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GINGKO AUDIO INTRODUCED CLARAVU 7
AT RMAF 2009!
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Gingko Audio unveiled our newest product, the ClaraVu 7 monitors, great-sounding speakers at an entry-level price, $2995/pair.
NEW PRODUCTS!
TWO NEW COVERS FOR THE VPI CLASSIC TURNTABLE
Gingko Audio is proud to introduce
2 new covers designed to fit the newest VPI Classic turntable.
The plinth top model (CP) retails for $299 and the table top model (CT) retails for $349.
See the PRICING page for pricing and dimensions information.
CLOUD 14A & CLOUD 14B
Gingko Audio is proud to introduce
2 new products designed to provide excellent
vibration control for the most popular VPI
turntables.
Designed specifically for lighter components (less than 30 lbs) such as lighter turntables or CD players!
Click link for new review by Paul Seydor in the Absolute Sound, March 2009 issue.
"As I had wrapped up the survey with the Interspace, I started there,
expecting little improvement, as its isolation already seemed so good. Less
than a minute into Kind of Blue, I was picking my jaw off the floor. The
improvement was staggering: in the bass alone, greater clarity, definition,
detail, pitch stability, and dynamic range. Removing the Cloud resulted in
an undifferentiated wodge, thick, phlegmatic, and mushy. The Bernstein
Carmen was even more revelatory: greater clarity and control all across the
band and up and down the scale, far greater inner detail and imaging
stability, an overall presentation smoother, more natural and relaxed."
"Inasmuch as the Interspace was less excited by external disturbances to
start with, I expected I'd hear even more dramatic improvements with the
lower priced turntables. Not so. There was still improvement aplenty, but
not to the degree I expected. Then I remembered that the MMF, Xpression, and
Rega setups are all too lightweight to work optimally with the 11. Using
three balls in a triangular configuration-the minimum possible-requires a 30
pound component, which leaves the Rega ten pounds shy, the other two more
than that. Vu then shipped two prototypes soon to go into production: the
Cloud 14B ($449) and the Cloud 14A ($549), both of which have wooden inlays
to increase weight, while the 14A also boasts a thicker, heavier platform.
This was more like it, a substantial improvement along the lines discussed
so far, and it gets better as the platforms get heavier. The 14A also
brought a noticeable increase in definition of texture as well as of pitch.
A non audiophile friend happened to stop by and I asked him to listen. His
words: off the Cloud "the bass sounds bigger but very indistinct, almost
watery"; on the Cloud, "it's tighter, and everything else sounds more
precise-cleaner."
"The bottom line? With loud playback levels and/or big, demanding music,
especially in the bass, the effect of taking any of these four turntables
off the Gingko platforms is to make it seem almost as if they're all
literally broken."
"Is it worth adding a Gingko to a turntable like the MMF, which more than
doubles the cost of the setup? It seems an absurd proposition, I grant, yet
the improvements are more audible than what you will hear most accessory
products, including cables, interconnects, line conditioners, cones, pods,
pucks, mats, clamps, weights, yak, yak, yak. But, hey, you can answer the
question yourself, thanks to Gingko's 30 day money back guarantee, to which
I'll add a guarantee of my own: put on Kind of Blue at a healthy level and
listen for thirty seconds-the difference will be loud and clear in all
senses of those words. The pun is as unavoidable as it may be egregious, but
the ball's now in your court."
Paul Seydor, The Absolute Sound, March 2009 |
