Tenor Audio, Classe Audio, Verity Audio, Harmonic Resolution Systems, HAL-O

This room had one of the best sounds of the show. Classe Audio of Canada was showing its new SACD player: The Omega SACD - 1. This unit looks great and judging from what we heard, sounds great too. Not surprisingly it was used as a front-end component of choice on other displays as well.

Tenor Audio was showing some serious glass in the form of their Classic series Model 75 Wi. Gorgeously executed both sonically and visually, a pair was happily driving Parsifal Encore loudspeakers of Verity Audio. Dressed in Italian High-Gloss Sycamore, they where just begging to be touched. Sonically they proved to be a treasure, an opinion shared by others exhibiting at the show choosing to partner them with their gear as well.

Harmonic Resolution Systems were supporting in the form of their DEADEND M2 Isolation Base, seen underneath the Omega SACD-1 and the Tenors. While a set of neat and effective tube damping rings where hugging the output tubes of each Tenor. These are from HAL-O (Herbie's Audio Lab) and they are called Vacuum Tube Damping Instruments.

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The 2002 Montreal Festival of Sound & Image!