Best Music of Show

SSI 2009

By Stephen Mejias • Posted: Apr 2, 2009

I know it's only the first day and I've hardly listened to any music, but my Best Music of Show Award goes to the Tone Imports/DeVore Fidelity/Box Furniture Co./Clearaudio room. I doubt there'll be any other suite at SSI where you can hear Q-Tip's The Renaissance followed by some radically bad-ass, virtuoso tabla.

Anthony Abbate builds the cabinets for DeVore Fidelity loudspeakers and also has a range of handsome equipment racks and isolation platforms. Here we see one of Anthony's racks proudly supporting the Leben RS 30EQ phono preamp, the beautifully gold-knobbed and green-trimmed Leben CS600 integrated amp ($5500), and Clearaudio Champion Wood (hee hee).

Um, the Champion Wood was a big hit.

The loudspeakers are the soulful DeVore Gibbon Nines.

Comments

Submitted by Rene Stock on April 5, 2009 - 7:45pm.

I listened to the same tabla track on Friday evening and that track is spectacular. Great set-up in the Devore/Leben room - one of the few systems that really invites you to just listen to the music.

Submitted by bret Brase on April 9, 2009 - 10:10am.

An impressive "Real World Application". Good for you to show off a system that fits in the "normal real world living room' and is "real world financially attainable". Knowing many of the components, I can only guess that it sounded real, as in real good, too. Great job to all involved.