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Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 15 February 2024 15 February 2024

Revival Audio Expands Its Flagship Line With New Atalante 4 Loudspeakers

Revival Audio, the highly acclaimed relatively new French company, augments its product line-up with the new Atalante 4 column-styled floorstanding loudspeakers.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 February 2024 15 February 2024

Perreaux Audio VP4 Phono Preamplifier

Today, in a digital age no less, the turntable enjoys an arguably stronger market presence than ever among audio enthusiasts. Based on just product choice too, let alone materials and technology developments. Yet, as we know, the turntable is a part of an analogue playback system. It requires a set of supporting ancillaries. To fill that requirement, there are a plethora of tonearm, cartridge, and phono cabling choices. Heck, there’s even an embarrassment of options for just pucks, dust brushes, and other accessories/tweaks. Yet, once the TT’s support team is assembled, the final component of necessity, the music delivery conduit, is the phono preamplifier. For the most part, the ‘Phono Stage’ has seen little change in decades. Until now. I’m looking at Perreaux Audio’s VP4, the company’s newest, and one which truly differentiates itself from the vast majority of its competitors. How? Well, by offering innovative features – perhaps even unique – elevating it above the maddening crowds. VP4 is a phono stage intelligently engineered for 21st century analogue playback.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 10 February 2024 10 February 2024

Audia Flight Lands New FLS8 Monoblock Amplifier

Sharing many of Audia Flight’s Strumento flagship amplification technology, the new FLS8 monoblock amplifier ups the ante for the more affordable FLS line.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 07 February 2024 07 February 2024

New Design House Atlas and Hurd Introduces The Tempest

Sydney’s nascent team-up between acoustic engineer Atlas Gouverneur and bespoke furniture designer Tony Hurd spawns new ‘The Tempest’ standmount speaker.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 01 February 2024 01 February 2024

Steinway Lyngdorf Announces New Model C Loudspeaker System

Under the Steinway & Sons sub-branding, Steinway Lyngdorf has unveiled the new Model C, a direct descendant of the Model D, the company’s first landmark loudspeaker design.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 February 2024 01 February 2024

DALI Epikore 11 Loudspeakers

I love Nordic design. The aesthetic simplicity, the elegance, the uncomplicated style. In audio, that near-minimalism belies a profoundly deep engineering intellect farmed from advanced public education. From folkeskole to University higher education, the system mines and develops social and technological advancement. The Danes are at the pinnacle, punching way, way above their mere six million population. In high-end audio, and likely other industries too, Denmark’s an authority. Driver design near-ubiquity and an abundance of powerful, prestigious brands collectively verges on market domination. DALI is the Danes’ biggest market-wide flag bearer, growing from a seedling, nurtured to evolved bloom, by the entrepreneurial spirit of industry trailblazer Peter Lyngdorf. And the Epikore 11 is the loudspeaker giant’s latest offering. Oh, and did I mention I’m a Nordic Noir fanatisk? Looking at you Sarah Lund and Birgitte Nyborg…

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 31 January 2024 31 January 2024

Linn Launches Range-Topping Klimax Solo 800 Amplifier

Linn has spared no expense in the production of the new and highly advanced Klimax Solo 800 monobloc flagship amplifier.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 30 January 2024 30 January 2024

ATC C4 Sub Mk 2 Subwoofer Landing in Australia

ATC draws on its considerable professional and high-end audio engineering expertise to produce the new C4 Sub Mk 2 active subwoofer system, and it’s slated for arrival in early March 2024.

Details: Written by Barry James Johnston Barry James Johnston; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 January 2024 15 January 2024

REL Acoustics No.31 Reference Series Subwoofer

The world of subwoofers is often somewhat muddied by the fact that subs seem to be viewed as both an afterthought, or add on, to “more desirable” components, or indeed be completely misunderstood with regards to their function, and the overall expected outcome, from their integration to a hi-fi system. Let’s clear up some of the myths, perceptions, and questions, and dig a little deeper into the REL Acoustics No.31 realm of sub bass.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Features Features; Published: 15 January 2024 15 January 2024

Factory and HQ visit – Yamaha True Sound: The Concept, The People and The Room

As I enter the sprawling reception area of Yamaha Corporation’s Hamamatsu headquarters I find, dead-centre in the space, an arrestingly realistic, life-sized sculpture. It’s by artist Junya Okabe from BLAST and part of the ‘Animals As Art’ series, depicting a dormant, yet protective polar bear mother, cub resting by her side. Yet, despite being inactive, the exhibit symbolises an attentiveness, given its location at Yamaha HQ. There’s a of sense serenity; the majestic animals appear… comforted, calmly nestled by the passive enjoyment of music. That, right there, represents Yamaha, the world’s largest and longest-running electronics and musical instruments company. So, I’m here to experience the company’s maxim philosophy permeating across all of its audio products which, in two simple words, encompasses an ideology shared by all music lovers. Yamaha calls it ‘True Sound’.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 10 January 2024 10 January 2024

Sonus faber Announces New Advanced Flagship Loudspeakers

‘Suprema’, a new super-ambitious tour-de-force design, offered for US$750,000 and comprising two towers per channel, hits the über high-end market for Italian loudspeaker specialist Sonus faber.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised; Published: 10 January 2024 10 January 2024

McIntosh Laboratory Launches Its Most Powerful Amplifier Yet

With the new MC2.1KW amplifier, McIntosh Laboratory hits the 2024 New Year with a double whammy – its most powerful amplifier ever to celebrate the company’s 75th Anniversary.