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Environmental
Potentials North America (EPNA) is pleased to award an EP-2450, EP-2050, and
EP-2750 to four lucky Enjoy the Music.com mailing list members. The
EP-2450 Home Theater Power Supply is a robust industrial design that includes
three patented circuits by a leading power quality R&D organization. The
unit will protect home entertainment assets from surge events while tracking,
filtering, absorbing, and dissipating high frequency resonance from the system
with no shunt to ground. The EP-2050 Whole House PQ Filter and Surge Absorber
are residential models of the industrial EP-2000 patented waveform correction
absorber. EPNA claims this is the most aggressive power quality filtration
technology available and will remove all system anomalies at 3kHz or greater,
without residual byproduct or shunt back into the system. EP-2750 ground
blocks removes high frequency resonance in the grounding system, add filtering
to prevent ground loops and reduces the chance of damage from lightening
strikes.
MSRP: Environmental Potentials North America EP-2450 and EP-2050 are $750 each
while the EP-2750 is $600 for a total of $2,100. Four lucky winners will be
receiving this prize package for a grand total prize giveaway of $8,400. www.ep2000.com
Music
Interface Technologies (MIT) will be sending a special Enjoy the Music.com
Mailing List member a set of their award winning Magnum MA Speaker cables.
Founded by Bruce Brisson decades ago, he heard the sonic problems with cables
available at the time and began designing cables specifically for audio
performance. MIT take special care to ensure their cables are state-of-the-art
with such technologies as Bandwidth Balanced, Phase Correct windings, Time
Coherent windings plus Multipole technology. The Magnum MA (Maximum
Articulation) is the culmination of over three decades of research and
development, with advances that have this cable earning a Golden Ear Award
from none other than The Absolute Sound's editor Robert Harley.
MSRP: $7995 for 8 foot length www.mitcables.com
The
Tanto VFlex loudspeakers are 1.5-way full range loudspeakers featuring a 16.5
cm wool and paper midrange/bass driver and a 19 mm ring radiator tweeter. The
main driver does not use any crossover, while a single capacitor is used with
the high frequency driver unit. Using VFlex loading, Tanto is said to
reproduce live music with incredible accuracy and with an uncanny sense of
"being there." The precision made machined front and back baffles
feature a surface with vibration breaking V grooves. Internally, the Tanto
VFlex is heavily braced as the inside baffle panel has asymmetric focal
grooves to break and spread standing sound wave. Gold plated Cardas
loudspeaker binding posts and tripod footing with integrated adjustable spikes
round out this impressive design. Sensitivity is 91.5dB/W/m at a 4 Ohm
impedance. Frequency response is from 18Hz to 30kHz with dimensions being 36 x
10 x 16 (HxWxD in inches).
MSRP: $5,495 (Note: the winner will receive the soon to be released new
version) www.GemmeAudio.com
A
totally tubular linestage from ModWright Instruments will be received to one
of our Mailing List Members! The ModWright SWL 9.0SE tube linestage has four
inputs, two sets of outputs, and home theater bypass mode. Providing a
tradition of exceptional value, performance and service, ModWright
Instruments' SWL 9.0SE features a power supply that is choke input current
regulated, regulated DC heaters, and discrete FET regulated B+ voltages. The
critical gain stage is fixed battery bias... Mu type gain/buffer stage while
volume adjustment is via an Alps motorized potentiometer. Other top quality
parts include FRED and Schottky diodes, metal film Vishay resistors, ceramic
tube sockets and high-quality film caps.
MSRP: $2,500 www.ModWright.com
Furutech
is going to be sending a luck winner their award winning Power Reference
III-N1 cable and a two meter length of their Speaker Reference III-N1 cable.
