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Welcome to Crestmore’s site,
"A short path to the finer things in life"
Delivering some of the best audio and visual products engineered in Europe, developed using State of the art,
world leading technologies combined with years of highly regarded design expertise.
With the world in a spin, now is the time to look at how we spend our hard earned cash. This is why we as a company are so impressed with what Cyrus have to offer, not only is their goal to provide you with the opportunity to get deeper into you favourite artists recordings, but to do this in a way that minimises impact on both you and our environment.
Cyrus have recently taken the reproduction of music to the next level in an affordable CD platform, the ‘SE’ or servo evolution players with their heart tuned for CD playback.
Cyrus chose not to conform to a mass marketed brand drive with a fancy DAC as is the case with a majority of gear, with their highly trained team Cyrus has hand built the new drive which sets the scene for what is a very impressive player at a very impressive price.
Understanding that it is generally not the case that we can jump in a buy the best that Cyrus has to offer off the cuff, Cyrus with their superbly thought out upgrade paths make that high end system an option to anyone buying into Cyrus at any level down the track. With the amazing flexibility of being able to take models of up to around 4 years of age and give them a new lease on life, Cyrus has put together upgrade packages that enable these components to be upgraded to full current model specifications. This along with their carefully structured system component upgrade paths, where each component is tailored to give the best in its original form aswell as harnessing each upgrage to assist the next. As an example a Cyrus 8, 8vs or 8vs2 have power routed so that when a PSX-R is added to upgrade its performance the Pre amplifier section gains the benefits, which are also passed on if you decide to add additional amplification to bi amp. So when you look at your CD player that you have had for few years and hear all the great press on what is now available, if it’s a Cyrus player you have then you have the option to upgrade for a fraction of the cost of a new player. This is true for many Cyrus components however there is a point in any components life where technology has got so far ahead that it necessitates the replacement of everything but the cast magnesium alloy chassis and at this stage although not quite as environmentally friendly trade ins are always a welcomed second option so have a chat with your local dealer and see what Cyrus can do for you today.
The 'Servo Evolution' revolution in players is finally here!!
Yes I do dare..... Finally the long journey is over and to be a little bold these players will amaze even the owners of machines several times the cost of these 'singing shoeboxes'. With the law of diminishing returns kicking in at a few thousand dollars, I would think that Cyrus now has the competition worried as the new benchmark puts a big divide between what Cyrus have developed and a competitors unit with even a slim chance of giving it a run, not to mention the hit this challenge would give you in the hip pocket.
Cyrus has spent a long time on developing this new technology, delivering more of what Cyrus is renowned for and a fair bit more at that! The story of painting with music has somewhat hippie connotations but in reality is what we should be striving to achieve, as most artists put a whole lot of passion into what they record and now it's time to really hear what they worked so hard to get across.
The new “servo evolution” transport developed specifically for music endeavors to draw every last bit of the recording from your favorite discs. This is predominately achieved by reducing the problems associated with the current configuration of transports used in today’s CD players, these problems such as reading errors require complex circuitry to attempt to rectify them. Although there have been many advances in this process, it is still only masking the problem along with a requirement for more components with their own sonic signature that impacts directly on what you hear. The outcome of what Cyrus has achieved is the realisation of more information, which relates directly to more of what makes music truly amazing, Emotion!
With compact discs having around a quarter of a century in history, the vast and eclectic collections stashed around the homes of every music lover would be very grateful to get a spin in one of these new machines. The joy for me of being involved in such an evolutionary brand has been a mystical journey through my ever growing collection, with some of those albums previously relegated to the dust collection section getting another chance whether it be my age, appreciation for recordings or a culmination of those, I know for sure the superb players I have had the privilege to audition have every step of the way shown a little more of what makes those recordings music!
So be sure to audition the new “se” players, and join me in revisiting those collections and enjoy that rollercoaster ride they have to offer!
Albums such as Jeff Waynes “War of the Worlds” and Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” a couple of my favorite movies to watch with my eyes closed……
Read more about what makes Cyrus a great choice.. More on Cyrus
The QAV System
An amazing new solution to the dissapearing home theatre concept
As you can see by the above room design, Q Acoustics have yet again come up trumps in their latest goal to provide a simple and minimally intrusive home theatre system, while maintaining a high quilty sound performance with out the big boxes.
The technology behind these revolutionary new speakers is based on the NXT design with some subtle yet significant improvements to make what is today known as the "BMR" or Balanced Mode Radiator. This drive unit offers a broad and very well detailed frequency capability, aswell as its key benefit of a wider and more even sound distibution patern.
The Centre, Left and Right speakers are clevery mounted into a adjustable bracket which is able to be tailored to suit the width of a flat panel from a 37" to 50" set. It comes complete with 2 elastisized grill cloths which stretch over the trombone like adjustable grill surround and attach securely with velcro. The integrated bracket also allows the depth of the speaker to be adjusted to perfectly match your LCD or Plasma's distance from the wall, making it seem like a part of your TV that was always meant to be there.
The rears while also great performers as fronts in a stereo application, also have a neat mounting solution with an integrated wall bracket and desk stand. Designed to be mounted anywhere you can think of, with their generous sound distribution the need for the optimum listening posistion is not a consideration. So if you want to mount them up at cornice level you know you can without comprimise!
The Subwoofer, well that's something that shocked me! A narrow wall mountable 8" sub with a 120W amplifier, not something that makes you think massive sub? But plug it in and turn it on and you, like I was, will be very surprised! With the reciever set flat and the sub amp set to 1/3 volume & 100Hz the depth and control was more than you could expect from something more than twice it's size in every regard.
They also have also taken the next step in hidden home theatre, with a infra red pass through module which allows you to hide all your gear in a cupboard or the room under the stairs. This unit is as simple to set up as running some wire, as it only needs transfer the signal from your theatre room using existing remote controls to the location of your gear. The key benefit of this outside of getting rid of all the boxes, is not having to worry about confusing progamming or learning a new remote.
There are also brakets and cable management, but if you have read this far you are obviously a bit more than curious, so you should probably now go to the web site and take a good look at the system in detail...
QAV in detail
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