The return of Halcro!

jfrech

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Interesting. I thought they had a killer good phono stage in their preamp
 

MylesBAstor

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Hope the new gear sounds better than the old. The electronics sounded drier than the Gobi and just bland and boring. Never understood the hoopla around the brand.

What also killed them was an ill-fated decision to jump on the home theater/multi-channel bandwagon. And they lost their best US distributor too. Lot of bad business decisions.
 

Jazzhead

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Stereophile had a big hand in the 'hoopla' , with their BEST EVER proclamation ....
 

mep

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*Yawn*
 

Steve Williams

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Stereophile had a big hand in the 'hoopla' , with their BEST EVER proclamation ....

IIRC that was related to it's very low THD and Jeff Fritz was also big on them for a while in his room

I agree with Myles and mep. It was cold and sterile for my ears
 

danielk141

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My local Wilson/Ayre/Theta dealer carried Halcro.
He said the problem was not the product, but very poor support from the U.S. distributor. (Stocking product, advertising new and current models).
My dealer says he will never deal in a line carried by this distributor, again.
All the initial positive press was eroded, by poor support...
 

ack

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Hope the new gear sounds better than the old. The electronics sounded drier than the Gobi and just bland and boring. Never understood the hoopla around the brand.

Same here. Gobi??? Try Mars
 

audioarcher

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I heard the amps sound pretty good with big B&W's. I think they were N800's or N801's. The big B&W had a tendency to sound boomy and bloated in the bass (at least how the dealer had them set up). That was not the case when the Halcro amps were used. The next time I heard them was at RMAF powering Acoustic Zen Crescendo's. Did not care for that combo at all. No life at all.
 

XV-1

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My local Wilson/Ayre/Theta dealer carried Halcro.
He said the problem was not the product, but very poor support from the U.S. distributor. (Stocking product, advertising new and current models).
My dealer says he will never deal in a line carried by this distributor, again.
All the initial positive press was eroded, by poor support...

This them?

http://www.onahighernote.com/about/
 

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