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Well Tempered Amadeus

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macster

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Well Tempered Amadeus
« on: 16 Oct 2008, 04:53 pm »
Tone

You do have one in your sights to review right?

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TONEPUB

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #1 on: 26 Oct 2008, 08:29 pm »
Not yet, will have to talk to them at CES...

That's the problem with getting the flu and missing
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TheChairGuy

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #2 on: 10 Feb 2009, 03:23 pm »
Jeff/TONEPUB,

Did you ever talk to Well Tempered?  That new Amadeus TT is totally off the wall interesting.....

John
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TONEPUB

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #3 on: 12 Feb 2009, 06:53 pm »
still playing phone tag.....
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TheChairGuy

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #4 on: 12 Feb 2009, 07:02 pm »
Brilliant specs on that one....right price too at US$2850 (complete with 10.5" arm).

Not exactly dirt cheap, but reasonable in today's market for high fidelity.

I have on order the new VPI Classic table...but the Well-Tempered is on my screen, too, now.  I have only seen a review of it in New Zealand thus far.

John
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sts9fan

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #5 on: 12 Feb 2009, 07:17 pm »
that tone arm is intersting for sure.  A golf ball?  How much do you want to bet people upgrade to diffent balls. 
Ball rolling if you will.
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Kevin Haskins

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #6 on: 12 Feb 2009, 07:31 pm »
Quote from: sts9fan on 12 Feb 2009, 07:17 pm
that tone arm is intersting for sure.  A golf ball?  How much do you want to bet people upgrade to diffent balls. 
Ball rolling if you will.

The arm is stuck to the ball.   He would have to offer them as it wouldn't be a field upgradeable item.    Bill is working on a speaker too.   Last I talked to him I sent him a couple amps for CES.   

Frank Denson of Dynavector is getting the table built and he is in New Zealand so that is probably the connection with the review.   Mike Pranka is handling the import duty into North America.   

 



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BobM

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #7 on: 12 Feb 2009, 07:33 pm »
One of the best used deals on the planet is the older Well Tempered TT's. They used to be available at a little more than half this price, but this is still a relative deal, compared with prices for new equipment today.

John - I would cancel your pre-order and jump on this one:

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1239132746&/Well-Tempered-Turntable/Arm-w/

Bob
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Kevin Haskins

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #8 on: 12 Feb 2009, 07:41 pm »
Quote from: BobM on 12 Feb 2009, 07:33 pm
One of the best used deals on the planet is the older Well Tempered TT's. They used to be available at a little more than half this price, but this is still a relative deal, compared with prices for new equipment today.

John - I would cancel your pre-order and jump on this one:

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?anlgtabl&1239132746&/Well-Tempered-Turntable/Arm-w/

Bob

The Amadeus is much improved over the original tables.   That is according to Bill himself who is brutally honest about the pro/cons of his various designs.     There has also been a lot of trouble getting parts for the old tables.    I'd steer clear and stick with the Amadeus because it should have good support with the new distribution system backed by Dynavector.   
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Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #9 on: 12 Feb 2009, 07:47 pm »
That's a neat way (a balance scale) to provide lateral stability and provide azimuth control on a "unipivot" or should I say "unidivot" arm. 
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jrtrent

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Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #10 on: 23 Feb 2009, 12:24 pm »
Quote from: Kevin Haskins on 12 Feb 2009, 07:41 pm
The Amadeus is much improved over the original tables.   That is according to Bill himself who is brutally honest about the pro/cons of his various designs.

I bought the similarly-priced Well Tempered Record Player last summer and have been very impressed by both the sound and the support I've received from Stanalog.  It would be interesting to see a comparative review of the two models.
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TheChairGuy

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #11 on: 23 Feb 2009, 02:21 pm »
Quote from: TONEPUB on 12 Feb 2009, 06:53 pm
still playing phone tag.....

Jeff/TONEPUB,

Looks as tho Absolute Sound beat you to the punch on the Amadeus...I (briefly) read a review in the last issue I found at my local library about 10 days ago.  The library was closing so I didn't read it all thoroughly, but the summary of it was quite positive.

Still, I'd love to hear your take on it  :)

John
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TONEPUB

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #12 on: 27 Feb 2009, 06:43 am »
Yep, they've got the only review sample, so no idea when I'll get one!

Can't beat em to the punch on everything!

It does look very cool though...
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TheChairGuy

Re: Well Tempered Amadeus
« Reply #13 on: 27 Feb 2009, 01:41 pm »
Yup, I just re-read it yesterday at the local library.

Robert Greene reviewed it...he does a nice job of things normally I've noticed :thumb:

Most of the gear reviewed by Absolute Sound are specialist audio makers, so unless the product is of shoddy build quality, they normally sound pretty good.  It's just a matter of (subjectively, oftentimes) rating it's sound versus other players of similar and higher cost. 

On both ultimate sound quality and quality sound versus it's peers...it scored very high.

He made mention of it's ultra-strong bass capabilities...something akin to Townshend's Rock.  I owned a Rock in 1988 or so (II, I think it was) and that bass was stunning with it due to the silicone damping arrangement.  If the Amadeus is in that league, it's probably a stunner for me :o

John

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