Ron Resnick Launches Audio Cafe LLC, a New Clarisys Audio Dealer

[Ron Resnick]

This is to announce that I am now a home dealer for Clarisys Audio loudspeakers and Hegel Music Systems. This home dealer project is in addition to all of my current activities, including my participation on the forum, my interviews and show reports and other videos for the WBF YouTube channel, and my reviewing for Mono and Stereo.

I promise to do my best to be bright line careful when wearing my dealer hat for Clarisys Audio versus my other hats which require neutrality, impartiality and intellectual honesty. I promise to do my best to be explicit and declaratory when I am acting on behalf of Clarisys versus when I am engaged in any of my audio industry interviewing, reporting or reviewing activities.

The name of the dealership is Audio Cafe LLC. The website for Audio Cafe is www.AudioCafeBeverlyHills.com. Please check it out!

If you wish to audition the Clarisys Audio Studio Plus loudspeakers please contact me! I have installed the Studio Plus speakers in my main listening room, starting with my usual sources (Studer A820 tape machine, Brinkmann Balance turntable and Lampizator Baltic 4) and my usual electronics (Aesthetix, VTL and Jadis). Presently I have a Hegel V10 phono stage and a P30A pre-amplifier. I plan to get a Hegel amplifier in the future to be able to offer auditions with a solid-state chain of electronics.

Make an appointment, and let's have some fun!

 

[bonzo75]

Oh wow amazing congrats

 

[Mike Lavigne]

congrats Ron!

best wishes for success!

 

[Ron Resnick]

Oh wow amazing congrats

Thank you very much, Kedar!

 

[Ron Resnick]

congrats Ron!

best wishes for success!

Thank you very much, Mike!

 

[the sound of Tao]

This is to announce that I am now a home dealer for Clarisys Audio loudspeakers and Hegel Music Systems. This home dealer project is in addition to all of my current activities, including my participation on the forum, my interviews and show reports and other videos for the WBF YouTube channel, and my reviewing for Mono and Stereo.

I promise to do my best to be bright line careful when wearing my dealer hat for Clarisys Audio versus my other hats which require neutrality, impartiality and intellectual honesty. I promise to do my best to be explicit and declaratory when I am acting on behalf of Clarisys versus when I am engaged in any of my audio industry interviewing, reporting or reviewing activities.

The name of the dealership is Audio Cafe LLC. The website for Audio Cafe is www.AudioCafeBeverlyHills.com. Please check it out!

If you wish to audition the Clarisys Audio Studio Plus loudspeakers please contact me! I have installed the Studio Plus speakers in my main listening room, starting with my usual sources (Studer A820 tape machine, Brinkmann Balance turntable and Lampizator Baltic 4) and my usual electronics (Aesthetix, VTL and Jadis). Presently I have a Hegel V10 phono stage and a P30A pre-amplifier. I plan to get a Hegel amplifier in the future to be able to offer auditions with a solid-state chain of electronics.

Make an appointment, and let's have some fun!

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They look great in your room Ron, congratulations and best of luck with the new venture.

 

[tima]

Which system is best to you?

 

[adyc]

Clarysis speakers need spacing. Are you moving your Gryphon speakers to the side when people come to listen to Clarysis speaker?

 

[Ron Resnick]

Clarysis speakers need spacing. Are you moving your Gryphon speakers to the side when people come to listen to Clarysis speaker?

No; the Gryphons are too heavy to move around casually. The midrange/tweeter ribbons of the Studio Pluses are not blocked to the rear by the Pendragons.

I could move the Clarisys speakers 90° counter-clockwise from the listening position, and have them in front of the left side wall that goes to the kitchen, and play them with the Hegel phono stage, the Hegel pre-amp and the VTLs and the Denon turntable. But it's interesting to hear them with the first string signal chain I'm used to hearing on the Pendragons.

 

[cjfrbw]

Quite a development, but, yeah, they look great in there. Will you be using them at all with your tubes?

 

[Ron Resnick]

Which system is best to you?

I don't understand. Which system?

The Clarisys are at the business end of the exact same system as the Pendragons.

 

[Ron Resnick]

Quite a development, but, yeah, they look great in there. Will you be using them at all with your tubes?

Right now the Clarisys are connected to the exact same signal chain as the Pendragons. I unplugged the speaker cables from the Pendragon crossovers and plugged them into the Clarisys crossovers.

 

[Golum]

I knew this info for a while and was waiting for the official announcement . Great news and I wish You all the best with your new venture Ron!
Enjoy the ride and fantastic sound.
BTW wondering how Studios are doing with your tube gear - must be great...

 

[Ron Resnick]

I knew this info for a while and was waiting for the official announcement . Great news and I wish You all the best with your new venture Ron!
Enjoy the ride and fantastic sound.
BTW wondering how Studios are doing with your tube gear - must be great...

Thank you very much, Golum!

I listened for several hours today, first to digital and then to vinyl. The speakers need to break in, but even out of the box they sound good, with no fuss/no muss.

I was a little skeptical that the JA100s would do as well on the full-range Studio Pluses with a lot of ribbon surface area to move as they do on the Pendragon panels dealing only with 200Hz and up.

The frequency balance on these Clarisys just seems right, with no obvious anomalies. The tone of higher register piano keys seems correct, right out of the box. No struggling with brightness or absorption panels, etc., like I've been doing with the Pendragons.

 

[byrdparis]

congratulation.
the tubes has absolutely no problem with the Clarisys audio. you can use them in ease.
regarding the break in, wait until you cover the 215 hours mark, you would not believe what you have in your room.
this speakers are pure magic.
wish you much success and happiness.

Aviad.

 

[Ron Resnick]

congratulation.
the tubes has absolutely no problem with the Clarisys audio. you can use them in ease.
regarding the break in, wait until the cover 215 hours mark, you would not believe what you have in your room.
this speaker are pure magic.
wish you much success and happiness.

Aviad.

Thank you, Aviad!

 

[dcathro]

Congratulations on your new venture Ron!

The Clarisys certainly look very impressive.

 

[Golum]

Thank you very much, Golum!

I listened for several hours today, first to digital and then to vinyl. The speakers need to break in, but even out of the box they sound good, with no fuss/no muss.

I was a little skeptical that the JA100s would do as well on the full-range Studio Pluses with a lot of ribbon surface area to move as they do on the Pendragon panels dealing only with 200Hz and up.

The frequency balance on these Clarisys just seems right, with no obvious anomalies. The tone of higher register piano keys seems correct, right out of the box. No struggling with brightness or absorption panels, etc., like I've been doing with the Pendragons.

Thanks!
Any plan to add active XO?

 

[spiritofmusic]

And there was me Ron, thinking you'd be up for selling some Zus, lol. I know you like those Definitions 6 you heard at Phil's.

 

[tima]

Which system is best to you?

I don't understand. Which system?

... it seemed the simplest of questions, an inevitable question. If I did not ask it, someone else would ask it.

There is something called "Ron's New System" of which you are not a dealer, as far as I know.

Then we see "Dealer for Clarisys Audio and Hegel Music Systems" that seems to imply some Clarisys and Hegel Music system or systems that you will sell.

Audio Dealer 101 chatbot suggests you answer: " I love all my children equally."