"The M-LP and Silentor offer a lively presentation whose focus, the sense that instruments and performers are sharply defined and delineated from each other, is their most obvious contribution. With each LP, instrumental lines were easier to follow, and the recording's sonic thumbprint was more distinct."

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"The M-LP and Silentor offer a lively presentation whose focus, the sense that instruments and performers are sharply defined and delineated from each other, is their most obvious contribution. With each LP, instrumental lines were easier to follow, and the recording's sonic thumbprint was more distinct."

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What happens is unbelievable! The depth and the width of the sound, the entire room feeling changes completely. The fine tuning is amazing and most of all there is an improved flow in the music. Is it really the cleaning of the contacts that can show what your equipment can accomplish. I believe so because it is now possible to see into the different parts of the music while the entire music-happening is going on. Maybe this is best described as diffusion.

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"Their immediacy is matched by abundant clarity -- a potent combination that makes for very involving, even exciting listening." "Voices and instruments were rendered with almost hyper-real precision and crispness, but this never toppled over into clinical rigidity…. I certainly wouldn't call them "polite" or "laid-back." "Vivid, forceful and athletic" is more like it." "They seemed to know where the line between 'more' and 'too much' resided, and they never crossed it."

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"'Clean'" -- "it seemed to put as few artifacts between my ears and the recording as some of the best systems I've heard, regardless of price." "Rhythm and timing are vital components of involving music, and the Einstein excelled at both." "The bass range of The Absolute Tune was not only agile and articulate, but as powerful and as extended as my speakers allowed." "Did I enjoy my time with The Absolute Tune? Absolutely."

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The Acapella’s are precision instruments for utter conveyance of the extraordinary happiness of immersion in music every time you listen – and do they make the most indispensable companion in our brief pilgrimage of life.

To have an audio experience worthy of remembrance, it has to be the Acapella Triolon Excalibur’s. To be able to exploit their full potentials in the foreseeable future, the auditioning has to take place in the best-sounding venue: Aaudio Imports’ Sound Room. I must return to this place again soon.

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In a nutshell, the Acapella Triolon Excaliburs strike me as the best transducer one can buy for orchestral music or live recordings of any kind, though they never seem anything less than awesome playing any type of music. Insofar as the illusion goes, software limits what these speakers can accomplish, as many times with high quality recordings I found myself muttering that I doubt it can get better than this in the home.  Once again, Acapella has redefined my reference for what is possible in the home, and I encourage anyone who has considerable means to listen for him/herself to the Triolon Excaliburs before writing a check for something else.

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So, if we had to summarize the sonic qualities of this brilliant piece of equipment, we'd use such descriptors as tonal beauty and texture, filigreed detail, bass control, dynamic brutality and image spaciousness. It's a sound that will appeal to the sophisticated and experienced listener, an intellectual rather than an immediately visceral experience.

The designers of the Light In The Dark hybrid power amplifier have managed to combine the inherent tonal beauty of valves with the control and dynamic expression of solid state to create a superlative amplification instrument. This Einstein is sheer genius. And it won't take an advanced degree to understand and appreciate its brains ...

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With the Super Focus, the Luminance Audio-coupled Murata speakers rendered instruments of all variety with increased tonal substance and spatial definition, contributing to the dimensionality of instruments and realism of venue immensely.

The Isoclean Super Focus brought a most profound increase in dynamic competence and tonal articulation to the setup, prompting the Combak to propel the large speakers seemingly with twice as much drive and output energy.

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The Tube Linestage is easily the best audio component I own, and on par
with the Acapella Campanile as being the best audio components I’ve ever heard.  With the insertion of
the Einstein, I put the degree of change in my system's sound on the order of a speaker change, like
moving from bookshelves to full range 20hz floorstanders.  This preamp is a paradigm-shift, and brings
the dynamic tilt of live music into the home more than any other electronic component (note: I didn’t say
“speakers”, I said “component”).  The Tube Linestage is not made for home theatre or casual listening;
however, if dynamics are your thing, or if live music is your thing, I cannot imagine any preamp
outclassing the Einstein.  Yes, I bought one.

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