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| Surreal Speakers: Made to order in Virginia, USA Hi Joe, nice to hear from you! Thanks for adding your comments about hearing these speakers at CAF this past summer. | |
| Surreal Speakers: Made to order in Virginia, USA Yes, it is, Russ. I think you heard it with the Tangband drivers. They then moved to Lowthers with field coils, which were very good and this is what they showed with at CAF. But Lowther (manufacturer) couldn't provide consistent quality and relia... | |
| Surreal Speakers: Made to order in Virginia, USA Mechans (Steve), I've listened to these speakers in all their iterations over the past couple of years. The key was finding something that will drive the 1 ohm load presented by the woofer array. Ralph (founder and engineer who designed these) det... | |
| Surreal Speakers: Made to order in Virginia, USA Pops, thanks for sharing your experience with them. The pair at Capitol Audio Fest had the Lowther drivers with field coils. This newer version uses the AER drivers from Germany for even better sound quality. Color me very favorably impressed. | |
| Surreal Speakers: Made to order in Virginia, USA Thank you, Ralph. The speakers performed very well with your Atma-Sphere S-30 driving the monitor section (135hz and up). The entire set up makes for a very attractive "small footprint" system that delivers full frequency range, dynamic sound. Pro... | |
| Surreal Speakers: Made to order in Virginia, USA Mofimadness, I asked Surreal Speakers to give me a summary of their current pricing and received the following reply:"With the Tangband drivers, the cost is $16,900 plus shipping. In the new version with the German AER field coil drivers (the vers... | |
| Surreal Speakers: Made to order in Virginia, USA Yogiboy, the dipole subwoofer towers can be purchased separately.Tonykay, sorry you're taking a cynical perspective. I'm just another audiophile who's followed the evolution of these speakers from this small VA company for several years. Others sh... | |
| Preamp for Aesthetix / Atma-sphere Ditto Albert's suggestion. Albert is one of the few people I know who've been able to critically audition both the Io by itself and the Io through a Callisto. As an alternative, I wouldn't discount using a used Atma-Sphere MP-1 as the linestage pr... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Beethoven's wonderful Late Quartets played by the Budapest String Quartet on Columbia M5S 677. Delightful performances. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Yesterday with friends...Oscar Peterson & Count Basie - satch & josh / PabloHaydn, Sym 5, Dorati/PhilHungarica - just some amazing solo highlights and interplay - remarkable for it's time period.Lars Erik Larsson - Concerto for Double Bass... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Have just been playing the Yarlung LP: Petteri Ilvonen - Art Of The Violin. My wife came in and said, "that sounds really nice, who's the composer?" Answer: "just finished a Debussy piece and this is by David Lefkowitz"Question: "Who's David Lefko... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? A friend's question about what I've heard in 2013 that I found special caused me to have to reflect a bit. My reply to him was that the two recent Yarlung recordings were very nicely recorded:Petteri Ilvonen - Art Of The Violin/YarlungAntonio Lysy... | |
| rushton It's nice to see that so many of have personal relationships with those who have made possible the equipment we use. While it certainly is true that the equipment is a tool in service to the music, the better the tool, the more I marvel at being a... | |
| rushton To whom do you owe thanks for your listening pleasure?Apologies, this was the intended subject line for this post.. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas - Fantasy 8431 (45rpm reissue from Analogue Productions)(Oh yes, it sounds really good, too.)Doug MacLeod - There's a Time - Reference Recordings - 45rpm (Very enjoyable blues!)Charles Mingus - Ah Um - OR... |