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In the Thread: Orion Phono Preamplifier

Post Subject: Audio alchemy gold to leadPosted by steverino on: 2/14/2013

Audio Alchemy was a maker of budget priced gear back in the mid 90s that was somewhat better sounding than much equivalent gear. That would be enough to earn them enmity in the audio business. Of course they had virtually no quality control which hurt them but many other manufacturers have the same problem. I thought that Mednick and Shifter were just marketing types and that the tech guy in back of them was Dusty Vawter. After the collapse of Audio Alchemy Vawter went on to start his own budget line. I thought it was called Monolith or something like that which morphed into Channel Islands. I don't have any of his gear but it seems to have a decent reputation and he has stayed in business for about 15 years now so he is doing better than the others. My recollection is that towards the end of its existence AA came up with a somewhat more expensive DAC which was well regarded. Since I don't play CDs very much I wasn't interested but someone may know if it was in fact as good as ballyhooed back in the late 90s.

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