Estelon, Crystal Cable, and Vitus Audio Knock our Socks Off stereophile.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stereophile.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This superb high-end audio system, featured at the Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas, included Estelon Forza speakers ($170,000/pair) in dark silver liquid gloss powered by MSB M500 mono amplifiers ($75,000 each). The digital source was an MSB Select DAC ($115,000), a Select Digital Director ($27,500), and a Taiko GSM Extreme server ($30,000). Cabling was by Synergistic Research: SRX Interconnects ($9,500), SRX Slimline speaker cables ($22,500), and SRX power cords ($10,000); power conditioning was also Synergistic, the Galileo SX with an SRX power cord ($27,995).
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Estelon is a high-end loudspeaker manufacturer based in Estonia and this year they are celebrating ten years of creating what they hope are “the world’s best loudspeakers”. Hifi Pig caught up with chief designer and engineer Alfred Vassilkov to ask him a few questions about the brand, their philosophy, and more.
THE ESTELON STORY
From a young age, and while growing up in the Soviet era, Alfred began dismantling radios and changed and adjusted their components in the hope of improving their sound quality. At university, whilst studying electro-acoustics in St Petersburg, he extended his interest in this field which led him to a Eureka moment back in 2010 whilst, of all things, having breakfast with his family.