Hi Everyone,

A lot of you already know that HiFi Lounge forming is directly connected to PMC, for those who don’t know the story basically myself and Wendy attended a PMC open day around 10 years ago where we heard the mighty BB5 XBD’s, we were so blown away we bought a pair of MB2i’s for home, as we couldn’t fit the BB5’s in our living room, I absolutely loved those speakers and that moment inspired us to sell our house and to attempt to become a HiFi dealer and to set up HFL, so bearing that in mind I am so honoured to now have the first pair of PMC’s epic new Fenestria Speakers on Demo in the UK and one of the first in the world, it really does feel like we have come full circle from that first experience of PMC all those years ago.

These have now been installed with the help of PMC and although they are a pretty big and heavy speaker they actually come in several smaller boxes which makes handling and installing them not too difficult at all really, good thinking PMC, you will be able to see from the pictures below.

So most importantly how do they sound? well funnily enough until we installed them I hadn’t even seen or heard a pair but my faith in PMC didn’t let me down, I stayed here till 10pm last night listening to a real variety of music from the Carpenters, Bowie, Yello, Muse through to Rammstein and all I can really say is that PMC have created a truly incredible speaker that reveals so much and really pulls you into the music, the mid range which sits in it’s own “nest’ to give it the best performance possible is like nothing I have heard before, vocal’s just hover in mid air in front of you with such a lifelike presentation and the depths the bass go to really did test our demo room which was pretty awesome

There are an amazing amount of firsts in these speakers that I won’t go into now, I’ll let PMC cover those in our open day hopefully next month but the most important aspect for me is that I really didn’t want to go home last night as I just wanted to listen to my entire music collection again so I just wanted to say a huge congratulations to everyone at PMC involved in developing the Fenestria, it may have taken 5 years but the end result is completely captivating.

At £45,000 they are certainly not going to be for everyone but if you could consider a pair of Fenestria’s I urge you to just come along and have a listen as I am sure once you have fallen under their spell you will be figuring out which organ to sell to have a pair in your life, I can see I will certainly be having many late nights here from now on, sorry Wendy.

We will be announcing details of our Fenestria open day shortly so please watch this space, please see below for a selection of pictures of the installation of the Fenestria into our Naim room, I did get quite carried away so there are quite a few, sorry

http://hifilounge.co.uk/pmc-fact-fenestria-speakers

Serious Packaging!

Decided to unbox them at PMC as easier to transport out of the crates.

They made it safely all the 2 miles from PMC HQ!

Goodies Box!

Now this is what you call a crossover which sits in the Fenestria’s base!

The top part twists and locks into to place with the help of this template!

Thanks to Tom and Keith from PMC for helping with the install.

Starting to look like a speaker now.

Here is the ‘Nest’ which holds the Mid and Treble Units, beautiful piece of Engineering in itself.

Tom and Keith Carefully installing the Nest section.

Next up is to attach the Planar Wings, what a gorgeous finish.

There we go, one Fenestria installed, do it all over again and we can have a listen.

Ta Dah, here is the other one, actually not too difficult to assemble at all, definitely a 2 person job though.

Fine Tuned by Peter Thomas himself, how cool is that :)

I’m busy running these in daily now so if your are passing and would like a listen please feel free to pop in anytime.

Cheers,

Paul.