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Finally arrived !!

My journey has come to an end and I could not be happier.

I am lucky to own now two systems, the "big" one and the "small" one from Crimson/Tocaro.

While the "small" system has obviously not the capabilities of the "big" one, I would not miss anything getting old with just the "small" one, it is THAT good, and the "big" one is hard to describe other than it plays music (vs. making sounds).

(I am particularly fuzzy with boomy bass and shrill heights and mids not sounding like the instruments/voices. The Crimson/Tocaro has to be experienced to be believed. And yes, I heard it all - all the big and "mighty" hi-end brands - and nothing plays music like my combos).

This is the latest gen Crimson 880 and the latest gen Tocaro 50F
The last picture are Crimson 640eIV and Tocaro 40F

The Dac is a Mytek and the current source is a HQPlayer based on Win Server 2019 (running on 15w) and the NAA also Server 2019 at 5w, all with good power supplies and some UpTone goodies.
(While I am not active on this forum, you find my on audiophilestyle as mops911 ;-) )

 

50F

 

880-710

 

NM

 

TX

 

total111
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stereo5
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I am a bit confused.  What are all those pieces on the rack that look exactly the same?  Looks to be 12 of them plus a controller on the other rack? What are they, what do they do and what is the brand?

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roxy54
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I recognize them a Crimson amps which I saw a pair of on USAudiomart for sale once. They are an unusual shape. I'm guessing that the speakers are triamplified or something like that. I didn't notice wires. I figured that the one on the other table is a preamp.

boxcarman
326 posts
 

@Ronboco.  See, there's usually a wise guy somewhere.

ronboco
747 posts
 

Indeed 

total111 OP
15 posts
 

There seems only one person genuinely curious ;-)
(more trolls than I though ;-) )

@stereo5

The 12 boxes are 6 mono-blocks with each its own Power supply. The amps have a neat feature to "DC couple" them, which removes the cap in the output and which adds indeed another jump in reproduction quality. Each mono delivers ~175w into 8ohm.

Each speaker chassis has hence its own amplifier and as there is no cross-over its indeed all "active"...one of many reasons why it sounds so real and direct and fast!

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