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In the Thread: Streophile show 2007 and Haniwa
Post Subject: Streophile show 2007 and HaniwaPosted by yoshi on: 5/12/2007
I just came back from Stereophile Show in NYC. A couple of observations.
Haniwa's FPIC-100 DSP seems to be nothing but a typical DSP with digital crossover/equalizer/delay with auto feedback through a microphone set at the listening position. I'm not sure (I forgot to ask) if it's employed as an active crossover for muti-amplification as a premise or as a speaker level crossover. From their literature, it seems it's with pre-amp (as an active crossover), but no mentioning of multi amping there.
Another speaker (below, I forgot the brand name) also has a digital crossover at speaker level, so when you play CD, the signal goes through first DA (through DA converter after the transport), then AD at the input of the crossover, then again another DA at the output of the crossover!!! What the hell's going on!
A new company Loiminchay is the first brand from Mars marketing on Earth (see picture at Stereophile's show report on their site). Their Mandarin Supreme is a rather dimunitive in size (about 4" height) with 1" compression driver and 12" woofer (they mention another 10" driver, maybe hidden inside the cabinet?). The $80,000 price tag is justified by the use of rare Mars wood for the cabinet and the transportation cost of FedExing 7,834,000 km in space. It also comes with an option of digital crossover for the extra $16,000!
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