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• Martina was at the Singapore High End Show, 4 - 6 Nov, 2005, with the world record holding idler wheel turntable, the Garrard501 Inspiration, the current reference at Audio Magzine, Germany, plus the renowned Loricraft professional record cleaners, our world wide awarded outstanding L'Art du Son record cleaning solution and, last but not least, the new L'Art du Son CD and DVD conditioner that is " already acknowledged " for those who want the very best" for cd cleaning/conditioning by Harry Pearson in The Absolute Sound, Aug/Sept 2005. Loricraft is the UK agent for L'Art du Son products..

  L'Art du Son - Pro Audio Record Cleaning Solution Concentrate/ CD Cleaner and L'Art du Son Professional Audio Record Cleaning Solution Concentrate were both chosen for The Absolute Sound 2005 Editor's Choice Awards, selected by writers and editors to be the "best of the best". - Loricraft Audio and Martina Schöner are proud to been selected for these honours and thank and everyone at TASL

  Martina's Online show report from Singapore, November 2005. I was with Sound Pursuit, 23 Jalan Legundi, Singapore 759281, www.soundpursuit.com, info@soundpursuit.com, in the Sight and Sound Show: Le Meridien Hotel, Room 418. The Garrard 501 Inspiration and the Loricraft PRC 3, and the L'Art du Son treatments were demonstrated with SOUNDPURSUIT in the Sight and Sound Show: Le Meridien Hotel, Room 418 . SOUNDPURSUIT is our importer for the Garrard 501 Inspiration models. Kenneth and Audrey were the first customers worldwide to own that wonderful machine personally and it was also their 501 that was lent to Mr.Kondo/Audionote at the CES Shows in Las Vegas. Get your personal demonstration at Soundpursuit! Talk to Audrey, Kenneth or Lawreance Lee at www.soundpursuit.com info@soundpursuit.com, 23 Jalan Legundi, Singapore 759281. You can also see Anthony Koh and Philip Ho (an analog specialist) of High End Research at the Singapore Hifi Show . High End Research is located at 317 outram Road #0146?47, Concorde Shopping Centre. Anthony imports for his customers since many years the Loricraft Professional Record Cleaners as he thinks, it's one of the best record cleaner systems in the world. You can also get from Anthony and Philip great Vinyl releases at the Show in the pavement where their exhibition room is located. On one of the pictures you can see Philip Ho from High End Research happily conditioning another CD with our recommended new L'Art du Son CD/DVD treatment! To see Martina's slide show from Singapore click here You will see that the show attendance was absolutely fantastic! We are again working with Frank Tschang of Accoustic Systems from France, this is one of the best accoustic treatments we came across with Fastaudio for our own demos since many shows, Frank is an accoustic physician, and attending his demos , which is great fun, teaches you something about how to deal with a listening rooms accoustic response. For his demo's we used the Garrard 501 Inspiration, a Lyra Titan on a Schroeder pickup arm, L'Art du Son treated Vinyl, Accoustic Systems wooden stands with CTC preamplifiers and an amazing ATC (British) affordable active monitors. On the slideshow you will see some of the impressions and the people I write about At some stage on Saturday the rumours about our performance made it across to the other exhibitors and so the staff from our competitors came to listen as well ....

  
  



• Read what Joachim Pfeiffer of Audio magazine in Germany had to say about the Garrard 501, click here, - it is now their reference turnatable - the best turntable AUDIO has known. The rumble figures are the lowest they have measured for an idler drive. At -79 db it beats many belt drive turntables. You can download an English translation (PDF file) by clicking here




• We showed the full range of our products at the Munich High End Show (May 5-8 2005). Record cleaners, the PRC2, the PRC3 and the new top of the range PRC4, examples of our flagship Garrard501 turntables as well as some of the fully restored 301 and 401 turntables which are increasingly in demand, all over the world.




