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CES 2007
It's Kuzmarific!
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  1 comments
Franc Kuzma showed us his $900 VynVac record cleaner. "It's compact and, when it's not in use, it doesn't take up much space," he told us.
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CES 2007
Platters Flatter
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  1 comments
Is there any record collector who hasn't wished for a device that would flatten warped records without damaging them? It's the classic "why doesn't somebody invent that?" product.
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CES 2007
With Feeling
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  1 comments
Pathos Acoustics has one of the uniquest design esthetics in audio. Paolo Anriolo and Giaani Borinato beamed with delight as Jon Iverson and I oohed and ahhed over the $8000 Endorphin CD player and $1950 InControl preamplifier.
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CES 2007
A Shot of Adrenalin
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  0 comments
Pathos products don't resemble anything else in the audio world, but the $35,000/pair 150W Adrenaline Class-A monoblock is stunning even in a room packed with other Pathos gear. It's a zero feedback design and it sounded even more stunning than it looked.
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CES 2007
Ambient?
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  3 comments
Penaudio's Sami Pentillä brought an entirely new line of loudspeakers to CES: the Ambient series.
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CES 2007
NEW Shanling MC-30
Stephen Mejias  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  7 comments
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CES 2007
An Incredible Challenge and a Good Hobby
Stephen Mejias & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  0 comments
At the GamuT house, the first beauty that caught my eye was their new Phi3 loudspeaker dressed in drop-dead gorgeous zebra wood. "In Europe," said designer Lars Goller, "anything striped is really hot right now."
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CES 2007
The GamuT Tweeter
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  2 comments
All GamuT speakers sport a ring-radiator tweeter. The pointy thing in the middle is a metal waveguide—the perfect defense against little children poking in the tweeter dome.
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CES 2007
Danish Hospitality
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  4 comments
GamuT doesn't rent a display room at one of the hotels, instead they figure the best way to show off home loudspeakers is in a home. So they rent a palatial pad in the Las Vegas suburbs, invite us over for dinner (they fly in a Danish cook and assistant) and then we retire to the living room to check out the speakers and electronics.
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CES 2007
Classy Class-A
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 10, 2007  |  0 comments
VAS Audio's Sze Leung is the most consistently up audiophile we know—he's always raving about his latest listening session or discovery. "This one's incredible," he exclaimed, pointing to the 80Wpc Cayin H-80A Class-A tube hybrid integrated amplifier (approximately $4000)."
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