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![[SOUNDSTAGE! LIVE]](../covers/ssmainlive.gif) The Best in Online Trade Show Reporting Standout Room: Avalon Acoustics, Basis Audio, Benz-Micro, Koetsu, Accuphase, Aesthetix, Graham Engineering, Acrotec
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The Best in Online Trade Show Reporting Standout Room: Avalon Acoustics, Basis Audio, Benz-Micro, Koetsu, Accuphase, Aesthetix, Graham Engineering, Acrotec
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Copyright © 1998 |
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The sounds of analog ruled
in this standout room assembled by John Barnes of Audio Unlimited in Colorado. It quickly
became one of Greg Weaver's favorites. The Basis Debut Vacuum Mark V turntable, priced at
$10,600, was fitted with the Graham Engineering 2.0 tonearm, which lists for $3000, and
the $5,500 Koetsu Rosewood Signature Platinum cartridge. This front-end was passed to the
$5,000 Aesthetix Io phono stage, the $14,000 Accuphase C-290 preamp, and then the
astounding Accuphase M-2000 mono amps, at $27,000 a pair. The beautifully appointed and
coffee-table-sized 2,000-watt monoblocks drove the Avalon Acoustics Eidolon loudspeakers,
which retail for $19,500 a pair. All cables and interconnects were from Acrotec. This
system was certainly meant for the well-healed customer; the results were lush and vivid.