Continuing our coverage of T.H.E. Show, photos by Dave Clark, words by me, additional words by Dave as noted.
Klaus Bunge of Odyssey Audio with Magnan Cables, Symphonic Line, VPI.
Klaus had a lot to say regarding the system.
Blue Light Audio / The Audio Association. Evolution Acoustics EXACT Series loudspeakers.
Wave Kinetics NVS Turntable with the Durand Tonearm.
This room sounded really good. Along with the Evolution Acoustics loudspeakers were darTZeel NHB-108 Model Two amplifier and NHB-18NS Mk II preamplifier. Wave Kinetics NVS turntable, W8 record weight, A10-U8R vibration control system, and 2NS loudspeaker interface system. Merging Technologies Merging+Nadac DAC, Merging+Power power supply, Merging+U-Clock reference clock. Also Durand Tonearms Tosca.
LKV Research Veros One phono stage, Line One preamplifier, Veros PWR power amplifier. Sonner AudioLegato Unum loudspeakers and stands in red rosewood. Rega P8 turntable with RB880 tonearm, Neo PSU speed control, and Ortofon Cadenza Bronze cartridge. Audience, KimberKable and Cardas cabling. Butcher Bloce RigidRack.
Sonner Audio Legato Unum.
LKV Research electronics.
High Water Sound. TW-Acustic Raven GT II turntable with two TW-Acustic tonearms, and a Charisma Audio Signature One cartridge as well as a Miyajima Labs Infinity mono cartridge. Horning Hybrid Systems Aristotle Ellipse PM65 loudspeakers. Tron-Electric Atlantic integrated amplifier, Convergence stereo and mono phono stages. Silent Running Audia, Vibex, and Furutech.
Horning Hybrid Aristotle Ellipse MP65.
Scott Walker Audio with VAC, Magico, Aurender, MSB, Acoustic Signature. A good sounding room.
VAC components in the Scott Walker room.
Another shot of the Scott Walker room, which also featured Synergistic Research.
Scott Walker Audio, static display.
Synergistic Research, in the Scott Walker Audio static display.
Synergistic Research had a fascinating demo going on. Two rooms with identical systems, except one had cables and power conditioning readily available at Best Buy, the other room fully treated with Synergistic Research products. We started in the "Best Buy" room, where they were playing the soundtrack from Chernobyl, then went to the other room where the soundtrack had continued (both rooms playing the same music simultaneously). At first, I didn't hear a difference, but when I went back to the first room I noticed a substantial difference. Synergistic Research products really make a difference!
Speakers in both rooms were the ELAC Adante.
The rest of the system in both rooms included a Bluesound Node 2i music server, McIntosh C2600 preamplifier and MC462 amplifier.
The first room had AudioQuest cables, and a Furman power conditioner. The second room featured all Synergistic Research cables, the PowerCell8 power conditioner, and Ground Block, MiG / MiG 2.0 isolation footers, Tranquility Base XL, as well as all the acoustic treatments. A truly stunning demonstration.
