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UHA HQ Reel To Reel Tape Decks
The Absolute Sound Magazine "Golden Ear Award 2010" winner!
The first tape deck ever to win a Golden Ear Award.
United Home Audio tape deck SHOW SCHEDULE FOR 2012
Come and hear the UHA decks for yourself!
CES 2012 T.H.E. Show, Flamingo Hotel
Tuesday, January 10: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Wednesday, January 11: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Thursday, January 12: 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Friday, January 13: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
T.H.E. Show Newport California 2012
June 1,2,3, 2012
Hilton Hotel: Orange County Airport
18800 MacArthur Blvd.
Irvine, California, United States 92612
Tel: 1-949-833-9999
also another hotel was added for 2012
Atrium Hotel: Orange County Airport
18700 MacArthur Blvd.
Irvine, California, United States 92612
Tel: 1-949-833-2770
The Capital Audiofest 2012
The 2012 CAF will be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Rockville, MD
just minutes north of Washington DC.
3 Research Court
Rockville, MD 20850
Friday July 13
8:00AM - 11:00AM: CAF Event Setup
11:00AM - 7:00PM: CAF Open to Attendees
6:00PM - Raffle Drawing at Registration desk
7:00PM - CAF Closed
Friday July 13 - Music Event
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Be sure to be in the hotel lobby for a musical event yet to be named.
Saturday July 14
10:00AM - 11:00AM: CAF Event Setup
11:00AM - 7:00PM: CAF Open to Attendees
6:00PM - Raffle Drawing at Registration desk
7:00PM - CAF Closed
Saturday July 14 - Jazz Jam
7:00PM - 9:00PM
Be sure to be in the hotel lobby for a fun jam session along with your host. We will start off with a quintet and will go from there so bring your instrument!
Sunday July 15
10:00AM - 11:00AM CAF Event Setup
11:00AM - 5:00PM CAF Open to Attendees
5:00PM - Raffle Drawing at Registration desk
5:00PM - CAF Closed
5:00PM - 9:00PM CAF Event Cleanup
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2012
October 12 - 14, 2012
Denver Tech Center Marriott
Denver Colorado
Click on a page below for more info.
UHA-HQ TAPE DECK PICTURES:
More UHA-HQ TAPE DECK info:
LATEST NEWS!
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2011
United Home Audio new Phase9 tape deck
Jolida's new Fusion 211 tube monoblocks and Fusion Preamp
Von Schweikert VR-5 Anniversary MK2 speakers
Celtic Silver Pendragon Cables
(Photo from TAS web site taken by Jonathan Valin)
If you would like to see more and larger photographs of many of the loudspeakers reviewed, go to:
RMAF 2011 Report - Analog Sources
Posted by: Jacob Heilbrunn at 3:03 pm, October 19th, 2011
(Photo from TAS web site)
The VTL room included mastering engineer Piper Payne playing some of the Tape Project’s reels,
which, more often than not, sounded dynamic and translucent via Luke Manley and Bea Lam’s imposing Siegfried II monoblocks,
which are priced at $65,000 a pair, along with the $20,000 7.5 Series III preamplifier.Tape was also featured at Alon Wolf’s Magico Q1 demo.
The Nagra tape machine fed the $25,000 Q1, which sounded smashing—exceedingly nimble and transparent.
But the most memorable cut for me was listening to Lee Morgan’s “The Sidewinder” at United Home Audio’s room
on a $17,000 Phase9 Tascam machine, which boasts, among other things, capacitors with silk as the dielectric.
It sounded amazing.
The “Sidewinder” recording, which Morgan cut for Blue Note, was a surprise bestseller in 1964 and features some of his
most sizzling playing. I was quite smitten with the $6000 200-watt Fusion monoblocks that Michael Allen,
head of Jolida, Inc., has developed and based on the venerable 211 power output tube.
RMAF 2011 Report -
Loudspeakers Priced at $20,000 and Up
Posted by: Jonathan Valin at 2:02 pm, October 19th, 2011
From MBL I went down to the second floor and heard the $30k Von Schweikert VR5 Anniversary multiway floorstanders,
driven by Jolida electronics and sourced by Greg Beron’s UHA Phase 9 reel-to-reel 15ips tape deck.
The sound was excellent.
Tonality, spaciousness, dynamics—all first-rate. Of course, in a way this room was unfair.
Greg was playing back Tape Project mastertapes, including a freshly minted Beethoven Ninth,
and when they’re good those tapes are hard to beat.
Jonathan Valin's Best in Show
Best Sound (over $40k)
Vandersteen 7 (with ARC Ref 250 amp)
Runners-up:
Lansche 5.1, Cessaro Affascinate I SE,
YG Acoustic Kipod II Signature (with Esoteric electronics),
Vandersteen 7 (with Aesthetix electronics)
Best Sound (under $40k)?
