Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson

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A CD Player Unlike Any Other!
CES 2007
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  First Published: Jan 09, 2007  |  1 comments
At least that's what Kevin Deal called the $1395 PrimaLuna Prologue Eight CD player.
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A Different Perspextive
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 07, 2008  |  1 comments
Sumiko had a new Pro-Ject turntable on display, the "approximately $2000" Perspex, which sports the new 9CC Evolution tonearm.
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A Shot of Adrenalin
CES 2007
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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Ahhhh, Music!
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 07, 2008  |  4 comments
We're stunned at how few exhibitors spend money for the larger rooms on the 35th floor of the Venetian, since they are so sonically impressive. Sumiko's room with the $28,000 SME 2012, $6000 Audio Research PH7, $10,000 Audio Research Reference 3, Audio Research Reference 210 monoblock amplifiers ($9000/each), and brand-spanking new $25,000/pair Vienna Acoustic Die Musik loudspeakers had us glued to the sweet spot.
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Ambient?
CES 2007
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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And the Cabinet Tuning Comes Out Here
CES 2007
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  0 comments
Proac's $6000/pair Response D-28 was making real music connected to Sugden's $3000 CD21SE and $4000 A21SE 30Wpc integrated amplifier. I eyed the 42.5" floorstander, noting its 1" silk dome tweeter and 6.5" midrange/woofer—but I saw no port.
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Are You Being Served?
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 09, 2008  |  0 comments
Naim has created a separate line of music server products that will be marketed independently of its component distribution system. On display at CES2008 was the DigiLinX compatible six-stream NaimNet NS01 Music Server ($6200), which has an internal ripping drive, a 400GB RAID 1 array, so data is secure.
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Audio Space's DAC-1
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  1 comments
Audio Space's DAC-1 US ($3000) is a hybrid tube/Mosfet DAC with a difference.It has two pairs of RCA analog outputs: One deriving its signal from the tube DAC; the other taking its signal from the discrete Mosfet DAC.
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Ayre's Der Platen Spieler
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 07, 2008  |  3 comments
Ayre's Steve Silberman was excited about the new DPS Ayre turntable. Charlie Hansen had hipped Wes Phillips to the then pending debut of the DPS Ayre back in September.
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Baby Pictures
CES 2007
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 12, 2007  |  1 comments
The 150Wpc Boulder 865 integrated amplifier (approximately $10,000) is only four days old, so we tiptoed into the room in order not to wake it up. Richard Maez (seen here at the back of the photo) was elated that the 865 had actually made it to the show, but he was even happier to run down the details.
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