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What was fascinating to me was that this smaller system was an almost identical sonic match to the bigger system in every aspect other than scale. In the huge room in which it was placed, it lacked the big system's sense of ease, but it was its timbral twin—in a conventionally sized listening room, it might have even sounded better. Was it the Fidelity loudspeakers? "Nah," said Ray Lombardi, importer of the Audion line. "It's the tubes!" Maybe he has something there; both systems were winners.