The two piece unit has an unconventional power supply—each box contains the complete power supply for one polarity, positive in the control module and negative in the power module. Further the power module is completely tube regulated and is filtered with custom BAT oil capacitors.
Each input can be customized. Speaking of customizing, BAT lets you change the current source tube in the gain stage with one of three options:…
McGrath is one of the busiest live recording engineers in the country—I've been listening to his stuff with pleasure, dating back to his classic Leonard Shure, David Bar-Illan, and Earl Wild recordings on Audiofon in the early 1980s. But when he comes to the HE shows, he always…
In Rick Brown's Hi Fi One room, Maestro Tsuda had both his state-of-the-art Concert Fidelity CF-80 line stage ($18,000) and Silicon Arts ZL-120 mono amplifiers ($23,000/pair), as well as a prototype of his SA SPA-4 phono stage ($18,000).
The front end was the "half price" Continuum Criterion turntable with Copperhead tonearm ($51,000). The speakers were the…
"We're using all we brought," he confessed. So modesty is also sometimes a necessity.
(BTW, that slick rack the Criterion is sitting on is the Stillpoints ESS 405-26 ($…
"We're using all we brought," he confessed. So modesty is also sometimes a necessity.
(BTW, that slick rack the Criterion is sitting on is the Stillpoints ESS 405-26 ($…
That's not technically correct. I've built a few two-way loudspeakers and what I got out of a 5.5" driver was not amazing at all—just sad. But what Kristoffersen was achieving with the Princess was amazing. These are sweet little speakers—and those Stillpoints stands ($995/each) they are sitting on are pretty cool, too. They provided stability and fantastic coupling to the floor.