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October 22, 2005 by Michael

THE NEW AUDIO AERO PRESTIGE SACD/CD PLAYER

Got the new player in… was it yesterday?

Here are some pics:

The player is sitting on an HRS Isolation Base and has a HRS damping plate on top.

You can see here that the Prestige, like the Audio Aero Capitole, comes with three Black Diamond Racing Cone feet, two ‘4’s and one ‘3’.

The Prestige has a built-in preamplifier, also like the Capitole. The powercord is a Shunyata Anaconda Vx, the interconnects are the Stealth INDRA.

Our first impressions are very favorable. Our expectations were low, switching from the warm Meitner, which had been on for a week or two since the show, and has been broke-in in for a year now, to a cold Prestige with no time on it . But we were very pleased… out of the box, CDs were actually very enjoyable – as we couldn’t help but play about 10 different CDs to check it out (naw, just like most people, we can’t stand waiting until the player is warmed up and broke-in in more than a few hours like we are all supposed to….).

Burn(in) baby, burn(in)!

October 20, 2005 by Michael

WHEREIN THE BATTY COUPLE GO ABOUT THEIR BATTY WAYS

Obsessive? Compulsive? In need of serious therapy?

You bet!

Here is where we will post lots of pictures and detail the crazy goin’ ons here that occur between tours in pursuit of extracting every last nuance and artistic merit from each track on each album… pushing the state-of-the-art using the finest audiophile-grade off-the-shelf home hifi stereo amplifiers, cd players, loudspeakers, cables, equipment racks, turntables, and vibration control components we can find [ok, it’s true, that last phrase was just liberally sprinkling google-friendly keywords around all over the place].

Wht bats? Because our nominally 3-story house in on the edge of a minor cliff, making it seem like a 5-story house as the bat flies… and so they l;ike to nest way up there in the rafters.

OK, onward!…. to the next track!