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Audio Research Foundation Series PLATINUM STARLIGHT: OCC-7N SOLID SILVER CHROMA: OFC Music.Gear.Style. No.84 July 2017 Super Stack STARLIGHT: SILVER-CLAD OFC Audio Research Foundation Series PLATINUM STARLIGHT: OCC-7N SOLID SILVER Authoritative Reviews of Hot New Albums from Jason Isbell, Steve Earle, Fleet Foxes, John Moreland, Algiers, Dasher, She-Devils, William Parker, Arturo Lindsay, Nicole Mitchell, and More Mini Marvels from Pro-Ject Grand Prix Audio Monaco 2.0: Patent-pending triple-shielded design Top Table Thin, flexible, easy to assemble and install Vinyl Virtuoso from McIntosh Solid 23 gauge parallel conductors Mighty Monos from Pass Labs 2GHz bandwidth, 40 Gbit/sec @ 30 meters And more from Conrad- Surprisingly lifelike sound and imaging Johnson, Atoll, and Klipsch Other cables filter your music. Wireworld cables let the most music through. 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Only Paradigm delivers wireless performance that is truly on par with traditional non-streaming audio systems. ARC ™ Digital Microphone Room Correction Technology Visit paradigm.com for more info. tone style WINO: It’s In the Can 93 74 Four for the Cooler, Because it’s Summer! By Monique Meadows BMW M Mouse 87 Zoom Zoom! Watch Your Mouse Go IKEA PS 2014 88 Nifty Storage Where You Need It Most Ischia Swim Trunks 89 Jump in the Pool in These 94 74 Radio Shack Digital Infrared Thermometer features 90 On-the-Spot Heat Detector Pantone USB Drives 11. PUBLISHER’S LETTER Old School: 92 Fun in Eight Colors with 4-16 GB Choices 14 The Klipsch LaScala: A Work in Progress Porsche Design P 8478 Sunglasses By Jeff Dorgay 93 Aviator Classics are Back Journeyman Audiophile: The Manual Playlist Display Vinyl Art While You’re Listening to It 56 Atoll Electronique IN100se 94 Integrated Amplifier By Rob Johnson ModMic 5 96 Versitility in a Compact Solution 995: Sounds That Won’t 112 Break The Bank The Hagerman Cornet 3: American Know How at Its Finest By Jerold O’Brien 87 89 6 TONE AUDIO NO.84 JULY 2017 7 gear previews music 119. Gold Note Donatello MC Cartridge 120. Coincident Dynamite Speakers 22. SPIN THE BLACK CIRCLE: Reviews of New Pop/Rock 122. SVS SB-16 Subwoofer and Country Albums by Chrissie Dickinson, Bob Gendron and Todd Martens gear reviews 68. AUDIOPHILE PRESSINGS: Freshly Remastered Albums by the Knack, 124. Audio Research the Beatles, and the Pretenders by Jeff Dorgay Foundation Series By Jeff Dorgay 98. JAZZ & BLUES: William Parker Quartets, Nicole Mitchell, 138. McIntosh MP1100 Arto Lindsay, and Cuong Vu 4tet Phono Preamplifier by Jim Macnie and Kevin Whitehead By Jeff Dorgay 150. Grand Prix Audio Monaco 2.0 Turntable By Jeff Dorgay 160. Pass Labs XA200.8 Monoblocks 160 By Greg Petan 172. Sonneteer Alabaster Integrated Amplifier from the web By Rob Johnson 199. Coincident Dynamo 34SE MK.II 183. Graham Chartwell 200. Exogal Comet Plus DAC LS3/5 Speakers 203. Akiko Audio Corelli By Jeff Dorgay Power Conditioner 204. Slummin’ 190. Conrad-Johnson Classic 26. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Sixty Two SE Amplifier 206. Music Links 48 The Nashville Sound By Rob Johnson 209. Manufacturer Links 8 TONE AUDIO NO.84 JULY 2017 9 PUBLISHER’S LETTER ummer is many things to many people, and while spring may turn our thoughts to love, summer here in the Pacific Northwest usually means shopping for a new car. When the clouds part and the sun The performance provided by this $30,000 stack comes out, it brings all the cool of components (DAC, Phono, Linestage and cars and motorcycles with it. This endless parade Power Amplifier) rivals stuff costing a lot more, Sof beautiful machinery makes the enthusiast’s even from the Minnesota manufacturer. ARC has heart wander. Never one to resist an offer to take put so much engineering prowess in these four a test drive, I’ve spent a bit of time behind the boxes, if you only need 80 watts per channel, wheel of some mega machinery, even though I you might never need a bigger amplifier. Add the drive a relatively modest car myself; a black BMW $35,000 pair of Paradigm Persona 9F speakers M235i. that will be in our next issue, and you’ve got a Getting out of the