Salon Hifi
Home Cinema
2007

Paris, France

Audio Consulting was attending the Salon de la Hifi et du Home Cinema  2007 show together with Magavox  in Paris from 17.03.07 to 18.03.07 at the
Sofitel Sèvvres Hotel

Room Meudon B

A 200 sqm room and 6 m height...

Audio Consulting's system was run entirely off batteries, from th edigital front end to the power amplifier.
The Loricraft turntable was connected to the mains.

Amplifiers:

1. MIPA

Special version of the MIPA (Mains Independant Power Amplifier)  run on external 200 Ah batteries
The 30 watt /channel MIPA (Mains Independant power Amplifier) amplifier is a battery powered solid state design.
It uses input and output transformers, very high speed capacitors in the power supply and the highest quality connectors from WBT and Eichmann Technologies.
According to Audio Consulting's general philosophy, the cabinet is made of wood (MDF) only.

2. SWGPA (Silver Wire Gain Power Amplifier)

Special version of the SWGPA (Silver Wire Gain Power Amplifier)  run on external 200 Ah batteries
This 8 watt /channel  amplifier is a battery powered solid state design.
Voltage gain is achieved using silver wire transformers.
It uses input, voltage gain and output transformers, very high speed capacitors in the power supply and the highest quality connectors from WBT and Eichmann Technologies.
According to Audio Consulting's general philosophy, the cabinets of the reference series are made using special wood with very attractive wooden veneers. No lacquer but organic oils and bee wax are being used as finish. The buttons are massive Cocobolo, hand polished, and again, no lacquer.

The line preamplifier:

SWGLA (Silver Wire Gain Line Amplifier).
 Unity gain, Solid State stage drives silver wire TVC with 10dB voltage gain in the TVC.
According to Audio Consulting's general philosophy, the cabinets of the reference series are made using special wood with very attractive wooden veneers. No lacquer but organic oils and bee wax are being used as finish. The buttons are massive Cocobolo, hand polished, and again, no lacquer.

The analogue front end:

Left:
Lyra Dorian cartridge, tonearm, and Garrard 501 turntable by Loricraft.
The phono preamplifier was Audio Consulting's Silver Rock Phono Signature , featuring 4 silver coils per channel, one being the MC step-up transformer:
No capacitor in the signal path here, as the RIAA is achieved using only resistors ( one in silver) and silver coils.
Battery power supply allows for extremely low noise as many visitors could notice.

Right:
Silver Rock MC step up transformer for the use with MC catridges is also  available separately.
20 or 26dB of voltage gain are achieved using very exotic magnetics and our silver wire. Cabinet is made of natural wood and veneer.
No lacquer but only  organic bee wax.

Digital front ends:

We used the iPAQ HP 4700 PDA with Sandisk Extreme IV flash cards and  WAV files.
About 80 tracks  were available on a 4GB flash card and allowed never to run out of choice during the show.
4VDC/280 Ah battery, with over 400'000uF of capacitice decoupling .

Cabinets by Olivier Soufflet.