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for 680k, i dont want to see daylight between the midrange/tweeter panel and the rosewood side wing panels. fit and finish should match cost.
Both LPs were played on a VPI Avenger Direct turntable ($36,000) with Wand tonearm and a Goldenberg Maestro cartridge ($6000). The phono stage was a VPI prototype (projected at $6000). The line stage preamplifier during my time in the room was the Viola Sonata ($38,000), from a company whose electronics acquitted themselves quite well at PAF. When sources required a balanced connection, speaker designer/Genesis owner Gary Leonard Koh (above) sometimes used a prototype Merrill Audio Caileigh preamplifier ($22,000). Amps in both cases were the Merrill Audio 116MX amplifiers in monoblock configuration; power interfaces, interconnects, and speaker interfaces were by Genesis.
The Genesis Prime+, designed by the same man who co-designed the 7th generation of Genesis IRS loudspeakers with the late Arnie Nudell, are a four-tower dipole line source. The 10th Generation since the original IRS launched for Infinity in 1980, they have 20 Genesis ring-radiator ribbon tweeters (front-facing) in a line-array, a 1.9m (72") line-source midrange in a high-frequency wing, and twelve 12" servo-controlled woofers in a separate bass tower. The bass towers are powered by 6 channels of servo-controlled bass amplification that is included with the system.
for 680k, i dont want to see daylight between the midrange/tweeter panel and the rosewood side wing panels. fit and finish should match cost.