As soon as I entered the second Kyomi Audio room and heard a track from Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders’ great recording Journey in Satchidananda, I realized that it had been far too long since I’d had the pleasure of listening to Dan Meinwald’s eclectic and thankfully outside-the-norm music selections. Meinwald, a longtime member of our industry who has spent a considerable time working for EAR USA, had paired the EAR Acute Classic CD player ($6795), V12 integrated amplifier ($9795), and, in a world premiere, the company’s new Phono Box phono preamp ($1895 in black) with a Merrill-Williams 101.3 turntable ($8995) with Helius Omega Standard tonearm ($3695) and Koetsu Rosewood cartridge ($3495). Speakers were Marten Django L ($10,000/pair) and cabling Magnan Silver and Signature.
The sound was as fresh as the music was fabulous. After Coltrane and Sanders’ cosmic dazzle, we turned to a track from The Haxan Cloak—a 16/44.1 transfer from LP that showcased the system’s ability to portray realistic depth—and the Penguin Café Orchestra’s “Cutting Branches for a Temporary Shelter,” also in 44.1. The vivid, alive, and thoroughly fresh sound was silvery on top with a lovely core and welcome silence between notes.
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