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- Published: 17 March 2024 17 March 2024
McIntosh Laboratory Simultaneously Launches C55 And C2800 Preamplifiers
McIntosh Laboratory’s twofold addition, the C55 solid state-based and the C2800 valve-based components, aim to round the company’s preamplification stable.
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- Published: 15 March 2024 15 March 2024
Estelon AURA Loudspeakers
When I heard Estelon’s brand new AURA speakers at High End Munich 2023, I thought, “Note to self: These, I need to review.” In a rare experience, AURA presented the most ‘outside the speakers’ enveloping soundfield I’d heard at any show. Anywhere. Ever. And then there was that auric glow, that magnetic attraction from what, in my humble opinion, must be one of the most striking loudspeaker designs in high-end audio. Well, some months after that memorable show encounter, AURA materialised in my listening room, aglow in radiant white. Will AURA sonically enchant as it did at that remarkable Munich showing?
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- Published: 13 March 2024 13 March 2024
Classé Announces Delta PRE Mk II Preamplifier
The new Delta PRE Mk II, Classé’s top-tier preamplifier, launches with substantial circuit improvements, an enhanced digital section, and an upgrade path for its previous generation.
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- Published: 12 March 2024 12 March 2024
Weiss Engineering Launches Improved MAN301R Network Player
Weiss Engineering’s new MAN301R Network Player improves on its predecessor with a number of enhancements including an eight-times more powerful ITX processor.
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- Published: 27 February 2024 27 February 2024
TechDAS to Begin Shipping Air Force 10 Air Bearing Tonearm
First shown in pre-production versions at High End Munich 2023 and later at the recent Tokyo International Audio Show, the new TechDAS Air Force 10 flagship tonearm is now finalised, is in production, and is to ship worldwide.
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- Published: 01 March 2024 01 March 2024
Gold Note DS-1000 EVO Streaming Digital-to-Analogue Converter
Man, clutter is… old. Your average high-end system espousing separate dedicated components could see a head count of eight or nine boxes, each needing power and interface cable. That’s a lot. Partly with those aspects of placement and cabling logistics in mind, Italian audio specialist Gold Note devised a high-end digital hub which greatly reduces your component inventory while saving you some hard-earned. The promise is there too, for elevated sound quality. Gold Note is renowned for high performance products – whether analogue or digital – with build quality and engineering being consistent trademarks. Enter the DS-1000 EVO Streaming DAC.
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- Published: 15 February 2024 15 February 2024
Revival Audio Expands Its Flagship Line With New Atalante 4 Loudspeakers
Revival Audio, the highly acclaimed relatively new French company, augments its product line-up with the new Atalante 4 column-styled floorstanding loudspeakers.
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- Published: 15 February 2024 15 February 2024
Perreaux Audio VP4 Phono Preamplifier
Today, in a digital age no less, the turntable enjoys an arguably stronger market presence than ever among audio enthusiasts. Based on just product choice too, let alone materials and technology developments. Yet, as we know, the turntable is a part of an analogue playback system. It requires a set of supporting ancillaries. To fill that requirement, there are a plethora of tonearm, cartridge, and phono cabling choices. Heck, there’s even an embarrassment of options for just pucks, dust brushes, and other accessories/tweaks. Yet, once the TT’s support team is assembled, the final component of necessity, the music delivery conduit, is the phono preamplifier. For the most part, the ‘Phono Stage’ has seen little change in decades. Until now. I’m looking at Perreaux Audio’s VP4, the company’s newest, and one which truly differentiates itself from the vast majority of its competitors. How? Well, by offering innovative features – perhaps even unique – elevating it above the maddening crowds. VP4 is a phono stage intelligently engineered for 21st century analogue playback.
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- Published: 10 February 2024 10 February 2024
Audia Flight Lands New FLS8 Monoblock Amplifier
Sharing many of Audia Flight’s Strumento flagship amplification technology, the new FLS8 monoblock amplifier ups the ante for the more affordable FLS line.
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- Published: 07 February 2024 07 February 2024
New Design House Atlas and Hurd Introduces The Tempest
Sydney’s nascent team-up between acoustic engineer Atlas Gouverneur and bespoke furniture designer Tony Hurd spawns new ‘The Tempest’ standmount speaker.
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- Published: 01 February 2024 01 February 2024
Steinway Lyngdorf Announces New Model C Loudspeaker System
Under the Steinway & Sons sub-branding, Steinway Lyngdorf has unveiled the new Model C, a direct descendant of the Model D, the company’s first landmark loudspeaker design.
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- Published: 01 February 2024 01 February 2024
DALI Epikore 11 Loudspeakers
I love Nordic design. The aesthetic simplicity, the elegance, the uncomplicated style. In audio, that near-minimalism belies a profoundly deep engineering intellect farmed from advanced public education. From folkeskole to University higher education, the system mines and develops social and technological advancement. The Danes are at the pinnacle, punching way, way above their mere six million population. In high-end audio, and likely other industries too, Denmark’s an authority. Driver design near-ubiquity and an abundance of powerful, prestigious brands collectively verges on market domination. DALI is the Danes’ biggest market-wide flag bearer, growing from a seedling, nurtured to evolved bloom, by the entrepreneurial spirit of industry trailblazer Peter Lyngdorf. And the Epikore 11 is the loudspeaker giant’s latest offering. Oh, and did I mention I’m a Nordic Noir fanatisk? Looking at you Sarah Lund and Birgitte Nyborg…
