by Michael

Nordost Odin 1m RCA interconnect

Nordost Odin 1m RCA interconnect. One meter RCA (single-ended) interconnects. Excellent performers. Broken in on awesome Nordost Vidar cable break-in device.

Retail: $16,000.  Well-loved in 8.25/10 condition. USED PRICE: withdrawn, for now, anyway.

We have a lot of experience with Nordost products and are unrepentantly, unabashedly fond of them. Send us an email (mike+neli@audiofederation.com) or give Neli a call 303-546-6503 if you have any questions about the cables or, you know, anything else… Life. The universe. High-end audio. Whatever. 🙂

 

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 by Michael

System Update: personalized custom auditions

J. wanted to hear his Lampizator Golden Gate DAC in our system – mostly because we all thought it would be a lot of fun – while auditioning the Acapella Audio Arts Cellini loudspeakers and Acapella La Musika integrated amplifier.

Lampizator seems like an extremely high-quality company, but we are very, VERY happy with Emm Labs‘ and Audio Note UK‘s digital solutions [also extremely high-quality companies :-)].

The Golden Gate DAC has a builtin linestage so we have many options here:

  1. Set the Golden Gate’s volume knob to unity gain and go directly to the La Musika integrated amplifier’s linestage
  2. Set the Golden Gate’s volume knob to unity gain and go directly to the Audio Note UK M9 Phono preamplifier driving the La Musika integrated.
  3. Use the Golden Gate’s linestage [and volume control] and go directly to the La Musika integrated’s amplifier stage
  4. Use the Golden Gate’s linestage [and volume control] and go directly to the Audio Note UK Kegon SET amplifiers
  5. Set the Golden Gate’s volume knob to unity gain and go directly to the Audio Note UK M9 Phono preamplifier driving the Kegon SET amps.
  6. did I forget something?

We needed more than 3 shelves on our equipment rack, so we setup the Harmonic Resolution Systems‘ (HRS) MXR equipment rack. Precision machining [think: very high-end turntable] on an equipment rack. Who woulda thunk? Such a pleasure to setup.

Can a person HAVE more fun? 🙂

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 by Michael

Audio Federation to show at Axpona 2018

We will be showing at Axpona 2018 in room 440.

That is 440 people, right next door to Odyssey [i.e. Klaus] and Raidho [i.e. Lars, et. al.], just around the corner from The Voice That Is [i.e. Doug] and High Water Sound [i.e. Jeff]. Lots of good sounding rooms nearby 🙂

The goal, the plan, the hope is to show:

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Acapella Audio Arts Cellini High loudspeakers

Acapella Audio Arts La Musika integrated amplifier

Audio Note UK Fifth Element DAC [ 🙂 ]

Audio Note UK CDT-Five transport

HRS equipment rack [probably the 3-shelf SXR with outboard M3X platform for the Fifth Element’s Fifth Force power supply]

Audio Note and Acapella cableage and power cords.

This is our first Axpona. Looks like we are doing this instead of the LA Audio show [hey, I just work here ;-)]

See ya all there!

< For all of our Bay Area fans …. we’ll also be back in Boardroom 5 at CAS, end of July, … intending to bring the analogue rig to that one, yum. >

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