DEVORE FIDELITY
DEVORE FIDELITY
John Devore went ‘Old School’ on us and in big way, as he spun vinyl records at 78rpm. And, if I might say, it was wonderful and memorable and truly engaging. There was also the added bonus that should the ‘Internet of Things’ go ‘KerPlunk’—cease to exist—you will, nonetheless, be able to spin 78s until the cows come home, wake up, and return to the fields. Ahhh, the resilience of what was thought to be ‘obsolete’.
Upfront and center were John’s new Orangutan Bronze Devore speakers, with Alpha to Omega specs able to handle teeny tiny watts and, one imagines, a couple hundred as well. Can you say ‘power bandwidth? The current specifications are; 96dB, 10-Ohms, 26Hz - 31kHz.
The music? There was texture and detail, a deep and quite wide soundstage, commensurate with a resolution that invited one more deeply, intimately into the music. The music was more there, palpable, in-room, and free of the most minute whiff on anything digital (though there is digital itself now boasting these bonafides). A decidedly very good, musical, and involving time machine that visited a past certainly more, well, unencumbered by the ‘vicissitudes’ of our current day.
DEVORE - SYSTEM
Devore Orangutan 0/96: $30,000
Mola Mola Makua Preamplifier: $23,700
EMT 928 II Turntable: $10,000*
EMT 909 Tonearm: $6,000
EMT - JSD Pure Black MC Phono Cartridge: $4,495
Komuro Amplifier Company’s K300S 300B single-ended amplifier, 7watts: $20,000
*$17,995 for complete EMT turntable package