No. 76 ISSN 0847-1851 Canadian Publication Sales Product Agreement No. 40065638 RETURN LABELS ONLY OF UNDELIVERED COPIES TO: Box 65085, Place Longueuil, Longueuil, Qué., Canada J4K 5J4 Printed in Canada $6.49 LOUDSPEAKERS: Does the Totem Mani-2 still rate as one of the world’s truly great speakers? We also look at an economy speaker from an old friend, Castle. And an affordable speaker with a Heil tweeter.
ASW Speakers QED Target Vandersteen McCormack Harmonix WBT Reimyo WBT-0710CU also available in silver Apollo GutWire ASW Genius 400 “It has all the volume you could ever want, its bottom end goes down to bedrock, and its top end is delightfully smooth.” UHF No.
The Listening Room Issue No. 76 The Totem Mani-2 Signature It was 14 years ago that this astonishing loudspeaker wowed us.
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My entry level system consists of an Atoll CD50, Atoll IN50 amplifier and a pair of Polk Audio RTi38 bookshelf speakers. I’m considering either adding a Goldring GR2 (or Rega P3) turntable, or getting a pair of second-hand Totem Model One speakers (in good condition for about $1000).
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to find there have a power rating of a quarter watt, and we’re being optimistic. Put any amount of power into one, and…poof! Followed by possibly another poof from a tube in your amplifier. You’ll need a power resistor from an electronics supply house, and you may have to put several resistors together to get the rating you need. When we made up the dummy load we use in amplifier tests, we purchased three large precision 24 ohm resistors and connected them in parallel (24 divided by 3 is 8).
Derek, this issue includes a review of the Slim Devices Squeezebox, which may be one key to getting the best possible sound from your computer. The Squeezebox connects by Ethernet or Wi-Fi, and it can feed a digital signal into a genuine hi-fi system. Using the Apple Lossless codec is the right choice in our view. Anyone not able to use iTunes can download the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), available for all computer platforms including Linux, Unix, Solaris, plus some we’ve never heard of.
Advice Feedback Free most DACs wont bother about this.. Does the above DIY make any sense, or is the transformer to match impedance absolutely necessary, if not advisable? James Tay TORONTO, ON familiar with many of the audiophile magazines, and I think yours is the most objective and informative of all of them. It makes me proud to know that such a great magazine comes from Canada. Now on to the CEC DA53 converter. After reading your review in UHF No. 72, I purchased a DA53 and it is very good.
system. The Audiomat Opéra, with its much larger power supply, was listened to on the Omega system, because we thought (correctly as it turned out) that it could handle our Reference 3a Supremas, with their push-pull passive subwoofers. The Copland CTA-405 would no doubt have had a more difficult time delivering the current needed, and so we made the decision to listen to it in the Alpha system, with our Living Voice Avatar speakers.
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Speaker Impedance Feedback Nuts&Bolts W hat is the impedance of your loudspeakers? Is it 8 ohms? Or 4 ohms? Perhaps you know that it is not just a single number, but what difference does it make anyway? At the very least you are no doubt aware that a speaker with a very low impedance can present a problem for an amplifier, and potentially can damage it. Think about the fact that short-circuiting an amplifier output can either break it, or blow a fuse, or trigger a protection circuit.
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Feature I Montréal 2006 t seems forever that the Montreal show has been at the Delta hotel, right downtown. The Delta was a great venue for hi-fi companies looking for solidly-built rooms whose acoustics you could work with. It wasn’t so good for those needing vast space, and the show had long spilled over into adjacent hotels. This time organizer Marie-Christine Prin intended to attract other consumer electronics firms: Sony, Toshiba, Nikon, perhaps even (snicker!) Apple Computer.
ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine 23 Feature Feedback Au r u m Acoust ics (f rom Newfoundland) was back with the final version of its astonishing tri-amplified loudspeaker (it comes with its own amps, four of which are single-ended tube units). Now that the system (i nclud i ng t he ma n ife st ly excellent CD player/preamplifier) is entering production, our interest in doing an in-depth review has definitely perked up.
Feature Feedback arrive in stores soon. That includes the Artikulat speakers (shown on page 27), and the new Majik strictly twochannel component series. I’ve already asked to review the Majik CD, which will replace both the Genki and Ikemi, with a price situated about midway. Before you ask, like the older models it will still have HDCD decoding. I’m always happy to see (and especially hear) Sonus Faber speakers, and there were two new ones at the show.
Touring the Old/New Show “L ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine 25 Feature Feedback by Albert Simon more than once during the next days, ook at t he beaut if u l with different visitors, and their tubes,”said a visitor as reaction was always the same: he walked they remained speechless. That into the room, calling his such qualit y (and quantit y!) friend over to a table display, could issue from such diminutive completely oblivious to the speakers was amazing. music being played.
Feature Feedback locks and a pair of large VillaReale spea kers. It was a lively and wonderfully syncopated version of the legendary Brubeck composition. We had another treat on LPs with My Funny Valentine from the 70’s direct-to-disc album The Great Jazz Trio Direct from L.A., with Hank Jones, played on a Brinkmann La Grange turntable and introducing the Brinkmann tone arm. T hat was followed, in the same room, by Rachmani- nov’s Piano Concerto No.
