Some rooms at audio shows catch your attention before you even go into them – which isn’t easy due to the fact that you’ve got music pouring forth from just about every door you pass by – because they are playing something out of the norm. As in, not audiophile. Not Diana Krall, Hugh Masekela or these days Daft Punk. Swiss hifi manufacturer CH Precision is a brand I’m familiar with thanks to DVL Audio, and Element Acoustics up here in Canada, but what I wasn’t familiar with was a 12″ extended version of Thomas Dolby’s I Scare Myself that Raphael Pasche of CH Precision was spinning when I came in to interview him. The sound had deep, textured bass that seemed to be emanating from a marble slab it was so solid, and the CH Precision-amplified system of the M1 Power Amplifier (Approx. $51,000 USD – $67,600 CAN), C1 Preamplifier (Approx. $32,000 USD – $42,400 CAN depending on modular boards added), and P1 Phono Preamplifier ($31,000 USD – $41,100 CAN) was throwing a large, encompassing soundstage at it pressurized the room through the Focal Sopra No.3 loudspeakers ($19,995 USD – $26,700 CAN). The Lyra Etna ($8,995 USD – $12,000 CAN) that was tracking Dolby’s [...]![]()
