Axpona 2018 – our show program (handout)
What we are taking to the Chicago Axpona 2018 high-end-audio show:
Acapella Cellini High loudspeakers
Acapella Audio Arts has been building loudspeakers and audio electronics in Germany for almost 40 years. The inventor of spherical horns, Acapella recently introduced a new hyperspherical midrange horn, provides improved integration and ease of placement in listening rooms. The Cellini High offers Acapella’s extraordinarily open and transparent sound in a more compact home loudspeaker.
67 inches tall. 265 lbs. Sensitivity: 91 dB. Impedance: 8 ohms. Minimum amp power: 15 watts. Bass drivers: 2 x 10 inch (1 isobaric). Horn loaded midrange. Acapella’s incomparable TW1s ION (plasma) tweeter.
Acapella LaMusika integrated amplifier
Musical and authoritative hybrid integrated amplifier. Voltage amplification with Valve (E182CC) first gain stage and MOSFET output stage. Transformer coupled balanced inputs. Compact size facilitates optimally short signal paths.
Audio Note UK CDT Five transport
Level Five redbook CD transport. Valve digital output stage with valve rectified power supply. Custom output transformer. Rigid aluminium chassis with top loading in-house modified Philips CD Pro2LF mechanism mounted on sprung ub-chassis (suspension derived from TT Three Reference). Audio Note PALLAS used for internal digital signal transfer.
Audio Note UK Fifth Element DAC with Fifth Force external power supply
Audio Note’s flagship level 5 digital to analogue converter. Valve input buffer (matched to the CDT Five). Custom, individually adjusted, all silver wired I/V interface transformer (similar to the S9 stepup). Transformer coupled balanced outputs. Valve regulated power supply in separate chassis, with better mains transformers and many other improvements.
Cabling from Acapella and Audio Note UK
Acapella’s LaMusika Reference interconnect, loudspeaker and power cables. Solid silver conductors. Ceramic insulated. Audio Note’s Pallas low capacitance digital interconnect. Developed for small-signal applications. Palladium plated silver foil in air dielectric. Audio Note’s SOOTTO (silver) and ISIS (copper) power cables. Three 50-strand high purity conductors per cable.
HRS SXR equipment stand with M3x Isolation Bases
Harmonic Resolution Systems machined aluminum equipment stand frame designed for optimum isolation base perfomance. Reference level M3x bases are optimized for individual electronics. Frame leveling system with locking feature for stability. Unlimited expandability
my dream system
my dream system except i’d get the speakers in black color with gold colored horns
Thanks, Jeff! We are keeping your color choices in mind … choosing the color is really not easy for Mike and me.
maybe I’d get red and black
I noticed you used AN UK amps at recent shows does Accapella still make the La musica integrated amp and do you still import it
Also, how do like Accapella ‘s new electronics?
Hi Jeff,
So sorry for the delay; time got away from me, as it sometimes does. Red horns with black cabinets are a classic. I like, personally, the bright red.
We are trying to mix up our show systems a little – so after the last 10? or so shows with Acapella’s LaMusika integrated amplifier, we decided to bring our classic-architecture Audio Note Kegons instead. It’s … different. Some attendees liked it better, some liked the LaMusika better. This is why we all have choices in our audio playback …
But … we love Acapella’s integrated, and we’ll be bringing it — with the Campanile 2 — to Capital Audiofest in Washington DC in a month or so, first weekend in November. We also have it here in Palo Alto, give a call or email if you’d like to visit.
Yes, they still make it. But officially it is now called the Acapella Amplifier — as Alfred Rudolf, one of the Acapella Audio Arts partners, has decided to bring out a new more affordable line of electronics with the LaMusika brand name. Confusing, but it is what it is.
We also have Acapella’s Audio One music server here. We often show with it. We like it on its own where we think it’s a great value, and paired with a really special DAC, it’s even better.
Kindest regards; I hope this answered some of your questions.