mobanmarketThe Hearken Audio room was showing the sort of gear that indulges my creative impulses. None of it looked boring, or robotically manufactured on an assembly line. Two of the displayed items in particular snagged my focus: the Jean Nantais Ultimate Lenco analog rig ($US17,500), outfitted with a Graham Audio 12″ tonearm ($CAD10,335; only arms of 10.5″ or more in length can be used) and a Tru-Lift automatic tonearm lifter ($USD275), a Miyajima Labs Saboten L low-output MC cartridge ($CAD6700), and a pair of 102dB-sensitive Rethm Saadhana speakers ($CAD24,000).
No less artisanal as the former but more subdued in appearance were Miyajima’s ETR-KSW SVT step-up transformer ($USD2495), Miyajima’s EC5 preamp ($USD4995), and a Yamamoto Sound Craft AO-14 300B amp ($CAD6000), all of it complemented with Ocelia cables and Harmonix turntable mat and footers. A system like this isn’t designed to produce prodigious bass, but to communicate the emotional core of the music, which it succeeded in doing with a midrange that seemed to go on forever. On tracks by vocalists Dominique Fils-Aimé and Ane Brun, the sound was exceedingly tactile, and brimming with microdynamics and lingering decays.
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