Usher Audio
Global Design Technolgy
www.usheraudiousa.com
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Captivating,
award-winning stand-mounted monitor speakers representing state-of-art design
and cabinetwork plus leading-edge technology and engineering.
“The
Usher Be-718 is simply a great loudspeaker that delivers a level of performance
far above what its size and price would suggest.”
-- Robert Harley,
The Absolute Sound
Winner 2007
Absolute Sound Product of the Year Awards
“The midrange and highs are
ultra-clean ... I've never heard a speaker this small go so deep. I'd swear the
Be-718s were moderately sized floorstanders.”
-- Doug Schneider,
SoundStage.com
Winner
SoundStage.com Reviewers’ Choice Award
Winner
SoundStage.com 2007 Best Product Debut Award
Furutech
Pure Transmission Technology
www.furutech.com
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Luxuriously made, elegantly engineered, cost-effective cables, power distribution and filtering components, accessories and OEM parts. Furutech's Pure Transmission Technology ensure that each and every element of power and signal transfer is scrutinized and improved using cutting-edge materials and processes such as Alpha-OCC Ohno Continuous Cast Single-Crystal Oxygen-Free copper and Furutech's 2-Stage Super Cryogenic and Demagnetizing Alpha Process. Furutech produce their impeccably-crafted products at very reasonable cost given the price/performance ratio.
"Also stunning were Furutech's impeccably machined, silver over rhodium AC plugs, which incorporate solid brass ground jumpers. What does that do? "You have to hear it to believe it," said Furutech's PR guy, Jonathan Scull. Okay, we're willing to go that far."
Wes Phillips, Stereophile
"Once it's Furutech from beginning to end, the spatial and size benefits are unmistakable. This only reiterates the underlying leitmotif of this review. Shielding from and against noise pollution in cables has become more important than ever - and Furutech has developed a very powerful yet elegant antidote it seems. Bravo."
Srajan Ebaen, 6moons
Moscode
401HR 200wpc Hybrid Tube/MOSFET Power Amplifier
www.moscode.com
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Introducing the Moscode 401HR (Harvey Rosenberg), a powerfully seductive 200wpc hybrid tube/MOSFET power amplifier available direct online. Tune your system's sound by swapping driver tubes just behind the sexy glass of the power-interlocked flip-down front panel. Audition one in your own system for 33 1/3rd days!
"Almost immediately after powering up the Moscode, I realized it is not a good amplifier. It is a superb one. . . .
I almost suffered whiplash as I turned around, mouth agape, at the gale-force sheets of sound emanating from the speakers."
Jacob Heilbrunn, The Absolute Sound
"What it is is robust, full-bodied, and perhaps a little opinionated. It is also delicate and, to my ears at least, true to the music. I can't tell you that it's true to the music's intentfor one thing, I have no clue that I'd know what that isbut what the 401HR does sounds right to me."
Wes Phillips, Stereophile
"The amp's 'round' sound mimics the timbre of live acoustic instruments . . . but it is rock'n'roll that truly wows me. Fire up a little Jimi Hendrix or early Bruce Springsteen, and the 401 HR really struts its stuff. The raunchiest blues reach out to pull on my heartstrings. Even if I did not know that George Kaye plays bass, I might guess that after I hear the way that jazz icon Ron Carter's stand-up bass looms large over the Moscode. The instrument's life forces comes through, loud and clear.
Steve Guttenberg, Home Entertainment
Crystal Acoustics
Home Theater Speaker Systems
www.crystalaudiovideo.com
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Wonderfully affordable surround speaker systems including the THX-3D12 featured in Sound & Vision's The List: The Best Gear To Buy Right Now. If you're feeling clever, try one of their elegant, small-footprint SmArt Systems with changeable side panels! And their Plasma line discretely spruces up audio for on-wall flat panel installations.
"All told, there's not much to fault in Crystal's $1,999 layout. Sure, we'd all like real wood veneers and furniture-grade cabinets. But to the true buff, sound quality is incalculably more important. And the Crystal Acoustics THX-3D12 home theater speaker system delivers that in spades, with balance, spaciousness, range, and impact, at a very attractive price."
Daniel Kumin, Sound & Vision
"Punctuating the intense flashback sequences in The Jacket, with Adrien Brody, were split-second clusters of vicious slashing sounds that tore so rapidly through the soundfield that I barely registered their direction. With less up-front directionality in a vaguer set of speakers, these sounds would have blended better but shocked less. I felt unnerved, as the filmmaker intended."
Mark Fleischmann, Home Theater
The Crystal Acoustics THX3D-12 speaker system is a great value proposition. For less than $2,000, the THX-3D12 gives you full-range tower speakers, a dedicated center channel, dipole surrounds, and a powered subwoofer that meet the specifications for THX-Select. Go ahead, pick up the THX3D-12 system, and slap that THX logo on your front door!
Ross Jones, Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity online
Harmonic Technology
CyberLight Cables
www.harmonictech.com
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Harmonic Technology's CyberLight cables use telecomm-like analog laser technology to transfer signals. Electrical audio inputs are converted to light signals and transmitted across a fiber optic connection. The receiving end converts the light back to electrical signal. Harmonic's unique miniature circuit fits right inside the connector plugs, and the music is never digitized for "sound at the speed of light!"
"No matter how I try to deny it, after many months of listening to these cables with a wide range of associated gear, their superiority to anything else out there that I've heard is undeniable. This superiority comes at a fairly stiff price, but if you can afford it, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Michael Fremer, Stereophile
"Once again, 'Good job!' to the gang at Harmonic Technology. This time they've raised the bar to a level I didn't think was possible. So do not pass "GO!" gentle reader. Run right out to your nearest Harmonic Technology dealer and arrange for a serious audition with your favorite SACDs, CDs and LPs. Or see if he'll loan you a set to listen to in your home. Print out this review and take it with you. You won't be sorry."
Charles Hollander, Positive Feedback Online
"Their see-through clarity, lack of identifiable coloration, full-bodied dynamics, and awesome definition and level of quiet are unsurpassed. I can't imagine what's next from Jim Wang at Harmonic Technologies. Meanwhile, the CyberLights are the stuff of audiophile dreams. They have become my new interconnect reference, and have forever changed the way I listen to recorded music."
Robert H. Levi, Positive Feedback Online
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