Top Audio & Video 2002
Milan, Italy
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Model One radio by the late great Henry Kloss. At times it makes me wonder if audiophiles truly realize how much he helped to advance the loudspeaker field.
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E Lucevan Stella Records booth specializes in early period music. In fact all their titles are recorded in Italy.
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Top Audio, the show organization, garnished awards for various
innovations/products. To celebrate these products, a special section was set aside where many of them could be enjoyed. Seen here is the Omicron Stargate turntable.
Other products that received an award were:
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The VYGER Indian Signature (see review of the VYGER Indian
turntable by clicking
here).
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U-Vola model U-2003 loudspeakers.
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S.A.P. Anniversary tube amplifier that employs two Golden Dragon KT88 output tubes, two ECC82 and an ECC99.
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Also awarded was the Avantgarde Acoustic Duo hornspeaker. The Duo is one of my personal favorites due to their impressive transparency and startlingly real dynamics. Virtually no non-horn loaded comes close, both macro and micro dynamically, from my experience over these many years.
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And lastly in the awards section for our show report, the Micromega Reference SACD player with full six-channel decoding capability plus 12-bit video circuit. It also plays CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, and DVD-RW. Also dts/Dolby Digital are handled with aplomb.
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The Pathos Logos integrated hybrid amplifier features a tubed pre-amplification stage with seven inputs (two balanced via XLR, five RCA).
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