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Details: Written by Tom Waters Tom Waters; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 September 2022 01 September 2022

Bowers & Wilkins 803 D4 Loudspeakers

To an audiophile, the name Bowers & Wilkins is as ubiquitous as Stradivarius, Steinway and Elvis Presley. For many, it represents the pinnacle, the ultimate audio product they wish to someday own. In other words, Bowers & Wilkins creates benchmarks against which other brands struggle to compete on a quality, ingenuity and cost basis. Given only audiophiles will likely be reading this, I probably don’t need to say that Bowers & Wilkins, AKA B&W, is a speaker, headphone and lifestyle product designer and manufacturer par excellence. It probably annually spends more dollars on R&D than the GDP of many small countries. And its manufacturing ability and quality is incredible – when you compare the company’s products to other high-end audio manufacturers you have to marvel at how it can keep its prices so reasonable. Economies of scale – Bowers & Wilkins manufactures a lot of products.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: Features Features; Published: 09 May 2022 09 May 2022

SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Pitt & Giblin Superwax Speaker System Preview

The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In video series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this episode, SoundStage! Australia's editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer introduces the unique Superwax active loudspeaker system from new Tasmanian company Pitt & Giblin.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 26 August 2022 26 August 2022

Playback Designs’ New Edelweiss Series 6 Products Land in Australia

Playback Designs’ new Edelweiss ‘6’ series may be named after the beautiful Alpine flower but the products are anything but shrinking flora – they are substantially engineered digital playback components.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 19 August 2022 19 August 2022

Alexandria Audio Launches to Market with Two Distinctive Loudspeaker Models

Bali-based company Alexandria Audio hits the market with two highly-engineered loudspeaker designs in The Monitor standmount and Praetoria high-power floorstander.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 17 August 2022 17 August 2022

VYDA Laboratories Cables Hit Australia

VYDA Laboratories, Italian manufacturer of high-end audio cables, arrives in Australia via a distribution partnership with Hi End Audio.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 August 2022 15 August 2022

Crystal Cable Future Dream 22 Cables

The mind’s eye can be a deceptive little psycho-trickster. Rightly or wrongly, and often inaccurately, we often tend to call preconceptions, bestow attributes and make judgements as a result of interpretations based on optic data and casual analysis. It can be a deception. We’re prone to misconstrue observations and often our emotions lead us into jumping to conclusions. It applies to everything. So, upon a casual visual inspection of Crystal Cable’s svelte new Future Dream 22 cables, the trickster’s crafty little voice may start its whispers… “These wiry little cables can’t possibly be bass-full and dynamic…” Man, that conjurer can be so, so wrong.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 07 August 2022 07 August 2022

New from Lumin: T3 Digital Music Player

Riding on the waves of the successful T2, Lumin has now updated the digital music player to T3 status in what the company now refers to as its offerings’ “performance sweet spot”.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 02 August 2022 02 August 2022

Japan's Soulnote Products Arrive in Australia

Japanese company Soulnote brings its relatively newly-updated third-generation products to the Australian market via a partnership with Absolute Hi End.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 August 2022 01 August 2022

McIntosh Laboratory MA12000 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier

Yes, I know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder… but man, McIntosh Laboratory’s MA12000 is a thing of pure splendour. Its style perfectly balances retro-modern industrial design with technical innovation, as dichotomous as that may seem. Plus, the company’s highly-engineered proprietary amplification technologies signal (pun intended) high performance potential. So it’s not just a pretty faceplate. And with ample power on tap, this beast-of-an-integrated forcefully declares, “Hey, I may look hipster-cool but I sure as Hell can pummel with a wall of sound”. Hail The Grateful Dead…

Details: Written by Mark Busby Mark Busby; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 August 2022 01 August 2022

Phasemation PP-200 Moving Coil Cartridge

Japanese high end company Phasemation relatively-recently released its “basic” PP-200 Moving Coil cartridge. Sporting a lovely deep metallic blue colour, this low output MC features trickle down technology from the company's top models including a rigid Duralumin alloy mounting base with an aluminium body, boron cantilever and a fine line stylus. Shipped in an oversized padded black case ensures this mini jewel arrives safely… A major emphasis on 'live' sounding products guides the Phasemation design philosophy.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 29 July 2022 29 July 2022

Vertere Upgrades its Entry-Point Turntable

Vertere’s rather delectable DG-1 has received substantial upgrades to the turntable architecture and to its partnered Groove Runner tonearm, the package now going by the DG-1 S moniker.