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WestminsterLab
This month's WBF feature is from Angus Leung of Westminster Lab
and Gary Leeds at Hear This.
The subject is the remarkably good-sounding and cleanly designed WestminsterLab Quest Balanced Preamplifier & availability of their Quest MC/MM Phono Line Stage Module. Here are the words from Angus and Gary:
Preamplifiers in the Digital Age?
"There is considerable disagreement on the importance of a system preamplifier in an all-digital system. In designing the Westminster Quest Preamplifier, the goal was to create a product that would act as a flexible control center and significantly contribute to your system's sound quality. Designed as a worthy companion to the Rei Monoblock Amplifiers, the Quest Preamplifier is a fully balanced, dual-mono design housed in an elegant, rigid aluminum chassis. Carbon fiber is used throughout the unit as a shielding material, including on most internal circuit boards. Ten discreet power supplies contribute to a black background, revealing new levels of texture, detail, and precise placement of musical information in space."
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Newly Released
The Quest Precision Phono Module "PPM" |
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"Amplifying the tiny analog signals of a cartridge without distortion is a monumental task. So with this as our challenge, Westminster set out to create a vinyl replay module for the Quest preamplifier capable of amplifying the finest phono cartridges, including their hallmark sound signature of texture, transparency, detail, and dynamics." |
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Some of the features incorporated into the PPM include:
• Ultra-low current noise levels
• Precision RIAA Equalization
• Flexible Impedance and Capacitance matching
• Three-stage precision amplification
• Bespoke Coupling Capacitors
• Fully balanced signal from cartridge to preamplifier output |
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Availability of the Rei “Quadrablock" Amplifiers |
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"Starting where the Rei Class A monoblocks leave off, the Rei Quadrablocks are true world beaters designed to power the most demanding loudspeakers effortlessly. In Quadrablock form, the amplifiers quadruple power output over a single pair of Rei to 400 watts into 8 ohms and 800 watts into 4 ohms." |
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Vitus SM-103 Monos Demo |
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Vinyl upgrades; Dava, FCL tone arm, EMIA silver Phono Corrector, MC Trio
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| The Worlds Best Listening Room? |
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| My Pachanko Server is here. A bargain at 16k Euros?! |
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| Sound Quality of new roon versions (builds) (revisited) |
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| Abbas Dac 2.1 SE |
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New SME Flagship Model 60 |
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| WBF featured Classified / For Sale
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