Russian Presidents HiFi System

[Rajiv]

Hi,

Check out the HiFi system at the Russian Presidential palace.

Google Translate

Below is the Russian website.

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The system(speakers and amplification) looks to be based around Mark Levinsons new brand, Daniel Hertz (Hurts) Audio :lol:

Great to see the 1500 series Technics RTR in the system.The turntable is the Avid Reference SP.

Regards
Rajiv

 

[viren bakhshi]

Hi Rajiv,

How do you feret out this information! Gives a human perspective to these high-profile leaders, though.

Regards,
Viren

 

[rallynut]

true rajiv,how do u manage :lol:???stunning.new found respect :indifferent14:.cheers

 

[hifiashok]

and thanx!!!

 

[ajay124]

@Rajiv
Can you enlighten us more about the HiFi Systems at other presidential palces.Would be interesting to know what a HiFi system bought with a 'national' budget looks like.

 

[buswal]

rajiv,

wow, a day will come at least in my dream to have a system like that.

cheers

 

[vinod_david]

Yes, I too was impressed when I saw his 'hifi' and his passion, last week in another forum. His system cost around 130k GBP, and seems russian bloggers have one common question: whose money?

Anyway, his full sytem is here.

 

[arj]

Thats really great info Rajiv !!:clapping:
The CD player seems to be a Naim transport mechanism, but the colour of the LCD is not green and the Pre out (or is it a naim din out ? ) seem to far apart from the usual naims... wonder what it is since I only know of the naim with that transport

then other components seem to be
a bespoke Avid Acutus Reference SP turntable, made in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, and two Swiss-made Daniel Hertz M1 speakers, costing a cool $75,000 a pair, it was estimated

 

[vinod_david]

The CD player seems to be a Naim transport mechanism.

A Naim CDX2.

 

[arj]

What I am unable to get is there is only 1 blue cable coming out of this (can even see that in the reflection on the rack) ..the other one on the far right is a power cable.
that means he is using a DIN cable ?? if so it has to be another Naim component (Pre) but he is not using that...
this is the back of a Naim CDX2

 

[stevieboy]

What I am unable to get is there is only 1 blue cable coming out of this (can even see that in the reflection on the rack) ..the other one on the far right is a power cable.
that means he is using a DIN cable ?? if so it has to be another Naim component (Pre) but he is not using that...
this is the back of a Naim CDX2

I'm sure the CIA will have all the necessary info on its files. An email perhaps...

 

[ajay124]

@stevieboy/rajiv
In any case a solid state and not tube....

 

[suri]

@stevieboy/rajiv
In any case a solid state and not tube....

crude fellow then! - a member of the SS!:lol:

 

[stevieboy]

@stevieboy/rajiv
In any case a solid state and not tube....

Yeah and look where Russia is compared to the US where tube systems abound. All cos of his system. He probably went russian into it and did not take the time to think

It's a solid case for moving the state of affairs to tubes!

 

[ajay124]

Who's Ronnie James Dio?
Never heard of him.

 

[stevieboy]

Singer. Was with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow on the first album. Later with Sabbath I think. Heard Rainbow's 'Temple of the King'? It's him.

 

[ajay124]

Temple of the King is a nice track.But Rainbow and Black Sabbath is at best B grade rock.Would have expected them to listen to Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninov/Shostakovich/Khachaturian/Prokofiev...

 

[particleman]

Here's a complete break-up of the system:
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and The Guardian's coverage of this "buzz in the blogosphere":
Dmitry Medvedev's stereo system has Russia's bloggers buzzing | World news | The Guardian

 

[anandkrishnantc]

I think this is not a HI-FI system. This is Yankee nuclear missile monitoring system attached with a CD player.