Too many new toys

[Grant Fidelity]

Arriving today, all new and needing to be burnt in and tested and ready for FSI 2009 in Montreal in April. I don't think I planned this one out properly If you are in Calgary, I know you and want to help out, contact me.

Speakers:

GF RBS-1 Morel 2 way
GF MBS-1 Vifa 2 way
GF H-1 Wood Horn - 3 way
GF H-2 Wood Horn - 2 way
GF LS3/5a - for North America studio monitors - 2 way
Compact MB-8 Audiophile 5.1 Home Concert ™ Speaker System

Amps:
Sheng Ya A-216 150w/ch Tube Hybrid
Sheng Ya A-206 20w/ch Class A, 200/ch AB
Sheng Ya S-90 Receiver 80w/ch Ab, with USB !
Sheng Ya CV-15 Tube Pre-amp, with tone controls

Turntables:
Opera Consonance - Droplet 5.0 MKII
Opera Consonance - Droplet 3.1
Opera Consonance - Forbidden City Liu

Tonearms:
Opera Consonance - ST100
Opera Consonance - ST600

Dynavector Cartridges

Probably a few suprises I've forgotten about too.

From the last shipment I haven't finished burning in

Jungson JA-99D 100w/ch Pure Class A
Jungson AV-1000D 80w/ch Class A x 6 channels !
Jungson JA-88E 80 w/ch AB amp, with Noel at Skylan Stands running wioht his $5k Harbeth's. He wants to keep it.
All the Shuguang tresure series tubes
GF A-2A3 - 2A3 push pull 14 w tube amp

The shipment arrived about 2 weeks quicker than I expected, don't even have the room in the showroom which I am tearing apart now to try and make room.

Good time to make some offers on the samples

Ya, I know, nice problem to have.

Cheers,
Ian

This post has been edited by Grant Fidelity on February 10, 2009 11:03 am

[clint e.]

I like to play a lot with some of those toys.....

Are those LS3/5a similar to Harbeth's and Stirling's LS3/5a? Rogers' clones with Kef drivers??

[Grant Fidelity]

Completely new drivers, captures the sound of the originals, but a little bigger sounding, same midrange magic and disappearing act. Will be doing some studio testing very soon with them, that is their intent. The rogers never really caught on here as studio monitors, always did well as home speakers here though.

Just fired up the Compact Rears and was blown away, fresh out of the box you can hear the quality and I've never seen such a beautiful speaker. I heard the Front's and they impressed me plenty enough to go with the whole set. btw, listening with the 6 channel class A amp.

Too bad you aren't close by.

Cheers,
Ian

This post has been edited by Grant Fidelity on February 10, 2009 01:30 pm

[Grant Fidelity]

Been thru the speakers and the A-206 amp and the 'hornies' as I will likely keep referring to them are by far my favourite, even over my own RBS-1. I think I may have found my own personal nirvana of speaker sound and I actually turned the big hornies off after about 15 minutes, knowing I wasn't going to get any work done.

My test CD's first track is Holly Cole's Jersey Girl which of course I've listened to a million times for testing purposes and just before she breaks into the first verse I hear a breathing moan, mmm that was basically right in my ear, freaked me out a bit. I had never even heard that moan before, now I'm listen for it and can tell it's there on other speakers, but not like on the big horny. As I said I turned it off, too much work to do.

Will be building TT's today , of course sold out of Phono Stages and our new tube prototype (in a B-283 box) is still at the factory. $10k+ worth of tables and no phono stage !! For those of you that have followed my attempts at getting a TT up and running, figures eh!

Cheers,
Ian

This post has been edited by Grant Fidelity on February 12, 2009 06:04 am