"Some mistakenly believe that cost is related to quality. There's no guarantee this is true, especially in the audio business." ~Neal Van Berg
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October 20, 2011
Dan Meinwald of E.A.R. USA explained to me that his goal for RMAF was to put together a system where the individual components each cost $6000 or less. The new Marten FormFloor loudspeakers ($6500/pair) just exceed that limit, but are compensated for by the impressive new 192 DACute D/A processor from E.A.R. ($5700 in black but $6500 in chrome). The DAC was being fed audio data by the latest Diamond version of Neal van der Berg's Music Vault ($4449), which incorporates a Blu-ray drive for ripping discs, a 2TB drive for audio data, a solid-state drive for the operating system, and a Lynx aes16 audio output card.
~ John Atkinson, Stereophile Blog
October 19, 2011
"On the 11th floor tower the new $6495 EAR DACute sounded impressive. Combined with the $4499 Music Vault Diamond music server, $7995 EAR 834 integrated amplifier, and $6500 Marten FormFloor speakers the system imaged superbly in the less than acoustically benign hotel room."