The speaker cable features double-shielded Alpha-OCC Conductors to eliminate
radiated noise while Formula GC-303 Antimagnetic EMI-Absorbent Modules
surround each cable. The wire is insulated with air-foamed Irradiated PE
reducing capacitance and damping vibration as the FP-201 Spade terminals are
nonmagnetic rhodium-plated pure copper. The cable is said to result in greater
resolution, clarity, powerful dynamics, and an ultra-quiet soundstage in which
music develops more fully without artificial upper-frequency 'presence region'
glare. Furutech's Power Reference III-N1 cable features double-shielded a
Alpha-Conductors to eliminate radiated noise and Formula GC-303 Antimagnetic
EMI-Absorbent Modules surround each cable. The male side has Rhodium-plated
nonmagnetic pure copper while the female side has Rhodium-plated phosphor
bronze contacts. Furutech's unique wire-clamping mechanism guarantees ultra
firm connections while Twin Flexible PVC sheaths improve vibration isolation.
Furutech's GC-303 allows a deeper, tighter bass to form a solid foundation for
the rest of the frequency range, better defining the original recording's
venue. Natural, unforced detail reveals nuance and energy for an engaging
musical experience. Both products are 2007 The Absolute Sound Editors' Choice
award winners!
MSRP: Power Reference III-N1 cable is $1100 and two meter Speaker Reference
III-N1 cable is $1200, for a total prize package of $2300. www.Furutech.com
6SonsAudio
will be sending an Enjoy the Music.com Mailing List member a high-end
Windigo 6 foot power cord. The Windigo power cord is constructed using treated
blended metals of silver/gold/copper gold plated alloy wire. The wire from
each pole having a separate shield for the best EMI/RF absorption. The three
jackets are braided together and terminated with Acrolinks ultimate connector,
the P/I-CF plug and IEC. Contacts are are polished phosphor bronze with twice
plished 1.5 micron thick gold plating followed by 0.3 micron palladium
plating. A carbon fiber outer barrel absorbs EMI and stray electrons making it
the quietest AC connector available today.
MSRP: $2160 www.6SonsAudio.ca
A
Pace-Car reclocker for AirPort Express, including the AirPort Express will be
awarded to a lucky Mailing List participant. The Pace-Car allows you to get
the most from the AirPort Express and iTunes by storing the audio data in a
FIFO memory on-the-fly and reclocking it out with ultralow jitter as you play
music from iTunes. All you need is a DAC and cables to accept the S/PDIF
coaxial or I2S output from the Pace-Car. A Toslink adapter is provided for the
AirPort Express. A low-jitter Superclock4 is used to achieve inaudible levels
of jitter on the output. The resulting clarity, imaging and soundstage is
truly remarkable.
MSRP $1600 www.EmpiricalAudio.com
Role
Audio will be sending one lucky winner a pair of their critically acclaimed
Windjammer loudspeakers. Measuring only 5 inches wide by 39 inches high by 6.5
inches deep, the Windjammer is a potent loudspeaker that is designed to play
in small to moderate sized rooms. Driver compliment is a 1-inch ferrofluid
cooled fabric dome tweeter and 4.5-inch long throw woven carbon fiber
midrange/woofer that together allow for a 86dB/W/m sensitivity at 8 Ohms. With
a frequency response from 35Hz to 20kHz, this transmission line design
combines high quality elements to produce undistorted room shaking party music
or smooth, lush background music. The Role Audio Windjammers throw a wide and
high soundstage that will envelope you in the emotion and reality of the
original performance.
MSRP: $1,495 www.RoleAudio.com
Anthony
Gallo Acoustics all new A'Diva Ti loudspeaker is great for both high-end audio
and home theater applications. These small, nearly baseball-sized speakers
have been raved about for years by major magazines and deliver transparent,
dynamic sound. The A'Diva Ti driver is a combination of titanium and paper,
which enables self-damping while extending frequency response to 22kHz. The
voice coil has been enlarged to 1-inch for enhanced dynamic range while an
oversized neodymium magnet with video shielding allows freedom of placement.
In addition to treble extension, the A'Diva Ti also achieves excellent bass
extension due to the company's patented S2 technology. Many different mounting
options are available from desktop to wall and stand-mounted. One lucky winner
will be receiving the Anthony Gallo Acoustic prize package of a pair of A'Diva
Ti in black and a matching TR-2 Subwoofer.
