After you had all the information necessary to understand the Pure Acourate Sound System objectively ...  You'll get now my auditive impressions from that extraordinary session.

Here is a small subjective run through to the most impressive tracks in the playlist, which  you can find at Qobuz: -> https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/21340128

There are 2 more related playlists to be found here and here .

Angel by Massive Attack:

A reference track of mine, given the austerulous electronic sub-bass frequency used by the band. With this track I have - even on headphones - the sense of an eardrum massage from it and the experience here had been even more physical. Perhaps it’s correct to feel that it had been just another dimension of physical exposure getting involved into these walls of guitars, the dubby pulse,  juxtaposed by Tracey Thorns enchanting singing?
This felt really adventorous …

Five Feet Tall - Lady Blackbird

Everyones favourite soul darling’s voice gave me goosebumps galore. Simply overwhelming and unbelievable gracious - overheard with such brilliance.

Papertrails by Darkiside

A track I have only discovered a year ago, from the NY based duo Darkside.
Quite melancholic, intimate and vulnerable, the production sounds to me like pure craftmanship, all instruments and sound choreographed through an outdoor parcour leading to your personal shady storage room called subconciousness.
Nothing happy at all, but perfect for testing your system.
An ultimate joy to listen to the hypnotic music (predominantly voice, guitars and percussions) and its production, less so to get your mind involved with the presented metaphors.
Thee hypnotic séance left me with goosebumps oncemore.

Erik Truffaz - El tiempo de la revolucion

Thundering marching drums & meandering trompete sounds, this track covers all of our needs for testing system capabilities, I love the context, the Spanish Revolution.
I had once (35 years ago) the pleasure to spend an evening with two survivors of the Francist Regime in Barcelona, people who fought during the Spanish Civil War at the barricades of the Anarchists. This spark in their elderly eyes when they spoke about the happy times before the war will stay with me forever and it gets enlightened everytime I listen to this track.
In Freienohl, vibrant memories were added to the light. I could melt away on the Truffaz’ way of mastering his trumpet.

Battle Royale  - Duke Ellington and Count Basie  - First Time! The Count Meets the Duke

If I ever want to test speed of sound reproduction, this is the track that leaves me out of breath, wondering how could they do such a recording more than 60 years ago?  Geniuses @work!
For the ones who do not know, in the stereo version each orchester is presented in one separate channel, thus it’s a mono recording in a stereo container. In fact, on the mono recording you may hear both orchester equally on both speakers (source: Berdon.com)

Finally, we heard the live version of “A fistful of dollars” by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Instantly, I felt that I may give up all my future plans for annual subsriptions to the local Symphony Concert Hall if I would own this system.
Just kidding, No Symphony near me and I couldn’t fit the PASP system in my listening space. And nevermind my budget. But this special sensation listening to that live event recording were kind of unreal in quite an interesting way.

Overall Assessment:

The system’s clarity - from the lowest octave to the highest - was incredible, involving and sometimes otherworldly to me. It provided me with some insights I had to reflect.
I am not used to this overwhelming accuracy, speed, resonance free clarity, deep clean & substantial bass and the sheer sum of details which leaves – if any - only a small margin for sugar coating & overlays of any kind by the source.

“Truthfully to the source” is a design goal which was successfully achieved in my terms, however. Possible owners of this 75k € system should be warned, without the highest quality of source material all deficits of your music library could be quickly exposed to the bone. 
I was absolutely baffled from the immediacy and the involvement into the music we heard from our playlist - but forcefully appalled by the miniscule mastering quality of Iggy Pop’s “Free” and New Years Day version of New Orders’s “Bizarre Love Triangle”.

Perhaps, altogether I felt that the listening experience could be a bit too much physical for someone living in cohabitation with an open baffle dipole system.
Given that you can decide on your preferred room curve and the final degree of performance by Acourate settings, fine-tuning your system’s performance to your personal taste seems to be the definite way to go.

Jumping from your 5/10k speakers/system to this rather definite combination could prove a bridge too far for some, this it is quite a serious invest for an end game set up, as always to my ears.
 

The other side …

When we entered the listening area first, after a quick tour through the furniture showroom and the attached work floors, we were asked to sit down, and quickly the light went out.

We were welcomed by Bruce Cockburn’s “Bells of Gethsemane” and immediately sucked into the tune by a paramount soundstage with warmth and clarity. A second tune, Jacintha’s version of “Light my Fire”, followed by the lesser known “Bad Kingdom” by Desiree Mishoe provide us with a wonderful sense of purpose, this is what we want.  

Markus did all his little showroom tricks in order to prepare us for the ultimate performance yet to come. He did so with the smallest of his personal designs (6 liters), the 2-way bookshelf speaker called Micro, using Wavecor drivers, the 4,75” WF120BD-08 paper cone mid-bass and a 22mm neodymium dome tweeter called TW22WA09.
Driven by the dual Infineon chipped SABAJ amp, the A20A 2023 in combination with an SMSL SU-1 DAC, using one AKM AK4493S chipset, the chain was in fact well worth 300 Euros, while the hand-manufactured speakers come at a whopping 2.5k Euro.
In relation, this sounds like a lot of money, but the performance was really worth it, every single penny.
My friend decided that he will change his active Backes & Müller living room set-up against this wonderful sounding design in the near future. Thus he need to come again with his wife to finalize their decision. By chance, there is more to have chez Rose Handwerk than only pure audio … ;-)

The Porsche experience:

Seeing old friends back home in Germany for 10 days, I had asked this recently retired friend with a shared interest in audiophile excursions if he would like to join me. He agreed, and early in the morning at the time of leaving we decided to have first another coffee but then with an 2nd thought we swapped my reliable Mazda family vehicle, which I had cleaned from every single dog hair mindfully for this precise trip, and vouch for his ride instead.

It was actually my first acquaintance with a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S, precisely sitting in any Porsche more capable than a 924 (1980) model.
His sentence to remember, “..- Google Maps says one hour to the arrival … although we can still bag 10 minutes …”

I enjoyed this experience, a really physical one – very much comparable to the physical bass performance with PASP -  quite thoroughly, especially because on our way back we had one of the worst April storms in a couple of years and when imagining my own dog taxi (+25in height difference) under that conditions would definitely change my usually healthy face color into a pale white flag.
The dimension of this storm may be comprehended by the fact that it uprooted one 700 years-old oak tree (Bärenwaldeiche), the oldest tree in the region we were visiting.

https://audiophilestyle.com/gallery/album/180-pasp-7/

On our trip back home, we exchanged our impressions from this extensive listening and my friend was quite impressed by PASP, thus absolutely excited by the “Micro” design - as this is exactly was he was looking for.

This Pure Acourate Sound Project isn’t made for quick decisions, you may need to hear it and get involved within this experience of the unknown (for most of us). Only a small number of audiophiles may have tasted such a 5-star menu, thus we - the majority – have the need to get acquainted to this type of almost distortion-less reproduction.

FINAL NOTICE:

The full system will be presented at the MHE 2024, in Hall 3, Box K05, with the team happy to make you smile.

The designer, Dr. Brüggemann has a speaker slot about his project involvement at the MHE XPERT stage in the MHE press center at Friday, 10^th of May, at 12h sharp (in German), he follows directly after the presentation by Klippel’s Ellis Blackford Strout at 11h sharp (in English).