• Terry and Roger had a great visit to the CES Show in Las Vegas where we met many old and new friends. It was gratifying to find that most people were aware of our PRC record cleaners and many people had already bought one. Our US distributor Norm Schneider has done a great job. The Garrard501 turntable also attracted a lot of attention, particularly in the FAL room where it it was playing through Frank Schroeder's arm into the fantastic FAL flat panel speakers. Here is the happy band - Mr Shibazaki, Mr Furuyama, Frank, Roger, Christoph and Terry - once the goods had eventually cleared customs in LA.

  
  
  After the show we visited our friend Ijaz just outside Washington DC where we met up with old friends and customers. This annual trip gets bigger every year with some people travelling from Florida, Colorado, and New Jersey to be with us. We saw some impressive setups, but the best was probably Ijaz's Garrard501 turntable with Frank Schroeder's arm feeding the Sid Smith modified Marantz amplifier into the Quad electrostaic speakers. We heard stunning results with both the Lyra Olympus and the ZYX Universe cartridges. Here is the start of one of the late night listening sessions with Ijaz's system.

  If you wish to visit Ijaz and see any of our products, please contact us beforehand - Terry or call Ijaz directly.
  



• href="http://www.acuhorn.pl/aaa904-en.htm" target="_blank">Report 1 and Report 2), and the High End Show in Munich - and met many of our customers face to face for a change. We expect to do all these shows again this year. The Hamburg Show saw the Premiere of the 501 Inspiration, see the Show Report 1 for more information.




• Excellent reviews in US, UK and German magazines have resulted in a big upsurge in orders from all over the world for our acclaimed Professional Record Cleaners (PCR3). Here is a recent one from an audiophile review on a Germany TV station. We have more than doubled production capacity to match the increasing demand for these fine machines and delivery times are coming down.

  Over 300 PRCs have been sold in the last few months. As a customer in the US wrote recently, "my friends won't play their LPs now unless they have been Lori-cleaned". Have you Lori-cleaned your records? Here is yet another review!

  Now we have successfully stepped up the PCR3 production to meet the demand, we have been able to build up a small stock of Garrard501s and we are selling 501s again. More customers are sending us their Garrard 301 and 401 turntable units a complete overhaul. We have a stock of rebuilt 301 and 401s for sale with plinths and pickups to be agreed with the customer.




• Terry and Nigel have a new model, The Archivist Professional Phono Equaliser for playing old recordings.
  




• Terry had a sucessfull visit to CES, in Las Vegas, Jan 8th - 11th, 2002. The Garrard501 was named Best Classic Turntable. Thanks to Mike Hobson, President of Classic Records, and Mr Kondo of Audionote Japan for their support and space to demonstrate the Garrard 501 and Missing Link phonostages. You can see the winning team relaxing after the end of show cleanup. Terry and Martina were again pleased to meet so many of our US customers. Some of you got a chance to meet me - Roger, the webmaster.




• Terry, Nigel and Martina would like to thank all the enthusiastic customers who visited the Loricraft Stand at the HI-FI SHOW 2001 at the Novotel, Hammersmith, London, 13-16 September 2001. They exhibited the new Loricraft Missing Link Phono Stage and 150 watt Monoblock Amplifiers, successfully launched shown at High End 2001 Show in Frankfurt in June. They also showed the PSU45 (dedicated Garrard 301-401 power supply), PSU80 (power supply for turntables, CD players, phono stages and pre amps), and a new larger power supply shown for the first time.

  The Loricraft PRC11 and PRC111 record cleaning machines were on display, and all were sold. The stand also had examples of the range of Garrard turntables, which comprises the world aclaimed 501, fully restored 301s and 401s mounted in plinths, and, for the first time, the new skeletal plinth, complete with a 301 and Rega RB230 arm rewired with Incogeto cable and base.

  We also had a Schroder arm fitted to a 301 mounted on a skeltal plinth. Frank himself was there and answered a continuous stream of questions from visitors about the construction and audio quality of his acclaimed wooden arm with its simple and superb mounting.