new introduced products. The Wiki was only present as development prototype

As usual, during the evenings, after show, we continued our show with special guests in Walkertshofen. Instead of going to dinner somewhere we spent time listening for music in our company.
I can tell you. They have been long days, but really fruitful.

The system was composed by:
- Loit Passeri CD Player
- Dr. Feickert Analogue Turntable
- Grandinote Celio Pre Phono
- Grandinote Domino and Demone Power amplifiers
- Blumenhofer Acoustics Gran Gioia Loudspeakers
- Cammino HP Power Harmonizer and cabling

You can read about our participation to the event and the evenings on:
- Fairaudio
- 6moons
- Holger Barske’s Blog
- Magazine-Audio.com
- Euphonia Audioforum.se
....and many more, that I’d like to add, if I’d have their web page

Norddeutsche HiFi Tage - 5.-6. Februar 2011 - Holyday Inn Hamburg

We participate to the Norddeutsche HiFi Tage in Hamburg and they have been the most relaxing days in the last months. After 2 days of Music we still did not have enough of it :-)
The chain playing was composed by:
- Einstein CD Player - The Source
- Einstein Power Amplifier - The Absolute Tune
- Blumenhofer Acoustics - Fun 17
- Einstein Cables
- Rack Andrea&Volker special construction for the Norddeutsche HiFi Tage

Here to the official web pages.

We received some days ago a mail from one of the visitors of the exposition, I translate it here below... I do not need to say more, this is the biggest satisfaction for me.

Dear ladies and gentlemen,
With biggest surprise and genuine astonishment among the present people, I truly enjoyed your presentation with my brother in law on saturday evening! In our ramble trough the corridors he suddenly said “there plays a live band!” (no joke) and disappeared in direction of Blumenhofer/Einstein... that was the hammer!
[...omissis...]
Tree times we came back to the room because it made Fun to enjoy each kind of music that way.
[...omissis...]

Randolph Xxxxxx

Sometimes there are some special projects that we like. This was one of those. The owner of the Club Ideal in Augsburg in the Gögginger Str. 22 loves music and wanted a high end Night Club. It has not been difficult for Andreas and Ramona to persuade us to this project. It was worth it! Really! This is not a new product we will put on the market, but no Night Club can deliver a better sound. There, at the Club Ideal you can enjoy the Blumenhofer-Philosophy on your skin. Have Fun!!

Ralph Werner of Fairaudio.de had for some time the Genuin FS 3 at home. Here you can read his mind on German.
Here you can download the short version of the article in German.

Was the event at Blumenhofer on the 27th and 28th of November 2010 directly at Blumenhofer. We showed how the small gear of Pro-Ject Audio is able to deliver biggest results.

In the organization of the event we did not consider the start of the Christmas markets in the south of Germany and therefore we have not been able to grant Pro-Ject the public it deserved.

ATR offered one USB Box, which already found the winner, he has been contacted by e-mail. We have come Cantuccini left and for sure they will not become old in the drawer.

On Sunday we used the pauses between the visitors to think about some Projects and Ideas we have in mind: some nice perspectives have started to grow in our minds... I will not tell anything more, but really soon you will find some results on these same pages :-)
stay connected!!!

From the 19th until the 21st November at the Musikkammer you can visit an event in Willich (Germany).
In the focus there will be products of Axiss Europe and the product portfolio of the Sweden "Harmony Design". The speaker will be Blumenhofer-Acoustics Fun 17 and Genuin FS 4.2.
The accessories of SRM Design will be available as well as opportunity to buy new and used LPs.
Infos: 02154/888 99 58 - webmaster@musikkammer.de - www.musikkammer.de

It was a long weekend: on the first day we made the setup until 2:00 in the morning and this after a long trip.
The people and their warmth payed us off: our presentations, each with its own personality, convinced.

- Room Erfolg: Jürgen Fuchs and Uwe Trabert presented a setup consisting of MastersounD preamplifier and 300B mono blocks connected to a big Fun 20. Their source was the turntable of Roi Borges from Portugal.
- Room Begeisterung: Volker Bohlmeier has been able to create a special atmosphere and his blues and his warm music let the people stay in the room for longer than usual.
- Conference room of the AAA (Analog Audio Association): unexpected. On Friday, short before the beginning of the show, the setup was not yet decided... good chance I had a Fun 17 with me, the people of the AAA decided to use it. In the conference room have been lectured lot of information and examples about music, recording and sound. The room was usually really quite full!

Thanks a lot to the whole organising team and to Rainer Bergmann for the perfect event.

from the 3rd until the 22nd of September in Berlin in Stilwerk, Max Schlundt presented our products in his IFA-Parallel event.
We brought him the Clara Luna for which should be taken an appointment; the Genuin FS 1, the Genuin FS 3 and the Fun 17 were on the contrary ready for play anytime.

