If the name Audio Eden conjures mental images of an unspoiled, verdant music paradise where your troubles don’t exist, then Ontario retailer Audio Eden’s room lived up to its name.
I’d never heard Nagra and Harbeth paired together before, so who knew they’d make such a perfect pair? Or a perfect trio if you squeeze in the Nordost cabling between them. Not I. But when I heard what this combination could do, I thought, “Where have you been all my life?”
The system consisted of Harbeth’s Monitor 40.3 XD ($27,000/pair) being fed by a bevy of Nagra gear, including a pair of Classic Amps used in a biamplification configuration ($24,000 each), a Classic Preamp ($24,000), a Classic DAC II ($25,000), the recently released Nagra Streamer ($6500), and a Classic PSU ($21,000), which powered the preamp, streamer, and DAC.
The sound was clean, warm, balanced, and devoid of mechanical artificiality. It sounded like . . . life, human. It spoke in a voice that was pure, articulate, expressive, and resonant in the way real music vibrates in the air.
The Nagra-Harbeth-Nordost combination was a marriage made in . . . Audio Eden.
The system consisted of Harbeth’s Monitor 40.3 XD ($27,000/pair) being fed by a bevy of Nagra gear, including a pair of Classic Amps used in a biamplification configuration ($24,000 each), a Classic Preamp ($24,000), a Classic DAC II ($25,000), the recently released Nagra Streamer ($6500), and a Classic PSU ($21,000), which powered the preamp, streamer, and DAC.
The Nagra-Harbeth-Nordost combination was a marriage made in . . . Audio Eden. 
