mobanmarketThe South Korean company Silbatone manufactures exquisite pure tube and hybrid audio amplification that’s specifically engineered to be un-conventional, un-compromised, and un-affordable. About that last characteristic: It’s un-affordable because it’s not for sale—and everyone knows you have to pay extra for stuff that’s not for sale. Right?
Silbatone also collects—and demonstrates, at audio shows—un-obtainable vintage Western Electric movie-theater equipment. To my knowledge, Silbatone’s museum-quality WE tube and horn speaker collection has no equal in either completeness or condition. Every year, at enormous expense, they come to High End Munich with a different example of WE un-obtainium—just to f**k with the minds of the audiophile mainstream. (That and to show people where audio began, and where it’s going.)
The Silbatone design team is of un-paralleled intelligence and consists of my No.1 friend and primary Tall-Wizard, J.C. Morrison, and his legendary partner, Dr. Stefano Bae—the nicest, most humble PhD (in material sciences) wizard I know. This team’s stated goal: “Not to profit in the marketplace but to achieve musical enjoyment and contribute to the evolution of sound system design.”
This year, Silbatone’s un-obtainable-ness reached a new high with the Racon/Amplion
papier-mâché theater horns from 1930-34 (on the floor). These are rarer than Venus figures from prehistoric caves and make a touchable sound only equaled by the sheet-metal WE-22A horns above them. All the wide-range horns in the photo are powered by WE 555W field-coil compression drivers and augmented by WE 597A horn tweeters.
All this deep-state WE exotica is powered by a Morrison-Bae WE 205D tube–MOSFET amplifier that puts out 20W and features a 3:1 silver wire/silver foil Hitachi Finemet-core output transformer. Folks, this stuff is un-believable.
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