Get together at Bob's Rhapsody

Will definitely do my best to get out there on Tuesday. Worked today (and will do some tomorrow) to get some stuff out of the way. Seems like a great pre-RMAF warmup!


Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I met Bob last Sunday at Rhapsody for the first time and you folks are in for a great time. I was visiting NYC for the weekend and I wanted to hear the Raidho D3's paired with the Absolare Passion preamp and amplifiers. I am fortunate enough to own the Absolare Passion Signature preamplifier and I have heard the Absolare amplifiers before but I had not heard any Raidho speaker before.

Bob is a great host and we had a great time. He has made some changes in the system setup since I had heard it and he tells me it sounds even better so you are in a for a real treat. Hopefully I will get up to NYC again soon to hear the setup again. Have a great time!
Welcome to AS, Arnie!:hi:

That's a great room you have there! I see the Arrakis. Can you describe what other gear you have in your beautiful room?
 
Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I met Bob last Sunday at Rhapsody for the first time and you folks are in for a great time. I was visiting NYC for the weekend and I wanted to hear the Raidho D3's paired with the Absolare Passion preamp and amplifiers. I am fortunate enough to own the Absolare Passion Signature preamplifier and I have heard the Absolare amplifiers before but I had not heard any Raidho speaker before.

Bob is a great host and we had a great time. He has made some changes in the system setup since I had heard it and he tells me it sounds even better so you are in a for a real treat. Hopefully I will get up to NYC again soon to hear the setup again. Have a great time!

Hi Arnie and welcome to the Shark aquarium. :)

* Is that your avatar there in your audio sound system? ...WoW! Those are gargantuan music reproducers! ...Nice to have the scale and the room. :cool:
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It's really really far. Lol!!
I will take pics, mostly of equipment and combinations we hear.
And will share with all. Of course the old iPhone camera isn't all that great.

I also agree with Nelson and that we do this every year . If We don't annoy Bob . Lol. Probably should schedule it sometime around the ny audio show. I can't go to rmaf , although I should I have a free place to stay. I've never went to an audio show , so the ny show this year is a definite for me.

Mind? You could all move in as far as I'm concerned:woot: Maybe we can start a retirement village for when we are in our 90's. Everyone can have their own room with their system set up and you could just walk up and down the hallway stopping in to have a chat and a listen to each other's system:exciting:And we could trade gear:panic:
 
Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I met Bob last Sunday at Rhapsody for the first time and you folks are in for a great time. I was visiting NYC for the weekend and I wanted to hear the Raidho D3's paired with the Absolare Passion preamp and amplifiers. I am fortunate enough to own the Absolare Passion Signature preamplifier and I have heard the Absolare amplifiers before but I had not heard any Raidho speaker before.

Bob is a great host and we had a great time. He has made some changes in the system setup since I had heard it and he tells me it sounds even better so you are in a for a real treat. Hopefully I will get up to NYC again soon to hear the setup again. Have a great time!

Welcome Arnie! It's really great to see you here. It's not too late to book a flight back to NYC on Monday night or even early Tues. morning. Just do it:audiophile:
 
It's too bad I missed it by a week. I have these speakers that are in Srajan's room (pic below) coming late next week. They are actually in route from Switzerland as I write this, they are probably at 40K feet at this very moment. Anyway they are nicely efficient (93db with a fairly flat 8ohm curve). They will be running with the Kondo Ongaku. Ya'll will have to come back to hear em'.



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I will upload the pictures here and videos on YouTube

Thanks Nelson! Hoping to listen to this gear at RMAF but the show environment is never ideal for evaluation. Still looking forward to your impressions from NYC.
Chris
 
Will definitely do my best to get out there on Tuesday. Worked today (and will do some tomorrow) to get some stuff out of the way. Seems like a great pre-RMAF warmup!



Welcome to AS, Arnie!:hi:

That's a great room you have there! I see the Arrakis. Can you describe what other gear you have in your beautiful room?

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. This truly is a very friendly audio forum.

