Gershman Acoustics, Kronos, MSB, Cardas, True Life, Antipodes Audio

Ofra Gershman premiered Gershman Acoustics’s thirtieth Anniversary Black Swan audio system ($95,000/pair) at Munich, and a fantastic sight they had been. The two-in-one speaker building include a specified frequency vary of 18Hz–24kHz, 88dB/W/m sensitivity, and 6 ohms nominal impedance and stand 52" excessive by 15" large and weigh 145lb every. Who says good issues don’t are available in giant packages?

The Black Swans “incorporate two fully separate enclosures positioned one above the opposite” states the Gershman web site. “Each loudspeaker has a woofer enclosure positioned on metallic cones, and an A-shaped enclosure suspended above it to accommodate the midrange and tweeter. The A-shaped cupboard straddles the woofer cupboard with lengthy double-HDF layered extensions, held in place with a set of IsoAcoustics state-of-the-art isolation toes. When positioned appropriately, the loudspeaker seems full as one cupboard.

“[This] methodology homes the excessive and mid frequencies in a separate enclosure that’s supported by a bridge suspended above the bass enclosure thereby retaining applicable time alignment in addition to solidity to manage vibrations,” the location continues. “Thus, the [system] offers an virtually resonance-free, steady setting for the drivers, selling clearer sound, higher decision and three dimensional imaging akin to small enclosures, recognized to be greatest.”

Though the Black Swans garnered a lot of the consideration within the room, the analog entrance finish was no slacker: Kronos Perpetual Turntable (€70,000) and Kronos Discovery RS Tonearm (€24,000), and Kronos Perpetual SCPS energy provide (€20,000) sitting on a Kronos Rack (€20,000). Cartridge information not provided. [Looks like a My Sonic Labs Eminent EX–Jim Austin]

Digital bits had been parlayed by an Antipodes Audio Oladra Music Server ($30,000) and MSB Cascade DAC ($95,000). TrueLifeAudio’s Aristomenis Georgiadis confirmed his TrueLifeAudio SSP-1 Preamplifier (€50,000), and TrueLifeAudio SSA-350 Mono Power Amplifiers (€75,000/pair). Cardas Clear Beyond wires did their half, as effectively.

Streaming the favored Munich present observe, Annette Askvik’s “Liberty,” this mighty assemblage produced deep, dynamic, wealthy music. Ry Cooder’s acoustic lullaby “Cancion Mixteca” was candy, even poignant by means of the Gershmans, each guitar pluck and piano strike equally resounding, intimate, and deep-staged.

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May 29, 2024 at 12:46AM