New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre

Husk, I'll know more about Corus product availability in the next couple of weeks. . . but the prediction of 4 months out for Corus does not match anything I have heard this far from JRDG. Claude, Erick Lichte seems to be correct about Model 925 pricing, but pessimistic about product availability. . . His crypto-reference to audio jewelry is very cute. G.

some more pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/metropolismusic/4261312831/

Found more pics of the new JRDG gear at:
http://positive-feedback.com/Issue47/ces104.htm

G.

Nice pictures of CES Guido. Thanks for the link! I took my Criterion up to a friends over the weekend for a listen in his system. (Wadia 922/931 fed by 781i, Rowland 312 into Aerial 20t MKII via Silent source cables everywhere. The room was fully treated, but on wood upper floor.) The first listen was obviosly direct digital to amp for about 5-7 cuts. Then swapped after pre had been on for about 6 hrs for a listen. Upper mid to beyond took on a more solid feel not a thickening at all. The background stayed pitch black. Bass got just a tiny bit more authority, but the biggest effect was two fold. First the overal sound took on a sort of Majestic feeling. Yes, hard to explain but I think the bit of extra dynamics and sensity of the upper end gave it this feeling. Second was when huge and/or very loud uber dynamic swings were fed thru the stream, the pre kept it all together without even the time to sigh about the load! Now, I must tell you, if you haven't already figured it out, that the floors and walls were VERY active by now and feeding back from this energy. Yes the 312 can provide, but it needs unrestricted wall juice and needs to stay away from it's upper output limit due to the hardness and tendancy to start falling apart just before the thermal overload protection kicks in. We were listening that loud!I've said it before that the 312 is not the last word in low freq extention and dynamic cpability. Having heard it pushed hard in this system I still feel the same. It has tremendous transparency, and the imaging is spectacular. Look, it's not a pair of 200 lb mono's! It's a 65 lb stereo amp, that poud for pound kicks ass. It's not cheap, but it does more than most any amp I know in its price range. Sorry, got sidetracked and off subject. Just wanted to address some of the 312 amp comments on this and other threads I'm on. Anyway, going back to the Citerion...Taking it out of the chain was imeaditealy noticed. It was like "Hey, where did the majesty go?" There's probably a better pre out there, but at what price and will it be unaltering of the signal?

In my loudspeakers the low frequency of my 312 is hair-raising.

I still have one stereo GamuT D200 MKIII. As we known Gamut is a wonderfull device. At least more or less, I guess.

Side by side, in my set up, I gave C to GamuT and A+ to the 312 in the low frequency region.

So I think it's very good.