MSRP $1,376 and the winner can purchase optional stands & mounts if so
desired. www.roundsound.com
Axiom
Audio is providing their amazing Epicenter EP500 subwoofer that features
Extended Low Frequency (XLF) Intelligent DSP technology. Capable of producing
a room-shaking 19Hz, a massive 12-inch aluminum driver with a 3-inch diameter
dual voice coil is mated with a 500-watt power amplifier. These are tightly
controlled by the DSP, which employs very special algorithm to command the
subwoofer to deliver peak performance without ever being overdriven. The
result? Maximum undistorted output of 120dB! Both high level (loudspeaker) and
balanced (XLR) input are provided as is normal RCA inputs and the output level
is adjustable. Bring a strong back as this 19.5 x 15 x 19.5 (HxWxD in inches)
cabinet weights in at over 72 lbs!
MSRP: $1,230 www.AxiomAudio.com
Opera
Consonance will be sending a lucky Enjoy the Music.com Mailing List member one of their Cyber-10 multifunctional 12 wpc stereo tube amplifiers. The Cyber-10 is a single-ended Class A tube integrated amplifier. It can use KT88/6550, EL34 or KT77 output tubes as it incorporates a fixed bias design for easy tube swap. Besides loudspeakers, the unit also
easily drives headphones via the output transformer-coupled design. Of note is that you can use your computer's USB output to send music digitally to the Cyber-10, plus there are three standard stereo
inputs.
MSRP: $1195 www.opera-consonance.com
The
Music Cable (TMC) will be sending a lucky Enjoy the Music.com Mailing
List member two 1.5-meter pairs of XLR/XLR Truly Balanced interconnects. The
TMC Truly Balanced design uses an entirely shielded cable to carry the
"audio hot" signal and another entirely shielded cable to carry the
"audio cold" signal. This way, the two signals will never mingle
with each other, to bring out the best of any XLR/XLR balanced connections.
TMC's cables are designed to carry your music signal while preserving the
signal integrity, hence the musical quality. Specifications are DC Resistance
of 3 Ohms/1000 ft for center conductor and 2 Ohms for outer conductor.
Capacitance is 24.20 pF/ft with inductance being 0.061 µH/ft (0.200 µH/meter).
MSRP is $533 per meter/pair, total value of prize is $1066. www.The-Music-Cable.com
Janton's
Operetta AP2140A stereo amplifier that produces 140 wpc that achieve
high-quality performance with unified signal processing and noise reduction
features. A claimed 150dB maximum dynamic range and special filter is said to
eliminate 99.99 percent of noise and delivers crystal-clear sound. Adding to
these amazing claims, the THD level is under -70 dB when the input signal goes
up to 5 Vrms @ 1 watts (8 Ohm) output. New developments to make this possible
includes a PCB layout of the power board befitted from careful calculation of
the electrical current to decide the width of traces passing the maximum power
to the amplifier module. Meanwhile careful measurements took place to monitor
the signal to noise level at every stage to ensure as much unwanted noise as
possible. Naturally many components from different manufacturer were also
tested, with Nichicon E-capacitors, WIMA capacitors, Vishay none-inductive
resistors being included within this design.
MSRP: $1000 www.jatonhp.com
Orb
Audio proudly presents their MOD1 PLUS loudspeaker system that includes a 5.1
Mod1 system with Mod2 center channel upgrade, their BOSS Mod2 horizontal
center speaker stand, 100 feet of speaker wire, a 12 foot subwoofer cable and
a 3 foot digital audio cable. The MOD1 PLUS system is completely customizable
to include 5, 6 or 7 speakers and you may also add any additional audio and
video cables you might require for other components, to ensure you don't have
to do any last minute shopping when your system arrives. Orb Audio is changing
the way loudspeakers are made. There is no substitute for quality and a
components like gold-plated binding plates, high tech neodymium magnets and
oxygen-free internal copper wire are included. American steel cabinets, stands
and mounts are but a few examples.
