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

New Copland CSA 150 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier

Danish audio specialist Copland has introduced a new flagship ‘CSA’ series hybrid integrated amplifier with a comprehensive features set making it a powerhouse hub for analogue and digital audio.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 February 2021 15 February 2021

Transrotor Crescendo Turntable & Reed 1X Tonearm

What was thought to be a dinosaur in-waiting, with extinction as intensely ominous as the outlandish rainbow-like shine from polycarbonate discs, has resulted in a mere lull followed by an explosive rebirth. Yes, seemingly retrograde – but far from it, really – the mechanical turntable and vinyl, its analogue expression, have survived onslaughts from many-a-digit-based technology. They have persevered with assertive triumph. Germany’s longest-running analogue specialist Transrotor, like its industry brethren, has weathered the onslaught of digital music and continues to adhere to its no compromise principle of producing highly sophisticated turntables. Ditto for relative newcomer Reed, a tonearm specialist offering a variety of finely-engineered options. In this review, we examine in detail our in-situ pairing of Transrotor Crescendo Nero with the Reed 1X tonearm (recently subtly modified to 1H).

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 10 February 2021 10 February 2021

Gryphon Takes a Stand with StandArt Audio Supports

Back in October 2020, Gryphon Audio Designs expanded its product portfolio with the now about-to-land modular StandArt audio racks which, while harmoniously suitable to support any component, are especially simpatico with the company’s wide assortment of electronics.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 09 February 2021 09 February 2021

Roon 1.8 Touchdown

Roon Labs has announced a complete re-imagination of its leading streaming software with significant changes in graphic design layout, enhanced music discovery possibilities and a more personalised user experience.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 05 February 2021 05 February 2021

McIntosh Laboratory Drops MHA200 Headphone Amplifier

Proudly carrying onwards with the current McIntosh Laboratory aesthetic design language – a lexicon of pure beauty – McIntosh Laboratory’s new MHA200 valve headphone amplifier also promises to deliver the company’s renowned sonic performance.

Details: Written by Stephen Dawson Stephen Dawson; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 February 2021 01 February 2021

Yamaha NS-3000 Loudspeakers

When I was young, it was conventional wisdom in the high-fidelity community that Japan was one of the best places from which to acquire the electronic components of your audio system. But your loudspeakers really ought to be American, British or, perhaps, European. Meanwhile, Yamaha – a Japanese company if ever there was one – was producing the Yamaha NS-10, or what has been described as “the most important loudspeaker you never heard of”. In the late 1970s and through the 1980s the NS-10 became almost ubiquitous in recording studios, principally for their revealing nature. So what do we make, now, four decades later, of the Yamaha NS-3000 speakers? At just under AU$13,000 per pair for mid-sized two-way speakers, we’re talking about Yamaha firmly placing itself in high-end territory.

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

Wilson Benesch A.C.T. One Evolution Loudspeakers

While evolving technologies have changed the electronics space, notably in developments across Class-D amplification, through to streaming software/hardware platforms and in music delivery, innovation in dynamic loudspeaker design has been more about progressive refinement rather than transformation. Fundamentally, a magnet, coil, spider, cone/dome, etc. have been the transducer’s consistent core elements since its invention by Kellogg and Rice in the 1920s. What’s more, the benefits of advanced diaphragm materials over ‘Ye Olde’ plain paper or cloth have been fervent fodder for subjective and empirical debate by engineers and audio enthusiasts alike. Nonetheless, the team of designers at Wilson Benesch has refined the concept, enhancing aspects of the company’s revolutionary first-gen product to position the new A.C.T. One Evolution at the cutting edge of loudspeaker design.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 22 January 2021 22 January 2021

MUTEC's Australian Partnership Strengthens

German specialist MUTEC, maker of highly-engineered digital solutions for the professional and audio enthusiast markets, consolidates its representation with Australian distributor ATT Audio Controls.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 21 January 2021 21 January 2021

KEF's New KC62 Subwoofer Features Uni-Core Technology

KEF has announced the KC62, a new attractively-designed small stature subwoofer featuring ‘Uni-Core’, the company’s most recent highly-engineered woofer technology.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Features Features; Published: 18 January 2021 18 January 2021

Redgum Audio's Ian Robinson Interview

SoundStage! Talks: SoundStage! Australia’s Edgar Kramer talks to REDGUM Audio’s designer Ian Robinson about his personal journey from the 1980s to the present, and the “Goldilocks” effect applied to the company’s highly-acclaimed amplifiers.

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Details: Written by Barry Jones Barry Jones; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 January 2021 15 January 2021

Larsen 9 Loudspeakers

Until recently, Larsen was a brand name unfamiliar to me. Upon learning they employ an Ortho-acoustic design, my mind conjured images of a white robed man cradling an unusual speaker design on the pages of a once popular print Hi-Fi magazine (I’m pretty sure that memory is correct even though a decent Google search couldn’t back me up). The original plan was for a review of the Larsen model 8.2 however a last-minute change resulted in a pair of the flagship model 9 being delivered to my door. To quote a diminutive Jedi master, “Disappointed I was not”.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 13 January 2021 13 January 2021

Bentley Headphones Driven by Focal

French manufacturer of high quality loudspeakers and personal audio celebrates its branding partnership with Bentley by announcing the new Radiance luxury high-end headphones.