Not a trace or wow and flutter or bearing noise. Amazing detail without any loss of warmth and deep bass. Harry Weisfeld can’t stop upgrading this combination and each generation is just a bit better (all are fully upgradable). (I could not afford it and bought it anyway.) Price: $9995. A must-audition even if you can afford it. It also does a remarkable job of salvaging bad to mediocre CDs. A superb CD and SACD player, however, it offers subtle musically natural detail, the best imaging and soundstage I’ve heard other than from digital masters, and excellent overall timbre without digital hardness in the upper octaves or artificial softening of the sound.
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No CD player can totally overcome the limits of the medium, and the CDSA is very, very expensive. Price: $5488 (with analog and D/A modules). The fact the new unit does automatic room correction without an additional computer makes its use remarkably easy. Pure analog may still produce the most natural detail, but the latest TacT comes very close, offers more accurate timbre than any analog combination can hope to approach, provides phase correction and exact balance, allows you to tune frequency response to compensate for digital brightness or different LP equalization curves, and throws in an excellent D/A converter. Expensive to be sure, but one good thing about Kimber is that it offers the same excellent value in sound for money from the bottom to the top of the line. In the case of the Kimber Select cables, no top-of-the-line, high-priced mix of interconnects and speaker cables has provided equally realistic musical listening with so many different components-a truly great set of cables from a firm that clearly listens to music, rather than wanders off into an alternative universe or designs its products to sound different and slightly boost the upper midrange to heighten detail.
I have long, however, found Kimber to provide the most musically realistic balance of timbre and detail at any price. There are some great cables out there, and much of your choice should depend on system synergy. Kimber Kable Select speaker cable and interconnect Close to the best of transistor and tube sound with excellent neutrality and the ability to drive any speaker around. For someone who loves analog, however, the Pass combination is the better option and far more affordable.
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If the Krell Evolution Series were cheaper and had a phono preamp equal to its preamp and amp, I would have chosen that. The Absolute Sound’s 2007 Golden Ear Awards Pass Labs Xono phono preamp, X0.2 preamp, and X600.5 amp Robert Harley The Absolute Sound August 2007 45 The diversity of products selected here not only reflects the industry at large, but also each writer’s quest for the absolute sound. Unlike our Editors’ Choice Awards- a compendium of every product we recommend, agreed upon by a committee of the senior editorial staff-Golden Ear Awards allow writers to express their individual views of which components they think are truly great, and why. In either case, the products selected for Golden Ear Awards are special, indeed.
Others are newfound favorites that may be destined to become classics. Some of these components are long-time references that have withstood the test of time. The Absolute Sound’s annual Golden Ear Awards feature is the place where our editors and most frequent contributors honor those components that have won a place in their hearts. Greene, Jim Hannon, Robert Harley, Chris Martens, Paul Seydor, Alan Taffel, Jonathan Valin Cordesman, Neil Gader, Wayne Garcia, Robert E.
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