MSRP: $999 www.orbaudio.com
Aperion
Audio will be sending one lucky winner a pair of their critically acclaimed
Intimus 533-T Tower Speaker. Claiming to blend an excellent balance of size,
price and performance, the Intimus 533-T uses a pair of custom-designed
mineral filled polypropylene 5.25-inch drivers for midrange and bass. For the
uppermost frequencies, a 1-inch audiophile-grade silk soft dome tweeter rounds
out the driver compliment. The company's HD-X3 crossover technology is said to
balance out the sound with ease. These 89dB/W/m sensitive speakers produce
sound from 70Hz to 20kHz (-3dB) and present a stable 8 Ohm load.
MSRP: $750/pair www.AperionAudio.com
AAA-Audio.com
will be sending an Enjoy the Music.com Mailing List member their Dussun
DS99 integrated stereo amplifier. This unit has received high praise from one
of Enjoy the Music.com's partner magazines, The
Absolute Sound, and it produces 100 watts per channel (8 Ohms).
Imput sensitivity is 300mV and impedance is 30kOhms. The very high signal to
noise ration of 100dB (A-weighted) and low THD+Noise at 0.08%£ means that
music should be very clean and clear, coming from a 'black' background and
fill your room with pristine music. When you desire a more private listening
experience, a front mounted 1/4-inch stereo jack can easily drive virtually
any set of headphones or in ear monitors (IEM).
MSRP: $600 www.AAA-Audio.com
Award
winning accessory company Boston Audio will be sending one of the Enjoy the
Music.com Mailing List members two sets of their TuneBlock SE devices. As
the company's flagship Special Edition (SE) TuneBlock, this model includes
special tungsten carbide bearings while the entire design marks the
culmination of over two years of research and development. The SE version has
more than twice the mass of their standard TuneBlocks, the tungsten carbide
bearing has 50 percent more mass than their standard tungsten carbide bearing
plus the recessed base provides a 2mm recess precisely machined into the base
of each SE block. Each TuneBlock SE measures 2.5" in diameter and is
1.5" tall.
MSRP: $299 per set, two sets will be sent to one winner for a total prize
value of $598. www.Boston-Audio.com
Audience
proudly joins Enjoy the Music.com in their third annual contest by
giving away their aR1p. The Adept Response will elevate the performance of
your audio/video system to new heights and is hand built without the use of
circuit boards or clip on connections, plus employs premium quality high
current components throughout. The aR1p power conditioner is designed for
single component applications like mono block amplifiers, receivers, video
projectors and video displays. It plugs directly into a wall or ceiling power
outlet (no power cord required) and provides surge suppression up to 20,000
Amperes. Whereas many surge suppression devices like the ubiquitous MOV (Metal
Oxide Varistor) are sacrificial devices and wear out over time, the aR1p surge
suppression does not deteriorate. The aR1p employs wide bandwidth RF
filtration. By reducing power line noise interference the adeptResponse
provides a lower noise floor and blacker background, resulting in a higher
resolution audio/video presentation.
MSRP: $495 www.Audience-AV.com
Ultra
Systems is donating a HiFi-Tuning "suite" of products including
their RFI and EMI "Noise Destroyer" (MSRP $249.95), and their choice
of three HiFi-Tuning Silver/Gold upgrade fuses (MSRP $29.95 to $39.95 each).
The Noise Destroyer is a unique power conditioner with four filter stages and
parallel (shunt) filtering. It also features fast reaction speed plus EMI/RFI
filtration. The filtering range is upwards of 1GHz while only consuming a mere
0.25mA of current. This unit provides a lower noise floor resulting in better
video and sonic performance from your system. Also part of this prize package
is your choice of three HiFi Tuning's Silver/Gold upgrade fuses.
MSRP: up to 369.80 depending on fuse choice. www.UltraSystem.com
Ultra
Systems will be sending a lucky Enjoy the Music.com Mailing List member
a set of four Cathedral Sound Acoustic Panels for room tuning. These
decor-friendly units reduce room acoustic problems and are usually mounted in
the upper corners in an effort to equalize the frequency response within a
listening room. They reduce the chances of standing sound waves from causing
either overblown or anemic lower frequency response. The Cathedral Sound Room
Dampening Panels use simple materials to adapt to room acoustic control the
long identified principles of air flow and the relationship to pressure
changes known as the "Venturi Effect." Naturally proper room
acoustics is highly desired to achieve the very best in music reproduction.
