German reps Living Sound introduced another
Lumen White loudspeaker in the Silver Flame
($30,000). Built very much like other Lumen
Whites, this 5-way is designed to go both
lower and higher in the frequency extremes.
Well, it had both Key and I feeling quite warm
being driven with the wonderfully synergistic
Ayon 52B monos. Noteworthy mention has to go
the new and relatively inexpensive turntable
from Vyger called the Baltic M. Digital was by
way of North Star's CDT transport and
24/192 Extremo DAC. The recreation of the
stage was very impressive and sounded even
better than last year. We're hoping to have a
review sample of the North Star products
available in the coming months. Stay tuned.
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another one of those 10' by 10' boxes Sun
Union Audio loudspeakers partnered with
Bladelius electronics and produced a wonderful
sound considering room limitations. Their
Gondul CD/DVD/SACD multi-format
player/preamplifier (photo below) really
impressed me with its versatile performance.
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Want to get me excited? Design a loudspeaker
using separate enclosures for each driver and
employ a ribbon tweeter. Not any ribbon
tweeter but the very one used in the Sun Audio
Dragon Prince loudspeaker. Here's a
loudspeaker, made in China no less, that
boasts the best parts available says its team
of designers. The tweeter is the 16-cm True
Alian Benard tweeter from France while
internal parts: capacitors and inductors are
made from Jantzen Audio.
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 Another
loudspeaker that looked like it could move the
walls but did not was the Acoustic Plan Veena
loudspeaker. The tall, open baffled and
uniquely built cabinet, using a single 5 1/4"
broadband driver with four 10" woofers,
boasts a 95 dB sensitivity and a 8-Ohm load.
This level sensitivity makes it possible to
mate this tall line source with just about any
SET.
However, Acoustic Plan is popularly known for
their hybrid line of electronics and wasted no
time demonstrating why (photo right:
Santor power amplifier). I found myself
circling this room whenever there was a seat
available. I simply loved the open, and
textured sound of this room. More interesting
was how well and delicately the system handled
this room.
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 Another
great sounding setup was the AcuHorn/KR Audio
demo room. Now here's what I can only describe
as simply a mouthwateringly sweet sounding
setup. I wasn't alone in my assessment either
because the more show-goers I ran into the
more I heard of this particular room...in
another makeshift room no less. But one look
at the photo above and again, the less the
lethal doses of amplification needed for this
application then you can see where things make
sense. First off, these AcuHorn Grand Biancore
155 poses as tall and slender dipoles in
elegantly made enclosures. Their narrow
footprint offsets the amazingly wide and
full-bodied sound that was recreated in this
room. Driven by KR Audio's humongous 22-watt
1610 tubes (photo right) employed in their
Kronzilla SET amplifier this was certainly one
of the better sounds at the show.
Lindemann Audio showed their entire new line
of electronics that featured amplifiers as
well as loudspeakers. Quite impressive
considering how they were known for their
digital wares. The overall sound was
exquisite and well focused amid a huge
soundstage with very palpable images.
While many of the components did not have much
info associated with them hopefully, this info
will appear in the not
too distant future.
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