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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 December 2023 01 December 2023
Ideon Audio eos DAC, eos Stream, eos Time
As the choices for digital music consumption expand and content providers continue to proliferate, as does high-resolution music availability, hardware makers have had to evolve in synchronicity. The net result has seen a maturing of streaming, clock and digital conversion technologies, with many brands offering multi-box solutions which have elevated the sonic outcome. A native of Greece, relatively new company Ideon Audio is rightfully earning a reputation for excellence via products which provide innovative proprietary technologies, comprehensive functionality and solid build. Importantly, of course, Ideon Audio’s products have also been widely hailed for their excellent sound quality. Here, I’m looking at the company’s entry point 3-box combo featuring eos Stream streamer/server, eos Time (a dedicated USB clock regenerator) and eos DAC digital-to-analogue converter.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 29 November 2023 29 November 2023
Musical Fidelity Announces Nu-Vista DAC and Nu-Vista Vinyl 2 Phono Stage
Further Nu-Vista products have been launched by Musical Fidelity, with the flagship line-up now augmented by the massively-built Nu-Vista DAC and Nu-Vista Vinyl 2 phono stage.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 23 November 2023 23 November 2023
Linn Launches Sondek LP12-50 Anniversary Turntable in Sydney
Last Tuesday evening, SoundStage! Australia attended a soirée, organised by Advance Audio Australia, at Rekōdo Restaurant and Vinyl Bar, to celebrate and officially launch the new AU$90,000 Linn Sondek LP12-50 in Sydney. The new turntable is a 50th Anniversary limited-run refinement of the company’s iconic deck and one certain to become a desired collector’s item.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 21 November 2023 21 November 2023
Harbeth's Nelson Subwoofer + Stand Solution Coming to Australia
With an aim to provide the appropriate support platform while also augmenting the low-frequency capabilities of Harbeth’s standmount speakers, the company launches ‘Nelson’.
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- Category: News News
- Published: 16 November 2023 16 November 2023
Gold Note Launches DS-1000 EVO Streaming DAC
Italian all-rounder Gold Note, who offers a wide range of electronics, analogue components (from cartridges to turntables to phono stages) and loudspeaker systems has announced the new DS-1000 EVO Streaming DAC high-resolution player.
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- Written by Barry James Johnston Barry James Johnston
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 15 November 2023 15 November 2023
Stenheim Alumine Two SE Loudspeakers
Stenheim was founded in 2010 in Switzerland by five founders, all of whom were intensely passionate about music and its reproduction in the best possible quality at home. Now, and for around a decade in fact since Stenheim's first years, the company's helm is guided by CEO and owner Jean-Pascal Panchard. Music, of course, is where you may find yourself intimately connected to each of the emotional components which curate the soundtrack to your life. Stenheim’s motivations are based around principles of a love for music and a deep and well-practiced knowledge of the engineering ideologies required to bring such aspirations to fruition, and give a voice to the imagination, also a company of which I had very little knowledge prior to this review sample being sent to me.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 13 November 2023 13 November 2023
Tokyo International Audio Show 2023 Coverage
Konnichiwa! I was landing in one of my very favourite cities in the world yet, despite all my previous visits to Japan, criminally, I had never attended this, from all reports, delightfully quirky and densely teeming show. Hitting the Tokyo International Forum early on the morning of the first day (Friday, as this is a three-day show), I was impressed by the anticipating throngs assembled. It was, after all, the Tokyo International Audio Show’s 40th Anniversary, so the sense of excitement was palpable. Further, I was struck by the Forum’s architectural grandeur, a complex edifice of metal and glass. I was off to a kakkoii start.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 01 November 2023 01 November 2023
Magico Launches M7 Loudspeakers
A direct trickle down from the company’s flagship M9 released back in 2020, acoustic transducer specialist Magico has announced the new M7, a penultimate model to the über ‘M’ line of loudspeakers.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 01 November 2023 01 November 2023
Aqua Acoustic Quality La Diva M2 CD Transport
“A pure CD machine”. That’s the headline grab Italian digital specialist Aqua Acoustic Quality uses for La Diva M2. The CD transport thoroughly expresses the company’s digital engineering chops; it’s a no-holds-barred disc spinner aimed at uncompromisingly extracting the best possible performance from the polycarbonate pits. It has also been made to couple to the company’s acclaimed resistor ladder-based digital-to-analogue converters. The silver disc is at the cycling point of ‘old-is-new-again’. Much like the gloriously sounding yet cumbersome reel-to-reel tape, and the nostalgic yet tragically flawed cassette (really?). Let’s not even mention the ongoing and celebrated vinyl renaissance. CD’s popular resuscitation? Yep, vibing that way. How timely then, that La Diva M2 CD Transport is here for a spin. It may be a convincing rejuvenation of the still excellent four-decade old laser reading technology.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 01 November 2023 01 November 2023
Sonus faber Serafino G2 Homage Loudspeakers
Oh. My. Goodness! That was my primal auto-response. It was an instinctive reaction for the intro to this review of Sonus faber’s insanely beautiful Serafino G2 Homage. Man these things are jaw-dropping, eye-popping, stunning. Master violin artisan Santo Serafino would be like “Now that, is a tribute…” In its newest iteration, Serafino is perfectly proportioned, exquisitely built and masterly styled. As part of the Homage series, it stands as the penultimate offering topped by the larger Amati Generation 5. Yet, Santo Serafino would also be asking “like my instruments, does its beauty also allure with irresistibly seductive sound?”. Well, let me tell you the Serafino G2 story…
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 25 October 2023 25 October 2023
dCS Releases Vivaldi Transport II Upsampling CD/SACD Transport
In an affirmation of what may be a revival of the silver disc’s popularity among audio enthusiasts, dCS has launched Vivaldi Transport II, a state-of-the-art ‘Upsampling CD/SACD Transport’.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 24 October 2023 24 October 2023
Standout Rooms at StereoNET’s Melbourne Hi-Fi & AV Show 2023
Like a foghorn blaring over Albert Park lake, StereoNET’s Hi-Fi & AV Show summoned audio and music lovers from around the country and delivered a bigger and super-varied audio feast at its traditional venue, Pullman Melbourne Albert Park.
