With the number of design changes we’ve made to the NiWatt over the past 18 months, its initial release might well be called the NiWatt Mk-IV. All of this is to say, that the design is stable and mature, and there will be no need for first year revisions (all too common with some manufacturers). …
This morning, we mounted a customers’ van den Hul Crimson XGW Stradivarius cartridge onto a Kuzma 4Point-9 tonearm. The agenda was to verify compatibility of this combination.
It dawns on me that we haven’t had any NiWatt updates in a while, and as we near production, it’s time to bring you up to date (stay tuned for news). I went through photos taken at various stages of prototyping and have a bit more of the story to tell.
In part 1, we laid out a strategy for auditioning multiple tonearms and cartridges on both a Galibier Eiger prototype and our customer’s turntable (from another manufacturer). In this post, we finalize how we adapted the customer’s existing armboard to work correctly with his mis-specified Reed 2A tonearm. Mis-specified tonearm? Strong words, I know.
RMAF 2018 – a time to meet up with old and new friends. With the exception of the Devore speaker and the photo I took of Lynn Olson, all photos were taken by Lynn. Click photos for a full screen view. Shown here are the ESD Dragon horns. Some random thoughts and photos follow …
We’re remounting a Reed 2P tonearm for a good customer of ours. The ‘table is from another manufacturer and the individual who mounted it apparently didn’t understand the Reed’s many quirks which I describe in part-2. I can’t begin to tell you how many $30k to $60K turntable mounts I’ve had to correct – mounts …
The last of the Summer updates – adapting a first generation Gavia platter to TPI© / Carbon.
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I’ve been thinking about guitar amplifiers lately, and their relationship to hi-fi amplifiers. The common “knowledge” is that they’re entirely different – with a guitar amplifier being a tone producer (even a “clean” jazz guitar amplifier) and a hi-fi amplifier being tone reproducer. Well, it’s not so simple …
Who, in their right mind would ever dream of matching a 300B SET amplifier to an 89dB speaker? The NiWatts have been on a local tour as we await the first batch of production chassis – this, in preparation for their Fall tour to the East Coast. Yesterday, I put them to a real test …