Each panel measures 11 x 16 x 2 (HxWxD in inches) and weighs only 4 lbs.
MSRP: $359 www.UltraSystem.com
Prize Winners Jason Weissman: MIT award winning Magnum MA Speaker cables. $7995 for 8 foot length
Dave Falco: Gemme Audio Tanto VFlex loudspeakers $5,495
Kenneth Johnson odWright Instruments SWL 9.0SE tube linestage. MSRP: $2,500
Rich A. McCormack: Furutech's Power Reference III-N1 cable is $1100 and two meter Speaker Reference III-N1 cable is $1200, for a total prize package of
$2300
Mike Andrews 6SonsAudio will be sending you a Windigo 6 foot power cord. MSRP: $2160
Phil Kaufman: Environmental Potentials North America EP-2450 and EP-2050
are $750 each while the EP-2750 is $600 for a total of $2,100
Christian Veluz: Environmental Potentials North America EP-2450 and EP-2050
are $750 each while the EP-2750 is $600 for a total of $2,100
Mike Taylor: Environmental Potentials North America EP-2450 and EP-2050
are $750 each while the EP-2750 is $600 for a total of $2,100
William Showalter: Empirical Audio Pace-Car reclocker for AirPort Express, including the AirPort Express.
$1600
Richard Lewis: Role Audio Windjammer loudspeakers. $1,495
Jeff Merth: Axiom Audio Epicenter EP500 subwoofer. $1,230
Walter Johnson The Music Cable two (qty) 1.5-meter pairs of XLR/XLR Truly Balanced interconnects. MSRP is $533 per meter/pair, total value of prize is
$1066
Dan Skogen: Janton's Operetta AP2140A stereo amplifier $1000
P. Ashley Dean: AAA-Audio.com's Dussun DS99 integrated stereo amplifier.
$600
John Lui Boston Audio (two sets) of their TuneBlock SE
devices, two sets will be sent to one winner for a total prize $598
Pamela Schmidt: Audience aR1p power conditioner. $495
Barry Paulson: HiFi-Tuning "suite" of products including their RFI and EMI "Noise Destroyer" (MSRP $249.95), and their choice of three HiFi-Tuning Silver/Gold upgrade fuses (MSRP $29.95 to $39.95 each).
Prize package worth up to 369.80 depending on fuse choice.
Robert Meyer: Ultra Systems will be sending a set of four Cathedral Sound Acoustic Panels for room tuning.
$359
High-Performance Audio Reviews
Environmental
Potentials North America (EPNA) is pleased to award an EP-2450, EP-2050, and
EP-2750 to four lucky Enjoy the Music.com mailing list members. The
EP-2450 Home Theater Power Supply is a robust industrial design that includes
three patented circuits by a leading power quality R&D organization. The
unit will protect home entertainment assets from surge events while tracking,
filtering, absorbing, and dissipating high frequency resonance from the system
with no shunt to ground. The EP-2050 Whole House PQ Filter and Surge Absorber
are residential models of the industrial EP-2000 patented waveform correction
absorber. EPNA claims this is the most aggressive power quality filtration
technology available and will remove all system anomalies at 3kHz or greater,
without residual byproduct or shunt back into the system. EP-2750 ground
blocks removes high frequency resonance in the grounding system, add filtering
to prevent ground loops and reduces the chance of damage from lightening
strikes.
Music
Interface Technologies (MIT) will be sending a special Enjoy the Music.com
Mailing List member a set of their award winning Magnum MA Speaker cables.
Founded by Bruce Brisson decades ago, he heard the sonic problems with cables
available at the time and began designing cables specifically for audio
performance. MIT take special care to ensure their cables are state-of-the-art
with such technologies as Bandwidth Balanced, Phase Correct windings, Time
Coherent windings plus Multipole technology. The Magnum MA (Maximum
Articulation) is the culmination of over three decades of research and
development, with advances that have this cable earning a Golden Ear Award
from none other than The Absolute Sound's editor Robert Harley.
