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18.05.2018
Viele waren begeistert, aber es gab auch sehr unterschiedliche Stimmen, auch viele kritische Stimmen zu immer höheren Preisen.
Ambei, stellvertretend die Eindrücke von Herb Reichert, STEREOPHILE vom Odeon/NAT Raum E 100 Atrium 4.2 :
To illustrate my above thesis, I am going to start my reporting, with a wild looking single-ended triode amplifier + horn loudspeaker that I believe might appeal to both Americans and Europeans: the Odeon Audio "No.33" horn loudspeakers (28,000 Euros/pair) driven by the outrageous looking NAT Audio "Magma" tube amplifier (44,900 Euros). The Magma features, nay showcases, in its beautiful cage, the fantastic GM100 "watermelon" tube, which, is bigger than a football and hotter than a stove. NAT claims the Magma's single GM100 puts out "170W (!!!) of no-feedback, class-A power—into 4or 8 ohms. And it looks crazy good to me.
The Odeon NAT people played a digital Getz & Gilberto's Girl From Ipanema with an Aqua La Diva CD transport (7680 Euros), an Aqua La Scala MK II Optologic DAC (6780 Euros). They also played LPs with the outstanding (11,000 Euros) Reed Muse 1 C Laufwerk turntable, a Reed 1X tonearm, and a Lyra Delos moving-coil cartridge. With no apparent struggle, good horns with SE triodes will generate copious texture and tangible weight, but more often than not, horns play too big to be real. Guitars can be 8' wide and singers can be 10' tall. But not with the No.33s. Of all the myriad horn speakers I've heard, the three-way 33s produced proper-sized instruments and 5–6' vocalists. Instrumental textures were vivid, tone was rich and colorful, but I thought I heard a subtle grain through the upper midrange that I imagined was generated, not by the 33s, but by the monster high-voltage GM100 tube. Racks were Atacama Bambus Module. Interconnects were JPS Aluminata and Superconductor while the loudspeaker cables were Odeon.
Ambei, stellvertretend die Eindrücke von Herb Reichert, STEREOPHILE vom Odeon/NAT Raum E 100 Atrium 4.2 :
To illustrate my above thesis, I am going to start my reporting, with a wild looking single-ended triode amplifier + horn loudspeaker that I believe might appeal to both Americans and Europeans: the Odeon Audio "No.33" horn loudspeakers (28,000 Euros/pair) driven by the outrageous looking NAT Audio "Magma" tube amplifier (44,900 Euros). The Magma features, nay showcases, in its beautiful cage, the fantastic GM100 "watermelon" tube, which, is bigger than a football and hotter than a stove. NAT claims the Magma's single GM100 puts out "170W (!!!) of no-feedback, class-A power—into 4or 8 ohms. And it looks crazy good to me.
The Odeon NAT people played a digital Getz & Gilberto's Girl From Ipanema with an Aqua La Diva CD transport (7680 Euros), an Aqua La Scala MK II Optologic DAC (6780 Euros). They also played LPs with the outstanding (11,000 Euros) Reed Muse 1 C Laufwerk turntable, a Reed 1X tonearm, and a Lyra Delos moving-coil cartridge. With no apparent struggle, good horns with SE triodes will generate copious texture and tangible weight, but more often than not, horns play too big to be real. Guitars can be 8' wide and singers can be 10' tall. But not with the No.33s. Of all the myriad horn speakers I've heard, the three-way 33s produced proper-sized instruments and 5–6' vocalists. Instrumental textures were vivid, tone was rich and colorful, but I thought I heard a subtle grain through the upper midrange that I imagined was generated, not by the 33s, but by the monster high-voltage GM100 tube. Racks were Atacama Bambus Module. Interconnects were JPS Aluminata and Superconductor while the loudspeaker cables were Odeon.