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The Listening Room Room Feedback Listening Totem Mani-2 Signature W ere we the very first ever to review a Totem loudspeaker? We think so. It was of course the original Totem, the Model One. We were impressed with it, as we still are, and we eagerly awaited the Model Two. This was the Model Two, with a clever pun identifying it as the second model, all the while tying it to the company’s faux Native image. The Mani-2, first reviewed in UHF No. 43, impressed us too.
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Room Feedback Listening Elac 204 D oes the name ring a bell? Ment ion ELAC and we think of turntables of long ago, or more recently of phono cartridges. Indeed, ELAC (the name is a contraction of Electroacustic) was the first to make a relatively inexpensive phono cartridge with a Van den Hul profiled stylus. That turned out not to be a great idea, but its heart was in the right place. And now ELAC has brought out the first inexpensive speaker with a Heil tweeter.
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Castle Richmond 3i Room Feedback Listening S o here’s Castle again…with a new Canadian distributor, but then again new ownership too. Castle was founded many years ago by a group of former Wharfedale executives, who had left when the aptly-named Rank organization had bought Wharfedale. Those execs are now retired, and Castle was bought by…a group of Wharfedale execs. Plus ça change… This very small and inexpensive speaker is very much a Castle, though.
getting the tone wrong on a couple of the really large drums. But because the bass response is necessarily limited, the problem wasn’t more than detectable. Much more noticeable was the furious rhythm and the energy. That odd scraped gourd in the introduction came on with power, and so did the whistle. The kick drum, which some speakers simply ignore (perhaps fortunately), was surprisingly good. So was Feldman’s piano.
Headphone Amplifiers Room Feedback Listening G ot an amplifier? Got headphones? Now how do you plug the second into the first? Headphones have long been an alternative listening method for those whose partners don’t share their musical tastes. Or those with thin walls. In recent years the idea of listening to music through headphones rather than loudspeakers has gone mainstream. The reason for that can be summed up in a word: iPod. (Then again, there’s the word Walkman. Remember that? Neither do we.
complicated things. Here’s how we solved the problem. The source we selected for these tests was a combination of our CEC TL51X belt-driven transport and the Benchmark DAC1 converter reviewed in our last issue. We did that because the Benchmark’s headphone section was one of the products to be reviewed, and that way we could keep the source constant.
Lehmann Black Cube Linear T Room Feedback Listening his headphone amp is from the same German company that makes the phono preamp of nearly t he same name. It is, as you will have ob s er ve d , neit her black nor a cube, but oh well. The power supply is built in, and so it has a standard IEC cord. The two sets of phono jacks (the second set is an output, so that the Lehmann can actually be used as a simple preamp) are reasonable, and were a tight fit with our reference interconnects.
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nat u ra l, proving once again that the sibilant artifacts we often hear are the result of problems in the playback, not the original recording. But it’s not even the voice that strikes you first. Rather it’s the perfect balance of voice, piano, cello, bass and percussion. We all asked for a second listen, and then we noticed the other virtues: a drum kit that was clearer and much more natural, and details of diction we are not used to hearing quite so clearly. Gibson’s presence was notable too.
Back Issues THE ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION: Issues No.7-19 (except 11, 15, 17 and 18, out of print): nine issues available for the price of five (see below). A piece of audio history. Available separately at the regular price. No.75: Amplifiers: The new Simaudio Moon W-8 flagship, and integrated amps from Copland (the CTA-405) and CEC. Speakers: the Reference 3a Veena and the Energy Reference Connoisseur reborn. Plus the Benchmark DAC converter.
High end Sound From Your Computer? Room Feedback Listening I n UHF No. 75 we explained how to use Apple’s iTunes program (free for Windows and Mac OS X) to get instant access to a vast music library. What was not evident was how to listen without taking a huge performance hit. A very few computers have digital outputs, usually optical. But your computer and your music system are probably not adjacent.
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Power On the Go I got ’em all, even the one for a Motorola P280 phone, which took a little longer. There’s one down side: the iGo can recharge all six devices, but not all at once. On the plus side, you can travel worldwide with it, because it adjusts itself to whatever voltage is in the wall. Each device of course requires its own adapter tips, and in our case that meant six adapters.
Cinema Cinema Feedback A Future High-Res Discs s we write this (and probably as you read this), the format battle for the next silver audio/ video disc is still on. Yes, it will affect audio as well as video. Let’s recapitulate. O n one s ide a re Toshiba, NEC, and — perhaps more important — the DVD Forum, the consortium that set the standard for the existing DVD. Their project is HD DV D, the “HD” of course standing for “high definition.
Lossless Packing) compression system. Is MLP one of the standards for HD DVD? Well, duh! But who needs it? Film lovers want a disc with the greatest possible capacity, in order to get the best possible picture. However audiophiles would seem to have all they could want already. Either DVD-A or SACD can give you an hour and a quarter of high resolution 5.1 channel surround sound.
