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Old 05-11-2013, 10:24 AM
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Congrats Jerome.

Now, where are the pics?

Tomorrow Shane : receiving my friend Jean Marc ( jmajma) and his family this evening so will post tomorrow.
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For Shane, who likes pics.....

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Jérôme.......Your Auditorium 23 Hommage T2 SUT is attractive looking. They managed to get the transformer inside a fine looking case.
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Looks great! Time for some shindo or a23 cables!
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Looks great! Time for some shindo or a23 cables!
I'm fine, thanks !
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Looking good Jerome

You can even cut up some nice cheese on the cheese board
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Looking good Jerome

You can even cut up some nice cheese on the cheese board

Shane : I knew this was coming !
I actually stole this board from the kitchen !
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I'm fine, thanks !
We will see about that Jerome!!
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Old 05-13-2013, 12:04 AM
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Jérôme.......Your Auditorium 23 Hommage T2 SUT is attractive looking. They managed to get the transformer inside a fine looking case.
Dan,
This SUT is just unbelievable.

When I bought the "little" one, I was very happy and thought that I would never, ever spend big money into a small black box. But A23 is very popular here in Europe since a long long time, among vinyl users I mean.
So anywhere you go, when you talk about vinyl, you have a guy hearing that you use an A23 SUT, and who asks you " the little one or the big one ?".
" Oh, the little ? It is good but you have to hear the Hommage one day : there is no such thing in the world....". Plus the reviews, plus what Matt at Pitch Perfect says about it, and so on.....
When I talked about it to Keith Aschenbrenner, the founder and owner and creator of A23 products, he has been kind enough to say : "I will take it back if you do not like it."
So this did the trick : zero risk.

Boy I'm so glad I bought this little box. I have had my best listening session of all times yesterday listening to the very nice "Raising Sand" vinyl, of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. There is a sense of realism and weight, presence, which is just to hard to describe. It is not like going from standard CD to a high Rez one. It is like going from music in the room to musicians in the room. Almost a mystic transformation. The nature itself of the sound completely changed.
Audio is such a strange and captivating field. How come a little transformer like this one can do such a thing ??
The level of details is now to a level where you could say " I was looking at a bacteria with a microscope. And now I have an electronic microscope which is able to look at the molecular level, still being able to look also at the all bacteria in a much much cleaner and focused way".
Anyone who is into vinyl and uses carts with impedances similar to the SPU ones ( Hommage T1 SUT) or carts with similar impedances to the EMT TSD15 or Denon DL103 carts ie 50 to 100 ohm ( Hommage T2 SUT ) should get a demo of this devil box.
Now I understand why JC Verdier still uses the 103 on his fabulous Magnum ( 100k euros ! / 500 kilograms ) TT and not a "high end" cart. This cart, is the essence of high fidelity. It gives what is essential and enough. You know like the Math condition " necessary and sufficient...." Of course I have no doubts that many others go beyond, but as some dealers told me, "correctly set up and amplified, the 103 is unbeatable for many many people. The drama is that very very few users listen to it to the maximum of it's possibilities....".
I will try the EMT TSD 15 for which the T2 has been initially designed when Jonathan Halpern asked for it to Keith Aschenbrenner, but no rush. I will enjoy this 103 for at least one year like that before touching anything.

Ok back to the room now, and let's here some musicIANS.....
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Jérôme.......That is quite a recommendation of your Auditorium 23 Hommage T2 SUT. The recommended load impedance for my Ortofon Cadenza Blue is 50 to 200 ohms, so it sounds like the T2 would work well with it. Do you route the output from the SUT to the moving magnet input?
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