New!

....holy cow do I have a ton of new stuff to add... and a newsletter to write. I'm never going to get this stuff done if business keeps up this way! But I'm not complaining!!
Here's some really cool new tidbits to see and hear at Speaker Shop updated 1/28/10!
The Harbeth P3ESR is the ultimate mini monitor, the latest in a lineage that stretches back twenty years. A generation of home users and studio professionals has relied on these Harbeth minis to fill even the smallest room with a full, warm, natural sound. The P3ESR is the culmination of the designer's four-years research into upgrading the Harbeth mini. From the new removable back panel for improved cabinet damping to the radically new bass unit yielding a wide smooth frequency response, every detail of these astonishing loudspeakers has been thoroughly honed and optimized.
The P3ESR's exceptional all-round performance flows from the perfect integration of the cabinet, drivers and crossover. Breathtaking transparency, real bass and fantastic holographic imaging endow the P3ESR with grand, captivating, transparent sound presented in a conveniently small and beautiful cabinet.

The Harbeth P3ESR is designed to give a lifetime of listening pleasure for all types of music wherever extreme clarity and naturalness is demanded.

And how about this thing! The Furutech deMag completely demagnetizes LPs and optical disc media such as CD, CD-R, DVD, MD, Game CD, Photo CD, SACD, and DVD Audio. Plus it’s an indispensable accessory for keeping interconnect cables, connectors and power cords demagnetized to prevent magnetic signal distortion. They also have an excellent selection of AC power products, too!
The PS Audio PerfectWave DAC will change the way you think about digital to analog converters forever. It accesses high-resolution digital audio data from multiple sources such as a CD transport, CD player, computer, network, or the Internet and converts the data to the most musically natural sounding analog audio ever produced. It no longer matters how the digital audio data is stored or delivered, the PWD produces the same high performance audio sent over a network, taken from a hard drive, a CD or even downloaded via the Internet. The PWD can access and control any compatible network source such as a network hard drive (NAS), or stream music directly off the Internet. It works in perfect harmony with PS Audio’s ground breaking PerfectWave Transport (PWT) Memory Player. Built from the ground up as a dedicated high-end optical disc transport, the PWT will read Red Book CD's and WAV files of any resolution from both CD and DVD discs (such as the Reference HRx discs) and output near-perfect digital data to any D to A processor made. The PWT is designed to be the best optical disc player you will ever use. Cover art, song titles, track times, sample rates and bit depth are all displayed on the beautiful color touch screen automatically for any inserted disc.

The new all tube Jolida FX10 integrated amp looks sexy, sounds sexy, and is inexpensive enough to be considered a no-brainer! Speaker Shop had these lil' guys in stock for less than a week before we had to re-order!

 

Beatles Remastered Using Bowers & Wilkins Speakers!
B&W 800 series in Abbey Road Studios

 

The remastering of The Beatles catalog is truly an historic event. Although Abbey Road Studios pre-existed The Beatles by decades, it is safe to say that the Beatles made the studios immortal. London’s Abbey Road Studios, inseparably associated with The Beatles’ greatest recordings and the site of hundreds of more recent, highly acclaimed classical, pop and film-score sessions, has purchased new reference systems featuring no fewer than 25 pairs of the new B&W 800Ds . 

Paul McCartney himself praises the sound quality of these new remasters. Quoted in Rolling Stone, September 3, 2009, he says, "It sounds like I'm back in the session. I hear John and think, 'There he is.' You can close your eyes and see him, because the quality is so real. 

Commenting on the new systems, Simon Campbell, Head of Technical Services, remarks: "B&W have surpassed themselves yet again. Immediately on hearing the new 800D's we decided to equip all of Abbey Road's control rooms that have surround monitoring. They are used in combination with the mighty new ASW855 sub. The 800D's clarity and evenness throughout an extensive frequency range produces stunning results. We're also investing in the 802Ds and 805Ss to give our clients an even greater variety of monitoring options." 

The value of this outstanding reference system can already be appreciated through the superb sonics of early projects completed using it, including the recording and mixing of the musical scores to Star Wars, Episode III—Revenge of the Sith, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and now - at long last - the Beatles!