The Home Entertainment Expo 2002
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Thursday
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Here in the Tenor Audio room they had their Classic 75WP ($18,900) and 75WI
amplifiers. They were both being used to bi-amplify the impressively large Rockport Hyperions ($86,500). The Hyperions use
the Audio Technology 13" woofer and 6" midrange mated with the Esoteric tweeter. Jena Labs Pathfinder interconnect and loudspeaker
cable kept the system "well-connected". An Audio Aero Capitol 24/192 CD player
as source ($6,900) was directly driving the amplifiers (read: no pre-amplifier necessary).
Also of note were the four excellent Machina Dynamica Promethean Bases ($500 each) for the Tenor
amplifiers and one Nimbus ($900) for the Audio Aero player.
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In the Convergence Audio Technology room was the Wilson Grand Slam loudspeakers ($90,000), CAT JL 2 stereo amplifier ($12,000) and VYGER Indian Signature
($24,000, seen below) as reviewed within our very own Review
Magazine.
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Kharma's beautifully finished Exquisite Extended Reference 1A loudspeaker
($90,000) was looking might extraordinary in their demo room.
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Walker Proscenium Gold Signature turntable is considered by
many to be among the world's best analog reply devices.
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Lamm Industries new LP2 phono stage ($6,290, or $6,690 in deluxe version)
employs vacuum tubes for signal gain while a custom designed dampening panel
reduces the negative effects of vibrations. The Deluxe version comes with a
power supply that can store more energy than the standard version.
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Kharma Ceramuin Reference Monitor CRM 3.2 ($19,000) two-way loudspeaker has
a single 1" titanium done tweeter mated with a ceramic 7" midrange/bass driver. Pure silver coils and silver/gold internal
wiring insure fast, clean signal transfer from the loudspeaker binding posts
the the drivers.
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Intuitive Design's Denali loudspeaker ($35,000 per pair) is
wrapped in Italian marble mounted on a Corian base for a very inert total
package. Drivers include two Scanspeak 8" woofers, Cabasse 6" midrange and Seas 1" silk soft-dome tweeter. Each cabinet of this three
cabinet design boast 28 ball bearings for vertical free floating. Each
complete loudspeaker weighs in at a hefty 500 lbs. Amplifiers driving the loudspeakers
were the Essence Emerald 300 watt monoblocks ($15,000).
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Essence's Jasper pre-amplifier ($15,000) also uses bearings for free
floating to reduce vibrations from interfering with the high-performance
circuitry. This is a tubed design with two matched 12AX7s.
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Got Music? Aurios offers various vibration control devices.
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Do you have a dream? Consider it no longer a
"Pipedream" as these tall floorstanding loudspeakers also include
separate subwoofer for full frequency music reproduction.