Audio Physic Avanteras
Runners-Up:
Magico Q1 (on Sunday),
Wilson Audio Sashas (with D’Agostino Momentum amp and McGrath tapes),
Coincident Speaker Technology Pure Reference Extremes,
Von Schweikert VR5 Anniversary (with The Tape Project tapes),
Schimmel Voxativ Ampeggio
Greatest Bargains
Trigon Elektronik “Energy” integrated amp, Synergistic Research “The Music Cable”
Most Significant Product Introduction?
Audio Research Reference 250,
Clearaudio Goldfinger Statement moving-coil cartridge
Runners-Up:
Schimmel Voxativ Ampeggio loudspeaker,
Synergistic Research “The Music Cable” and Enigma II power supply,
Clearaudio Master Innovation turntable,
UHA-Q Phase 9 reel-to-reel tape deck.
Stereophile Report from RMAF 2011
Filed Under: RMAF 2011By: John Atkinson• Posted: Oct 20, 2011
The United Home Audio room at RMAF featured Von Schweikert speakers driven by Jolida electronics,
this time the Von Schweikert VR5 Anniversary Mk.2s ($30,000/pair), Jolida Fusion preamp and Fusion 200W tube monoblocks ($6000/all three).
But my eye was drawn to the UHA Phase 9 tape deck, which was playing some Series 3 releases from The Tape Project,
specifically Nat Adderley and his band performing "Work Song." One of the better-sounding rooms, I thought.
United Home Audio, Jolida, Von Schweikert Audio,
win a RMAF 2011
"OASIS AWARD"
from Positive Feedback Online!
By, Dr. David W. Robinson
Editor-in-Chief, Positive Feedback Online
http://www.positive-feedback.com
A grand system: Jolida Fusion System Preamp and Fusion 200 WPC Monoblock Amps, Jolida Fusion 200 DAC Transport prototype,
Von Schweikert Audio VR-5 Anniversary loudspeakers, and United Home Audio UHA Phase 9 tape deck.
I have been following the Von Schweikert line for a very long time now. As a matter of fact, I've owned several of the VR speakers over the years (VR-4, VR-4 Silver, VR-6),
and have evaluated/reviewed several others (the very fine VR-9's, and the VR-5's).
Albert had the VR-5 Anniversary Edition on display; I was familiar with them, but I had not heard them with Jolida electronics before.
The results with the United Home Audio UHA Phase9 open reel tape deck and the Jolida Fusion preamp and monoblocks were really impressive.
There is always something very special about open reel tapes… this is where I started in audio, while still in high school…
and the overall effect was smooth, richly harmonic, dynamic, and commendably transparent.
(I have to admit that I am completely unfamiliar with this company and this tape deck, and had no time to dig in on it while at RMAF 2011.)
I sat there for a while, just soaking in the music. It was so good that I forgot to check the titles of the classical recordings that we were listening to!
The VR-5 AE's were providing rich, involving sound, with little to fault in terms of musical values. Reasonably compact speakers…
but full-range performance! This is the real thing, amigos…Albert Von Schweikert and company have produced a real marvel here.
I'm going to have to look into Jolida… that's a lot of bang for the audio buck!
And I guess that I really should see if United Home Audio is interested in a review of their Phase9 sometime, eh?
Jolida Fusion preamp: $1099
Jolida Fusion monoblock amps: $6000/pair
Von Schweikert Research VR-5 Anniversary Edition loudspeakers: $27,000
United Home Audio UHA Phase9 tape deck: $17,000
Anything that gives me such a an exceptionally pleasant, relaxing audio experience at RMAF rates an Audio Oasis! Award in my book…done!
The Jolida Fusion Monoblock: 200 Watts of 211-based power!
NEW 12/4/11
More Late Breaking News From RMAF!
Mr. Wechsberg only highlighted 3 room out of the 400+ rooms at the show!
RMAF 2011 - At a Snail's Pace
by Mike Wechsberg
Some audio magazines give you real time blogs from the floor of a show like the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, while others rush to publish as soon as the show is over. Well, here at PFO we writers are not paid to be fast, just accurate and interesting. So, here I am more than a month after the show writing yet another article about some old news. Editors David Robinson and Dave Clark have already posted the definitive PFO articles in pictures and words about this year's "fest" (just click their name's to read the reports). My motivation in writing this article is to convey some impressions about audio equipment, audio shows and the audio industry in general, that I hope give you something to think about.
I have attended all but two RMAF fests since they started in 2004. Each one has been better than the last in some way. This year I heard fewer mediocre sounding rooms than in the past. As these annual get-togethers continue in the same venue (Denver Marriott Tech Center) I think the returning exhibitors "figure out" the exhibit rooms and how to get decent sound in a small rectangular hotel room. Even on the first afternoon of the show, when the time to experiment with setup is short for everyone, I heard excellent sound virtually everywhere I went.
