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He build the more enormous turntable plynths of the universe. Some used 18" platters, so perhaps is it possible to build something bigger ?
No less artisanal as the former but more subdued in appearance were Miyajima's ETR-KSW SVT step-up transformer ($USD2495), Miyajima's EC5 preamp ($USD4995), and a Yamamoto Sound Craft AO-14 300B amp ($CAD6000), all of it complemented with Ocelia cables and Harmonix turntable mat and footers. A system like this isn't designed to produce prodigious bass, but to communicate the emotional core of the music, which it succeeded in doing with a midrange that seemed to go on forever. On tracks by vocalists Dominique Fils-Aimé and Ane Brun, the sound was exceedingly tactile, and brimming with microdynamics and lingering decays.
He build the more enormous turntable plynths of the universe. Some used 18" platters, so perhaps is it possible to build something bigger ?
I see a lenco on the right of picture
But what’s the one on the left in the beautiful burl wood
Thx
Ps Nantais spelling wrong in heading though not body of article
PPS you forgot to mention the Thoress phonostage :)
It is an immaculately refurbished 1960s Lenco.
I saw no Thoress phono stage being used in the playback chain. The SUT was plugged into the Miyajima's EC5 preamp, which incorporates a phono stage.
Interesting the top plate looks quite different from on the right which is the one I am used to seeing
Any more photos from the top? Of that one on the left
Ok so the thoress second shelf on right wasn’t used thx
https://www.stereophile.com/artdudleylistening/408listen/index.html
7800 bucks in 2008.
They are amazing at detail! But, the price seems to be more about chasing the market.
Of the few times I feel I’ve ever come close to live sound from a system, it was hearing Louis Armstrong’s head sticking out from one of those speakers. It was alarmingly vivid!
The price paradox continues to puzzle and perplex me.
kinda sounds like Old people living in Florida. hmm
Love this one too: "Lingering Decays" !
I'll be looking to find an appropriate use for this wonderful expression.
Look out HR, there 's Poetry in the frozen North.
Tony in Venice
LOVE the idea of the Yamamoto A-014 integrated and wish there were somewhere in NYC where I could hear one.