AXPONA 2010 Coverage

March 8, 2010

The Horning Hybrid, Thoress and TW-Acustic Room

At every show there is one room that has you scratching your head. High Water Sound is the importer for several small European audio companies whose names I had never heard of. Quick, can you identify any of the components in this room?

Those are the Horning Hybrid Aristoteles ($15,000) speakers. They each have four 8″ woofers in push/pull isobaric alignment per side, with Horning’s wave-guided tweeter and denuded Lowther midrange. System sensitivity is 96dB. The cabinets are a special design called H.D.A.Q.C.S. (Hørning Double Assymmetric Quarter Wave Cabinet/Enclosure System).

The turntable was a TW-Acustic Raven Black Night with copper platter ($40,000) with TW 10.5 tonearm ($5500) and Dynavector XV1T cartridge ($9000).

TW-Acustic Raven phono preamp ($9,000) served as the bridge between the Dynavector cartridge and Thoress line preamp ($8,000).

Thoress manufactures both 300B ($10,000) and 845 power amplifiers.

Here are some interior shots of the Thoress preamplifier and 845 amplifier. The construction method reminds me of that used in the early Fender guitar amps.