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First and foremost, this article can not and will not be a review but a little different description of the impressions from me of a product that gained from a successful combination of great love for music and technical expertise.

It was long and her thinking out whether the purchase of a further, new phono amplifier at all makes sense because in the past 12 years stood us some equipment, such as, for example - Benz Lukaschek PP-1T-9 (by the way, with the in-house pickup a brilliant amplifier) Green Wall RIAA, Jeff Rowland Cadence Design (with and without battery power supply), Klyne PX7, Lehmann Black Cube, Linn Linto, Omtec Antares (V1), Outsider MC, SAC Gamma, Tron Seven, PS20 Whest audio available.

But it was like it had come, the Canofer-S offers unlimited adjustment options - including "Increase-switch" for fundamental change - with a gain of 40dB to 60dB,-tion ... was simply irresistible, and was "ordered". The only downside - there is unfortunately only one input!

Then finally came the day of delivery. Already when unpacking the unit from the safe packaging quality was high immediately apparent, everything spotless and high quality finish. Grounding terminal screw was also a great model, ge-knurl donated by the manufacturer. The default external power supply and the additional charge-restitutor alternative battery power supply available as correspond to the same level.

HISTORY OF THE PROJECT:

1997 - after several attempts and discussions - the EU-project "with the blind" (a cross-border cooperation with several universities, hospitals, and the blind and visually impaired organizations, ...) launched listening tests.

Today (May 2009) I coordinator and leader of the project about 110 extensive listening tests organized as to the

Hearing of more than 250 - from birth - blind women and men to explore the particularly marked.

American scientists write that the blind man blind from birth can be heard better, so actually the sooner the

Blindness, the more effective the compensation. Whether it also in the perception of canned music do better than the blind seer to show our long-term study.

The voluntary participants from "all" social classes came from Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

and the Netherlands. A large number of blind people we could convince them (with an accompanying person) to travel to Aachen and surroundings

take up scientific studies to support or to allow one.

Under these Blind - both sexes - there were music lovers of all ages (but not a single high-end freak);

also there were some young people and adults in middle age and persons of retirement age. Now and then joined

is a professional piano tuner with a classical pianist training to do so.

Over the years we developed as a "seer" a sense of how sophisticated and thus much more demanding (each way) in the blind listening.Smallest nuances, changes are immediately noticed the lack of precise Tonabnehmereinstellung "complains differences". On the other hand could the blind several illustrated journals and floral described differences between good quality and extremely costly NF and power cords do not hear in the.

ANNMERKUNG:

Hearing is the most important sensory channel for the blind to perceive the environment, to experience "aesthetic" enjoyment.Therefore, also plays the music for many of these people a very important role. With our listening tests, it is not therefore a - as always accepted - Comparison of devices but an attempt by a most authentic music playback - in our experiments by a "High-end system - the perception of music for blind and partially sighted people to fathom.

Gain / amplification (in Ω or kOhm): 18 - 22-27 - 33 - 39-47 - 56 - 68-82 - 100 - 120-150 - 180 - 220-270 - 330 - 390-470 - 560-680 - 820 well as 1 - 1.2 to 1.5 kΩ
Resistance / resistance (in Ω or kOhm): 22-33 - 47 - 75-130 - 220 - 330-470 - 680 - 820 - 1.0 - 1.2 to 1.5 - 2.2 - 3.0 to 4.7
6,8 - 10-15 - 22 - 47-75

In order to "simplify" the system configuration since the arrival of the play Canofer-S and MCS Gruensch only - bargain, unbeatable Alternative - the Lehmann Black Cube Statement.

Holdings, the Canofer-S in two technically very different; tonal but extremely similar chains. Tonal similar because, first, the equipment with great care and time-consuming extensive listening tests to sammengestellt was in, "all" parties to play - the variety of sound and precision appreciably as Emo-tions come over - well like and secondly, it attempts essential is our for .

On the one hand, the "passive group" (Audiaz Saria speaker, KR Audio Kronzilla DM Purist Silver-Gold Edition Mono's, two passive - Purist-Pre or Placette Audioline days - preamps) and the other in stereo - circles are not very popular Aktivlautsprecheranlage (Klein and Hummel O500C Studio Monitors with integrated volume control and source selector switch dodocus)

In the last two years we had to (unfortunately) again with diverse, acoustic-explained various geographic opportunities (von15 m ^20-40 m ^2). These spaces were several fast - sound absorbers, Tep-Picher and simple acoustic tools "optimized".

Again and again and again "is Leisehören" is announced, actually the criterion for hearing tests with blind people.Masterfully-solvierte from the phono amplifier discussed this while listening to the album "The Trinity Session" by the Cowboy Junkies. The mood in the church of the plate is taken over even at minimum volume to reality.

