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Award Winning Sound Solutions for your Home
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06 Oct. 2011
NEW Gradient Revolution Active
'ONE-BOX' SYSTEM
- Awarded BEST SOUND and VALUE at the TAVES show in Toronto.
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TOTAL SPEAKER SYSTEM COST
including Active cross-over and four channel amplifer (180 W RMS x 4)
- $ 9,995
- for full details and specs. Click Here
Read the full report in French here: Click Here
English Translation (excerpts): Click Here
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07 August 2011
Gradient Revolution Active - Awarded BEST SOUND at SHOW at the recent Bay Area CAS show by EnjoytheMusic.com
- a report by Clarke Robinson
"My favorite sound that I heard all weekend.... The bass in this room was perfect... impactful, but not boomy, and fast.....and there were no room treatments used.
There is a section in "The Real Blues" where Ray Brown plays a fast run down to the low E, slapping the strings all the way. This tight combination of high frequency and low frequency information is a mess unless the bass is lightning quick, and I didn't hear it played better on any system at the show.
You hear the exclamation, "the speakers disappeared" all the time, but when it really happens, it is breathtaking... and my breath was taken by the Revolutions. They projected a sonic hologram... when I closed my eyes I felt I was no longer in a hotel room at all.
When it needed to, it placed a solo performer right there in the room with us. For larger-scale recordings, sound seemed to come from well beyond the physical walls.
After hours on Sunday I got a brief demo of the Helsinki 1.5s ($6,495 per pair), the Revolution's stylish younger brother, and he was right... with only 2 bass drivers the Helsinki's filled the room just fine.."
Read the full coverage here: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/cas_2011/page4.htm
SYSTEM SUMMARY BY SIMPLIFI AUDIO ( Total System cost under $ 26,000 )
- Source was a Resolution Audio Cantata Music Center ($6000), a preamp / DAC / CD / network audio player
- Cables were the in-expensive DNM Solid Core interconnect and speaker cables ($ 12/ ft pair)
- Power Amplifier was a four channel FOSGATE ($ 500)
- Speakers were the Gradient Revolution Active System with SW-D towers ($ 11,995 + 6,995) - This under $ 26k system ultimately won OVERALL BEST SOUND at SHOW over the mighty fine 10 times the price $ 263,000 MBL system.
18 July 2011
GRADIENT REVOLUTION ACTIVE SYSTEM impresses and surprises
- reviewer Stephen Mejias
Stereophiles Stephen Mejias finished his CAS show coverage at SIMPLIFI Audio's Gradient Revolution Active room stating 'This was one of my favorite listening experiences of the California Audio Show.'
'While many exhibitors at the California Audio Show struggled with the sound of their rooms, employing careful, creative speaker placement and a variety of room acoustics treatments, SimpliFi Audio’s Tim Ryan seemed happy to ignore the room altogether..... I was surprised to see that Ryan had used NO room treatments whatsoever.'
Click here to read the full article.
28 June 2011
The Classic Revolution Active system with the ADD-ON FULL RANGE SW-D Dipole bass towers was introduced to Canada April 2011 and to the US June 2011 at THE SHOW at NEWPORT California June 3-5th. Click Here to read all the details.
Gradient REVOLUTION ACTIVE SYSTEM with HE Crossover ($ 11,995)
PLUS Pair of SW-D Dipole Bass Modules ($ 6,995)
TOTAL of six 12 inch bass drivers per side (20Hz - 20 Khz +/- 2 db)
[Customer supplies 4 channels of amplification]
You can read details of the NEW SIMPLIFI AUDIO / DSPeaker SMARTBASS system used to control the SW-D Dipole towers - Click Here (PDF - 1.12 Mb)
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NEWS from 'T.H.E. SHOW' at NEWPORT - June 3-5, 2011 |
THE ABSOLUTE SOUND
- coverage by Dr. Robert E. Greene
I carried around an excellent recording I know well (Eargle's recording of Dvorak's New World), which I have listened to on quite a few carefully corrected systems.
The Gradient Revolution Active plus [ the SW-D ] towers is an idea that really works.... Excellent truth to tonal character, solid precise bass, correct sense of space, good all around.......
Sounded a lot like an orchestra, to the extent that can be done in a small room.... they were in the very top echelon....
Gradient Revolution Active with SW-D Dipole Bass towers impress TAS reviewer Paul Seydor
Tim Ryan’s SimpliFiAudio room, featuring the Gradient Revolutions Active system, with the Gradient [SW-D] subwoofers presented the most accurate replication of a full orchestra with respect to timbral accuracy and tonal weight, and it was certainly no sluggard in the dynamics department.....
