$89,750 High-End Audio
Contest Winners
(December
6, 2012) Enjoy
the Music.com's $89,750
High-End Audio Contest winners have been selected! This exciting contest
put you in the driver's seat with great products from outstanding high-end audio
companies. "Enjoy the Music.com's High-End Audio Contest has been
amazingly successful and greatly exceeded even our lofty goals" said Steven
R. Rochlin, Editor and Creative Director of Enjoy the Music.com.
"With such an enormous response from a wide variety of brilliant consumer
electronics manufacturers located worldwide to our global readership, the
locations of contest winners further prove Enjoy the Music.com's triumph!
For many years our goal has been to provide our readers with great information
to further enhance their musical pleasures via high-end audio. Winners of the Enjoy
the Music.com $89,750 Contest are located in Australia, Canada, Croatia, Germany,
Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Slovenia, Sweden, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
and the United States of America. Our global reach continues to flourish as millions
of people worldwide each year seek out Enjoy the Music.com to provide
them with vital information and knowledge about music reproduction and how to
achieve a first-rate audio system." And the contest
winners are:
Synergistic Research Tanquility Basik ($995) plus 5 fuses.
Ken Williams
USA
Synergistic Research Element CTS IC- ($3600) plus 5 fuses.
Ismael Betancourt
USA
Synergistic Research Hologram D SE- ($2800) and Digital Power Tools (winner's choice up to $800 value) plus plus 5 fuses.
James D. Haworth
USA
Purist Audio Design one meter length of their 25th Anniversary Power Cord. ($9900)
Veronique Simoneau
Canada
A set of of MIT's Matrix 28 Speaker Interfaces 12-foot pair ($1759) and two of MIT's Matrix 12 Audio Interconnects (RCA) 2-meter pairs ($749 each)
Steve Kozle
USA
MIT's Matrix 28 Speaker Interfaces 12-foot pair ($1759) and two of MIT's Matrix 12 Audio Interconnects (RCA) 2-meter ($749 each)
Robert Bell
USA
MIT's Matrix 28 Speaker Interfaces 12-foot pair ($1759) and two of MIT's Matrix 12 Audio Interconnects (RCA) 2-meter pairs ($749 each)
H.P. Meslin
USA
Skogrand Cable's ultimate performers with winner specifying desired brocade sleeve, length and termination of the cables, with a maximum cable pair length of three meters ($9350)
Scott Dalzell
USA
Von Schweikert Audio UniField Model One monitor speaker system in choice of Steinway high-gloss piano black paint, medium cherry veneer with satin clear coat, or American blonde sycamore with satin clear coat ($3995 per pair).
Dominick Lombardi
USA
STAHL~TEK's A.B.C. (Audiophile Bridge to Computer) unit ($3500)
Pete Vinje
Canada
ModWright KWA 100 Stereo Amplifier valued at $3495
Duane Jackson, USA
AARON XX integrated amplifier with remote control ($3300)
Chris Nisbet
USA
Ologe Acoustic The One acoustic monitor speakers and matching A Stands ($2600)
Brian Mass
USA
ASC/TubeTrap awarded four of their 13" TubeTraps ($2168)
Douglas L. Dillman
USA
Emerald Physics 100.2SE Special Edition power amplifiers ($2000)
Steve Winkler
USA
Antelope Audio awarded their Zodiac 192 kHz DAC ($1895)
DuskoNikolic
New Zealand
Audyssey Audio Dock ($399) and Media Speakers ($249.99),
Tomislav Kaucic
Croatia
Audyssey Audio Dock ($399) and Media Speakers ($249.99) plus an Audio Dock Air ($399)
Steve Bennett
USA
Anthony Gallo Acoustics' Classico CL-3 speakers in the winner's choice of either black ash or cherry cabinet ($1595)
Joseph D. Anastasio
USA
HiDiamond XLR2 balanced cable in 1.5 meter length ($1300 total)
Cellerino Bernardino
USA
Audio Nemesis DC-1 VLE DAC unit (€1000, approximately $1260)
Yeong Aun Cheah
Malaysia
Everything But The Box Venus D loudspeakers in White high gloss color (€1000, approximately $1260)
Daan Paul van Kerkhoff
The Netherlands
Redgum Audio RGi35 dual mono integrated amplifier ($1200)
Adam Daniel
USA
Emotiva X-ref 12 subwoofer ($699), Mini-x a-100 ($299) and CMX-6 ($119)
Thomas Fischermann
Germany
Kubala-Sosna Fascination 1.5 meter power cords ($537.50)
James Friesen
Canada
Kubala-Sosna Fascination 1.5 meter power cords ($537.50)
Devaprakash Krishnan
USA
Epipany Acoustics EHP-O2Dand two EHP-O2 and three Atratus RCA interconnects ( Ł686.99, approximately $1062)
Terry Bradshaw
USA
Epipany Acoustics E-DAC, two EHP-O2 and three Atratus RCA interconnects ( Ł686.99, approximately $1062)
Dalton Carter
USA
Triode Wire Labs six foot length of Seven Plus, Ten Plus and
Twelve Plus power cords ($1167)
Jan de Jeu
The Netherlands
Practical Devices XM6 headphone amplifier ($502)
Austin Argentieri
USA
Practical Devices XM6 headphone amplifier ($502)
Joe Ellison
USA
Wyred 4 Sound µDAC units ($399)
Mert Tetik
USA
Wyred 4 Sound µDAC units ($399)
Malcolm McGregor
USA
CA Electronics HS-1 headphone stand ($114) and set of three Ceramic feet ($77)
Bob Sattin
USA
CA Electronics HS-1 headphone stand ($114)
Fredrik Sjostrom
Sweden
CA Electronics HS-1 headphone stand ($114)
Jimmie Smith
USA
CA Electronics HS-1 headphone stand ($114)
Rezaul Hasan Laskar
Pakistan
GIK Acoustics' Room Kit Package #2 that includes six 242 Acoustic Panels, four 244 Bass Traps and one Monster Bass Trap ($708.89)
Glen Bingham
USA
HIFIMAN's HE-300 headphones ($299)
George Lakey
Australia
HIFIMAN's E-400 headphones ($399)
Robert Arturi
USA
Kimber Kable 8 foot pair of 12TC with SBAN connectors ($630)
Richard Babineau
USA
Axiom Audio M3 speakers in a custom real wood Rosewood with a Bordeaux finish ($612 per pair)
Jeffrey DeShell
USA
WireWorld 1-meter length of Platinum Starlight USB cable ($599.95)
Nathan Flaaten
United Kingdom
AudioEngine's D2 Premium 24-bit wireless DAC system ($599)
Jamie Lee Fritze
USA
Spin-Clean MKII package with extra pair of rollers, triple the amount of drying cloths and eight times more cleaning fluid plus more! ($598.98 total prize)
Coby Dimant
Israel
Soundmatters International’s foxL v2 Platinum pocket-sized audiophile music system with Bluetooth ($279)
Andrew Wightman
USA
Gingko Audio Cloud 14A platform ($549)
Davor Kozmus
Slovenia
Audio Fidelity will be sending 19 of their ultra-high quality gold CDs ($500)
Tom Bennett
USA
Grado GR10 headphones ($399)
Mark Shaheen
USA
Grado SR80 headphones ($99)
Steven Zaiontz
USA
Serene Audio active (powered) Paisley speakers ($495)
Ian Lane
Australia