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Kings Audio is always willing to try new speaker designs - and
offer them at a reasonable price, too. This system was not playing
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This is the main system they were showing in this room. Kings
Audio speakers and MBL amplifiers, Jolida linestage and what looks
like a Denon changer, but it is hard to tell. |
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Not sure what they were using the make-up / shaving mirror behind
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A desktop system for ... the desktop. This could be cool. |
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King's Audio's other room. King's Audio speakers, Jolida
amplifiers and preamplifier, Linn digital. |
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Jolida's Music Envoy amps. As a show listener, always happy to see
equipment that has been used before... means it is more likely to
have been broken in. |
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A couple of photos of the Linn digital: the Karik transport and
Numerik DAC. Numerik... good name. Karik... not so much. |
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Looks like they were using a bridge to single wire these bi-wirable
speakers. Oh, bi-ampable. The power that these speakers also need
might be improved by using a higher gauge power cord - but you
never know for sure until you try it. |
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Furutech with their static display room. |
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Meridian with their aesthetically pleasing appearance. |
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They had a dozen or so of their components laid out. I apologize
for not photographing them all - but it was the end of the last
day, I wanted to make sure I got to all of the rooms. |
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CAT amplifier on I do not know what speakers. |
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CAT linestage. |
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Audio Aero* Capitole Classic CD player. |
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What an interesting looking linestage. Ten tubes. Nearly dual mono
(the left 1/3 is reversed compared to the 2nd 1/3). And, of
course, those top secret components wrapped in white tubes. |
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Even more spare and livable designs from Meridian. |
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Focus Audio speakers, Oracle amplification and digital. |
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Well..... first, we have to assume this has not just fallen on the
floor and got trampled over by cables. We can then recognize that
it does group the 4 or so cables together nicely - but it really
doesn't raise them off the floor for any sizeable distance, so it
is not really a horrendously successful anti-static device. And as
for aesthetics, we'll put it smack in the middle of the group of
cable elevators commercially available today. |
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