Rendezvous We talked with him a lot after that, and ran a Rendezvous feature with him in UHF No. 43. We thought it was about time we talked with him again. The Totem Man T he first time we ever met Vince Bruzzese he was showing a prototype of a very small speaker with what seemed at the time like an absurdly high price.
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55 THE AUDIOPHILE STORE INTERCONNECTS ATLAS NAVIGATOR An oxygen-free continuous cast (OCC) cable: each strand is made from a single crystal. Two separate internal conductors, plus double shielding (what some people referred to as “semibalanced,” though we prefer “pseudo-balanced”). The double shielding is copper mylar plus close-lapped 99.997% pure OCC copper multi-stranded screen providing 100% RFI protection.
THE AUDIOPHILE STORE ANALOG PRODUCTS REGA FONO We can’t get over how good it is…and how affordable. The Rega Fono is a superb way to add vinyl to your system. MM version and high sensitivity MC version for cartridges with low output. While stocks last. ORDER: RF-MM Phono preamp, $395 ORDER: RF-MC high sensitivity phono preamp, $565 LEHMANN BLACK CUBE The SE version, complete with its PWX premium upgraded power supply, even more affordable. Switchable for MM/ MC, with selectable loads.
57 THE AUDIOPHILE STORE CLEANER POWER MAXCON POWER FILTER 2 GUTWIRE POWER CABLES Multiple shielding, including an external electrostatic shield connected to a clip… you may get get best performance with or without. Basic Clef and the G Clef are used by UHF. Now in an upgraded version, with performance “squared.” Length is 1.7 m, longer cords on order. Basic Clef 2 has 165 discrete conductors, 95% shielding by 2 shields. ORDER: GBC-5 Basic Clef Square, 1.
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everywhere, in all walks of life, in all age groups, for our romantic troubadour is back on the road. He travels his beloved land that is bounded by three seas. And he is every bit as welcome in Europe, in Australia, in the United States, where he takes his songs and wins over the crowds.
Feedback Software his winning performance at Toronto’s fabled Massey Hall. Inaugurated in 1894 and renovated several times since, Massey Hall is already celebrated for the artistic events held there. Our young artist will make singing there a habit. In the meantime, to his piano courses he adds guitar lessons and becomes a self-taught drummer as well. Despite his youth he is often invited to sing on the radio, and in oratorios and operettas. In 1955 he writes his very first song. He is then all of 17.
Elvis Presley and Barbra Streisand. And oh yes…by Bob Dylan, who holds Lightfoot in the highest esteem. A historical interlude For some Lightfoot is a painter, using his guitar for a brush. He says as much in one song: If you want to know my secret Don’t come runnin’ after me For I am just a painter Passing through in history The song On Yonge Street, chronicles the ambience of Toronto’s main street. He has something of the historian as well.
Feedback Software major American concert halls (Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center), across Canada, and to the various summer festivals. He is by now a virtuoso guitarist on both the six and twelve string guitar. His record collection grows to prodigious proportions, and many of these recordings score phenomenal successes. A few favorites come to mind, songs that became hits and remain young. There’s Summertime Dream, at once poetic and, yes, dreamy.
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Feedback Software Canadian Music’s Long Trek If we sometimes deplore that the Canadian sound is too rarely heard on our own airwaves, we might console ourselves by recalling that back in the 60’s there was no real Canadian recording industry at all. English-Canadian songs were virtually absent from the AM stations that were then dominant, and recording companies did little to promote them. Artists who had recording ambitions had to go to the US.
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paying for it, a detail that subsequently took on a certain importance). The reason I hadn’t heard them: Dorian had reinvented public relations, apparently using North Korea as a model, and when was the last time you received a CD from Pyongyang? But with the back catalog in distribution once again we opened up some samples, and we were glad we did. These recordings are done with the usual Professor Johnson flair, and they are encoded in HDCD, the high definition process he helped develop.
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Gossip&News Goodbye Korbon Is hi-fi — or consumer electronics in general — getting tougher to survive in? Change has claimed another victim, a major Canadian distributor. The company is Korbon trading, which was already five years old when UHF was created in 1982. Ken Simpson had worked at the company importing Sharp when he set up his own company, which he named after his daughters, Kory and Bonnie. The company had an ad in our very first issue, for Canton speakers.
“Cool” Gets Warmer You have to be intrigued by the ad: “Home stereo. Reinvented.” We like the way home stereo has been moving just fine, thanks very much, but does Apple Computer (whose on-line ad this is) actually have a better idea? It doesn’t look that way. The iPod Hi-Fi’s name is what’s been reinvented. What is it? It’s a powered speaker with an iPod slot, not the sort of ground-breaking innovation you might expect Steve Jobs to launch.
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I State of the Art s music important to all humans? I would say so, and it explains why the first humans began to make music even before they discovered fire, or weapons with which to kill other humans. We know, because we’ve found remains of their instruments. We also know that music is not listened to the same way by everyone. For a substantial portion of the world population, music has a deep importance, and is listened to with a certain intensity and concentration.
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