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Nimbus Sub-Hertz Platform & Promethean Bases at CES and T.H.E. EXPO 2002

(Below) 4 Promethean Bases isolate Tenor amps and Nimbus Sub-Hertz Platform isolates the Audio Aero Capitale CD player in the huge Tenor Audio/Audio Aero/Rockport/Machina Dynamica/Shunyata room at the Tuscany at T.H.E. Expo 2002. The $90K Rockport Hyperion speakers were vertically biamped.

The Absolute Sound, Issue #135, April/May 2002 Jonathan Valin Comments on Tenor/Rockport System: "In the Tuscany hotel, I encountered the best stereo system I've ever heard at a trade show. In fact, it may be the best stereo system I've heard, period. There is great hi-fi, and there is magic. The $85,000 Rockport Hyperion loudspeakers powered by Tenor Audio's fantastic OTLs were magic. Disc after disc not only sounded the way I know they can sound when everything is working just right; disc after disc sounded better than I'd heard them -- airier, breathier, more detailed, more dynamic, more dense in color, more natural in soundstaging, more like the real thing. Indeed, in terms of sheer realism (and utter beauty), this was it for me -- and for many very experienced listeners who accompanied me to the Rockport room. The most flawlessly realistic big (and it is huge) loudspeaker system I've heard...the quest for the absolute sound may, after better than 30 years, have finally ended for this listener." (The source was an Audio Aero Capitole 24/192 CD player ($6290), and all cables were Jena Labs Pathfinder. A Machina Dynamica Nimbus isolation stand ($900) supported the CD player, while four springy Promethean platforms ($500 each) were used under the amps.)"





(Below) The Super Nimbus 2-shelf Isolation Platform isolates the G&D Transforms CD Transport (top) and the CTC Builders Blowtorch Preamp Power Supply in the Parasound/Wisdom Audio/TG Audio room at Alexis Park Hotel at CES 2002. 4 Prometheans isolated the 4 JC-1 amps used to drive the Wisdom speakers. Bob Crump's bowler used as node damper for CD Transport.