Christmas Eve – Time for audio porn

Christmas Eve – Time for audio porn… like every other day of the year 🙂

Featured photo above is the Audio Note AN/E Spe HE speaker in the beautiful Poplar Burl veneer (standard matte finish, no extra charge)

 

 

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Audio Note CDT-Five transport

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NVS Sound Silver Inspire power cord

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Audio Note Soro Phono SE

 

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Audio Note AN/E Spe HE speaker in the box

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EMM Labs MTRX amplifier: top

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Acapella Audio Arts ‘Atlas’ loudspeaker’s midrange horn in Blue

Happy holidays everybody! If you are in Vegas for CES, please stop by and visit (30-225 in the Venetian Tower)

– Mike + Neli

CES 2015 Acapella Audio Arts

At CES 2015 Acapella Audio Arts will introduce their new Acapella Cellini speakers.

We will be exhibiting with Acapella this year in room 30-225, in the Venetian tower, with Neli spending most of her time here.

The Cellini speakers are similar in size and pricing to their Violon speakers but feature Acapella’s new hyperspherical-shaped horn.

Here’s a lovely description, and specifications, fom the factory:

Acapella first used a hyper spherical midrange horn in the Poseydon speakers. This horn configuration offers an extraordinarily open and transparent sound in a more compact home loud speaker system,

Acapella Cellini

This highly musical midrange is traditional accompanied by the Acapella Ion Tweeter TW 1
The bass foundation is provided in a sleek housing that also serves as the support for the Ion Tweeter
and the spherical horn. The complete system recreates the sound of any type of music with absolute
authenticity and a certain mysterious magic.

Technical: Overall Frequency Response: 28 Hz – 40 kHz, Efficiency: ~ 91 dB / 1 W / 1 m
Impedance 8 Ohm, Load capacity: 100 W – 1000 W / 10 ms
Recommended power output of the amplifier: from 15 W
Dimensions (HxWxD) without horn: 1490 x 330 x 475 mm (4,89 x 1,08 x 1,56 feet)
Dimensions (HxWxD) with horn: 1705 x 620 x 585 mm (5,59 x 2,03 x 1,91 feet)
Weight: ~ 105 kg (230 lb), High Version 120 kg (265 lb)

The room will feature:

* Acapella Cellini High loudspeakers, € 46,600, currently $58,250 with the Euro at 1.25.

* Acapella LaMusika integrated amplifier, $106,388.

* Acapella cables, specifics tbd.

* The EMM Labs XDS1 player ($25000) or… the Audio Note CDT-5 transport with one of their Level 5 DACs, specifics tbd

* HRS SXR equipment rack and M3X platforms.

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CES 2015 is just a few weeks away…

Be there or… read the several dozen show reports that no doubt will appear [including ours :-)]