I am delighted my colleague Robert Greene will be reviewing this new Gradient setup - not least because I'll get to hear it in a domestic setting - as it is one of the best I've ever heard.
TAS reviewer ALAN TAFFEL was also drawn in by the Gradient Revolution
Gradient craftily left their room door open, and I found myself incapable of walking past without being drawn in by the wonderful sound. These speakers, at $8000 for the passive version and $12,000 in active form, are clearly worth further evaluation.
Stereophile
coverage by : Michael Lavorgna
San Diego based [Distributor] SIMPLIFI Audio was showing the Gradient Revolution Active loudspeaker ($11,995/pair) with the Gradient Revolution SW-D dipole woofer modules ($6995/pair)....[and were using] a "$500 Fosgate amplifier" with DNM $12/ft speaker wire to show that you don't need to be spendy to get flat response to 20Hz. .
Also in use was a pair of the DSPeaker Anti-Mode 8033G ($595/each one per sub-woofer) a digital room-correction device [which SIMPLIFI market under the name SMARTBASS]..... "the cure for boomy bass."..... From what I heard, it works.
03 April 2011
- Salon Son & Image Montreal, Canada
GRADIENT Revolution Active voted
'BEST sound and VALUE '
Using SIMPLIFI Audios SMARTBASS (two custom DSPeaker Anti-modes controlling the Dipole Bass of the Revolution Active system below 200 Hz) the $ 8,000 speaker system was voted by a panel of 6 reviewers from Magazine Audio as the best BEST SOUND and VALUE system at the show.
Designer Jorma Salmi commenting on the award had this to say 'Not bad at all for an 18 years old design and $350 amplifier' !! Read the full report (in French) here : http://www.magazine-audio.com/2011/ssi-2011-part-2
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In SIMPLIFI Audio's adjacent room, DSPeaker won 'BEST VALUE' at show for the $ 3900 per pair fully active 300FS Floorstanding speakers. These HI-TECH Speakers feature two of DSPeakers proprietary technologies, LASER SERVO control on the bass and their award winning Anti-mode 8033C subwoofer correction.... The net result is flat in-room bass down to 32 Hz.
Reviewer Adam La Barges
visits the SimpliFi Audio Store in San Diego
08 March 2011
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Steve Stone of The Absolute Sound
HIGH FIDELITY - LOW COST
"To find a conventional speaker/amplifier combination that is comparable in sonic quality [to the $ 2390 / pr. A14Ms] I had to move up to the Joseph Audio Pulsars ($7000/pr.) driven by the Bel Canto M1000 II amplifiers ($5000/pr.)…. [a $ 12,000 conventional speaker / amp combo] !!!"
- Steve Stone
Definite Audio / ACOURATE room and speaker correction systems featuring demos of the the Audiovolver II - CLICK HERE for more details.
DSPeaker announce the NEW Anti-mode 8033S for stereo systems at RMAF.
CLICK HERE to
see the full press release
18 October 2010
The Award winning DSPeaker Anti-mode 8033 is ranked ' ONE OF THE TOP 30 BARGAINS IN HI-END AUDIO ' (TAS 2011 Buyers Guide page 200).
Purchase the award winning anti-mode 8033c for just $350 including shipping on our Paypal store - Click Here
18 May 2010
Simplifi Audio awarded North American distribution of the renowned Swiss PSIaudio ( aka Studer ) Mastering grade powered monitors. These Swiss Precision speakers used throughout the ORF in Austria feature built-in phase correction and will pass a square wave !!! Unbeleivable PERFORMANCE / VALUE from $ 1,195 for the A14 deskmount to $ 4,995 each for the flagship A25
Click Here for our on-line store
29 APRIL 2010
DSPeaker Anti-mode 8033 awarded the 2010 Absolute Sound Golden Ear Award by Robert E. Greene. Purchase the award winning anti-mode for just $350 including shipping on our Paypal store - Click Here
30 MARCH 2010 - SSI MONTREAL
MONTREAL MAGAZINE-AUDIO Awards Full range Gradient System
'Best Sound at Show'
Read the full room coverage - Click Here
28 MARCH 2010 - SSI MONTREAL
Full range Gradient Helsinki System Impresses Art Dudley of Stereophile
Read Stereophiles coverage of the Heslinki with the Swiss PSI Audio Audio woofers - Click Here