A
totally tubular linestage from ModWright Instruments will be received to one
of our Mailing List Members! The ModWright SWL 9.0SE tube linestage has four
inputs, two sets of outputs, and home theater bypass mode. Providing a
tradition of exceptional value, performance and service, ModWright
Instruments' SWL 9.0SE features a power supply that is choke input current
regulated, regulated DC heaters, and discrete FET regulated B+ voltages. The
critical gain stage is fixed battery bias... Mu type gain/buffer stage while
volume adjustment is via an Alps motorized potentiometer. Other top quality
parts include FRED and Schottky diodes, metal film Vishay resistors, ceramic
tube sockets and high-quality film caps.
Furutech
is going to be sending a luck winner their award winning Power Reference
III-N1 cable and a two meter length of their Speaker Reference III-N1 cable.
The speaker cable features double-shielded Alpha-OCC Conductors to eliminate
radiated noise while Formula GC-303 Antimagnetic EMI-Absorbent Modules
surround each cable. The wire is insulated with air-foamed Irradiated PE
reducing capacitance and damping vibration as the FP-201 Spade terminals are
nonmagnetic rhodium-plated pure copper. The cable is said to result in greater
resolution, clarity, powerful dynamics, and an ultra-quiet soundstage in which
music develops more fully without artificial upper-frequency 'presence region'
glare. Furutech's Power Reference III-N1 cable features double-shielded a
Alpha-Conductors to eliminate radiated noise and Formula GC-303 Antimagnetic
EMI-Absorbent Modules surround each cable. The male side has Rhodium-plated
nonmagnetic pure copper while the female side has Rhodium-plated phosphor
bronze contacts. Furutech's unique wire-clamping mechanism guarantees ultra
firm connections while Twin Flexible PVC sheaths improve vibration isolation.
Furutech's GC-303 allows a deeper, tighter bass to form a solid foundation for
the rest of the frequency range, better defining the original recording's
venue. Natural, unforced detail reveals nuance and energy for an engaging
musical experience. Both products are 2007 The Absolute Sound Editors' Choice
award winners!
6SonsAudio
will be sending an Enjoy the Music.com Mailing List member a high-end
Windigo 6 foot power cord. The Windigo power cord is constructed using treated
blended metals of silver/gold/copper gold plated alloy wire. The wire from
each pole having a separate shield for the best EMI/RF absorption. The three
jackets are braided together and terminated with Acrolinks ultimate connector,
the P/I-CF plug and IEC. Contacts are are polished phosphor bronze with twice
plished 1.5 micron thick gold plating followed by 0.3 micron palladium
plating. A carbon fiber outer barrel absorbs EMI and stray electrons making it
the quietest AC connector available today.
A
Pace-Car reclocker for AirPort Express, including the AirPort Express will be
awarded to a lucky Mailing List participant. The Pace-Car allows you to get
the most from the AirPort Express and iTunes by storing the audio data in a
FIFO memory on-the-fly and reclocking it out with ultralow jitter as you play
music from iTunes. All you need is a DAC and cables to accept the S/PDIF
coaxial or I2S output from the Pace-Car. A Toslink adapter is provided for the
AirPort Express. A low-jitter Superclock4 is used to achieve inaudible levels
of jitter on the output. The resulting clarity, imaging and soundstage is
truly remarkable.
Role
Audio will be sending one lucky winner a pair of their critically acclaimed
Windjammer loudspeakers. Measuring only 5 inches wide by 39 inches high by 6.5
inches deep, the Windjammer is a potent loudspeaker that is designed to play
in small to moderate sized rooms. Driver compliment is a 1-inch ferrofluid
cooled fabric dome tweeter and 4.5-inch long throw woven carbon fiber
midrange/woofer that together allow for a 86dB/W/m sensitivity at 8 Ohms. With
a frequency response from 35Hz to 20kHz, this transmission line design
combines high quality elements to produce undistorted room shaking party music
or smooth, lush background music. The Role Audio Windjammers throw a wide and
high soundstage that will envelope you in the emotion and reality of the
original performance. 
