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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/081413BurwellSign-600.jpg" /></p> There's nothing like highlighted text from <i>Stereophile</i> brother Art Dudley to get a fellow writer's attention. Then again, so do the Burwell & Sons Homage Series loudspeakers ($80,000/pair), whose price will tempt many vintage horn lovers to burn a hole their pockets.
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Equipped with Altec Lansing's "Voice Of The Theater" model 804 A compression drivers for the high-frequency horns and model 803 A woofers for the low-frequency cabinets, and a port that has been tuned since their show debut to improve bass response, the Burwell & Sons beauties joined forces with Esoteric's K-07 SA disc player, Pass Labs' XA 30.5 stereo amplifier ($5500) and XP-10 preamplifier ($5250), WyWires speaker cable and interconnects, and stock power cables. I can see how many a music lover will be seduced by the nice air, midrange-strong beauty, and burnished romantic presentation of these babies. Others may find them a bit deficient in the color department, a little boxy and shouty, and over-emphatic in the midrange. I'll bet that better power cables, as well as the addition of power conditioning and room treatment, would change their presentation.
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Jacob George, who jointly developed the Rethm line in India, showed off his Maagra loudspeakers ($8950/pair) and electronics. I noticed some grayness and darker tonalities on a schmaltzy piece he offered "as a twist on classical music," but was struck by surprising bass response and really nice depth on Reference Recordings' superbly engineered disc of ballet scores by Delibes. "Gets complexity of the horn's sound, and the lovely delicacy of the triangle," I wrote in my notes. The horn-loaded speakers, augmented with powered bass loading, descend to 28Hz ±5dB (which is a lot of dB), and boast 98db sensitivity. The Gaanam SET integrated amp ($7950) uses 6C33 Russian tubes, and outputs 16Wpc. Also in the system were Raagam silver cable ($1350/3m pair) and two Taalam 3-tier component racks ($1000/each).
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<img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/081413-FritzWy-600.jpg" width="600" border="0" /></p><p>
Nina and Alex Sventitsky had a lot to smile about
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/cas-2013-day-3-au-revoir-trois]
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<img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/081413-Burwell-600.jpg" width="600" border="0" /></p><p>
Equipped with Altec Lansing's "Voice Of The Theater" model 804 A compression drivers for the high-frequency horns and model 803 A woofers for the low-frequency cabinets, and a port that has been tuned since their show debut to improve bass response, the Burwell & Sons beauties joined forces with Esoteric's K-07 SA disc player, Pass Labs' XA 30.5 stereo amplifier ($5500) and XP-10 preamplifier ($5250), WyWires speaker cable and interconnects, and stock power cables. I can see how many a music lover will be seduced by the nice air, midrange-strong beauty, and burnished romantic presentation of these babies. Others may find them a bit deficient in the color department, a little boxy and shouty, and over-emphatic in the midrange. I'll bet that better power cables, as well as the addition of power conditioning and room treatment, would change their presentation.
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<img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/081413-Rethm-600.jpg" width="600" border="0" /></p><p>
Jacob George, who jointly developed the Rethm line in India, showed off his Maagra loudspeakers ($8950/pair) and electronics. I noticed some grayness and darker tonalities on a schmaltzy piece he offered "as a twist on classical music," but was struck by surprising bass response and really nice depth on Reference Recordings' superbly engineered disc of ballet scores by Delibes. "Gets complexity of the horn's sound, and the lovely delicacy of the triangle," I wrote in my notes. The horn-loaded speakers, augmented with powered bass loading, descend to 28Hz ±5dB (which is a lot of dB), and boast 98db sensitivity. The Gaanam SET integrated amp ($7950) uses 6C33 Russian tubes, and outputs 16Wpc. Also in the system were Raagam silver cable ($1350/3m pair) and two Taalam 3-tier component racks ($1000/each).
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<img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/081413-FritzWy-600.jpg" width="600" border="0" /></p><p>
Nina and Alex Sventitsky had a lot to smile about
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/cas-2013-day-3-au-revoir-trois]