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Mondial Designs Ltd. Aragon Soundstage Preamplifier (HT) Review by cpcat


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Model: Aragon Soundstage
Category: Preamplifier (HT)
Suggested Retail Price: $4000.00
Description: Home Theater Preamp/Processor
Manufacturer URL: Mondial Designs Ltd.

Review by cpcat on April 02, 2001 at 20:03:12
IP Address: 206.155.95.167
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Excellent pre/pro for my tastes. My priorities are leaning toward the musical side but I still wanted to be able to take advantage of HT and not
compromise. The sound I have now for 2ch is comparable to when I had a dedicated 2ch system of Threshold/ML/Wilson plus the benefit of HT and ?
multichannel music in the future. The DAC's on this unit are all 24/48
of the highest quality (Mondial resisted the 24/96 trend which was/is marketing hype until the SACD/DVD-A battle shakes out). I've had no problems with the unit and have owned it for close to a year. Adam Gershon
at Mondial answers questions via email directly which was pretty nice.
I guess my only concern is the recent acquisition of Mondial by Klipsch and
how that may effect future tech support and upgradibility.


Product Weakness: big, recent sale of Mondial to Klipsch
Product Strengths: Excellent for music in 2 channel stereo, analog bypass and
6 ch. bypass, balanced outputs


Associated Equipment for this Review:
Amplifier: Pass x5
Preamplifier (or None if Integrated): see above
Sources (CDP/Turntable): Onkyo Integra DVD
Speakers: PSB stratus gold i
Cables/Interconnects: MIT CVT 750
Music Used (Genre/Selections): n
Time Period/Length of Audition: 1 year
Other (Power Conditioner etc.): PS audio 300
Type of Audition/Review: Product Owner


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