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Ok it’s been 30 years now since November 28, 1981 when I started Wavelength Audio. So what are we doing? We are moving into a much larger place with tons of room for expansion! This has been in the works for months now looking for a suitable place with storage.
Ok so what was it like 30 years ago? First product PH1, if anyone has a real one please send me pictures!
PH1 was a discrete solid state phono preamplifier with tons of gain and really low noise. Here is one of the prototype boards I made, one channel populated. This was a two sided board which we laid out with two color tape. My first business card designed by Ric Snodgrass was influenced by the large Tek tube oscilloscope I had in my Mount Adams apartment at the time. Since then I have a ton of reviews on my SET Amplifiers and DACS.
Join us on our Facebook page.AudioStream came on line 10.6.2011 and features the Brick v#3 by the editor Michael Lavorgna.
In the October issue of Stereophile Art Dudley takes the Proton for a spin and it ends up a Recommended Component.
We went to Summer NAMM 2011 again this year and showed some Silver Guitar amplifiers fitting for silver guitars here: Guitar-Engines
Also at Summer NAMM 2011, we launched a new website for PRO Digital and 500 Series equipment iKodek.com
SoundStage Good Sound gave the Proton a really nice review by Doug Blackburn, winning the Good Sound! Great Value award.
Stereophile gives runner up for the Cosecant for Digital Product of the year. My Streamlength USB was granted Digital Product of the year and also Product of the Year in the Ayre QB9, way to go guys! December 2009.
Computer Audiophile took a spin on the Proton and really liked what they heard 6/22/09.
June 2009 Stereophile Magazine Wavelength’s Cosecant The Best USB DAC Yet!
I want to thanks Art Dudley and John Atkinson for their hard work, page 77.
Stereophile Class A Rated Product
Music Served: Extracting Music from your PC, by John Atkinson
Home Entertainment December 2008, Computer Audio 101 by Peter Roth page 53, BTW Peter bought both a Cosecant and a Crimson Balanced for his own setup.
Art Dudley's Listening #33 in Stereophile Magazine Recommended Component Class A for the original Brick.
Note on the status of the High Speed Cosecant and Crimson. Currently we are shipping in small numbers the Cosecant HS. The Crimson will be available probably in August time frame. I am also hopping to have finished the Cosecant Denominator very soon.
RMAF 2011
Wavelength, Vaughn and AudioQuest Suite 9007
Thanks so much for everyone that came out to RMAF 2011. I really thought 2010 was going to be the peak of RMAF, but I was wrong. Our room sounded better than ever and it sounds like a number of people & magazines agreed with me.
I forgot to bring my 3M AudioQuest interconnects so we punted and it worked out better than ever.
System:
Computer: MacBook Air i7/4G/128G Lion----Thunderbolt Pegasus Hard drive RAID5, Pure Music & Decibel.
Cosecant 24(32)/192 using the new Denominator Module ($4000) USB Asynchronous DAC.
Royal Line Level Preamplifier.
Cardinal mono block amplifiers Friday and Saturday, Corona VT52 amplifiers Sunday.
Vaughn Triode 99dB efficient speakers.
AudioQuest cables through out.
Close up of the Computer System with HP monitor.
Close up of the Cosecant with the Denominator Module, Royal 71A Line Preamplifier and Corona VT52 amplifiers.
Close up of the Vaughn Triode 99dB Speaker... what that’s 5W’s!!!!!!
Cardinal Amplifiers, Proton, WaveLink and Cosecant with optional volume control.
So what’s next? Electron 24/192 stereo head phone amplifier with dual 6111 tubes and selectable impedance, also has a line level RCA outputs. Neutron 24/192 AD/DA converter. There will also be a Electron 15W stereo amplifier as well in the same type of enclosure as the headphone unit.
Greeting the guests is the Brick v3 USB DAC.
Show Links!
Vaughn Loudspeakers
AudioQuest
On Line Press for RMAF 2011:
TheAudioBeat.com Second year in a row for us! Best of Show
Positive Feedback Dave and Carol Clark RMAF Vaughn + Wavelength + Chris Issak = MAGIC!" (Carol)
Stereophile John Atkinson blog for RMAF.
Audiostream Michael Lavorgna report from RMAF.
Computer Audiophile Chris Connaker report from RMAF.
EnjoyTheMusic.com Steve Rochlin report from RMAF.
Digital Audio News RMAF Report.
Wizard High End Audio Blog RMAF Report.
EnjoyTheMusic.com Scott Faller Report