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06.2022

Klipsch Cornwall 4 Speakers, $6600 Per Pair (Cherry, Black or Walnut) (38H, 25.3W, 15.5D, 96 lbs, 8 ohms, 105dB SPL) Klipsch’s famous Cornwall speaker has been updated and is now dubbed Cornwall 4. The new Cornwall has an improved Mylar midrange driver to go with its Titanium tweeter and 15” Pulp Fiber woofer. The cabinet size/shape has been improved, as have the horn dispersion flares. The crossover has been upgraded with improved parts and connections. Cornwall has been back ordered for months during C19, but now it’s back in da house! Cornwall is built first and foremost to give you
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05.2022

KLH Three $1800 Per Pair Price Includes Stands The 3s themselves are 19h, 12.25w, 10.5d, 30 lbs, 6 ohms, 88dB SPL. They are 28.25h on their stands. The 3s have an 8” Cast Frame Pulp Fiber Woofer & 1” Aluminum Dome Tweet. They sound solid and open. The success of VINTAGE speaker designs is alive and well. I like the formula. Take a speaker from the 60s that was iconic, like the KLH 5 or Klipsch Heritage models, and build it to LOOK the same, but have modern components within. KLH has done this as effectively as anyone. Part of
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04.2022

NAD C399 Integrated Amp $2000 (180×2) (4 3/4h, 17 1/8w, 15 3/8d, 25 lbs) NAD’s new, dynamite (!) integrated amp has just landed. It features NAD’s cutting edge PowerDrive nCore amplifier technology. It eschews the world of traditional amplifier design which is replete with mismatched output transistors. C399 is more efficient and refined in performance. C399 is better in that it resolves instrumental character without the ragged edges that come with traditional technology. Mismatched transistors create artifacts that aren’t part of what should be there. We hear them as harsh and unpleasant. C399 is not only smooth, it’s conspicuously MUSCULAR.
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03.2022

Mytek Liberty 2 DAC $1495 Covid 19 has impacted every audio company the last couple of years. Nobody has been disrupted more than Mytek. They have been out of the popular Liberty DAC for well over a year -and Liberty 2 is here- at long last! Liberty 2 steps in as THE best choice as a great cut above DAC- that compares to some of the most expensive on the market. In addition to sounding better on CD and hi-res streaming content, Liberty 2 supports full MQA decoding. If you like Tidal (I do!) you’re gonna love Liberty 2. Liberty
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02.2022

NAD M23 Power Amp $3500 (200 w/ch or 700w mono) (5 1/4h, 17 1/8w, 15 5/8d, 22 lbs) NAD has just hit the bullseye on its new Masters Series power amp! It is priced quite reasonably and competes with any amp on the planet. It’s due to ship any day. How do I know how it sounds already? M23 is the power amp section of the M33 Eigentakt integrated that has been turning heads since the day it came to market in 2020! You can buy a single M23 to run with the preamp of your choice. You can buy
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01.2022

Amphion Helium 520 Towers $3200 Per Pair White or Black ($3500 in Walnut) (42 1/4h, 6 1/4w, 8 1/2d, 90 dB SPL, 35 lbs) Amphion has introduced a remarkably clean, stylish, super skinny tower. It is barely over 6” wide! Helium 520 is first and foremost, a delightful open/airy sounding speaker. It creates a broad and deep soundstage. While its bass isn’t as robust as Amphion’s Argon 7LS ($6K per pair), you’ll be amazed at how large the soundstage is from this slender profile. We have plenty of customers that want major league clarity with a spacious image, yet don’t
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12.2021

Isotek Syncro Active $2200 Isotek has created a sine wave rebalancer to rid your system of transformer hum and electronic backwash. Syncro Active is ideal for the customer who is also getting an Aquarius or Sigmas line conditioner. Dave’s Fave’s Syncro Peachtree Separates Peachtree’s range of electronics is made in North Carolina. How nice to have very well built and price competitive American gear! These models support balanced and single ended operation. While each product is strong on its own, the package pricing when adding preDAC is especially enticing! GaN400 Power Amp $3000 (400×2) (4.33h, 14.17w, 13.77d, 16 lbs, Mocha
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11.2021

MoFi MasterTracker MM Cartridge $800 One of the best phono cartridges on the market doesn’t get much attention. That would be MoFi’s MasterTracker. MasterTracker sounds smooth instead of biting. Yet it has outstanding definition and plenty of output to run into your MM phono preamp. If you love the piano without sibilance, please consider the MasterTracker cartridge. The name MasterTracker is derived from MoFi’s combination of choices to achieve superb groove tracing. MasterTracker mirrors the design of MoFi’s record cutting head in its studio in California. It uses a V-Twin dual magnet generator. That is, it uses TWO powerful magnets
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10.2021

NAD M33 Integrated Amp $5000 (200×2) NAD’s M33 is perhaps THE BEST BUY in a high end integrated amp for a pile of reasons. $5k is a steal for this magnificent integrated amp/streamer. That’s right, it has an on board MQA streamer! NAD’s M33 is among the first products in the world to use the innovative Eigentakt amplifier circuit design. In short, M33 is impedance invariant and will drive ANY speaker you like. Due to Eigentakt, M33 sounds the same from watt one to clipping. Almost every speaker on the market will sound better with more power than less power.
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09.2021

Mo-Fi Studio Deck + $1400 Mo-Fi’s Studio Deck+ is a built in Ann Arbor, TANK of a turntable. Turntables, like all audio components, make a difference in the sound of your system. The sound of StudioDeck+ is distinctly warmer and less bright, or brittle, than the popular brands we’ve all heard of. The background is quieter and there’s less rumble. StudioDeck+ starts as heavy mechanism with HRS absorbing/leveling feet. It uses two plates of steel on the top deck. The tonearm is a precision built 9” arm with high quality wire. The cables are plug in on the rear, in
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