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Thank you for visiting my page of components for sale. I am extremely attached to my equipment but one just must sell sometimes. If you are familiar with the market value of these components, you will no doubt notice that these are very good deals. This is because I am in a hurry to sell.
But enough about cosmetics, the Thor alone is worth the deal but paired with the Baltics, it makes for an outstanding system. the Baltic employs a unique sound source coherence thanks to the TC12 SCS drive. Designed and produced entirely by Cabasse, the coaxial, multi-dome TC21
system from the Atlantis speaker technology. Its three concentric diaphragms are an harmonious match made to cover the low-midrange, midrange and treble sectors.
A veritable technological "tour de force", the perfect phasing between high and midrange frequencies ensures ultra-fine consistency, even off-axis.
Simply put, the Baltic is an outstanding speaker BUT i haven't seen it set up properly in too many places. It can be tricky to setup and I often heard it in systems that didn't do it justice but
if you leave in the bay area of better yet in the Monterey area, I'll be glad to give you a demonstration and make a believer out of you.
The baltics have been a reference to me for years and, I own a pair of Baltic-II.
To top off this marvelous concentric drive, we are including a Thor-II which is the same subwoofer as Cabasse's top of the line Thor-II Artis but the finish is gray rather than wood. It actually goes well with the Baltic's gray ball.
Thank's to its 30M22 30cm (12") driver and integrated 150W active amp, the Thor-II is able to reproduce bass with both depth and power. It effortlessly goes down, easily reproducing 22Hz in a room.
This combination of the exceptional TC21 and 33M22 drives offers both the openness and transparency of a four-way unit together with the sound coherence of a classic two way.
Of course we are also including the two original Strombolis that shipped with the Baltic. The Cabasse Baltic/Stromboli is indeed an exceptional speaker which provides a very neutral and natural sound but it is also rather complex to setup, you need to have a good active cross over and two stereo amplifiers to make
it work. By replacing the stromboli with the active Thor-II you will be able to setup the system in no time. Then, if you feel like playing with active cross overs and multiple amplifiers, you can always try to get the Thor+Strombolis+Baltics in one system.
The projector uses a DTI digital circuit to increase color resolution, and a COMB filter to reduce cross color / cross luminance. It is also equiped with a noise reduction system, a specific circuitry to enhance the dynamic focus. hue control (for NTSC) and sharpness control. Convergence and set up are controlled by remote and all of the projector parameters: setup configuration, image aspect ratio including 4/3, 16/9 anamorphic or widescreen and scan frequencies can be selected, copied, moved and saved in up to 25 memory banks. Also, the SVD 500 Plus also accepts input signals with 15-16KHz and 32-38KHz horizontal frequency which allows you to display high quality video sources (PAL, SECAM, NTSC), the interlaced Grand Alliance HDTV as well as Personal Computer images (VGA, S-VGA). The SVD 500 Plus offers a comprehensive range of inputs - RGBHV, Y-Cr-Cb (Component input), VGA, S-VHS, Video 1 and Video 2 through SCART socket (Peritel), BNCs, mini-DIN4 pin and DB15 and DB9 Serial Interface.
CRT (Cathode Ray Tubes) technology enables the projection of artefacts free images with excellent color reproduction, gray scale adjustement, and unbeatable contrast ratio. CRT-based projectors are the ideal solution for the discerning Home Theater enthusiast as well as the professional, providing the best video performance for a real cinema-like atmosphere. CRT: How it works: A video projector is equiped with 3 CRTs: each displaying one single color image of Red, Green and Blue and an optical lens to display the 3 separated color images on screen. CRT technology produces the highest contrast ratio, resulting in a better black level detail than its rival projection technologies. This is achieved by the ability of CRT technology to literally 'switched off' when a black image is displayed, resulting in a 'true black' level detail. The opposite occurs when a bright image is displayed, concentrating all of its power into the brightness of image. As CRT technology is not based on a matrix concept, it is able to display very high resolution, without artefacts, from directi input sources. An impressively long tube life of 12,000 hrs at full brightness can be enjoyed, with a further 3000-5000 hrs of very good image quality as the tubes begin to fade 'very slowly' in brightness: this tube life equates to one movie per night for 20 years, before the tubes will need to be replaced!
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Cabasse is a French manufacturer of loudspeakers. Cabasse has been the undisputed
National leader (and now largely exported) of the best speakers money can buy, since it was founded in the 1950.
Gorges Cabasse, the founding president on the firm, was the first to demonstrate that acoustic speakers could
actually be substituted for the original instruments, using their recorded spound. Since then, it has become an
enssential Cabasse tradition to compare their speakers, not to other speakers, but to the original sound, in
live comparison sessions. Such sessions are often demonstrated by Cabasse at the shows in Europe and has always
been outstanding in my experience. To get so close to the realism of instruments, Cabasse had to rething the
acoustic speaker, then design and manufacture every element of its speajers, begining with the drive units.
This was a great challenge for the Cabasse design team: proprietary creation facilities including an exceptional
acoustics laboratory. It is equiped with three measurement chambers: an echo chamber, a semi-reverberating chamber
and a 2000m3 anechoic chamber, the largest in Europe. The high quality of data supplied by these measurements areas
has enabled the computing workshop to develop original measurement programs which integrate the requirements of
real sound reproduction, whatever the listening room. Today all Cabasse speakers stem from these measurement
protocols and are able to reproduce original sound as close as possible to the truth. Because the only music you
should hear is the one you love and that alone, without coloration or distortion. No doubt this is why Cabasse is
the French make envied by the world, the only make which offers a lifetime warranty for all its speakers, and has
been doing it for decades now.
A Superior technical specification and stylish design combined to create a unique mix of performance and elegance.
The SVD 500 Plus offer the ultimate in high quality large screen viewing; an experience of image quality only
available from CRT technology. The SVD 500 Plus prejector features 7" high brightness CRTs and high definition, fully color-corrected
HD6 lenses, which provide superb image quality. Featuring the latest in electronic innovation, this projector is fully
modular in design and equiped with the latest Up Converter (UPC 2000). By using gold-plated edge connectors to the
main board, the UPC 2000 provides superior PAL/SECAM/NTSC signals by doubling the lines or doubling the field (100Hz).
This new 20-40mm f2.8 EX Aspherical DG DF lens provides f2.8 large
maximum aperture for all focal lengths between ultra-wide angle 20mm to 40mm.