With our first 5-year Swiss residency B permits having just come up for renewal to make us feel properly settled whilst getting upgraded to C status, even my system had accumulated a few Swiss residents in the interim. "By the way the renderings below are only preliminary even though that's about how they'll look: machined from solid wood stock, suspended on hardly visible height-adjustable springs, with rear-ported loading, 30 x 20 x 10.4cm dimensions and an F3 of 58Hz."Ĭhecking in with Sven in early August, the first baker's dozen had flown the coop but he was still awaiting production packaging to perhaps be out four weeks before being able to dispatch a formal loaner pair.
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Plus there would be vibrational issues and associated potential performance degradation. Those tech elements I'd so not want on my nicely clean wooden fronts. It would also further decrease the already small internal volume, create thermal issues and challenge me where to place the volume control and on/off switch. That's not my core competence and thus could potentially backfire. To my knowledge ready-made modules that would fit don't exist.
For several reasons I finally decided not to.
"I've thought long and hard about putting amp modules inside them to go active. On my work desk that's what I run every day into Anthony Gallo's Strada 2 plus TR-3D subwoofer without a desire for anything snobbier (I've checked!). Without thinking twice I'd blurted out Wyred4Sound mINT. Sven then had asked about a reco for a suitable integrated amplifier for it. I'd known of the coming baby Boenicke since January. The affable Swiss was roaming the hallways with one of his new W5 desktop speakers tucked into the crook of his arm.
Review component retail in Switzerland: CHF 3'500/pr, CHF 340/pr for optional floor standĪt High End Munich in May 2013 I'd unexpectedly run into landsman Sven Boenicke. The latter is thus positioned in the middle of this open floor plan without the usual nearby back wall. The listening space opens into the second storey via a staircase and the kitchen/dining room are behind the main listening chair. Room size: 5m x 11.5m W x D, 2.6m ceiling with exposed wooden cross beams every 60cm, plaster over brick walls, suspended wood floor with Tatami-type throw rugs. Sundry accessories: Extensive use of Acoustic System Resonators, noise filters and phase invertersĪrt: paintings by Ivette Ebaen, Indian bronze musicians and other Rajasthani furnishings from images-atmospheres.ch with jewelry from Powerline conditioning: GigaWatt PF-2 and Vibex Two 1R DC filter on amps, Vibex Three 11R on front-end componentsĮquipment rack: Artesania Exoteryc double-wide three tier with optional glass shelf, Rajasthani hardwood rack for amps Loudspeakers: Boenicke Audio B10 with SwingBase, German Physiks HRS-120, Zu Submission, AudioSolutions 200, Gallo Acoustics Strada 2/TR-3DĬables: Complete Zu Event loom, KingRex uArt split USB cable Power amplifier: Job 225 FirstWatt S1 monos, SIT2 Integrated amplifier: Wyred4Sound mINT, Bakoon AMP-12R, Clones 25i
Preamplifier: Nagra Jazz, Bent Audio Tap-X, Esoteric C-03, TruLife Audio Athena
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