Volume 19, Issue 100
The Best Components
A High End system does not necessarily mean an expensive system.
All too frequently, people stitch together a group of widely-praised
components from unrelated parts, and, like Victor Frankenstein, end up
with an unharmonious, half-baked creation. After careful thought,
and trial and error, our reviewers herewith present their choices for
components that, through proper matching, make beautiful music together.
Frank Doris
Amplifier:
The Valve Amplification Company Renaissance One-Forty ($22,000):*
This was the easiest choice of all. See my remarks in the Best
Components of 1994
section. The single most impressive component I've heard in the
last decade; it blew me
away to a point I thought I was too jaded to experience. Simply
incredible, may be the
best, it seems to just be, without adding anything of its own and
removing veils from the
sound you thought were an integral, irremovable part of the playback
chain. Every serious
audiophile owes it to himself to give it, at the very least, a listen.
*And you complain about the price of the Jadis? - WG
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