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CES 2007
Trio? 'S Notta Copycat Product
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  First Published: Jan 09, 2007  |  0 comments
Music Hall's new $999 Trio CD receiver puts a CD player, tuner, and integrated amp together. What makes it different? Tubes, for one thing—you get 50Wpc of tubey goodness. Just add speakers and cook!
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CES 2007
Monkey Business
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  1 comments
Devore clearly has a monkey fixation.
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CES 2007
Mono a Mano
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  1 comments
We always make a point of visiting DeVore Fidelity's rooms because John DeVore always makes music come alive—and we are so down with that.
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CES 2007
Excellence!
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  1 comments
Naum Dorkhman was chuffed about Audes' new Excellence series of loudspeakers. "I told he engineers to take a blank sheet of paper and make loudspeakers that would satisfy audiophiles, not the bean counters," he said.
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CES 2007
That's Stanwick, George Stanwick
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  4 comments
Sugden's US importer analog George Stanwick proudly preens with his A21SE 30wpc Class-A integrated amp and CD21SE CD player. What made the Keith Jarrett trio sound so good—was it the electronics or was it the Proac Response D28s?
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CES 2007
And the Cabinet Tuning Comes Out Here
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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CES 2007
On The Other Hand
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  0 comments
If $250 per tube seems too dear, you can supply your own 12AX7, ECC 83, E83CC, 7025, 5751, 7058, 7729, 6681, CV492, CV8156, or 6057—and add Cool Valve's Eat Cool dampers for $40 each, as seen on the right..
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CES 2007
They Cost How Much?
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  1 comments
Roy Hall was blunt as usual. "I'm bringing in some obscenely expensive tubes. They're Telefunken ECC803Ses, which is one of the best tubes available, but Cool Valve measures them and selects the most perfectly matched, and then bonds their EAT Cool Damper to them. The result is lower operational temperatures, longer life, and lower microphonics. They cost . . . "
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CES 2007
Emperor Hansen
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  0 comments
Hansen Audio needed a speaker that wasn't quite as, um, lordly as its $65,000/pair King floorstanders, so Lars Hansen designed the $49,000/pair Emperors. The four driver three-ways are constructed of Hansen's composite matrix material in an enclosure that employs Sound Wave Refraction Distortion Elimination technology. The midrange (7.2") and bass (10.6") drivers are all multilayer composite sandwiches.
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CES 2007
Sooloos
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2007  |  0 comments
What's in a name? "It's a palindrome, sort of an anagram, and an ambigram," said Rob Darling. It's pronounced, "su loose," by the way.
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