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    Introducing Trafomatic Audio - Giant Tubes, Giant Steps

    The Reservoir Dogs of Tube Amplification (Goran, Sasa, Milorad and Andrea…Transformer winders not pictured are Bojan Arsi? , Zoran Cvijanovi?, Aleksandar Tomi?…some bad winding dudes) A decade ago I began a conversation with a client. This wasn’t one of those, ‘Hi, how are you? Would you care...
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    Destination Audio's Malta (Listening Bar) Horn Loudspeaker System

    The Destination Audio Listening Bar (part 1) Recent years have seen a decline in most on-the-town venues. The pandemic has had quite a breadth of casualties, first and foremost in human terms, but also in terms of businesses succumbing to the varied land mines, be they from lack of an audience...
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    Takatsuki Tubes

    Hi All, It's always exciting when a new company decides to dive into the foray of vacuum tube production. Takatsuki is the newest player that I'm aware of in what we can call the luxury tube market. So, any thoughts on these new beauties? The 274B is getting a lot of play on the Lampizator...
  4. Fred Crane

    A Tale or Three Phono Stages

    A Tale of Three Phono Stages The Destination Audio Reference WE 417A Phono, the Synästec Igniculus and the Trafomatic Collins (The Destination Audio WE 417A Phono Stage) In the world of audio engineering, it could be argued that the phono stage presents the greatest challenge to the...
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    Fred Crane at Prana Distribution - my personal audio journey

    Greetings, I'm Fred Crane of Prana Distribution We’re headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with a small format salon in West Medford and a large format showroom in Gloucester. We opened our Gloucester showroom after a year of preparation, the same week that Massachusetts closed public...

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