by Michael

RMAF 2012 – day 1

Things you might want to check out…


Esoteric and Cabasse in the conifer 1 room [behind the registration desk… kind of]


Sorry, but I got a kick out of this Audio Limits lamp in the Primrose room [also on the 1st floor, at the end of the hall extending from the atrium]


Tektron in 446


The headphone area seemed about twice as big as last year [or was that the year before?]. Anyway, lots to see here.


Estelon with Vitus in 517


Hsu Research in 510 was a very well-balanced inexpensive system


Bob Carver, Analysis Plus, in 506


The Rethm room in 501 keeps improving dramatically each year to the point where it is one of the better sounds at the show that I heard today


Sonist and Snake River Audio in 549


Ginko Audio, Wells Audio, DanaCable in 427


The new Feickert Firebird turntable in 423


SVS’s largest subwoofer, in room 441


Line Magnetic’s LM-219 IA integrated amp in room 578


Audio Note’s new outboard turntable power supply in room in room 566


Gershman Acoustics displayed several new speakers n room 555


GTT Audio with YG Acoustics Anat III without the bass units on a Accuphase and Veloce front end this year (instead of the Soulution and a hard disc drive last year) in room 535

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 by Michael

Audio Note at RMAF 2012

Audio Note will have a room at RMAF again this year. Audio federation [us!] will not for the first time ever.

The Audio Note room will feature:

Speakers: AN-E SEC Silver, Slate finish. These are one step below the SEC Signature, with internal crossover.
Turntable: TT2 Deluxe, with external power supply, along with Arm3v2, IOI and S4
DAC: DAC 3.1x/II
Preamp: M3 Phono
Transport: CD4.1x will act as a transport
Amp:
Tomei Kinsei 25 watt 211 SE power amplifier, parts like the Tomei, architecture like the Gaku-On, but with a single power tube per channel: fully transformer coupled, all directly heated triodes, XLR inputs only. 2 x NOS 6V6, 2 x VT4C/211, 2 x 5R4WGB

or

Empress Silvers. These are all-copper Kageki. The Neiro is the half copper half silver Kageki.

Cabling: the new ISIS interconnects and speaker cable:

ISIS cables… The New Copper Reference

The recently introduced ISIS Reference Copper interconnect cables have been an enormous success, redefining many listeners’ expectations of what was possible with a copper cable. As a result, we have decided to expand the Reference Copper range, and we now present the ISIS LX168 loudspeaker cable and the ISIS Mains cable.
ISIS LX168:

This is not only first true Reference Copper loudspeaker cable in the History of Audio Note (UK) it is also a departure from a design perspective. Previously, all of our cables were intended to be configured with four separate cables per side for true bi-wire configuration, or two separate cables per side for single wire configuration. ISIS LX168 – thanks to its large strand count and 8 True Litz conductor design – can be used in a variety of cost effective and high performance configurations: single cable / single wire, single cable / biwire, twin cable / single wire, twin cable / biwire, quad cable / biwire.

ISIS Interconnects
Audio Note (UK) is proud to announce the introduction of a new reference copper interconnect, named ISIS.

As LEXUS can be seen as a copper version of SOGON, so ISIS is a copper version of or flagship interconnect SOOTTO, sharing its geometry and design. Never before has a copper cable offered this level of performance, and it will undoubtedly delight and surprise you in equal measure.

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