![]() Hufflepuff! Such insular focus-UK & Japan-can quickly turn high-brow irrelevance. He has won the Gold Medal of the Chartered Society of Designers and is a member of the Royal Society of Arts' élite Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry. Grange's designs have won ten Design Council Awards, the Duke of Edinburgh's prize for Elegant Design in 1966 and in 2001 he was awarded the Prince Philip Designer Prize, an award honouring a lifetime achievement. He has carried out many commissions for Japanese companies. Grange also was involved with some elements of the design of the innovative 1997 TX1 version of the famous London taxi cab. These designs include the first UK parking meters for Venner, food mixers for Kenwood, razors for Wilkinson Sword, cameras for Kodak, typewriters for Imperial, clothes irons for Morphy Richards, cigarette lighters for Ronson, washing machines for Bendix, type 3 and Type 75 Anglepoise lamps, pens for Parker and the exterior styling of British Rail's famous High Speed Train (known as the Inter-City 125 or HST). Grange's career has spanned half a century and many of his designs became-and still are-familiar items in the household or on the street. By the early 1970s he was founding partner in Pentagram, a world-renowned interdisciplinary design consultancy. His independent career started rather accidentally with commissions for exhibition stands. Grange's career in design began as drafting assistant to architect Jack Howe in the 1950s. And during the right economy.Īnd cemented around the personage of Kenneth Grange who Wikipedia informs us was born 1929 in London and is a British industrial designer. ![]() It doesn't work for stuff priced seriously that also wishes to be taken serious. Now it's not only the cynics who know that lifestyle in hifi is shorthand for dumb blond. That doubled the price to $4.625 yet the product kept being promoted as lifestyle. ![]() The resultant separates demanded 2.250 and $2.375 respectively. By now the Neo and Groove had split not the atom but that CD receiver. Those models targeted a more sophisticated clientele to whom the mention of Brit designer Kenneth Grange even registered. By 2009 its Premier version had moved up a tad to $2.595. In 2007 that Aura Note sold for a quite upscale $2.450. Perhaps that's because of its top-loading CD receiver in shiny chrome. Though active since 2006 under current ownership-the brand actually started in 1989-Aura is still waiting for widespread recognition. Review Component Retail: Aura Vivid $1.000, Aura Vita $1.400 The latter is thus positioned in the middle of this open floor plan without the usual nearby back wall. The listening space opens into the second storey via a staircase and the kitchen/dining room are behind the main listening chair. Room size: 5m x 11.5m W x D, 2.6m ceiling with exposed wooden cross beams every 60cm, plaster over brick walls, suspended wood floor with Tatami-type throw rugs. Sundry accessories: Extensive use of Acoustic System Resonators, noise filters and phase inverters Powerline conditioning: GigaWatt PF2 for amps, GigaWatt PC3SE Evo on front-end components Stands: Artesania Esoteric double-wide 3-tier with TT glass shelf, Rajasthani hard-wood rack for amps Speakers: Aries Cerat Gladius, Boenicke Audio B10, Voxativ Ampeggioĭesktop sy stem: Apple iPod Classic 160GB AIFF-loaded, Cambridge Audio iD100, Wyred4Sound mINT, EBTB Terra III, Mass Fidelity Model 1, NuForce Ion +, Furutech RTP-6Ĭables: Complete loom of Zu Audio Event, KingRex uArt USB cable with Bakoon BPS-02 uninterruptible battery supply Preamp/Integrated: ModWright LS-100 with Synergy Hifi tubes, Esoteric C-03, Bent Audio Tap-X, TruLife Audio Athena, NuForce DDA-100 Source: 27" iMac with 3.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, 16GB 1.333MHz RAM, 2TB hard disc, 256GB SSD drive, ADM Radeon HD 6970M with 2GB of GDDR5 memory, OSX 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, PureMusic 1.8 6 in hybrid memory play with pre-allocated RAM and AIFF files up to 24/192 Audirvana 1.3.9.10 in integer/direct mode, April Music Eximus DP1, Esoteric/APL Hifi UX1/NWO-M w. This review page is supported in part by the sponsors whose ad banners are displayed below
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