Resembling something you'd use in the kitchen
to chop vegetables fast, the Mark & Daniel supertweeter ($900/pair) is an
accessory for...
Arcam delivered the new DV135 universal player
(top, $2000 CAD target price) and AVR280 A/V receiver ($2600 CAD target price) just in
time for the Festival. As you'd expect, connectivity
is generous.
Arcam also introduced a new
"audiophile-quality" iPod doc, the rDock ($399 CAD), which has buffered RCA
outputs for line-level connection, and S-video and composite video outputs.
The Artemis Labs SD-1 mono amplifiers comprise
two chassis per channel -- output
stage on the left and power supply on the right. With 300BXLS tubes, the amps deliver
14 watts per channel -- enough, we discovered, to drive Verity Lohengrin II speakers past
room-filling levels. The price is $13,000 per pair.
Doug Schneider loves to shoot
pictures of interesting drivers. Here is the Fostex FE108BE Sigma full-range driver for
the just-introduced Gemme
Audio Vivace...
...and this is a section of the 28"
ribbon tweeter/midrange of the Advanced
Ribbon Technologies Metro, a ribbon/dynamic hybrid speaker that costs $6900 per pair.
