Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2012 Coverage

October 15, 2012

The Gershman Acoustics and VAC Room

The Gershman Acoustics Black Swan loudspeakers ($45,000/pair) belie their name; instead, they are massive and of complicated design.

The turntable was a Clearaudio Innovation Wood with Universal tonearm (together, $15,000) with Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement cartridge ($15,000). It’s astonishing that the cartridge could cost as much as the turntable and tonearm. On what basis?

The phono stage was built into the VAC Signature Mk IIa preamplifier ($19,500).

The power amplifier was VAC’s Statement 4505 Stereobloc ($39,000).

Digital files were played back with an Esoteric P-02 transport ($23,500) and Esoteric D-02 DAC ($23,500).


 

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