VAMPIRE WIRE-CABLES, INTERCONNECTS, AND SPEAKER WIRE:
The
business of audio wire is as loaded with snake oil as is the business
of loudspeakers. Beware of the snake oil! It seems every vendor must
have a story that out does the other, and the stories include
increasing wire cost being equated to increasing wire value! The most
essential point is that price in no way equates to audio quality
regardless of whose name is on the product!
We represent Vampire Wire,
because we believe it is the one
wire
product that does what a wire product should do, does it in a true
sonic manner, and does it all at a very reasonable price. All Vampire
products are very high grade, high strand count copper base that have
superb ability to transmit electrical energy signals in a clean and
undisturbed fashion. In addition, the specially-chosen very high grade
outer shield mechanism prohibits stray electrical signals from entering
the signal path keeping the audio signals clean and hum free. All metal
connectors are made from very high grade materials to ensure optimum
contact.
Unlike many other wire vendors,
Vampire assembles and solders
its
products here in the US at their base in Florida to ensure uniformity
of quality control and their ultimate product quality.
The product line consists of low
level audio interconnect
cables in
varying lengths, video interconnects for all video connection
applications, various connectors and banana plugs, and very high strand
count copper speaker cabling. We can provide cables for non-standard
lengths as well.
There is no better and more
logical choice than Vampire Wire.
Rely on it. We do.
NEC
PLASMA MONITORS:
Not all plasma monitors are made alike, and our
exclusive choice since 2001 has been NEC for this reason.
Resolution is the primary consideration for high quality video, and
since the objective of plasma is to yield that high resolution goal,
the monitor must have the ability to offer greater pixel count
(horizontal X's vertical).
NEC offers 1366 X 768 which is generally well beyond what most others
offer. But those numbers do not alone provide that degree of
resolution. There is no native high definition broadcast at 768 lines.
Remember also that since the broadcast high definition standard is 720
lines, the monitor cannot alone achieve 768 lines.
See the discussion of scalers to get a better understanding.
NEC is regarded as the grandfather of plasma monitors. The way we see
it, what they have forgotten the other vendors should learn!
By
this it is meant that the resolution and overall picture
quality
of NEC far exceeds, in our opinion, that offered by any other vendor.
It is the only plasma monitor that we know of that can allow "pixel
perfect" mode . This is a means by which the full 1366 X 768 resolution
is fully achieved in every video frame from every video source, every
pixel is precisely illuminated in every frame rather than a
random
pixel assignment, the refresh rate is extremely high, and the picture
takes on a three dimensional appearance.
The detail, colors, and realistic images that the NEC plasma displays
we have not seen on any other plasma. This should be your only choice.
With the recent DirecTV MPEG4 upgrades, we have been upgrading
customers who purchased the NEC's from us as much as 6 years ago! Due
to the fact that the NEC was one of the few plasma makers to have
digital inputs, we are now able to use our new Lumagen digital
scalers to give those customers a better quality picture today than we
could originally.
This speaks to the quality of NEC, and we can demonstrate this for you.
LOUDSPEAKERS:
Our most recent loudspeaker line acquisition is Renaissance Audio.
The product is built with Morel drivers and components, and it is an
exceptional loudspeaker.
What distinguishes this product line is the driver design detail that
has a particular emphasis on large voice coil diameters for efficiency
and exceptional power handling.
The Duet model, for example, is a bookshelf-sized two way modified transmission line speaker
that uses a 6 1/2" polycone woofer with a 3" voice coil and a 1 1/8"
fabric dome tweeter. The imaging and sonic detail of this loudspeaker
are extremely impressive as is the exceptional bass reproduction.
This model is also available as a floor model, the Prelude, with the
same drivers as the Duet but with a larger cabinet volume that
extends the low frequency reproduction almost a full octave lower than
that produced by the smaller Duet! These have to be heard to be
believed.
There is an entire product line available, and every product is exceptional on its own.
Sonic detail, imaging, and efficiency are the trademarks of these
loudspeakers, and their dollar value puts them in an untouchable class.
Pay attention to this loudspeaker line, and give us the opportunity to detail these for you.
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