Here are the Best Sounding Speakers Ever to go with the above amps:
http://seattle.craigslist.org/est/ele/4345956456.html
lolThey are 15 " woofers. However, one has been replaced and does not match the other, but they sound fantastic.
What do you want for $45?
Actually Essence/Dale Pitcher has been around for a very long time. "Reportedly" he was involved in the design of the first Shunyata Hydra.
Hi Myles,
Not sure who your source was regarding "reportedly" being involved with the original Hydra Design, but that's not accurate if it were reported that way. Dale was involved with the design of the corian/wood-inlay chassis that was used for the original Hydra. They were produced until 2000-01 in the same factory he produced his speakers in. Unfortunately, there was a problem with some of the internal materials (which are now patented), being sold for other purposes without Caelin's knowledge. That was the beginning of our own factory and the end of any association with Mr. Pitcher. Dale did not have anything to do with the original Hydra's concept or design.
I apologize for the thread divergence.
Grant
Shunyata Research
Obviously the OP has never heard these amps. I have owned Dale's speakers, amps, cabling, and current generation of power conditioner all of which are SOTA. There is an ad for those same amps on Audiogon from the same gentleman who has sold Dale's stuff in a brick and mortar setting for over 20 years.
His conditioner (theorem suspension bridge) is a monster and will be reviewed in the not too distant future. Obviously Dale does not need Shunyata's intellectual property to develop product. Dale has always spoken very highly of Shunyata and I would expect the same professionalism from them (at least in public).
Their quality must be attributed in part to "50% of the parts" being "military secrets." Given that, perhaps it was foolhardy for me to make light of the ad.
The real question is why were you sleuthing the Quadcity craigslist?
The second question would be why you felt inspired to turn it into a thread.
The real question is why were you sleuthing the Quadcity craigslist? The second question would be why you felt inspired to turn it into a thread. More white noise in cyberspace...
I have no knowledge of the secret elements of that amplifier, but I do know there's a significant trickle-down effect of technology from the aerospace and Military industrial complex into audio. Take Bybee filtering for example. Most of the mom-and-pop, artisanal audio companies don't have the R&D and manpower to develop this stuff and thus have a symbiotic relationship with outside sources of technology.
Regarding the Hydra. Dale always told me he worked on the case only. He also stated that Caelin was one of the few true geniuses in audio and held him in very high esteem.
is there any evidence of this ?
I wasn't.
The ad is humorous.
Hell yeah with turntables being a prime example. The sort of machining tolerances in spindle and arm bearings in civilian life was unheard of until the end of Reagan's Star Wars. (Not to mention computer technology to drive these instruments) Then all these companies were forced to find civilian uses for their technologies.
Take air bearing tonearms for example where the materials and machining now allow for tolerances of 1/10,000th of an inch even allowing for materials coefficients of expansion. Or take the precision round out that turntable platters can be machined to. Or the motors used in the VPI and Continuum tables come from military submarine technology. Or the Silent Running Audio bases use technology developed to silence American subs. You can trace the impact even down to the resistors used in many audio components (how about military grade tubes too? )
Hell yeah with turntables being a prime example. The sort of machining tolerances in spindle and arm bearings in civilian life was unheard of until the end of Reagan's Star Wars. (Not to mention computer technology to drive these instruments) Then all these companies were forced to find civilian uses for their technologies.
Take air bearing tonearms for example where the materials and machining now allow for tolerances of 1/10,000th of an inch even allowing for materials coefficients of expansion. Or take the precision round out that turntable platters can be machined to. Or the motors used in the VPI and Continuum tables come from military submarine technology. Or the Silent Running Audio bases use technology developed to silence American subs. You can trace the impact even down to the resistors used in many audio components (how about military grade tubes too? )
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