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March 30-31, 2012

Details: Parent Category: TWBAS 2012; Created on Sunday, 01 April 2012 09:44; Written by Jeff Fritz

This is what it's all about. Dialed in. Warmed up. Ultra tweaked. Here's what I heard.

Details: Parent Category: TWBAS 2012; Created on Saturday, 31 March 2012 16:39; Written by News Editor

The TWBAS 2012 system is made up of products from seven manufacturers from five countries: Vitus Audio (Denmark), WideaLab (Korea), Magico (USA), AudioQuest (USA), Silent Running Audio (USA), Esoteric (Japan), and Torus Power (Canada). The retail price of the system approaches $500,000 USD. Profiles on all the products can be found through this link.

Details: Parent Category: TWBAS 2012; Created on Saturday, 31 March 2012 14:13; Written by News Editor

SoundStage! Network publisher Doug Schneider photographed each of the TWBAS 2012 participants with their products. Featured in this gallery: Hans-Ole Vitus (Vitus Audio), Charles Kim (WideaLab), Tim Crable (Esoteric), Alon Wolf (Magico), Howard Gladstone (Torus Power), and Jett Logan (AudioQuest). (Unfortunately, Kevin Tellekamp of Silent Running Audio, whose racks were used to support the electronics in this system, could not attend on this day.)

Details: Parent Category: TWBAS 2012; Created on Saturday, 31 March 2012 13:37; Written by News Editor

Photographer Chris Lang created portraits of the company participants, as well as the entire TWBAS 2012 team. (Unfortunately, Kevin Tellekamp of Silent Running Audio, whose racks were used to support the electronics in this system, could not attend on this day.)

Details: Parent Category: TWBAS 2012; Created on Saturday, 31 March 2012 12:39; Written by News Editor

On March 30, the SoundStage! Network hosted a gathering at the Port Land Grille restaurant in Wilmington, North Carolina. TWBAS 2012 corporate participants were all present, as were a large number of writers from the SoundStage! Network staff. Photographer Chris Lang was on hand to capture the excitement.

Details: Parent Category: TWBAS 2012; Created on Friday, 30 March 2012 15:06; Written by Jeff Fritz

Setting up the Magico Q7 loudspeakers for TWBAS 2012 meant more than just placing them in the room, listening to a few tracks, making an adjustment or two, and then calling it a day. In the case of TWBAS 2012, a listening panel consisting of Vitus Audio's Hans-Ole Vitus, Magico's Alon Wolf, and me, along with three microphones and two software-based measurement programs, were called into service to get the Q7s dialed in to perfection.