Welcome to the new Response Audio / Bella EXtreme showcase gallery. Throughout this page you will find various pictures of custom products as they are finished in our facility as well as pictures of our customer's systems both here at our facility while building or testing as well as in use in the consumer's home.

This page shows only a small portion of the custom work available for your product.

If you are a Response Audio customer and have an EXtreme product, please feel free to send us a picture of your system with a full description. We will not post your name or email address unless you ask us to.

Current system playing in our showroom - 5/21/09

• Bella Extreme 3205 MK III Reference power amplifier (bottom center)

• Musica Bella Purity Extreme preamp (original prototype. Second shelf, middle rack)

• Audio Note Custom DAC 2.1 Deluxe +

• Audio Note CDT-Three MK III CD transport

• Audio Note Turntable in a custom Walnut Burl plinth

• Musica Bella Purity Extreme phono stage- prototype (bottom shelf/left rack)

• Musica Bella MB Series Perfetto Interconnects

• Musica Bella SG Series IV Custom Interconnects

• Musica Bella MB Series loudspeaker cables

• Musica Bella Custom ribbon array speakers

 

 

Below is a custom, high efficiency (94dB) line array speaker system that was built for
evaluation purposes in one of our test systems.

 

 

Here is a Purity preamp. This is a manual version without any remote control capabilities.
From left to right: Power Switch, Volume, Source Selection

Below is a picture of the last 3205 Platinum amplifier to go through our doors. The 3205 Platinum
will be replaced with the new Purity stereo amplifier.

Below are two Audio Note Custom 2.1X Deluxe DACs. The top unit is finished in Black Walnut while the bottom piece
(our showroom piece) is Cherry. Both are 3/4" thick.

Below is the latest Jolida 302/502 (3205) modification. This 502A was sent in for Platinum modifications and also received the solid Cherry wood face plate, Curly Maple control knobs and blue LED.

The amplifiers below are a custom built one-of-a-kind pair of our Bella Extreme 60 mono bloc amplifiers that will be up
and running in our showroom August 2008. The provide 60 watt of triode PP triode power from a pair of Russian 6C33
tubes per side. The chassis was custom built, in house, out of 3/4" solid Bubinga (African Rosewood)

Below is the latest pair of Bella EXtreme 100 amplifiers to go out. This is a full V-Cap Reference versions.
Face plates are 3/4" Solid Curly Maple.

Here is a a pair of custom Mundorf Silver/Oil & V-Cap Bella EXtreme 100 amplifiers that were built for the showroom.
Other features include Mundorf Silver/Gold internal wiring, Eichmann Cable Pods, Audio Note Silver RCA's and much more.

 

Below we show a couple pictures of a one-of-a-kind prototype of our Musica Bella Purity stereo amplifier amplifier still in the assembly process. This piece was custom designed into a solid wood chassis that was originally assembled for another project many
years ago. The chassis consist of solid Cherry sides and Black Walnut top.

Here is a picture of our Audio Note Custom L3 linestage This linestage uses the Hi-B C-Core output transformers, DACT
dual mono attenuators, AN Tantalum resistors and much more. In the top picture, you will notice the Ebony control knobs.

This was a custom build of our Audio Note Custom M3 linestage. This unit utilizes the Hi-B Double C-Core output transformers,
 stereo DACT attenuator with dual mono DACT 'fine adjust' controls, Gold Bybee Purifiers at the input stage and a whole lot more.

Here is a couple pictures of an Audio Note Kit 2 that was just finished and is shown in it's system burn-in run prior to shipping
off to it's new owner. The Audio Note Kit 2 is a 15 watt SET integrated amplifier based on the 6550 output tube. This particular
amp has some upgrade options such as Black Gate capacitors throughout as well as 1W & 2W AN Tantalum resistors on the
 main driver board.
 

A finished pair of Bella EXtreme 100 amplifiers with Walnut face plates just finishing there system test run.

Here is a quick shot of a Reference V-Cap modified Ming-Da MC7 tube preamp burning in prior to being shipped off to
it's new home in Australia.

Shown below is the first reissue of the Bella EXtreme V-Cap 3205 MKII Reference amplifier comfortably going
through it's system test before being shipped out to it's new home.

Here we show one of the couple Audio Note Custom M2 preamplifiers as it works it's way through one of the test systems.
This unit is our showroom demo unit and will be making it's way into one of our reference systems after we conclude a 200 hour
burn-in.

Here we show a custom modified and customized ASL Tulip. Some of the key features found in the modification are
V-Cap OIMP coupling capacitors, Riken Ohm grid resistors, Bybee purifiers in the signal input path and more.
The custom powder coat finish is "Cobalt Blue".

Here we show a pair of customized pair of older Signature Plus Hurricanes going through their 12 hour test run at
Response Audio before the customer came in to pick them. These amps were built in 2005 with the custom powder
coat being applied by the same company that did the ASL Tulip above. The Tulip above and these Hurricanes belong
to the same consumer.

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This picture shows our demo pair of EXtreme Adagio loudspeakers that have been making beautiful music|
 for several months now.

Here we show a pair of EXtreme V-Cap ASL Hurricane MK II amplifiers in the middle of their 24 hour system burn-in.
This pair was the very first pair to make their way into a consumer's home.

Another Bella EXtreme 3205 MK II power amp using EL34 output tubes in the final hours of system testing before
being packed up and sent out to it's new owner.. This unit is resting on a custom passive preamp that was designed
specially for testing and evaluating many of the Bella EXtreme amplifiers.

Here we show the very first Bella EXtreme 3205 MKII to be ordered by a consumer as it goes through it's system
 test here in our NY facility!

 

This picture shows the very last of the original Bella EXtreme 3205 that has been our most popular product for over 3 years now.
This picture was taking moments after taking the amp out of the *test rig*. It will now be packed and sent off to its new home

Here we show a pair of custom modified ASL Hurricanes after modifications being run in one of our many test rigs.

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Parking lot of our facility during an ice storm: Winter 2007

 

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The Model 5 is set up as a symmetrical WMTMW using 2x 8" VIFA woofers. 2x 5" VIFA mid/bass drivers and 1" VIFA tweeter. The midrange drivers are mounted in a sealed sub enclosure. The 8" woofers share a ported enclosure.

In room extension is 29Hz.. Nominal impedance is 3 ohms. They have been driven for the past 6 years by a 100 watt Jolida JD1501RC Hybrid amplifier.

Also still in use in our showroom is the Response Audio Model 1 utilizing a single 5" VIFA driver and 3/4" VIFA tweeter