SoundStage!
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Mike Masztal

Canada’s Coincident Speaker Technology and well-known OTL-amplifier manufacturer Atma-Sphere shared a room. This was an analog-only room—not a CD to be found. Israel Blume, president of Coincident, brought his new $2,495 Super Conquest full-range floorstanding speakers. Doug Schneider currently has these loudspeakers in for review. Rather than mass loading the speaker, Blume chose to deal with resonances via cabinet design. Source components were a modified Empire turntable (circa late 60s), SME 5 tonearm and Grado cartridge. The preamp was Ralph Karsten’s $3,800 Atma-sphere MP3, and amplifiers were Atma-sphere M60 MkII OTL monoblocks, also priced at $3,800 (per pair).