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Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 05 April 2018 05 April 2018

Audio Note-Kondo Japan Appoints New Australian Distributor

High-end iconic brand Audio Note-Kondo Japan has appointed Ultimate High-End as the new distributor in Australia.

Peter Vo, Founder of Ultimate High-End has been an admirer and owner of the products for some time and reached an agreement with the Audio Note Co. Japan management to form the new partnership to handle the superb and highly-regarded valve products in Australia.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 13 April 2018 13 April 2018

New Monoblock Amplifier from Audio Research

Audio Research has just announced the release of the new Reference series REF160M monoblock amplifier which introduces a new industrial design and aesthetic, beautifully marrying the company’s classic themes with the latest in display technology.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 10 April 2018 10 April 2018

Go Figure - Chord Electronics' New App for Poly

Chord Electronics’ highly successful and very portable Poly music streamer has been given a bump-up in terms of functionality and usability via the slick-looking GoFigure dedicated configuration App.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 04 April 2018 04 April 2018

… And More Ground-Shaking Local Industry News

In photo: KEF Brand Ambassador Johan Coorg about to index Michael Di Meglio while Lawrence Chu, KEF General Manager for Asia Pacific, holds Di Meglio still.

It’s been announced that Michael Di Meglio, an important figure in the Australian Hi-Fi industry, has resigned from his current position at Advance Audio Australia.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 04 April 2018 04 April 2018

Musical Fidelity Launches New DAC

A new M6 series upmarket, yet well-priced, Digital-to-Analogue Converter has been announced by the UK’s high-end audio electronics specialist Musical Fidelity.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 03 April 2018 03 April 2018

OPPO to Cease Production

OPPO, the highly acclaimed digital specialist producer of award-winning universal disc player/streamer/DAC products has announced that it will cease production of its current digital player lines and its excellent head-fi products.

Details: Written by Tom Waters Tom Waters; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 April 2018 01 April 2018

Trinnov Amethyst Preamplifier, DAC and Digital Processor

Here in the land Down Under, we’re in the homeland of DEQX. Due to their pricing and powerful local marketing, it’s likely hard for other manufacturers of competing products to get a foot in the market. For that reason, to me companies like Trinnov Audio and Holm Acoustics have always had a sense of mystique about them – you just don’t hear that much about them in this country. But once you start investigating on the web, you can find a great deal about the design and philosophy of Trinnov Audio.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Ed Comment Ed Comment; Published: 01 April 2018 01 April 2018

Spin the Black Circle… Clean

So, I made the plunge-of-faith into the liquorice abyss by purchasing a pre-loved analogue rig – a hot-rodded modified Michell Engineering Orbe SE packaged with Trans-Fi tangential tonearm and other associated goodies. I own many hundreds of records and, over the years, have sporadically purchased more vinyl while not even owning a turntable (a Garrard and subsequent Pro-Ject were sold many years prior). The turntable acquisition was motivated in part by wishing to review analogue gear. The deal was clenched when the prospect presented itself to review that Japanese gem, the outstanding Shelter Harmony MC cartridge; who would disregard that opportunity? But mostly I’ve held the desire, for some time, to reconnect with the great music that guided my own rite of passage, most of which also marked indelible guideposts along the history of music.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 29 March 2018 29 March 2018

Loudspeaker Specialist Grover Notting Launches New Website

Grover Notting, Australian manufacturer of globally-acclaimed studio monitoring systems, has launched a thoroughly revamped website (www.classicaudiodesigns.com.au) featuring comprehensive product information and detailing the innovative designs and developed engineering philosophies applied across the wide range of the company’s offerings.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 March 2018 15 March 2018

TARA Labs The Muse Interconnect and Speaker Cables

Over the last few decades, periodical fluctuations notwithstanding, the increased availability and reduced cost of high-grade materials, in conjunction with the development of more advanced software-controlled CNC machines and engineering software/computer modelling programs, have allowed the development of high-end audio of increasing sophistication and complexity. While this has meant that current affordable audio components offer superb engineering and build quality, at the other end of the scale, we have über high-end equipment employing up-to-the-minute material technologies and sonic performance that encapsulates what is presently technologically possible. Cable manufacturers are also utilising this wider engineering tools palette, adopting new techniques and materials in complex designs to bring the humble ‘wire’ up to spec in order to more adequately support these more sophisticated electronics and speaker systems. Enter TARA Labs’ The Muse.

Details: Written by Barry Jones Barry Jones; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 March 2018 15 March 2018

Lumin T1 Network Player

With more people than ever now relying on streaming services such as Spotify, Tidal, Apple Music, or one of the plethora of more esoteric services as the primary source for their music, it is encouraging to know that most hi-fi manufacturers are now offering dedicated components to allow us to get our ‘musical fix’ in this manner (and potentially put an end to the accumulation of little silver discs to clutter up the cupboards).

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 14 March 2018 14 March 2018

Interdyn Takes on Distribution for SVS in Australia

Interdyn, one of Australia’s major distributors whose brand portfolio features some of the most popular names in audio such as Devialet, Oppo, Pro-Ject and Rotel among many others, has announced the acquisition of subwoofer specialist SVS as a new addition to its stable.