As luck would have it, I was really supposed to visit my friend
Henry ( I have permission to mention his name here ) to install
a complete set of Telefunken tubes I sourced for him for his Jadis
JPS2 line pre-amp. So to hit two birds with one stone, I brought my
pocket Canon over to shoot some scenes.
After reading about the Infinity IRS system mainly from TAS, which
none other than the editor used as his reference speaker in Sea Cliff, NY;
I finally HEARD the thing about 2 years ago in my friend's house. The
feeling of coming face to face with a dream suddenly became reality
as in the 80s to 90s, the IRS system was THE ULTIMATE speaker
and the HOLY GRAIL of all high enders. My drooling days were over, I said to myself, and I myself owned an Infinity RS3B, which was 2 models
below the RS1B, which itself was second only to the IRS.
The sound, to make it brief, was heavenly. The BEST vocals yet
to pierce my starving ears. What smoothness from the EMIM midrange
units, what body, what musicality....I can go on and on....simply musical.
The front end then was a Forsell CD Transport and a Theta ProII DAC.
Today, the Forsell has been replaced with the Jadis JD1 bec the Forsell
had conked out and no techician so far in these islands has been
able to fix it. And one last comment, before I was wondering how
HP could have these towers sound well in such a small sized room, but
after hearing them, they do work well in a small to medium size room,
throwing a transparent soundstage and a fantastic top to bottom presentation. Needless to say, the servo woofer towers are one hell
of a design. Trying Enya on CD proves that these servos can reach
what the reviewers would call the 'subsonic' level. One of our friends
commented that even if the IRS did not play sound at all, he would
be happy just to LOOK at it like an art piece for the whole day. For
lovers of wood ( if ever there are such people ), the wooden wings
are truly beautiful, Rosewood yata. Hope you like the pics.