At the beginning of each listening sessions grew the tension because the expectation was always very large. Old vinyl (Ella Fitzgerald "Ella in Berlin" / The Weavers "at Carnegie Hall" / Ahmad Jamal "Alhambra" ) Were played, test and compared notes rausgeholt earlier, ... but even through the amplifier as Klyne 7-PX, and Jeff Rowland Cadence very discerning ears of the blind man found the means of strengthening Canofer exception just-derived cell layers in some cases even slightly engraved and velvety.

Or in plain language, the product of Rossner and son needs this American Precious nothing to fear!

Only a touch more quiet and fine grain were in some listening rooms ("the network Contaminated" residential area) to connect the battery power supply audible through.

Was again the Jan Allaerts pickup were also installed once again the testimony of the blind audience unanimously: from extremely deep and clean bass, with perfect heart to the skies

"All" kinds of music (jazz, pop, house, techno, classical music) were played, and then again changed pickups - the Decca London Reference (MI system / various settings 15, 22-47 kOhm) was the wrong dynamics, precision, almost frightening that three distinct impedance settings. What do you want?

After several listening sessions, we have then - as before, perhaps a dozen other instruments - the PhonoAmp Swoboda with 4 feet "decoupled". After subjecting the simple details were still unresolved feet, the bass was a bit "stronger" and more precise.

Our - on a very high level of gambling - Analoglaufwerke (Origin Live Sovereign MKII, TW Acustic Falcon and Denon DP100M) with matching tonearms, and phono cartridges fitted were the three off-the noise-Phono amps Gruensch MCS or Canofer connected alternately and plates as

Janis Ian's "Breaking Silence" (according to M. Fremer / USA another "2die4" / vinyl) enjoyed.

Several years ago - in an open-air performance by Lizz Wright on the castle William Stein in Aachen-Würselen - I could the vocal peculiarity of her voice even convince to now playing the double-LP "The Orchard" is the emotional event means Canofer -S get into the house again.

Similarly, one can as Votes lovers slices of Beth Orton "Central Reservation" or Amy Winehouse "Back to Black" hang up without overtaxing the S ".

Classical Music (Bizet's "Carmen" / Claudio Abbado): so pure classical, space and overall dynamics phenomenal;

the whole orchestra of the wind over the strings ... "each" instrument, every voice detect.

Often we heard 2 more "ingenious" plates (45 mm Pressures), namely "Café Blue" and "Modern Cool" by Patricia Barber.Songs like "The Thrill is Gone" / "Inch Worm" / "Too Rich to my Blood" / "Touch of Trash" / "Light My Fire" or "Silent Partner" go deep under the skin of one and one is often inclined to to increase the volume.

Change of scene: When listening to the following but very different LP's - Ron Carter Quartet "Piccolo" / Till Brönner "Rio" / Herbie Hancock "The definitive H. Hancock" / Shelly Manne & His Men At The Black Hawk-Vol.1 "- came the transformer into the game.

First, a real dinosaur in the Step-transformers up, the Denon AU-1000 (12 kg weight) together with the in-house DL-103 a perfect couple that 103 he suddenly, with a resolution and focussing as a multiple expensive MC system. In the LP "at The Black Hawk" is an actual live broadcast of a live recording, the home will become the private jazz club.

Of improvement that is gone with only composite of the exchanger My Sonic Lab Stage 202, and the My Sonic Lab Eminent the MC. This pickup system - a masterpiece of Japanese art of engineering - we have never before heard so well. Strikingly similar results were achieved with the Ikeda 9 a system with an extremely low output voltage (0.18 mV). Differences in bass instruments while listening to the exemplary nachempfindbar Piccolo bass (tuned an octave higher than the normal bass), Ron Carter's LP of the same name.

For us, the S-Canofer the first choice for Übertragerbetrieb. Even if its 60dB gain MC almost always wins enough yet to play well when interposing a shuffle mode.

The described positive, sometimes euphoric (music) experience reflects solely a reflection of our thoughts and the SWL should also not product-evaluation of other manufacturers have one!

In addition to the speaker manufacturers Rosenheimer Audiaz now leads with a product of Rossner and son from Memmingen - another Bavarian factory - into musical nirvana.

Their "Canofer S-seeking" in any case of flexibility, quality and a "stable value" equals.

Among the known phono preamps with nearly unlimited input impedance matching and gain setting (gain) is at any rate - in addition to once again clearly costly eren Gruensch MCS (for MC) systems - the current sound "ultimate". Therefore, "" Tell all music lovers and / or experimentation Analoghörer: Not necessarily a listening appointment with the manufacturer or our distribution agreement.

(Since my journalistic skills are limited, I recommend buying all interested parties to ask for more detailed technical information from the manufacturer or the thorough testing of the magazines image hifi 4 / 2005 and / or hifi & records 2 / 2006 read in).