What you get is an MSB charging dock that replaces your iPod's analog outputs with an MSB DAC with RF remote capabilities. It requires modification of your iPod (included in the price)—or you could buy the package with an 80GB pre-modded iPod Video for $2349.
So why is it better than CD? "With the RF dongle connected to your iPod, you can listen to high-rez, lossless audio from your listening chair, but you're holding the iPod in your hand," Gullman said. Your collection…
"Wow! These are great! What do they cost?"
Karen Carpenter kept singing.
"I said how much do they cost?"
Karen Carpenter kept singing.
I looked up. Everybody at the table was staring at me. I removed the earbuds and heard Mike saying, "These are the metro.fi 2s. We're charging $89/pair for them. They have a single titanium diaphragm and…
I sat down, listening to Ray Lamontaign's 'Til the Sun Turns Black. "I may never leave.
It wasn't that the system sounded spectacular. In fact, it was the opposite of spectacle, it was relaxed, encompassing, supremely emotionally compelling. It didn't…
"Quite a step up for a wood cabinet," I joked.
"I always swore I'd never spend one single buck on cosmetics that I could put into sound quality," Richard Vandersteen thundered. "And I didn't start with this one. It's a very different animal, from the X-material plinth to the new composite Ebony, which gives me a consistency I've never gotten from any…
"Nothing really," he said.
"What's this?"
"Oh, that's the world's smallest AC conditioner, the XDC2 ($299). It removes DC from your AC, which is the leading cause of transformer chatter."
So there is something new?
"Well, I don't like to brag."
And here we thought that's what CES was for.
How much does it cost?
"The product stays the same price and every unit prior to the 2.1 version is eligible for the upgrade."
How do people find out about the upgrade?
"We announced it on www.audiocircle.com and now we're going through our warranty cards and notifying our customers—and I guess people will read about it on your blog."
One can…
Both amps feature PrimaLuna's adaptive auto bias so you can stick in any tube and the amp will optimize performance for it.
"So you're enabling tube rolling?" I asked Kevin Deal.
"You bet! Tube rolling is…
"What's so different about it?" I asked.
"Two words," Kevin said. "Tube clock! That means linear ultra-low-jitter performance."
Other details: Tube rectified power supply; dual mono, zero-feedback output stage, and custom designed isolation transformers separating the analog and digital circuits.