Kharma Exquisite Classique

[Peter Breuninger]

That is a great looking moderate sized room.

 

[wizard]

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This system I think is in Taiwan.

 

[wizard]

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One more system from Taiwan.
Taiwan is one of the biggest market for Kharma.

 

[andromedaaudio]

Wizard do you have some pics of the kharma store ???

 

[andromedaaudio]

here is a absolute sound review on the earlier version of the model with the Focal audiom tw if I am not mistaken.
Very few reviews on them unfortunately , this is a nice well written review imo

http://www.kharma.com/_documents/reviews pdf/The_Absolute_Sound_2000_Exquisite_1B.pdf

 

[wizard]

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[LL21]

great photos, as always, Wizard. Thanks for posting. Seems I have seen Kharma and Gryphon a few times now in SOTA systems.

 

[boonyarat]

Update for this room

 

[Mike Lavigne]

nice amp upgrade.

how do the 458's compare on the Exquisites to the other amps?

 

[Jazzhead]

Nice, i have heard the exquisite midi (with new driver) already together with the big kharma sub and all kharma amplification .

Was the sub their 18 incher model , how big is it in the flesh . Outlandish or manageable ?

 

[andromedaaudio]

Cant remember it was a huge driver in a big box , I would say rather on the big side , they have two subs , exquisite sub and exquisite midi sub ,as it was playing with the midi I assume it was the midi sub with a 15 incher .
Integration was just so so , but I am not a sublover anyway


yes it was the midi sub , seeing the pics again I d say outlandish ,the kharma electronics are also nice by the way here is the link

http://www.hifi.nl/agenda/3486/Kharma-show-bij-Rhapsody.html

here is the review of that show by alpha audio with nice pics (he also reviewed a model of myself , nice guy ), if you click on the pics they go fullscreen

http://www.alpha-audio.nl/2012/05/kharma-exquisite-set-luisterervaring/?cbg_tz=0

 

[wizard]

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[boonyarat]

 

[LL21]

Wow!! What was the decision...Gryphon Mephistos or Dartzeel 458 monos? I think I see both preamps as well? Gryphon Pandora and presumably Dart 18? CH Precision digital?

 

[Mike Lavigne]

Wow!! What was the decision...Gryphon Mephistos or Dartzeel 458 monos? I think I see both preamps as well? Gryphon Pandora and presumably Dart 18? CH Precision digital?

i can only presume that if he went the dart 458 route with dart pre that he has the new dart pre on order.

from my 4 years with my Kharma Exquisites i'm sure that the dart 458 is a killer match for them.

 

[LL21]

i can only presume that if he went the dart 458 route with dart pre that he has the new dart pre on order.

from my 4 years with my Kharma Exquisites i'm sure that the dart 458 is a killer match for them.

Thanks Mike...I remember that system of yours...makes sense.

Interestingly, I see this person has yet another set of SRA amp stands which are not being used right up front...wonder what those are for? Sounds like a serious shoot-out...

 

[wizard]

 

[wizard]

At TAA 2015 show.

 

[Steve williams]

nice photo. I seem to remember they had a ceramic mid range driver

 

[wizard]

This is CS 1.1.

The latest version is CS 2.1, with the new Omega 7 carbon midrange driver - price €95000.