Newsletter for monthly updates & enter our contests!Ģ023 and Enjoy the ® Digital was handled by an AURALiC Aries streamer ($1,595) and AQUA supplied a La Diva CD transport ($8,500) and sensational DAC, AQUA Formula ($14,000). The heavy duty racks were supplied by Kanso Audio Furniture. He also was instrumental in room set-up using Stillpoints Aperture room treatments and Stein Harmonizers. Mike Garner of Tweek Geek supplied his own cables, Dark Energy. "Magnetic Drive" with three VPI tonearms ($30,000) held an Ortofon MC A95 cartridge ($6,500) Miyagima Madake cartridge ($5,995) and the aforementioned Zero-Mono. I listened to music in this room many times during the show, and for the Saturday evening Analogue Productions demo, I was taken by how the system just faded away and let the venue and artists just burst through portraying a very life like experience.ĭynamic Sounds Associates provided their electronics for the room, DSA Amp 1 Class A mono amplifiers ($25,000/pr) DSA Pre 1 line stage ($16,500) and DSA Phono II phono stage ($13,500). She sounded like she was on stage in front of us, clear vocals, finger snaps were scarily real, whistles also were real sounding and it again felt like we were at a theater looking at the stage. Perhaps the most interesting was another Analog Spark recording of West Side Story with Carol Lawrence singing the part of Maria. The Studio Electric FSX speakers 100% disappeared and Ella and the band appeared in front of us, spread wide left to right and she was in the room singing. Wow! Just a beautiful voice dripping with emotion, perfectly focused and centered, and the band displaying wide dynamic swings. Next David pulled out Ella Sings the Cole Porter Songbook from Analog Spark, chose the Miyagima Zero-Mono cartridge ($1,995), and lowered the arm. Mason's "Only You Know and I Know" and it brought back wonderful memories from that era. Vinyl is King here and David played a wide spectrum of musical genres all sounding engaging. They sounded anything but unassuming in the system and the room created quite a buzz around the halls of CAF. Dave McPherson brought a pair of unassuming floorstanders, Studio Electric FSX speakers ($11,500/pr) to the party this year. Year's CAF, but the speakers were a big change up. The electronics from DSA were similar to last David Scknolnik is a gracious and fun host who knows his way around 3 armed turntables, and why everyone should have one, hint one arm holds a mono cartridge. T he Adams room was about as far away from the Atrium as possible, but it was worth finding. The underside is still clad in aluminum.Capital Audiofest (CAF) 2017 & CanMania Show Reportĭynamic Sounds Associates, Studio Electric, Tweek Geek, To give all shelves the finishing touch, the perimeter is wrapped in wood which matches the support structures of the rack.Īs an option, the top of the highest shelf can have a wood veneer. The principal reason for the metal cladding on the surface of the shelves is for rapid transfer of vibration from the component chassis into the shelf. Both the top and underside of the shelf are then clad with a solid anodized aluminum veneer of brushed black, silver, or bronze color. This elastomeric material, (developed by a group of acoustic, mechanical, and chemical engineers), converts mechanical energy (vibration) into heat energy. A special elastomeric material is used between the layers. All Kanso shelves, regardless of product, are produced by laminating multiple layers of different materials chosen both for their hardness, density and anti-resonance characteristics.
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