By using constrained-layer-damped shelves in a beautifully machined aluminum rack, with both the shelves themselves and the struts on which the shelves sit separated from one another by roller bearings, Symposium's Isis did not just turn resonant energy more efficiently into heat; it also seemed to more effectively drain that energy away without feeding it (or select parts of it) back into the items sitting n the shelves.

The patented Isis Rack doesn't merely excel at meeting the goals for which all high quality equipment racks should strive - acoustic neutrality, simplicity of design, excellent energy drainage and dissipation, isolation from floor borne vibration, and an optimal mechanical ground path - the Isis Rack, goes beyond these goals with innovations that exist in no other racks - at any price.

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The Opera Seconda is a floor-standing three-way column speaker that is reflex loaded. There are two 5" long-throw SEAS woofers with polypropylene cones and a 5” SEAS midrange driver. The cones are made from double-treated paper. The tweeter, by Scanspeak, is the same we use on the more expensive Seconda and Quinta 2011 models. Impedance for the Grand Mezza is a nominal 4 ohms.The Opera Grand Mezza 2012 is a comprehensive and versatile speaker system suitable for the most demanding musical programs, and it can be used in sophisticated home theater systems as well.

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The Pandora is a fully-balanced vacuum tube based digital-to-analogue converter with USB, S/PIDIF, AES/EBU and Toslink inputs.

High quality construction techniques include an all-aluminium chassis, stainless steel faraday cage to isolate digital sections, multiple power transformers in a stainless steel enclosure, and multiple regulation stages. These components raise the bar for all digital products.

Pandora Signature offer true native DSD 1x and 2x functionality over USB. The entire DSP processing section is replaced (pictured above, click to enlarge). The new section includes an advanced Xilinx gate-array which allows the DSP to be completely bypassed for pure DSD 1x and 2x operation. No alteration of DSD data occurs. Many DACs in the market that claim to play DSD actually convert the data to PCM and thereby completely lose the purpose of DSD operation.

In near mint condition, with remote control.

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Combining a Class A analog input stage with a high-efficiency Class D output stage, DPA-1M operates equally well on the floor, on an amp stand, or in a very tight space. A price-to-performance bellwether, this Peter Madnick-designed and U.S.A.-made component manages to give you the best of all worlds without the traditional shortcomings of Class D designs and with all the fun, grip, and involvement you expect from high-end instruments.

"Both the stereo and the mono versions of this amplifier sounded like indefatigable powerhouses, with plenty of dynamic headroom. I never heard the amplifier soften the bass, harden textures, or congeal the soundstage, no matter what the playback level or how demanding the music."
– Robert Harley, The Absolute Sound

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The Clearaudio Smart Phono Phono Stage's miniature size means that signal path lengths are kept extremely short which leads to a pure and noise-free musical reproduction, much greater than that of typical products in this price range.

The external power supply keeps the delicate phono signal away from mains power, minimising hum and noise. High quality gold plated input and output RCA terminals on the Clearaudio Smart Phono give a superb contact which will not degrade over time.

Switching is provided for both MM (moving magnet) and MC (moving coil) cartridges, making the Clearaudio Smart Phono compatible with virtually all phono cartridges.

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Top model speaker cable from Antipodes Audio, terminated with gold spades on both send. This is an almost cost-no-object design using silver conductors infused with gold and platinum to extract the best performance from any speaker cable.

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Aluminata uses many traditional and innovative methods to reduce the background to inky black so the dynamics are restored and the vibrant sound, timing, detail, ambience are reproduced.

Aluminata plays one additional ace card to achieve this: the metallic particles crafted into the sleeve that makes the cable chunky but still a little bit flexible.

The proof of the argument is in the listening. The improvement over any other cable is immediate and obvious.

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Current top model in mint condition, with original aluminium carry case and certificate.

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The CAT-777MKII is the improved new-generation successor of the earlier CAT-777, which was introduced in the market in 2006. It is a vacuum tube control amplifier utilising two 6X4WA rectifier vacuum tubes, four 12AU7 vacuum tubes – two for the amplifier and another two for the buffer.

There is not much of a change in the circuitry design in the new version of the CAT, but there is a big upgrade to the components found inside. Reimyo proudly states that it makes most of the components, approximately 90%, itself or has them specially made to its stringent specifications, including the transformers, connecting cables, resistors and capacitors. That is one of the reasons why all “Reimyo” audio equipment has its very own sound character signature.

This multiple award-winning product is in near mint condition, with Harmonix power cord valued at more than $2000 and original packing.

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The P-105 is a pure tube single-ended triode stereo power amplifier outputting 8 watts per channel in Pure Class A. This is a radical capacitor-less design using high quality input and output transformers. The output transformer has pure silver-foil wires for the secondary winding. All tubes supplied are vintage NOS and this model features a pair of genuine WE 275A vacuum tubes for the output stage.

The icing on the cake is it's patented NeoHyb circuitry that produces and injects pure current into the output tubes, thus enabling a much higher current output and higher damping factor than conventional SET power amps.

In excellent condition and comes with metal flight case.

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With a network audio system, you will know from your own experience that it is not very easy to overcome and resolve all the variation from network circumstances. It also occurs with an ultra high-end system, mainly due to the lack of technological development so far. The physical network transmission technology in particular is the key point to be considered in this subject.

So the sNH-10G is now available, it is a network switch developed to overcome such low performance in a network environment, and it is finally able to give you a fundamental solution in your network audio system.

The input and output terminals consist of eight LAN ports and two SFP ports. And there is also an option to install the sCLK-EX and the 10 MHz master clock input connector to further maximize sound quality. With these options and high-performance network cables, such as the dCBL-CAT7, your network audio system will be able to perform with more realistic textures, wider sound stage and explosive dynamics without losing the detail of the entire range.

No matter what high end audio system you currently have, experience the sNH-10G to prove what the ultimate sound should be in your network system.

Key Feature
*Designed for high end network audio
*Specially designed Ethernet noise filter
*Support 10, 100, 1G ethernet
*8 x RJ-45 ports
*2 x SFP ports
*LED indicator on/off function
*sCLK-EX High End clock module
*10MHz master clock input
*Wide range of power input(6.5V ~ 12V)

In near mint condition. This unit comes loaded with the sCLK-EX and the 10 MHz master clock input connector upgrade. Also packaged with the KECES DC-216 linear PSU for ultimate performance!

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