CES 2012 – Musical Surroundings, Fosgate

This room featured some of Musical Surroundings own gear as well as gear they import like Fosgate.

In this room they were running the AMG turntable through a Fosgate photo preamp into Aesthetix electronics and using a Magico Q1 speaker. This was all sitting on a HRS SXR rack. There were several things on static display, as we’ll see below. I did not spend much energy listening here – sometimes I just space out I guess.

This room used two 4-shelf HRS SXR racks instead of a side-by-side (double-wide). Not sure why.

A couple of shots of the Magico Q1 monitor (stand-mounted) speaker

A few more shots of the AMG (Analog Manufaktur Germany. Used to be Benz-AMG) turntable which we saw in the last room as well

Anyone else think the LPs on the AMG turntables in these rooms look kind of dirty?

The Fosgate Signature phono stage

The Aesthetix Pandora USB DAC. Guess they used this when not playing the turntable.

Aesthetix Rhea phono stage. Seems redundant given the Fosgate phono stage. Backup I guess.

The Aesthetix Calypso linestage.

On static display they had an all black AMG turntable. I like this look.

This is what the AMG plinth looks like with nothing on it. Very solid looking metal construction.

I think this is the AMG motor, a belt [the belt must be hidden underneath the platter during use] and what may be an arm pod.

The Fosgate Signature phono stage on static display

The Fosgate Signature Tube Headphone amp on static display

Musical Surroundings Phenomena II and NovaPhenomena Phono preamp on static display

Musical Surroundings Supernova II preamplifier on static display

The Musical Surroundings Fozgometer.

So… I guess this is used to determine if a mono source has an image directly between the two speakers like it is supposed to [instead of using one’s ears]?