At Max event there have been some interesting panel discussion on several arguments concerning the world of HiFi nowadays, and the changes happended in the last years from the vinyl to the streamer’s era. We unfotunately did not have the chance to participate and listen to the lessons, but Max told us that they have been a success.
==> musical Value of popular music: based on some Examples
==> Status of the Recording techniques: limits of the music reproduction
==> Designed in Europe-Made in China?
==> Solo-Piano: Improvisation at the big Bechstein-Piano
==> Music sources in the modern times: -Vinyl revival, -Music download, -End of the CD?
==> Home cinema- Cinema at home about Pros and Cons of free availability
==> Music press - Protector of the end user or marketing instrument?

It has (and in a certain way it still is) a great event. Pass by at Max venue, you will enjoy great music

Our Fun 17 has been tested on Stereo. The report is worth reading: have Fun!!

You can read the Measurement report here

Here the result:

Here you can read the Review and all the Measurements

Wolfram Eifert of Stereoplay enjoyed the Genuin FS 3 sound. Here you can read the review.

Finest, HiFi Gallery and Wines, invites to a seminar with Matthias Böde of Stereo in Bochum. It is a seminar about music. Come and Enjoy.

Joint Forces with Rainer Israel of Friends of Audio, we invited Lorenzo Sanavio of MastersounD to the first official event in our show room.

2 setups have been playing and we had two really pleasant days.

Our visitors enjoyed our music and our caffe: we installed a new machine in the showroom and we learned how to get perfect italian caffe out of it!!

Thank you all a lot for your visit and keep checking at Blumenhofer: we will make more events starting in fall ;-)

This has been one of the most important event in the last months and everything went well. The only flaw has been the wine: it didn’t match our taste. Next time will be perfect as well and you will enjoy it.

We enjoyed the visit of lot of people and received really positive feedback on our 2 rooms.

Dimitri, Max und Gigi supported us in Room 374 with the Grandinote power amplifier and the Labtek Tube-SACD player.
We have been presenting with Einstein Audio Components in room Versailles.
Thank you all for being there.

Malte Ruhnke of Audio tested our Genuin FS 3. Here you can read the report on German.
The introduction of the test compared a Burmester B30 and a Geithain Me 160 with our Genuin FS 3

Our Genuin FS 3 got the flag of Tube-friendly

In February Ralph Werner of Fairaudio.de came to visit Blumenhofer Acoustics. After 2 days together he wrote this article here.

6moons.com translated then the article and You can read the english translation here.

Andrea - Ralph Werner - Thomas

Jürgen Fuchs and Uwe Traber of Hifi Studio Wachtberg in 53340 Meckenheim invite on the 06th and 07th March 2010 from 11.00 until 18.00 to a musical get together.
New products from Basso Continuo, Cabasse, Diapason, Mastersound, Sonos and Blumenhofer Acoustics. We are looking forward for your participation, please confirm 02225-9996446 and wachtberg-hifi@web.de.

- Power Amplifier Mastersound
- Loudspeakers Fun 17 and big Fun 20
- Source: pure Vinil

Hamburg, a wonderful town. The people of Hamburg, very warm and enthusiastic. On the 16th floor of the Holiday Inn our Genuin FS 3 played together with Einstein Audio, using their CD player, their preamplifier and their stereo power amplifier. It was great, lot of people came to our booth and stayed there for hours enjoying our music. Lot of people stated ours was the best sound of the show. A lot of thanks to Mr. Borchert and his family for the fantastic organization... we will be back next year.

At Loftsound, our speakers did not play at their best. Sometimes it happens, but come back at Loftsound and you will enjoy them the way it belongs :-)

Cai Brockmann of image hifi had for a short time our Fun 17 at home. Here can you download his opinion. A nice story.

At Hi Fi Studio Falkensee, we had a lot of fun with a good bunch of top notch components. Air Tight und Blumenhofer.

Our first international exposition together with Peter Schmitz and Leben. The people appriciated our booth and even more our sound... we learnt a lot: next time we will make better, I promis you ;-)

Wolfram Eifert of Stereoplay wrote in January 2009 a report about 3 sound philosophies, he tested and compared a Martin Logan CLX, a Backes & Müller BM Line 25 and our Genuin FS 1. The report of the Genuin FS 1 is here. Along with the test Thomas has been briefly interviewed.

You can download the complete report of the Genuin FS 1 here.

I found some pictures of an old participation to the High End in Frankfurt. This show has been the predecessor of the Munich High End. At that time it was still in an Hotel environment. Take a look at the pictures, some of the products are going to become actual again, wait and see :-)