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Sweet Music from High Water Sound
By Stephen Mejias • Posted: Oct 15, 2011
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I live and work only minutes from Jeffrey Catalano’s High Water Sound, but to my shame have never visited the showroom. For no good reason, it’s only at shows like the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest that I get to speak with Jeffrey and enjoy his demo systems. But I’m extremely grateful for that because Jeffrey has outstanding taste in music—he has that great ability of connecting the dots between seemingly disparate musical genres and artists—and his perspective on hi-fi is fresh, interesting, and distinct. On this occasion, we listened to the big and beautiful Cessaro Horn Acoustics Affascinate I SE loudspeakers ($62,000/pair), a TW-Acustic Limited/10.5 turntable ($25,000), Tron Telstar Ultimate 211 amplifier ($40,000), Tron Seven GT Line preamp ($15,000), and Thoress Phono Entzerrer ($9,000). Also playing was a Thales TTT turntable ($20,000) with AV ($13,500) and Simplicity ($10,000) tonearms. Support came from the Silent Running Audio Scuttle ($7,000) and Ohio XL ($1,680). Cartridges were the Miyajima Labs Kansui ($3,600) on the TW 10.5; Shilabe ($2,995) on the AV; and Premium Mono ($1,260) on the Simplicity. Finally, everything was connected with Prana Wire.
This is an expensive system, but one easily capable of transporting the listener to special times and places. The sound was sweet, detailed, and well-balanced, with no one particular aspect of the music overpowering any other. Mono recordings were presented with great scale and physicality. As usual, Jeffrey Catalano brought a ton of great LPs. New for this year were the pumpkins—a nice touch.
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The Thoress F2A11 integrated amplifier
By Stephen Mejias • Posted: Oct 15, 2011
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We didn’t listen to the Thoress F2A11 integrated amplifier, but just look at it: It’s awesome. Entirely hand-built by Reinhard Thoress, the amplifier uses NOS Siemens F2A11 power tetrodes, which High Water Sound's Jeffrey Catalano explained, were popular in the Klangfilm cinema amplifiers of post-war Germany. Three line-level inputs are selectable by a rear-panel rotary switch, while separate volume controls for each channel can be adjusted using carefully matched high-grade rotary potentiometers. Why? I don’t know why, but it’s cool.
According to Catalano, the sound of the F2A11 is crystal clear. It “just cuts through all the BS.” There you go. The Thoress F2A11 looks like some kind of a tank, delivers about 6Wpc, and costs $8000.
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RMAF 2011 Rethm
RMAF 2011 Day 3: Rethm
Posted: October 24, 2011 | Author: John Darko | Filed under: Reviews | Tags: rmaf 2011 | Leave a comment » Jacob George also indulges my musical tastes: a major slab of Dark Side Of The Moon, via only the second Rethm model to feature in-house designed drivers. These do midrange glory like nothing else I’d heard at the show.
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推! 小高功德無量, 讓想玩Decca/London的人可以輕易買得到.(clap)
價格合理(reference除外...:D), 聽音樂一流的唱頭
不知道是配那支唱臂啊?
Bo自己就是用Decca V, 而且認為Decca在他的唱臂上唱得最好聽 :D
我的Decca頭....
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