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Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 01 September 2020 01 September 2020

Rotel Honours Ken Ishiwata

Rotel has announced two new products, an integrated amplifier and a CD player, aimed at paying tribute to the great late Ken Ishiwata.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 01 September 2020 01 September 2020

Wilson Audio’s New SabrinaX Loudspeakers

After a two-week round of preview announcements, Wilson Audio’s new SabrinaX launches with substantial improvements across the design of its cabinet, drivers and ancillary hardware.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 01 September 2020 01 September 2020

KEF Announces New Proprietary Technology

Engineering-driven loudspeaker specialist KEF has announced the invention of Metamaterial Absorption Technology which is said to be employed on a stream of future products.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 September 2020 01 September 2020

Bowers & Wilkins 702 Signature Edition Loudspeakers

Like many advanced undertakings, high-end audio presents the opportunity to develop technologies, to progress the engineering of advanced materials and composites and to adopt fabrication methodologies expressing to fruition the imagination of the industry’s creative minds. These advances are, usually, firstly showcased in statement products. In 2017, Bowers & Wilkins launched its 700 S2 series of loudspeakers with new and also trickled down technologies first expressed in the company’s flagship 800 series. The new line was greeted with tremendous market success. Now in 2020, Bowers & Wilkins fine-tunes a key model, the 702 S2 (read our review here), with a tweaked crossover and a jaw-dropping new finish warranting a more illustrious moniker – the 702 Signature Edition.

Details: Written by Barry Jones Barry Jones; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 September 2020 01 September 2020

Line Magnetic LM-845 Premium Integrated Amplifier

I’m a man of many wants. One of them was a decent listen in my own man-cave to a nice tube amp, ‘musica uninterruptus’. But not just any tube amp – one that exists in the realms of mere mortals but that wasn’t an entry level type where the design trade-offs are more significant. Enter the Line Magnetic LM-845 Premium – a Chinese-designed and built single-ended triode integrated amplifier.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 19 August 2020 19 August 2020

Copland Returns to Australia

The highly respected Danish audio specialist simply known as Copland makes a return to Australia under a new partnership agreement with distributor of select products, Melbourne’s Audio Magic.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 18 August 2020 18 August 2020

Michi Announces New X3 and X5 Integrated Amplifiers

Following the success of the P5 preamplifier and S5 and M8 power amplifiers, Michi, the high-end arm of Rotel, drops a new pair of upmarket integrated amplifiers to round out the range.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 17 August 2020 17 August 2020

Kyron Audio in the Fast Lane with Brabham Automotive

In a partnership with fellow South Australian Brabham Automotive, Kyron Audio has announced special edition versions of its high-end loudspeaker systems reflecting the supercar maker’s styling motifs and materials technologies.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 August 2020 15 August 2020

Michi P5 Preamplifier & M8 Monoblock Power Amplifiers

Throughout audio history there have been high profile companies who, after success in the affordable ‘mainstream’ space, have amassed their R&D, engineering and manufacturing might to produce products catering to the high-end market. Some have given the new luxury products distinctive appellations, as a form of distinct separation from its mainstream fare, while others went about launching disassociated alternative brands with a less obvious resonance to the parent company. Back in the early 1990s, armed with an enviable reputation in affordable quality Hi-Fi and wanting to embark on a new path, Rotel fired an authoritative round squarely at the high-end by way of the Michi statement brand (A.K.A. ‘Michi by Rotel’). As successful as Michi was, Rotel in its wisdom phased the brand out of the market. Subsequently, the select Michi products became highly sought-after classics. Now, after a hiatus lasting near on 30 years, the term ‘Michi’ is once again part of the luxury audio lexicon.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Features Features; Published: 13 July 2020 13 July 2020

Peter Foster Halcro Video Interview

SoundStage! Talks: SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer talks to Halcro CEO Peter Foster about the rebuilding of the brand and where his group plans to take it.

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