Aurum Acoustics
Aurum provides a compete, captive system—CD player/preamp, amp, cabling and loudspeakers. The amp is actually a stereo tri-amp; i.e. six amplifiers in one. The tweeters and midrange drivers of the three-way speakers are each driven by a single 300B tube. Each woofer is driven by an in-house designed solid state amp. This is the fifth year that I have heard this system. Each year it sounds better and better. Sitting in the near field the system threw a very wide and deep soundstage with pinpoint imaging. The low bass was powerful and very well controlled. This was one of three rooms that could reproduce the low bass on the Van Helsing CD at high volume and with minimal distortion. Very impressive and extremely musical.