Recent content by William Kucharski

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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    That's great to know and is certainly something to be proud of and a great draw to anyone looking for a new dealer.
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    Wow, you've gone really far afield in assigning motivation to me that I simply didn't have. I chose Wilson simply because they were a price-comparable speaker whose warranty policies were clearly written, were posted online, and explicitly specified that end-users were responsible for shipping...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    Yes - I couldn't bear to sell them, and so I still have them as a second system. They sound absolutely wonderful driven by a very modestly priced amp that I happened to have on-hand, a Denon POA-8200 I was using to drive surround speakers in my main system when used for home theater. (The Denon...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    Thankfully just Caliper Signatures; they are at the limit of what I could get into and out of crates on my own.
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    I bring up the Wilson theoretical example simply because when you buy a product your dealer can promise anything they want to, but the only thing you can count on is what is specifically written in the copy of the warranty delivered to you with your product. If your dealer says they will say...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    That's great but once again is also dependent upon the dealer. I don't want to assume, but I suspect you wouldn't be willing to help the theoretical Wyoming customer if they bought their speakers from another dealer who was only willing to help after paying a $500 trip charge; Wilsons are heavy...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    I know someone who had the paint finish start to fail on v1 Alexias. It was obviously a factory defect, and his dealer had to eat the cost of picking them up and shipping them back to Utah. However, if he hadn't had a nearby dealer, that would have been much more expensive for them; certainly...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    Awesome! As you well know, in the US for almost all brands, if repairs are required, you (the owner) are responsible for getting the equipment to either your dealer or the factory for repair. This historically has applied to even difficult to ship speakers like Apogees. For example, from the...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    I don't think there's any question about the "courage" to purchase one; I've been thinking about it for a while now. The bigger issue for me is if I purchase a pair and it has issues, how do I get it serviced, given they are a very small company and Daniele can only be so many places at once...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    While I thought the Botticelli X sounded very, very good this year, I also thought they didn't sound quite as good as last year. In track by track there was a slight tilt in the upper midrange that made them sound ever so slightly bright compared to the balanced sound they achieved at the last...
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    Unfortunately, it's a bit difficult to hire Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Karen Carpenter or Prince to swing by the house, and anyone I could hire would merely be a poor imitation of them.
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    Alsyvox planars...prepare to sell your Magico's, YG's, Wilson's, Cessaro's. Maggie's, and all others!!

    I have a pair of Apogee Caliper Signatures I purchased in 1991, still going strong. The only work any Apogee has needed that I know of is new foam, and, if you so desire, new Graz ribbons. I had my Caliper Signatures redone at the 18 year mark in 2009 and there have not fallen in quality since...
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    New Kaya series launched

    It looks like it may replace the Oval line; it's intended to be more affordable than the Giya series.
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    current Spectral Audio U.S. dealers

    Unless they're acquiring product in a back-handed way, HD Design Group in Denver, CO is also a dealer: http://www.hddesign.group/spectral-audio/
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    DAC direct to Spectral Amps

    Spectral would like you to believe that, but they would run afoul of the Federal Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. Basically one of the things the act states is that if a consumer product warranty is contingent on the use of particular accessory parts, those parts must be supplied with the item for...
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