latest iteration of Porsche $125k system that takes no prisoners. Those 911, I found myself thinking about what it did only requiring a digital or analog source could do regarding being an icon, but regarding sheer this for considerably less money. performance, a base 911 (that will set you back I’m not talking “glimpse of what the good about $110,000 with few options) doesn’t terribly stuff offers” here, I’m talking about sound that’s outperform my little car from Munich. Ditto for as good as it gets. You could spend $125k on the other cars I drove. While I came away with wire alone on a cost no object system. tremendous respect for these German, Italian and American marvels of technology, I wasn’t itching We’ve reviewed some great components to mortgage my future that day. Fortunately, at the lower end of the price scale from Rega, you don’t need a sunny day to test drive a new Vandersteen, Simaudio, and PrimaLuna, just to amplifier or pair of speakers, though it might help name a few. These $1,000 - $4,000 boxes deliver make the unloading process easier. performance that would have cost a lot more only years ago, so if you don’t have a briefcase Something similar is going on in the world full of dead presidents lying about, you can still of hi-fi. This issue, we feature the Monaco 2.0 have a blast. turntable from Grand Prix Audio. At about $50k, with a decent arm and cartridge, perhaps a little Regardless of available spending money, I more, this turntable outperforms anything I’ve had guarantee that there’s something fun to listen to the opportunity to listen to, at any price. The only out there with your name on it. Put the top down, thing it doesn’t do is be a six figure turntable. If head over to your nearest audio salon, and take you want the status and the bling, by all means, a test drive. go for the gusto. I’ll never be the one to tell you not to buy it. Or that 911, for that matter. Equally enthralling is the new Foundation series from Audio Research that graces our cover. JULY 2017 11 PUBLISHER Jeff Dorgay MUSIC EDITOR Bob Gendron GEAR/WEB EDITOR Ellen Green ART DIRECTOR Jean LaCrosse Follow us M EDIA SUPPORT Terry Currier Tom Caselli RESEARCH Earl Blanton Ken Mercereau on Facebook. AUDIO HISTORIAN Ken Kessler (You never know what we’ll get into next.) SENIOR Jaan Uhelszki CONTRIBUTOR CONTRIBUTING Bailey S. Barnard WRITERS Aaron Cohen John Darko Paul DeMara Lawrence Devoe Chrissie Dickinson Andrea Domanick www.facebook.com/tonepub2 Andy Downing Rob Johnson Jim Macnie Richard Mak Andre Marc Mark Marcantonio Todd Martens Monique Meadows Jerold O’Brien Kevin Whitehead Annie Zalewski Jeff Zaret CARTOONIST Liza Donnelly WEBSITE bloodymonster.com tonepublications.com Editor Questions and Comments: [email protected] ©2017 TONE AUDIO MAGAZINE All rights reserved. 12 TONE AUDIO NO.84 JULY 2017 13 FEATURE FEATURE The Klipsch LaScala A Work in Progress By Jeff Dorgay OLD SCHOOL 14 TONE AUDIO NO.84 JULY 2017 15 FEATURE FEATURE teely Dan once said in a song, “you go back Jack, do it again…” Did you ever do something you knew was bad, but you did it again anyway? You don’t have to fess up, but I’m guilty as charged, especially when it comes to vintage cars and vintage hi-fi. Just like with Alfa Romeos, I’ve had dreadful luck with vintage Klipsch speakers. But when I walked into see my pal Kurt Doslu at Echo Audio, and those unfinished mid-70s Klipsch LaScalas were staring me down, I knew I had to have them in a Wayne’s World kind of way. Oh yes, they were mine. The next question was how to get the damn things back to the TONE studio. At 24 x 24 x 38 S inches and weighing around 100 pounds each, I could not fit both of them in my i3 at once, so on this day, it would be two trips to Echo Audio to bring the booty home. Decoding the production codes reveals that they were made in January of my senior year in high school, just about the time I was getting thrown out of the local hi-fi store for wanting to crank Pink Floyd on a OLD SCHOOL new pair of LaScalas. Ironic. With a sensitivity rating of 105db/1 watt, you don’t need a lot of power to make the LaScalas rock, but you do need high-qua- lity power.
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