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is wonderful, but when it comes to real innovation - something
which is completely new, one designer comes to mind more often
than any other - that is Tom Evans.
Tom
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If
you know anything about high quality phono playback,
you must have heard about the now legendary Tom Evans
Design Groove ($3,600) and Groove Plus ($7,000) phono
stages. To give you some basis for comparison, I recently
compared the Groove Plus to my Boulder 2008 phono stage.
Remember, the Boulder sells for $32,500 and the Groove
Plus a mere $7000. The result: The Groove Plus was ten
times quieter and sounded infinitely more life-like
than the Boulder in every possible way.
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Following
on the Groove Plus, Tom Evans created the Vibe line
stage ($4,600), the Pulse power supply, the Linear
A amplifier ($8,500) and most recently, the Linear
B mono amplifiers ($16,000/pair). It would be impossible
for me in this limited space to give you the complete
Tom Evans story. Besides, you can get probably as
much as you want from clicking onto www.6moons.com
and looking up the reviews of the Tom Evans Audio
Design Linear A stereo amplifier in the August 2005
issue or checking out their December 2005 review of
TE's Vibe Lithos 7 preamp & Pulse power supply.
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Tom
Evans The Pulse
Power Supply
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Tom
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The
point, as made in the former review is "Each one
of these products is unique in concept & design
compared to anything else I am aware of. These Tom Evans
designs are the real deal. They are true originals……”
Or in the words of my friend -- TAS reviewer & fellow
moonie Stephæn Harrell [system below with full
complement of TEAD gear] -- after hearing the full suite
of Tom Evans equipment in his own system: "This
isn't just HiFi; this is stupe-Fi-ing!" As we both
were in our respective systems, you'll most likely be
stunned too when you hear the whole Tom Evans stack
of gear playing the tunes."
Just as an example of the extraordinarily and innovative
ideas incorporated into Tom Evans products is the fact
that the Linear A, a single ended class A ultra linear
device arrives at creating the effect of a legendary
and virtually unavailable Japanese tube by combining
four single ended EL 84's per side linked in parallel.
What a brain, that thought this up!
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The
Lithos 7 preamp is encased in Perspex, not to save
money, but precisely because acrylic avoids trapping
inside of the component the magnetic fields created
by the mains power transformers. No capacitors, all
DC coupled. The source selector is a Wesex advanced
switching product (WASP). Why? Because it is the best
in the world. Same for the DAC volume control. For
a complete survey of the inside and the outside of
the vibe linestage check out the Six Moons review.
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Tom
Evans Vibe Lithos 7
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To
hear what a Tom Evans audio design system sounds like,
come on down to Sound By Singer and find out just how
close to the music you can get.
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Find
out more information about Tom Evans products on the Tom Evans Website!
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