Allen, yes, my speakers are the active version of the Rockport Arrakis 2 with the Rockport active external crossover. Working backwards, for amps, I am using 2 pairs of the new VTL Siegfried Series 2, the preamp is the Absolare Passion Balanced Signature Plus version (2 steps above the version that Bob has at the moment), the digital front end is the MSB Diamond DAC and Signature Transport both with external power supplies, the analog front end is the Steve Dobbins "The Beat" mag drive turntable, Reed tonearm, Lyra Olympos SL cartridge and Allnic H3000 phono stage. The cabling that I use is a combination of Echole Signature and Echole Omnia cables that Bob is also using.
 
The big day is closing fast.

Who is going to be the show reporter? The on-line viewing audience will be into the thousands and hanging of every printed word :eyebrow:

Personally, I'd love to read a few words at least on the Absolare / D3 combo. Please!

It will be like an Apple product launch.....only bigger! :D
 
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. This truly is a very friendly audio forum.

Allen, yes, my speakers are the active version of the Rockport Arrakis 2 with the Rockport active external crossover. Working backwards, for amps, I am using 2 pairs of the new VTL Siegfried Series 2, the preamp is the Absolare Passion Balanced Signature Plus version (2 steps above the version that Bob has at the moment), the digital front end is the MSB Diamond DAC and Signature Transport both with external power supplies, the analog front end is the Steve Dobbins "The Beat" mag drive turntable, Reed tonearm, Lyra Olympos SL cartridge and Allnic H3000 phono stage. The cabling that I use is a combination of Echole Signature and Echole Omnia cables that Bob is also using.
Arnie that is an awesome analog front end. I was just reading about that table with the reed arm with the wood arm tube. Nice!!
Actually the whole article seemed familiar. Lol!!!!
Good job :)
 
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. This truly is a very friendly audio forum.

Allen, yes, my speakers are the active version of the Rockport Arrakis 2 with the Rockport active external crossover. Working backwards, for amps, I am using 2 pairs of the new VTL Siegfried Series 2, the preamp is the Absolare Passion Balanced Signature Plus version (2 steps above the version that Bob has at the moment), the digital front end is the MSB Diamond DAC and Signature Transport both with external power supplies, the analog front end is the Steve Dobbins "The Beat" mag drive turntable, Reed tonearm, Lyra Olympos SL cartridge and Allnic H3000 phono stage. The cabling that I use is a combination of Echole Signature and Echole Omnia cables that Bob is also using.

Heck of a rig you got there Arnie. ...Truly impressive and first-class.
 
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. This truly is a very friendly audio forum.

Allen, yes, my speakers are the active version of the Rockport Arrakis 2 with the Rockport active external crossover. Working backwards, for amps, I am using 2 pairs of the new VTL Siegfried Series 2, the preamp is the Absolare Passion Balanced Signature Plus version (2 steps above the version that Bob has at the moment), the digital front end is the MSB Diamond DAC and Signature Transport both with external power supplies, the analog front end is the Steve Dobbins "The Beat" mag drive turntable, Reed tonearm, Lyra Olympos SL cartridge and Allnic H3000 phono stage. The cabling that I use is a combination of Echole Signature and Echole Omnia cables that Bob is also using.

Very nice system, Arnie! Thank you for sharing. Hope to hear more about your journey to this point and where you are headed next in future threads here on the Shark!:peace:

So Absolare has a balanced pre. Interesting...:skeptical:
 
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. This truly is a very friendly audio forum.

Allen, yes, my speakers are the active version of the Rockport Arrakis 2 with the Rockport active external crossover. Working backwards, for amps, I am using 2 pairs of the new VTL Siegfried Series 2, the preamp is the Absolare Passion Balanced Signature Plus version (2 steps above the version that Bob has at the moment), the digital front end is the MSB Diamond DAC and Signature Transport both with external power supplies, the analog front end is the Steve Dobbins "The Beat" mag drive turntable, Reed tonearm, Lyra Olympos SL cartridge and Allnic H3000 phono stage. The cabling that I use is a combination of Echole Signature and Echole Omnia cables that Bob is also using.

Arnie - welcome to audioshark.org! You have a wonderful system and room (from what I remember reading).

I would be interested to know more about your turntable. My understanding is that it is quite rare.
 
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