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AUDIOPAX PICKS UP ITS FIRST AWARD, We're pretty confident its the first of many...

 
From Jim Saxon's Jimmy Awards 2003: "...From the land of Black Orpheus comes the Audiopax Model 5. Perhaps its Brazilian provenance excited my desires, but this preamp struck me as a potential jewel. The designer, Eduardo de Lima, is a gentleman who resonates with intelligence. If he says his preamp is tunable for timbre, I believe him. If he says the Model 5 offers world-class dynamics and definition, I believe him. If he says I have to fly to Rio de Janeiro to audition the unit, I believe him. With Carnaval only a few weeks away, I must have some frequent-flyer miles somewhere..."
No sooner has the first award appeared, then another one comes along.....

 

REVISTA CLUBE DO AUDIO E VIDEO – BRAZIL

'Product of the Year'

Amplifiers and Preamplifiers
(Produto do Ano – EDITOR – Pre e Amplificadores)

The Model 88 was classified in the highest category - Diamond-Reference - and below is the translation (compact version) of that review. It appeared in the January 2003 issue together with the award.

  
Delivering 30 watts/channel into 8 ohms the Audiopax Model 88 has a sonic signature that is totally different from anything that I have ever heard before, solid state or tubes. It’s very hard to describe because it is not a combination of the best of both technologies. It is a new proposition.

The micro detail retrieval happens in such a natural way that you have to repeat dozens of times the same part of the music in order to understand that the musical event that is being reproduced has a different quality.

The Model 88 allows us to have this new look at our references and it can, at the same time, keep all the warmth, the vividness, neutrality and musicality, intact. All it needs is an excellent preamp (all truly good amplifiers need this), good cabling (the more neutral the better), a good source and loudspeakers with the same qualities of the Model 88 and sensible enough to deliver its musical impetus.

The Model 88 played very well with all the speakers we tested them with. Even the Dynaudio Countour 1.3 and the Elacs with only 86 and 87 db and loads of 4 and 6 ohms. This is another chararacteristic of the Model 88. It has a very good compatibility with most cables and speakers making it extremely hard to define what combination is the best match.

It is magisterial, like a “Midas” - everything that it plays is transmuted into golden sounds. Even bad recordings can have their moments of glory with the Model 88. I do not know how this miracle is done, but it is not made with any perceptible coloration in the middle/bass or because it is the classic tube sound.

Truly, the sensation is that the harmonic structure is refined in such a way that the entire musical event is re invigorated and its sonic signature totally recovered. Listening to it, you will have a palpable and enchanting reprint of the music and its accompanying silence.

I have just one concern. If you, my dear reader, can afford these amplifiers, you will have trouble sleeping once you heard them. You will feel like you have to have them.

Fernando Andrette - Editor
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