Anthony
Gallo Acoustics all new A'Diva Ti loudspeaker is great for both high-end audio
and home theater applications. These small, nearly baseball-sized speakers
have been raved about for years by major magazines and deliver transparent,
dynamic sound. The A'Diva Ti driver is a combination of titanium and paper,
which enables self-damping while extending frequency response to 22kHz. The
voice coil has been enlarged to 1-inch for enhanced dynamic range while an
oversized neodymium magnet with video shielding allows freedom of placement.
In addition to treble extension, the A'Diva Ti also achieves excellent bass
extension due to the company's patented S2 technology. Many different mounting
options are available from desktop to wall and stand-mounted. One lucky winner
will be receiving the Anthony Gallo Acoustic prize package of a pair of A'Diva
Ti in black and a matching TR-2 Subwoofer.
Axiom
Audio is providing their amazing Epicenter EP500 subwoofer that features
Extended Low Frequency (XLF) Intelligent DSP technology. Capable of producing
a room-shaking 19Hz, a massive 12-inch aluminum driver with a 3-inch diameter
dual voice coil is mated with a 500-watt power amplifier. These are tightly
controlled by the DSP, which employs very special algorithm to command the
subwoofer to deliver peak performance without ever being overdriven. The
result? Maximum undistorted output of 120dB! Both high level (loudspeaker) and
balanced (XLR) input are provided as is normal RCA inputs and the output level
is adjustable. Bring a strong back as this 19.5 x 15 x 19.5 (HxWxD in inches)
cabinet weights in at over 72 lbs!
Opera
Consonance will be sending a lucky Enjoy the Music.com Mailing List member one of their Cyber-10 multifunctional 12 wpc stereo tube amplifiers. The Cyber-10 is a single-ended Class A tube integrated amplifier. It can use KT88/6550, EL34 or KT77 output tubes as it incorporates a fixed bias design for easy tube swap. Besides loudspeakers, the unit also
easily drives headphones via the output transformer-coupled design. Of note is that you can use your computer's USB output to send music digitally to the Cyber-10, plus there are three standard stereo
inputs.
The
Music Cable (TMC) will be sending a lucky Enjoy the Music.com Mailing
List member two 1.5-meter pairs of XLR/XLR Truly Balanced interconnects. The
TMC Truly Balanced design uses an entirely shielded cable to carry the
"audio hot" signal and another entirely shielded cable to carry the
"audio cold" signal. This way, the two signals will never mingle
with each other, to bring out the best of any XLR/XLR balanced connections.
TMC's cables are designed to carry your music signal while preserving the
signal integrity, hence the musical quality. Specifications are DC Resistance
of 3 Ohms/1000 ft for center conductor and 2 Ohms for outer conductor.
Capacitance is 24.20 pF/ft with inductance being 0.061 µH/ft (0.200 µH/meter).
Janton's
Operetta AP2140A stereo amplifier that produces 140 wpc that achieve
high-quality performance with unified signal processing and noise reduction
features. A claimed 150dB maximum dynamic range and special filter is said to
eliminate 99.99 percent of noise and delivers crystal-clear sound. Adding to
these amazing claims, the THD level is under -70 dB when the input signal goes
up to 5 Vrms @ 1 watts (8 Ohm) output. New developments to make this possible
includes a PCB layout of the power board befitted from careful calculation of
the electrical current to decide the width of traces passing the maximum power
to the amplifier module. Meanwhile careful measurements took place to monitor
the signal to noise level at every stage to ensure as much unwanted noise as
possible. Naturally many components from different manufacturer were also
tested, with Nichicon E-capacitors, WIMA capacitors, Vishay none-inductive
resistors being included within this design.
