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Viva electronics, Basis turntable. Kind of excised a slice from
the photo, as the host was chatting with this fellow and - well,
you know how it is when you get caught in the middle of a word on
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Final Sound loudspeakers. |
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Final Sound loudspeakers. Cary amplifier. |
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AMR CD player, Karan electronics, Acoustic Systems International
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Notice those Acoustic Systems International things stuck to the
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And on the ceiling and walls. |
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Kind of kooky and fun. Well, kooky, anyway. They do 'do'
something, to my ears they increase midi- and macro-dynamics
somewhat and lower micro-dynamics, something lots of people like
because they use power conditioners and this is the generic effect
of such things, but your mileage may vary as we have only heard
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Impressive
Sweet
Enjoyable Emotional Sophisticated
Natural
Workhorse Real/Truth
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Vandersteen V loudspeakers, Joule Electra amplification, Aesthetix
electronics, Ayre digital, Clearaudio turntable, and HRS* MXR and
SXR equipment racks. I liked the sound here this year. I am
still in shock. I must have heard the Vandy 5 in 10 different
systems - and always the bass was slow and undefined and
disconnected from the rest of the music - not to mention that the
midrange is usually too laid back and colorless. This was
always depressing because we liked our old Vandy 2ce speakers -
and had high hopes for the five when it came out [we would have
bought them and perhaps avoided becoming the ultra-obsessed
audiophiles that you see before you today]. But noooooo.
We have never heard them with Joule amps before, and perhaps
that is what made the midrange come alive, adding color and
happier, more exuberant, more convincing note envelopes. As far as
the bass, it was tight and seemed to be part of the music. Since
these are self-powered speakers... I can only think that it was
the setup - the placement and adjusting of the speakers - was
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OK. There wasn't a system in this room, so we just feature many
photos of the new SXR equipment rack, that you see in this photo,
and the new S1 Isolation Base, which is less expensive than their
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These two photos show the new S1 Isolation Base close-up. Compared
to the M3, the feet are the same, but instead of granite for the
top there is two pieces of special Aluminum. Also, as you can see,
the edges of the bass are composed of multiple pieces of steel,
instead of just one piece as in the M3. |
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A few photos on the MXR equipment rack in birds-eye maple. |
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Finally, a new feature for Harmonic Resolution System's MXR, what
looks like a cable organizer. The square ones are for digital and
the oblong ones are for analog.... just kidding, I am sure you can
organize your cables anyway you want to - if there really were
cable routing police, we'd all be in jail.
Those big ones do look big enough for the big Elrod power
cords. Excellent. |
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