Pievetta Opera Only ($2M) sort of copies it or plays homage (not to cop a Sonus Faber).Ĭertain products like that Theil (3.6) had something beautiful or at least interesting to it - like that curved baffle along with it's flat front and over-all slope to it. You wouldn't likely want one today, but look at the design! Now take a computer like the Cray 2 Supercomputer. The CEC looks great to me too, or the ol' Threshold T2 Preamplifier of yore: certain things of beauty.Ĭertain products today get design right, to my taste. To me, it is a thing of beauty, that to my eye exceeds most Hi Fi products built today. Take the cover of Stereophile's 1992 Recommended Componets: The Mark Levinson No. Whether it be nostalgia, or a cetain love of architecture, certain products bring a smile to my face. I was just trying to guess the reason underlying your comment, Smargo. Bryston just realeased their 7B 3 last week (well, it's review came out, anyway). Look the Bryston 7B was in it's 7B-NRB-THX stage back then. I've had just about enough of belt driven turntables, re: wow and flutter, and breaking $5000 MC cartridges installing a new belt (one was enough.), but my what a list of items.ĭon't tell me that you wouldn't mind a Krell KSA-250 or 300? To explain the emotive or reading interest, take a footballer.ĭown at the pub, you might just get into this same conversation but any hard core Manchester United fan, like the carpenter from Dublin who just came into my home, might look back to 1993 with the same sort of enthusiasm.Īre you or I going to be buying a belt-driven transport like the CEC? Likely, not. The collector in me now wants all these 1993 products! :) In the news, Symphonic Line (Germany) just came out with the Kraftwerk Reference Integrated Amplifier, which was covered by Wizard High End Audio Blog, no less. You can get Symphonic Line from him as well. Over at TAS, they're recommending the Symphonic Line based Odyssey Audio Khartago (and Stratos) amps by Klaus Bungee. What especially caught my eye when reading was the price of the Symphonic Line RG-8 ($5000) - 1993. I don't care much for the Linn LP, for many reasons, but reading about the Kimber PB+J and Sumiko's Blue Point Special brought at tear to my eye. Sonic Frontiers SFP-1 phono preamplifier ($1095 reviewed by Robert Harley, Vol.16 Nos.9 & 10, September & October 1993)įor me, seeing that photo was gorgeous. Sonic Frontiers SFL-1 line preamplifier ($1395 reviewed by Dick Olsher, Vol.15 No.8, August 1992, & Vol.16 No.2, February 1993) Norton, Vol.16 No.10, October 1993 Review) Krell KSA-250 power amplifier (No longer available, last priced at $6200 reviewed by Lewis Lipnick, Robert Harley, & John Atkinson, Vol.14 Nos.1 & 9, January & September 1991 and Thomas J. Jadis Defy-7 power amplifier ($6490 reviewed by Martin Colloms, Vol.16 No.4, April 1993 Review) that it became the runaway winner in the amplification category.ĪMC CVT-3030 integrated amplifier ($900 reviewed by Jack English, Vol.16 No.6, June 1993 Review)īryston 7B NRB-THX monoblock power amplifier ($4390/pair reviewed by Thomas J. the magical ability to create breathtakingly lifelike three-dimensional images." Summing up his 1992 review, he categorized the SL-1 Signature as being "the finest preamplifier available today" enough of Stereophile's writers agreed with him when they heard the C.A.T. But it's the sound that matters in Jack English's words, "stunning timbral realism.superb rendition of dynamic shadings. It also, perhaps, typifies some of the problems of the High End: limited production, limited availability, tube circuitry, and a high price. preamplifier typifies all that is good about the High End: inspired design, attention to detail, tube circuitry, and magnificent sound. Convergent Audio Technology SL-1 Signature preamplifier ($4950 reviewed by Jack English, Vol.15 No.12, December 1992 Review)
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