{"id":2019,"date":"2024-06-15T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/?post_type=review&#038;p=2019"},"modified":"2024-06-15T19:46:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T19:46:03","slug":"the-canadian-gershman-black-swan-speaker","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/index.php\/review\/the-canadian-gershman-black-swan-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canadian\u00a0Gershman\u00a0Black Swan speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"523\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-3.png 523w, https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-3-226x300.png 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Canadian\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gershmanacoustics.com\/\">Gershman<\/a>\u00a0Black Swan speaker, \u00a0which mounts the tweeter and midrange unit in a separate A-frame enclosure to prevent their performance being affected by vibrations from the woofer, made its debut at HE2006 last May, and I was looking forward to hearing what it could do at CES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Driven by Red Rock Audio&#8217;s Renaissance 50W push-pull triode monoblocks ($39,750\/pair), they sounded sweet indeed. The zero-loop feedback amplifiers must, of course, have had something to do with that. Red Rock&#8217;s Alan Stiefel (who moonlights as the organizer of the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest) showed me the amp&#8217;s measurements, and though the lack of loop negative feedback means that the THD doesn&#8217;t drop below an okay 0.1% at 1W, the amplifier maintains that performance over an extraordinarily wide bandwidth. The output tubes are direct-heated Svetlana 572-10s, a new tube to me, but which threw off an inviting glow as well as great sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2066,"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-2019","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gershmanacoustics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}