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Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 December 2021 01 December 2021

Estelon X Diamond Mk II Loudspeakers

“He who sows the wind will reap a storm” (kes külvab tuult, lõikab tormi) asserts an Estonian proverb. That country’s Estelon, producer of uniquely-styled high-end loudspeakers, has been sowing… and sowing. And the company is reaping… while ripping through the high-end space like a hurricane. Category 5. In a relatively short time, Estelon has raised its profile to a helluva-a-high perch. Deservedly so too. It produces highly desirable and uniquely styled speaker systems which, I’d wager, have raised the eyebrows of the industry’s most robust high-end brands. The winds are about to blow a gale and the impressive X Diamond Mk II heralds the calm before the storm.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 29 November 2021 29 November 2021

M2Tech Drops Class-A Monoblock Amplifiers

M2Tech Rockstar series receives a more traditional analogue addition to its digital components line-up – the pure Class-A Larson monoblock amplifiers.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 25 November 2021 25 November 2021

Vertere Electrifies With New Power Supply

A power supply upgrade for Vertere’s Dynamic Groove DG-1 turntable and Tempo motor drive has been announced by the analogue specialist company.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 24 November 2021 24 November 2021

MUTEC Announces Upgrade for Reference Master Clock

Professional and consumer digital specialist MUTEC has launched a new upgrade path for its highly-acclaimed flagship REF10 Reference Master Clock.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 19 November 2021 19 November 2021

McIntosh Laboratory Unveils New C12000 Preamplifier

McIntosh Laboratory’s new C12000 two-chassis high-end preamplifier combines both solid state and vacuum tube circuitry and multiple input options to cover all sonic bases.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: Features Features; Published: 18 November 2021 18 November 2021

SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Estelon X Diamond Mk II Preview

The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this video, SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer briefly describes key aspects and hints at the performance of Estelon’s Classic Series top-ender, the X Diamond Mk II loudspeaker. Estelon is based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 18 November 2021 18 November 2021

Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Upgrades its Momentum Amplifiers

Enriched by the process of creating its Relentless flagship amplification, Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems applies engineering lessons learnt in that process to its new Momentum MxV line.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 18 November 2021 18 November 2021

Bowers & Wilkins' 700 Signature Edition Plays the Blues

The Signature Edition version of the 705 standmount and the 702 floorstanding loudspeakers, already available in the stunning ‘Datuk Gloss’ special finish, are now also available in a new and equally impressive ‘Midnight Blue’ metallic tone.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 16 November 2021 16 November 2021

Meze Audio Launches LIRIC Headphones

In a homage to the lyricism of the varied music of Romania, Meze Audio has announced its first portable planar design incorporating, once again, Rinaro Isodynamics’ unique engineering.

Details: Written by Peter Katsoolis Peter Katsoolis; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 November 2021 15 November 2021

Halcro Eclipse Stereo Power Amplifier

“He really did have super ears, you know”, says Natalie O’Neill of Halcro. In an early white paper, the company’s founder Dr Bruce Candy, middle name Halcro, claimed to “have very unusual ears; I can hear up to 23kHz in one ear and 21 kHz in the other”. At the time of the first coming of Halcro in the 1990s, Candy made claims with more front than a bullfighter in a Hemingway novel. Yet, Stereophile rewarded those ears by dubbing its October 2003 cover star, the inaugural Halcro dm58 monoblock power amplifier: “The Best Amplifier Ever”. To date, no other product has graced its cover with this ‘best ever’ proclamation. Exponential success then followed these unconventional amplifiers which boasted freakishly low “parts per billion at full power” levels of distortion. The original ‘dm’ units remain a coveted cult product today, long after the original company was sold by Candy and Halcro disappeared as rapidly as it came.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 08 November 2021 08 November 2021

Karan Acoustics Expands its Master Collection Series

Karan Acoustics’ flagship Master Collection line is now rounded-out by the POWERa and POWERb stereo and monoblock power amplifiers which join the band first started by the LINEa and LINEb preamplifiers.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 06 November 2021 06 November 2021

Magico’s Titan 15 Subwoofer Punches Low

Magico has unveiled its newest all-out assault on the bass space with the massively-powerful duo-driver Titan 15 subwoofer.

The company refers to its new über high-end Titan 15 subwoofer as “the pinnacle of Magico engineering and design vision for the ultimate subwoofer”. On the surface, that may seem a somewhat overstated statement, given its seemingly plain-Jane external appearance, however, hidden within the Titan 15’s deceptively simple enclosure are a number of cunning and superbly implemented design ideas.