{"id":14191,"date":"2024-01-11T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T09:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=14191"},"modified":"2024-01-11T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T09:06:12","slug":"gershman-acoustics-eon-art-oracle-audio-reed-cardas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onhee.com\/?p=14191","title":{"rendered":"Gershman Acoustics, Eon Art, Oracle Audio, Reed, Cardas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacques Riendeau of Oracle Audio<\/small>
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\nI was running out of time.
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\nThe show was closing soon and I hadn’t heard either of Gershman Acoustics’s two new offerings at the show. Well, one new, the other new-ish<\/I>. The new-ish<\/I> one was the company’s Grand Avant Garde 30th Anniversary Edition model. This wasn’t a Special Edition with a limited run but a tweaked version of the popular Grand Avant Garde, a speaker I always liked for its rich, full-bodied sound. It replaced the original, and it offers bass extension specified to go 2dB lower.
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\nThe other model was genuinely new: It launched at this show. The Studio XdB ($12,000) looks like a standmount, but it isn’t, or not exactly. It looks like a box on a stand, but the stand is equipped with Gershman Acoustics’s patented Bass Trap, which is said to extend the speaker’s bass response down to 23Hz and eliminate the back wave.
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\nThe crux of my dilemma was this: The models were being shown in different rooms, and I had time to visit only one. I wanted to hear both. So, which one? After some soul searching, my decision was made. Switching into James Bond mode, during which Monty Norman’s classic “James Bond Theme” played like a cool movie score in the back of my head, I darted past the crowd and across the mezzanine, down the escalator (leaving a trail of dazed bodies in my wake), and into the spacious St-Laurent 8 room.
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\nI took a seat facing the system, which included an Oracle Audio Delphi Reference MkVII Signature turntable with 24K Gold plating ($18,500 US), fitted with a Reed 2G 9.5″ tonearm ($4850 US) and an Oracle Corinth cartridge ($2350 US). Phono preamplification and equalization were performed by an Oracle Paris PH200 Mklll phono preamplifier ($2250 CA), which fed a pair of 250W (rated into 8 ohms) Eon Art Boson integrated monoblocks ($72,535)\u2014”integrated” because each monoblock has its own (tubed) preamplifier. Cardas cabling interconnected the system.
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\nThe speakers, of course, were the $12,000 Gershman Acoustics Studio XdB.
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\nThe system produced an open, large-scale vista of colorful, expressive, intimate, organically flowing, tonally colorful sound. It made me happy I’d picked this system over the other.
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\nStill, after I’d left the room, I felt emptiness. I really wanted to hear that 30th Anniversary Grand Avant Garde model; who knows, maybe I’m even happier in the alternate ‘verse in which I chose that room instead. Maybe, in this verse, they’ll show them at this year’s Toronto Audiofest in October. Cue the James Bond Theme. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n<\/td>\n

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Jacques Riendeau of Oracle Audio I was running out of time. The show was closing soon and I hadn’t heard either of Gershman Acoustics’s two new offerings at the show. Well, one new, the other new-ish. The new-ish one was the company’s Grand Avant Garde 30th Anniversary Edition model. This wasn’t a Special Edition with … <\/p>\n

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