I recently abandoned my Studer A80/Doshi pre project in favor of Greg Beron's latest masterpiece...the UHA Phase 11S Playback model with outboard power supply. I will have about a 2 month wait until it arrives. It will look like this deck when finished. I am very excited to massively elevate my tape playback experience.
every single part/component has been carefully thought about and addressed in this deck. There are no compromises. I have not heard this deck (Buying on faith), but many have heard the Phase 11 at shows and reviews.The usual comment...This is the best source playback device sound wise period. They are expensive.
Yes. People are getting it. Don't waste your time in the past. Greg is the best source component designer in audio. I mean, come on... less than 30gs for the best. The best, how can you price that? I see all these refurb pics of studio decks and I shake my head. Nothing wrong with them, I own 8 of them, but UHA is pushing the outer limits. Congrats to Rocketman, he now understands the math.
I loved Peter B's comment on the sound of R to R in his review of the
UHA 11s: sound density and yet ease of presentation:- there is so much information coming at you but somehow its packaged in a delightfully natural way
Other playback technologies struggle to come close to this
Some vinyl and some digital
If memory serves me JV was blown away by UHA also, and he is very vinyl "bent"
I'd rather have one Armani suit than twenty store brand suits. Besides how many do you actually listen to? It's nice to have 10,000 LPs but how many of those do you actually play? Usually but a fraction of that number. And it's not just availability but price. 150 reels is no small investment. It's certainly many times what Christian paid for his new deck.
And what might your suggestion be on how to increase availability?