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<p><img class="story_image" src="http://www.stereophile.com/images/101313-Rockport-600.jpg" /></p> I first heard Rockport's Avior speaker ($29,500/pair) in the VTL room at the <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/content/rockports-vtl-room">2012 CES</a> where both Stephen Mejias and I were impressed by their sound. They sounded as good in the Xact Audio room at RMAF, driven by Absolare Passion Signature, zero-feedback, class-A, single-ended power amps ($48,500/pair). But contributing to the sound was the intriguing room treatment that you can see on the wall, cardboard diffusors that Xact calls the MIO and sells for $99/12 square feet.
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Source in this room was the BEAT MagDrive turntable ($34,000), fitted with a Schröder LT tonearm ($9900) and a Lyra Atlas cartridge ($9500), amplified by an Allnic H3000 phono stage ($11,900) and an Absolare Passion Signature line stage ($32,500). </p>
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/xact-audio-showcase-rockport-speakers]
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Source in this room was the BEAT MagDrive turntable ($34,000), fitted with a Schröder LT tonearm ($9900) and a Lyra Atlas cartridge ($9500), amplified by an Allnic H3000 phono stage ($11,900) and an Absolare Passion Signature line stage ($32,500). </p>
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/xact-audio-showcase-rockport-speakers]