Our visit to Northstar Studio, The Netherlands

[bart]

To end, let us indulge ourselves in Meta's photography skills.

The Avalons are photogenic!

 

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Old acoustic treatments next to modern ones.

Bert, thank you for letting us into your space!
We enjoyed our visit immensely.

 

[matt_zak]

Thanks for the great read and beautiful photos Bart & Meta!

 

[Nikhil]

Thanks Bart! Fascinating read and pictures!!

 

[joeinid]

Absolutely awesome photos and write up. Thank you so much.

 

[bart]

Matt, Nikhil, Joe, thank you for your kind comments.
Always nice to share beautiful, moving moments in our hobby!

 

[bart]

Epilogue


When we were in the studio, I asked if the Merging NADAC accepts bits coming from a multi-channel silver disc.
I was thinking about myself, owner of several hundreds of them (SACDs, Blu-rays and DVD-audios).
The Ravenna input on the Merging may be the way it's going to be in the future, but I don't have the time nor do I wish to rip all my discs or buy the downloads again.

Bert admitted that the people who buy these devices indeed own large collections of physical media.
He vaguely mentioned something about a disc-drive that could be added in the future.

This week, I got the following pics of him, taken in München:

The future is now!
The disc-drive is already in the test phase.
A multi-channel version might be the last transport you ever buy...

That gives us the full stack: transport, clock, DAC/pre/streamer + power + clock:

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[Mike]

Amazing photos and write up!! Thanks for sharing.


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[bart]

Amazing photos and write up!! Thanks for sharing.


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Thank Mike.
Did you get to hear his set-up, with a 5.1 Geithain speaker system?