Over the three days I got to spend quite a bit of time in a few rooms. One of these was the room shared by Von Schweikert Audio and Jolida, Inc. I haven't been a fan of Von Schweikert speakers over the years, but the combination of VR-5 Anniversary Edition Loudspeakers with Jolida tubed electronics playing the Beethoven 9th Symphony on a United Home Audio open reel tape machine was spectacularly realistic and involving. The sound had great dynamic range and just the right blend of tonality, detail and spaciousness. I was exhausted at the end of the recording, just like I am whenever I hear this music in a concert hall. The equipment in this room was not cheap, but the cost was far from the most expensive setups at the show yet this room left me with one of the strongest impressions. Bravo to the folks who put this room together.
SECRETS of Home Theater and High Fidelity
The speakers are the new VR-5 Anniversary Mk2, $30,000. The Jolida amps are 200 wpc mono blocks.
The United Home Audio UHA Phase9 open reel deck was making beautiful music with a selection of classical and rock tracks.
April 2011
Posted by: Jim Hannon
Publisher of The Absolute Sound Magazine
April 6th, 2011
Jim Hannon visits the studios of Paul Stubblebine Mastering and Michael Romanowski Mastering.
Paul and Michael use this room for The Tape Project mastering,
and it undoubtedly is a major factor in their ability to produce such incredible-sounding tapes.
Jim says, "you can get surprisingly close to capturing many of their remarkable sonic attributes with a first-rate quarter-inch deck,
such as the marvelous United Home Audio UHA-HQ Phase Six with its upgraded electronics. When playing Tape Project tapes
(among others) through this retro tape-based front-end, my own home system has never sounded better. In fact,
the UHA tape playback system will be the subject of an upcoming review I’m preparing for The Absolute Sound,
so that I’ll hold my comments for now and share them with you when the review comes out later this year."
September 2010
The Absolute Sound Magazine
The Tape Project and The UHA-HQ Tape Decks Review
By Jonathan Valin
...recommends several machines - including huge studio quality Amprex and Studers, as well as smaller "prosumer" machines from Technics and Otari.
I myself highly recommend the modified TASCAM decks from United Home Audio which I gave a Golden Ear Award to in issue 202.
...on the best Tape Project titles, it is without question the most realistic source component I've tried. It is also exceedingly easy to use and a snap to setup.
...you will get more dimensional imaging, finer low-level resolution, somewhat truer timbres, simply phenomenal dynamics, astonishinly wide and deep
soundstaging, and greater overall realism on select 15ips tapes, and on the best of them, such as the Arnold Overtures, you will, as I said above,
get a sound that comes closer to the sound of a full orchestra in a real hall than any other recorded medium I've heard.
June 2010!
Greg Beron's UHA-HQ Phase4 Reel to Reel tape deck
wins a "Golden Ear Award" for 2010
from The Absolute Sound Magazine!
The Absolute Sound’s Golden Ear Awards
is the annual feature in which
our staff and freelance writers choose those components that stand
out from the competition. Some of these components are long-time
references that have withstood the test of time. Others are newfound
favorites that are destined to become classics. In either case, the
products selected for a Golden Ear Award are special, indeed.
Unlike our Editors’ Choice Awards—a compendium of every product we
recommend, chosen by consensus of the senior editorial staff—Golden
Ear Awards allow each writer to express his individual views on which
components he thinks are truly great, and why. The diversity of products
selected here reflects not just the industry at large, but also each writer’s
quest for the absolute sound. —Robert Harley
You've been reading quite a bit about the UHA-HQ decks:
1.) You've read The Absolute Sound Magazine review.
2.) Heard about The Tape Project Seminar by Paul Stubblebine at UHA.
3.) Seen the Golden Ear Award in The Absolute Sound Magazine.
4.) Read about the "Best Source Component of Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2009".
Now it's time for an audition!
We provide the ability to listen to our decks 6 days a week at UHA.
Buy with confidence, at UHA we actually invite you to listen before you buy.
Read the customer feedback!
Pictured below with optional Celtic side panels and Celtic reels.
Red Deck
The all newly designed UHA Reel to Reel deck shown with optional balanced Celtic designed reels.
New custom Celtic design knobs and custom blue VU meters(below)
CELTIC DESIGN KNOBS:
Along with the Celtic theme of the deck we had custom Celtic Knot knobs designed to compliment
the look of the deck and provide that last degree of difference to your custom deck.
These knob enhancements were custom forged, tooled, and painted just for the UHA-HQ decks.
CUSTOM BLUE VU METERS:
These VU meters were designed to offer the best sight characteristics when viewing your VU meters.
The new VU meter faces were made of a bright white background then
precision cut by a laser to produce a black graph and black lettering.
The black really pops from the white meter face.
The meter graph lines and numbers were enlarged over the stock graph
size and additional metering lines were added.
You will know it's a custom VU by the UHA-HQ on the meter face.
Blue VU meters
Notice the three dimensional Celtic logo side pannels below.
They are custom machined out of billet aluminum fit to the exact depth
nessecary to make a flush boarder on the sides of the deck.
They simply bolt into the rack mount ears, a simple yet elegant way to
hide the studio rack mount ears and frame the deck nicely.
Stock unit pictured below!
Big difference right?
What color is it pea soup green?
