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The Sampan wins Enjoythemusic.com Best of 2007 Award

 ""Rarely do I have the opportunity to walk around the sound stage, inspect Norah Jones from behind, check the rivets on the drum kit to confirm that Keith Moon's 1965 Drums really was a Premier single-bass, or otherwise wax pedantically on correct microphone placement. Never for me has a sound-stage indicated to me the different heights of the horns of John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis's during the glory days of Kind of Blue. All that changed for me with the Sampans."
Dr. Jeff Rabin

If you don't have the space for theTriangle Cellos, maybe the Sampans will do.

 

 

"We set two Sampans up in our listening room next to a pair of 'normal size' floorstanders (my Triangle Cellos) but did not tell anyone ... everyone thought that the sound they were listening to was quite appropriate for the (much larger) Cellos."

"Few loudspeakers on the planet can create as much excitement as the tiny, unassuming Sampan..."


(Reinhold Martin, HIFI STATEMENT, Germany)

The Sampan: "The Greatest Disappearing Act Since Houdini "
(enjoythemusic.com, Jeff Rabin, Ph.D.)



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"...the Sampans were magic."
(Jeff Rabin, Ph.D., enjoythemusic.com)

"Even a respected Lowther cabinet builder ... said he could not believe the quantity and quality of bass that was being reproduced from such a slim little cabinet."
(Jeff Rabin, Ph.D., enjoythemusic.com)

"... the true stars in the Role firmament are, for me (so far), the Sampans ...We listened, drop-jawed, to detail, a seamless soundstage, crisp warmth (Oxymoronic? Not in the least), and next to no sense of compression or congestion at climaxes."
(David Ogden Stiers, see bottom review page)

"I heard through the Sampan's music and ... imaging to die for, and a speaker disappearing act that I wouldn't have believed possible."
(Jeff Rabin, Ph.D., enjoythemusic.com)

"I used the Sampans in three systems, with six different amplifiers, in three different situations and they never ceased to amaze me or my guests who heard them in action. ... I had the pair of them next to a very much larger pair of speakers and would ask people to point to the speaker that was playing and I would conservatively guess only one out of three people correctly identified the Sampans as playing..."
(Jeff Rabin, Ph.D., enjoythemusic.com)

" ... a transmission line speaker in an unfeasibly narrow cabinet that does one of the best disappearing acts I have ever had the pleasure of enjoying..."
(Jeff Rabin, Ph.D., enjoythemusic.com)

The Sampan is an innovative time coherent, minimum phase, point source, transmission line, design. It uses a single driver to cover the audible sound spectrum. The Sampan's full-range, single driver design eliminates the problems of conventional loudspeakers which introduce distortion in the reproduction of music. And its dimensions are an amazing 4 inches wide by 4 inches deep by 37 inches high.

Special Features:
True point source
Transmission line design
Magnetically shielded
Perfect time coherence
Reproduces entire audible frequency spectrum
Hard wired hand soldered
Single 3.5 inch cast frame titanium transducer
MLSSA matched transducers
True minimum phase response
Superior five-way terminals
10 year limited warranty

Sampan, black and red birch

 

 

 

Notes:
(1) The loudspeakers require a minimum of half inch clearance between the bottom of the base and the floor or carpeted surfaces because the cabinet is ported on the bottom. If clearance is inadequate, longer spikes should be used. For greater stability, optional larger bases are available.


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 eco-friendly satin black and red birch
(ships within 3 to 5 business days)

 1495

 
 eco-friendly Baltic white birch and red  birch
(ships within 3 to 5 business days)

 1595

 
 formaldehyde-free
natural birch plywood
(ships within 2 to 3 weeks)

 1695

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