Scaena's Silver Ghosts at the Hyatt

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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/101213-Scaena-600.jpg" /></p> Listening to Scaena's Silver Ghost speakers ($153,000/system) had been a highlight of last March's <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/content/scaenas-silver-ghost">AXPONA in Chicago</a>. At the Denver Tech Center Hyatt, the speakers had been set-up by Sunny Umrao (in photo) firing diagonally across a much larger room than in Chicago. With a system comprising a dCS Vivaldi digital source driving an Audio Research Reference 75 stereo amplifier for the towers and six inexpensive Crown class-D amplifiers for the six woofer modules operating below 120Hz, the sound of a live recording of Dave Brubeck's "Rondo a la Turk" did indeed sound live.
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And in response to one critic who suggested that because the circular cross-section of the Scaena's woofer enclosure means that there will be a strong radial mode, this will lead to coloration, it should be remembered that the diameter of the enclosure is small compared to the wavelengths of the low-frequency sounds be generated. It is probable, therefore that this resonance will be too high in frequency

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