One of the nicer rooms | Koss 76 manual

	One of the nicer rooms
	belonged to a Canadian com-
	pany not that well known even
	in its home country, LaHave. Its
	Wedge speaker is on page 28. It’s
	pleasant musicality kept me in
	the room for a while on the third
	day.
	The amplifier at bottom left
	caught my eye too, because I
	had noticed it in an ad in our
Aurum Acoustics (from	last issue. It’s the Audio Space,
Newfoundland) was back with	and it’s next to the JAS Odin
the final version of its astonish-	loudspeaker. Yes, the speakers
ing tri-amplified loudspeaker (it	have ceramic woofers. The price:
comes with its own amps, four	C$7800. I must say that the demo
of which are single-ended tube	I heard was worth sitting down and
units). Now that the system	listening to for a bit.
(including the manifestly	I’ve often heard the huge wooden Edgarhorn, shown at
excellent CD player/pre-	left, at CES. I had never been very happy with it, but it actu-
amplifier) is entering	ally sounded quite good this time, with natural tonal balance,
production, our inter-	though (as is often the case with very large woofers) little in
est in doing an in-depth	the way of a real stereo image. Dr. Bruce Edgar was there, and
review has definitely	as you’ll see from the next report Albert was impressed with
perked up.	neither the speaker nor Dr. Edgar.
Aurum is not the	In Vegas I had heard an oversized “bookshelf” speaker
only high end company	called the Escalante Fremont. This time I heard a smaller
situated well outside	model, the Pinyon (above right). It looks rather conventional
metropolitan centres.	until you look closely at the metal-clad enclosure and the
From Mascouche (a	ring radiator tweeter. Like the Fremont, it sounded truly
medium-sized town just	excellent.
far enough from Mon-	Also sounding rather interesting was the Mirage OMD28.
treal to qualify as more	The new OMD series replaces the OM series, which replaced
than just a suburb) came the	the M series. The $10K speaker has carbon fibre woofers and
Revelation Mistral S-5 (its pic-	midrange, and a dome tweeter facing upward into a diffuser.
ture is on page 25). It caught my	Seeing how the company was rather disappointed with our
attention because, like the Reference 3a	review of one of its speakers in our last issue (see Feedback in
speakers in our Omega reference system, it	this issue), I refrained from suggesting a review.
is a two-piece speaker: a smaller two-way	Regional show though this might be it does manage to pull
unit sitting on a massive subwoofer. When	in a few high end celebrities. VTL’s Luke Manley was here last
I heard it, driven by Exposure electronics,	year. This year William Andrea of Mimetism was here (his
it had a simply huge sound.	integrated amplifier got a warm review in our pages in issue
From closer to us came an amplifier and	No. 74), and so was David Berning (you can see him on page
a pair of small speakers, under the name of	26). Berning had
Merikaudio. The company is in Longueuil,	broughthisnewest
which in case you don’t know is the Mon-	preamplifier. His
treal suburb where UHF is located. The	monoblock power
amplifier is not yet in its final form, and the	amps, alas, were
matching preamp is	not	quite done
still on the draw-	yet,	though he
ing board, but	had prototypes in
they may bear	unfinished form.
watching.	Also present
	was Linn’s Martin
	McCue, who was
	show ing some
	products that will

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76 specifications

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