ASR Audio Systeme Friedrich Schäefer

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At Absolute Sound, India

29/07/2020

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28/07/2018

Around that time, my wife, Janet, came in and sat down on the couch to listen. A minute or so into "So Real," from Jeff Buckley's Grace, she said, "I have to tell you, this really sounds fantastic." I replied that, if God ordered me to have no other speakers but Quad ESLs for the rest of my life, I'd buy a smaller, one-box version of the Emitter II in a heartbeat. If such a thing existed.

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Listening

28/07/2018

The ASR amp strikes me as the product of someone who has, throughout his life, given a great deal of thought to the playback of recorded music, and has consequently developed for himself an intense approach to listening. This person is thorough, detail-oriented, and probably punctual. As a child, he no doubt spent a lot of time listening to records with friends and/or members of his extended family, and paid close attention to their listening styles as well as to the details of their playback gear. His passion for music was probably nourished by borrowing records from his fellow listeners, and he was surely generous in lending out his own records.

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Listening

28/07/2018

The ASR Emitter II Exclusive is unlike any other audio product of my experience—and I've experienced a lot. I can't recall a single other product designed and built with so much love—not for everyone, but for the relatively few listeners at whom it is aimed. It's like the lover whom not everyone finds attractive, or compelling, or companionable—yet in the heart of that lover's intended, no one else will do.

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Listening

14/07/2018