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- Published: 12 February 2019 12 February 2019
YG Acoustics’ Newest Child – Hailey 2 Loudspeakers
YG Acoustics is one of a handful of manufacturers that produce high-end loudspeakers just about form the ground-up. And that means all the transducers, cabinets, crossovers and associated technologies. Now the company announces the spanking Hailey 2 speakers, a refinement of the highly acclaimed last-gen model.
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- Published: 11 February 2019 11 February 2019
The Gold Standard – Monitor Audio’s New Gold Series Loudspeakers
Now in its fifth generation, the new Gold series from Monitor Audio promises to deliver the company’s renowned high standards of driver and crossover technology, sumptuous cabinetry and universally-recognised sonic performance.
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- Published: 04 February 2019 04 February 2019
Long Live the CD! Arcam’s New CDS50 Digital All-Rounder
In conjunction with vinyl’s defiant onslaught and seemingly unstoppable growth trend, there’s a hell-of-a-lot of life left in the silver disc. It’s a happy co-existence. Now, UK industry doyen Arcam makes a strong statement and celebrates the CD format, which is now firmly in its 35th winter, by announcing the CDS50, part of the new HDA series of high quality componentry.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 February 2019 01 February 2019
KEF R11 Loudspeakers
When KEF’s all-fibre prototype ‘Blade’ project was introduced to the audio world a few years ago, the press went gaga over the tall and svelte form of this high-tech, state-of-the-art loudspeaker which heralded the direction the company was to take going forward, as far as its high-end offerings. Blade has since spawned a Blade Two sibling and the lessons learned as KEF developed these advanced speakers eventually began to trickle down to the company’s more affordable fare. KEF’s new R series bears the fruit of driver and other technologies employed to take this important middle-ground line to a whole ‘nuther level to the previous-gen products. Here, we take a look at the R series flagship in the elegantly tall and graceful R11 loudspeakers.
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- Published: 01 February 2019 01 February 2019
Amphion Loudspeakers Special Live Event in Tokyo
It’s not every day that SoundStage! Australia gets to evaluate a loudspeaker in the company of the Finnish Government’s State Secretary and its Ambassador to Japan. On 12 November 2018, Amphion Loudspeakers Ltd. held a rather special event in Tokyo, Japan, to coincide with the official visit. Dubbed “Festivo”, a celebration of the music of Jean Sibelius, the event took place at the Sound Inn Studios, located inside the Nippon Television building in central Tokyo.
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- Published: 29 January 2019 29 January 2019
Crystal Cable Charitable Contribution
While most of the products in the audio world are to be objectively admired for the ingenuity and creativity in their pursuit of excellence, ultimately, it should be all about the music, right? With that belief in mind, Crystal Cable has announced its contribution to an initiative that provides a guiding hand, and a dream of the future, to aspiring young musicians.
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- Published: 28 January 2019 28 January 2019
Newly-Ready Redefy
Loudspeaker specialist Redefy Audio has announced a new high output active standmount speaker featuring a plethora of tech plus a custom high quality driver array to boot.
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- Published: 25 January 2019 25 January 2019
McIntosh’s Turntable-Based All-In-One Music Solution
A new turntable from McIntosh you say? Nay, we say. It’s an all-in-one solution encompassing a high quality vinyl rig, up-to-the-minute digital tech and a bit of amplification wizardry from the all-American company.
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- Published: 23 January 2019 23 January 2019
Roon’s Biggest Update Yet!
Considered by many to be the software when it comes to music file playback, Roon now furthers its inroad into computer audio with the announcement of the most comprehensive update since its inception.
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- Published: 23 January 2019 23 January 2019
Pro-Ject’s Stream Box S2 Ultra Digital Solution
Pro-Ject has released a versatile streaming solution that simplifies the path for digital playback and streaming in your established audio system.
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- Published: 21 January 2019 21 January 2019
Goldmund’s New Prana Speakers Bring Music to Life
Swiss company Goldmund continues to expand its active wireless multi-enclosure high-end speaker systems with the addition of the new Hindu philosophy inspired Prana.
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- Written by Peter Katsoolis Peter Katsoolis
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- Published: 15 January 2019 15 January 2019
Aqua Acoustic Quality Formula xHD DAC
For the past year and a half, my reference digital-to-analogue converter of choice has been the Aqua Acoustic Quality Formula xHD. It remains spell-binding, a source of constant pleasure and musical satisfaction, in an era when last month’s DAC-of-the-month is tomorrow’s landfill.
