It seems like Qobuz is everywhere these days. A virtual, er, tidal wave of promotion led by my pal David Solomon. I walked into the Legacy Audio room and off to the side, some sweet music was playing. I walked in and Bill Duddleston and David were there with the stand-mount Calibres doing some set up. David left soon after, and after some reconfiguration, Bill got the music going playing a mostly hirez playlist he had created in Qobuz. These were his passiive Calibre speakers at $5,500 and they were connected to the Wavelet processor ($4,950) that also does DSP on the room and the PowerBloc2 amplifier ($1,800). The PowerBloc2 outputs 325 Class D watts into 8 ohms and 650 watts into 4 ohms. This pairing sounded simply fantastic. Beautiful midrange, airy highs, and more bass than you would have expected. The Wavelet was taking care of the room in all the right ways. The Calibre uses, in the companies own words, “our high power handling 4″ AMT ribbon, a precision 7.5″custom midrange/midbass built in Florence, Italy, and the best 8″ bass driver available with a full inch of displacement capability”. Frequency response is 38hz to 30khz. The XD version [...]
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