option 1: Audia Flight Strumento pre/power combination
The Raidhos were featured at TAVES - Toronto's annual audio palooza:
Best Sound of Show Analogue
Bergmann Audio/Raidho Acoustics/Audia Flight/Sutherland Engineering/Transparent. Walking into this room was like an audiophile oasis. A Gene Ammons LP was on the the Danish-made Bergmann Magne Turntable ($12,999 incl. air bearing arm). Ammons breathy tenor sax was in the room sounding like live music. Beautiful, balanced, defined, rich, present. And, when listening to the incredible Esoteric LP reissue of Kertesz/Vienna New World, the tingle meter jumped through the roof. It was so refined. Sitting next to Audiophilia writer James Norris (another conductor and a brilliant violist) was instructive. We just kept smiling at specific moments where the sound reproduction transported us from hotel room to concert hall. World class. The sound had the power and the might, but with a velvet glove. Im already planning negotiations with my wife after the upcoming review.
The Magne Turntable (and the more expensive Sindre and Sleipner turntables) are modern, Danish designs of simplicity and sophistication. A difficult achievement, but its what great designers do. The Bergmann Audio air bearing, tangential tracking arm (included with the table) is a big cherry on the cake. It looks and feels amazing. Tolerances are microscopic and, when sliding the arms tube over the air stream, feels perfect. Complementing the Bergmann were the Sutherland Engineering Power Block phono stage ($11,000), Raidho Acoustics D-1 Loudspeakers and the Audia Flight Strumento pre/power combination. The Raidhos and AF kit are very well known to me. You can find our recent, very positive reviews of both Raidho Acoustics and Audia Flight in a quick search on Audiophilia. All the manufacturers make excellent musical bedfellows with the sexy Bergmann.
Go to this page to see the whole report:
http://www.audiophilia.com/wp/?p=12511
opt1on 2: Taves 2014 Raidho X1 @Bel Canto Black
Bel Canto Black ASC1 Asyncronous Stream Controller and MPS1 Mono Block PowerStream amplifiers
http://www.serious-music.com/Blog/?p=1029
OPTION 3:
Jeff Rowland Aeris D/A converter and Jeff Rowland 625 power amplifier,
http://www.stereophile.com/content/raidho-and-rowland
I thought the Raidho D-1 loudspeaker ($28,000/pair, including stands), was among the most interesting and musically impressive new products at SSI. Raidho, a Danish company known for their work with ultra-lightweight ceramics, has developed a process for bonding to their speaker diaphragms a thin coat of industrial diamond, conferring even greater stiffness and freedom from unwanted resonances. Paired with a Jeff Rowland Aeris D/A converter and Jeff Rowland 625 power amplifier, the Raidhos were impressive on a variety of material. Weve all heard demonstrations where we came away saying, I cant believe they got so much bass out of such little loudspeakers, but in terms of the sheer quality and scale of that bass, the Raidho/Rowland combination was on another plane altogether.