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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/060213-Dynaudio-600.jpg" /></p> Because the show was too big for one person to see it all, Jason Serinus and I split our responsibilities: he would cover the Hilton and I would cover the Atrium Hotel, plus any rooms at the Hilton that he failed to visit. The first room I visited at the Atrium was the large ballroom on the mezzanine featuring Dynaudio’s new Evidence Platinum loudspeaker ($85,000/pair). Did I say “large”? I meant to write “enormous”! The room was way too big, but with acoustic treatment from Vicoustic, the system produced much better sound than I was anticipating. I listened to Jeff Buckley’s “Lilac Wine” (from <i>Grace</i>), Bill Evans in hi-rez, and a live Dutch recording from David Crosby with an electric band performing a song called “Morrison”; with all three recordings, the imaging was solid and tangible, the low frequencies rich but well-defined, and the midrange uncolored.
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The Platinum features updated drive-units and revised crossover compared with the older Evidence Master that Larry Greenhill reviewed in <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/286/index.html">May 2000 </a> but costs less!
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<img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/060213-TA-600.jpg" width="600" border="0" /></p><p>
The speakers were hooked up with StraightWire Crescendo cables to two new products from T+A: the MP3000HV media streamer/CD player ($12,500, left in photo above) and PA3000HV integrated amplifier ($16,000, right). The “HV” in these products’ names stands for “High Voltage,” <i>ie</i>, the power supply rails are much higher voltage than usual with solid-state designs, to confer some of the benefits of tube circuits. The MP3000HV features completely separate power supplies for its digital and analog circuits; the PA3000HV operates in class-A up to 40Wpc into 8 ohms, with a maximum power of 500W into that load. </p>
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/dynaudio’s-evidence-platinum]
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The Platinum features updated drive-units and revised crossover compared with the older Evidence Master that Larry Greenhill reviewed in <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/286/index.html">May 2000 </a> but costs less!
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<img src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/060213-TA-600.jpg" width="600" border="0" /></p><p>
The speakers were hooked up with StraightWire Crescendo cables to two new products from T+A: the MP3000HV media streamer/CD player ($12,500, left in photo above) and PA3000HV integrated amplifier ($16,000, right). The “HV” in these products’ names stands for “High Voltage,” <i>ie</i>, the power supply rails are much higher voltage than usual with solid-state designs, to confer some of the benefits of tube circuits. The MP3000HV features completely separate power supplies for its digital and analog circuits; the PA3000HV operates in class-A up to 40Wpc into 8 ohms, with a maximum power of 500W into that load. </p>
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/dynaudio’s-evidence-platinum]