Orb
Audio proudly presents their MOD1 PLUS loudspeaker system that includes a 5.1
Mod1 system with Mod2 center channel upgrade, their BOSS Mod2 horizontal
center speaker stand, 100 feet of speaker wire, a 12 foot subwoofer cable and
a 3 foot digital audio cable. The MOD1 PLUS system is completely customizable
to include 5, 6 or 7 speakers and you may also add any additional audio and
video cables you might require for other components, to ensure you don't have
to do any last minute shopping when your system arrives. Orb Audio is changing
the way loudspeakers are made. There is no substitute for quality and a
components like gold-plated binding plates, high tech neodymium magnets and
oxygen-free internal copper wire are included. American steel cabinets, stands
and mounts are but a few examples.
Aperion
Audio will be sending one lucky winner a pair of their critically acclaimed
Intimus 533-T Tower Speaker. Claiming to blend an excellent balance of size,
price and performance, the Intimus 533-T uses a pair of custom-designed
mineral filled polypropylene 5.25-inch drivers for midrange and bass. For the
uppermost frequencies, a 1-inch audiophile-grade silk soft dome tweeter rounds
out the driver compliment. The company's HD-X3 crossover technology is said to
balance out the sound with ease. These 89dB/W/m sensitive speakers produce
sound from 70Hz to 20kHz (-3dB) and present a stable 8 Ohm load.
AAA-Audio.com
will be sending an Enjoy the Music.com Mailing List member their Dussun
DS99 integrated stereo amplifier. This unit has received high praise from one
of Enjoy the Music.com's partner magazines, 
Award
winning accessory company Boston Audio will be sending one of the Enjoy the
Music.com Mailing List members two sets of their TuneBlock SE devices. As
the company's flagship Special Edition (SE) TuneBlock, this model includes
special tungsten carbide bearings while the entire design marks the
culmination of over two years of research and development. The SE version has
more than twice the mass of their standard TuneBlocks, the tungsten carbide
bearing has 50 percent more mass than their standard tungsten carbide bearing
plus the recessed base provides a 2mm recess precisely machined into the base
of each SE block. Each TuneBlock SE measures 2.5" in diameter and is
1.5" tall.
Audience
proudly joins Enjoy the Music.com in their third annual contest by
giving away their aR1p. The Adept Response will elevate the performance of
your audio/video system to new heights and is hand built without the use of
circuit boards or clip on connections, plus employs premium quality high
current components throughout. The aR1p power conditioner is designed for
single component applications like mono block amplifiers, receivers, video
projectors and video displays. It plugs directly into a wall or ceiling power
outlet (no power cord required) and provides surge suppression up to 20,000
Amperes. Whereas many surge suppression devices like the ubiquitous MOV (Metal
Oxide Varistor) are sacrificial devices and wear out over time, the aR1p surge
suppression does not deteriorate. The aR1p employs wide bandwidth RF
filtration. By reducing power line noise interference the adeptResponse
provides a lower noise floor and blacker background, resulting in a higher
resolution audio/video presentation.
Ultra
Systems is donating a HiFi-Tuning "suite" of products including
their RFI and EMI "Noise Destroyer" (MSRP $249.95), and their choice
of three HiFi-Tuning Silver/Gold upgrade fuses (MSRP $29.95 to $39.95 each).
The Noise Destroyer is a unique power conditioner with four filter stages and
parallel (shunt) filtering. It also features fast reaction speed plus EMI/RFI
filtration. The filtering range is upwards of 1GHz while only consuming a mere
0.25mA of current. This unit provides a lower noise floor resulting in better
video and sonic performance from your system. Also part of this prize package
is your choice of three HiFi Tuning's Silver/Gold upgrade fuses. 
Ultra
Systems will be sending a lucky Enjoy the Music.com Mailing List member
a set of four Cathedral Sound Acoustic Panels for room tuning. These
decor-friendly units reduce room acoustic problems and are usually mounted in
the upper corners in an effort to equalize the frequency response within a
listening room. They reduce the chances of standing sound waves from causing
either overblown or anemic lower frequency response. The Cathedral Sound Room
Dampening Panels use simple materials to adapt to room acoustic control the
long identified principles of air flow and the relationship to pressure
changes known as the "Venturi Effect." Naturally proper room
acoustics is highly desired to achieve the very best in music reproduction.
Each panel measures 11 x 16 x 2 (HxWxD in inches) and weighs only 4 lbs.
