- Home
- Equipment Reviews
-
Amplification Digital Integrated Mono Block Preamplifier Phono Solid State Tube Analog Sources Cartridges Tape Tone Arms Turn Tables Digital Sources Digital Disc Players DACs Music Servers Streaming Music Services
-
Accessories Power Conditioners Room Accoustics Racks & Stands Audio Software Other iPod iPod Speakers iPod Headphones iPod Transports Headphones Over Ear On Ear In Ear Headphone Amplifier
-
- Audio News
- Event Reports
- California Audio Show, San Francisco
- Consumer Electronics Show
- T.H.E. Show
- Rocky Mountain Audio Fest
- AXPONA
- Salon Son & Image
- Hi-Fi Show & AV Expo
- High End
- Lone Star Audio Fest
- Capital Audio Fest
- TAVES - Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show
- AK Fest
- Home Entertainment Show
- New York Audio $ AV Show
- Open House Events
- Spotlight
- Music
- The Columns
- Dagogo Classics
Latest Reviews & Audio News
-
Gryphon Antileon EVO solid-state dual-mono amplifier Review
(April 8, 2021) -
Reference Recordings Beethoven Symphony No. 9 SACD Review
(April 8, 2021) -
Iconoclast by Belden Speaker and Interconnect Cables and BAV Power Cords Review
(April 8, 2021) -
Exogal Pulsar IR Unit Review
(March 26, 2021) -
New Album Releases Project 2021-3-22
(March 22, 2021) -
Audiophile Law: Burn In Test Redux
(March 5, 2021) -
New Album Releases Project 2021-3-2
(March 2, 2021) -
New Year, New System
(March 2, 2021) -
Ortofon MC Anna Diamond moving coil cartridge Review
(March 24, 2021) -
New Album Releases Project 2021-2-22
(February 22, 2021) -
New Album Releases Project 2021-2-15
(February 16, 2021) -
Sony TC-200 Reel-to-Reel tape deck and My 50-Year Audio Journey in Southern California
(February 12, 2021) -
New Album Releases Project 2021-2-9
(February 9, 2021) -
SW1X Audio Design DAC III Review
(February 23, 2021) -
New Album Releases Project 2021-2-2
(February 2, 2021)
-
Categories
-
Amplification Digital Integrated Mono Block Preamplifier Phono Solid State Tube Analog Sources Cartridges Tape Tone Arms Turn Tables Digital Sources Digital Disc Players DACs Music Servers Streaming Music Services
-
Accessories Power Conditioners Room Accoustics Racks & Stands Audio Software Other iPod iPod Speakers iPod Headphones iPod Transports Headphones Over Ear On Ear In Ear Headphone Amplifier
Site Sections
Copyright ©1996-2021 All Rights Reserved.
Popups Powered By : XYZScripts.com
Arian in Rick’s room, Kawero speakers, Berning 211 amps, Stillpoints equipment stand
A Unique Audiophile Learning Experience – What exactly is the Sonorus Audio ProximitySub Controller?
The older I get, the more resistant I become to change. Sometimes it takes a collision with something that your belief system cannot explain to cause you to re-examine those beliefs. For me this was occasioned by my recent visit to the home of an audiophile who had a rather memorable system, comprised of equipment which I had previously heard only at audio shows and never in a home setting.
The system that I heard was set up in a rectangular space (26’ by 16’ by 9’) with the speakers set up about one third of the length of the room from the front wall and the listening position about the same distance out from the opposite wall. Free standing Real Traps was also utilized for room treatment. This is not intended to be an exhaustive review of any of the equipment, which can really only happen when a single piece of equipment is inserted into a known environment and auditioned over an extended period of time. The equipment that I auditioned included the following:
Kawero speakers, Berning amps
Room treatment
Listening was exclusively to vinyl records played on a Spiral Groove 1.1 turntable + Centroid tone arm with the excellent Lyra Kleos cartridge. The phono stage was the digital Wadax PRE 1 Mk 2. It utilizes signal patterns captured as played on your turntable with a Wadax mapping lacquer, recorded with a hand held digital recorder, factory analyzed and sent back as fully individualized and calibrated ‘plug n’ play’ RIAA maps. The benefits include perfect channel balance and frequency linearity. The Wadax performed flawlessly and at no point called attention to itself. Records played included the following:
Arian adjusting the Proximity Controller