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- Published: 18 September 2022 18 September 2022
Triangle Launches MAGELLAN 40th Anniversary Loudspeakers
French loudspeaker specialist Triangle announces its celebratory flagship MAGELLAN series in a 500-pairs limited-production 40th Anniversary edition.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 15 September 2022 15 September 2022
Retail Store Profile – Hi End Audio, a Very Private Affair
As consumers, there’s little doubt that online shopping and the way we go about sourcing and receiving products (collection points, delivery services, pick-up lockers, etc.) has changed profoundly in the last few years. Those changes apply across most areas of retail. Hell, we can even buy a car online without stepping into a dealership nor even test driving it! However, one of the last bastions of change is the high-end audio industry. It’s not so much that we, as audio enthusiasts, are resisting evolutionary adjustments but it’s more the experience of actually hearing a product, the tactile sensation and examination of the finely finished surfaces and finer design details. At high-end specialist Hi End Audio all those experiences and sonic adventures are available at your beck and call.
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- Published: 06 September 2022 06 September 2022
Wilson Audio Unveils New Alexia V Loudspeakers
Many of the technologies previously employed in Wilson Audio’s flagship XVX and advanced Alexx V are now embodied in the new Alexia V within the company’s highly successful mid-sized speaker space.
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- Written by Tom Waters Tom Waters
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 September 2022 01 September 2022
Bowers & Wilkins 803 D4 Loudspeakers
To an audiophile, the name Bowers & Wilkins is as ubiquitous as Stradivarius, Steinway and Elvis Presley. For many, it represents the pinnacle, the ultimate audio product they wish to someday own. In other words, Bowers & Wilkins creates benchmarks against which other brands struggle to compete on a quality, ingenuity and cost basis. Given only audiophiles will likely be reading this, I probably don’t need to say that Bowers & Wilkins, AKA B&W, is a speaker, headphone and lifestyle product designer and manufacturer par excellence. It probably annually spends more dollars on R&D than the GDP of many small countries. And its manufacturing ability and quality is incredible – when you compare the company’s products to other high-end audio manufacturers you have to marvel at how it can keep its prices so reasonable. Economies of scale – Bowers & Wilkins manufactures a lot of products.
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- Published: 09 May 2022 09 May 2022
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Pitt & Giblin Superwax Speaker System Preview
The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In video series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this episode, SoundStage! Australia's editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer introduces the unique Superwax active loudspeaker system from new Tasmanian company Pitt & Giblin.
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- Published: 26 August 2022 26 August 2022
Playback Designs’ New Edelweiss Series 6 Products Land in Australia
Playback Designs’ new Edelweiss ‘6’ series may be named after the beautiful Alpine flower but the products are anything but shrinking flora – they are substantially engineered digital playback components.
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- Published: 19 August 2022 19 August 2022
Alexandria Audio Launches to Market with Two Distinctive Loudspeaker Models
Bali-based company Alexandria Audio hits the market with two highly-engineered loudspeaker designs in The Monitor standmount and Praetoria high-power floorstander.
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- Published: 17 August 2022 17 August 2022
VYDA Laboratories Cables Hit Australia
VYDA Laboratories, Italian manufacturer of high-end audio cables, arrives in Australia via a distribution partnership with Hi End Audio.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 15 August 2022 15 August 2022
Crystal Cable Future Dream 22 Cables
The mind’s eye can be a deceptive little psycho-trickster. Rightly or wrongly, and often inaccurately, we often tend to call preconceptions, bestow attributes and make judgements as a result of interpretations based on optic data and casual analysis. It can be a deception. We’re prone to misconstrue observations and often our emotions lead us into jumping to conclusions. It applies to everything. So, upon a casual visual inspection of Crystal Cable’s svelte new Future Dream 22 cables, the trickster’s crafty little voice may start its whispers… “These wiry little cables can’t possibly be bass-full and dynamic…” Man, that conjurer can be so, so wrong.
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- Published: 07 August 2022 07 August 2022
New from Lumin: T3 Digital Music Player
Riding on the waves of the successful T2, Lumin has now updated the digital music player to T3 status in what the company now refers to as its offerings’ “performance sweet spot”.
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- Published: 02 August 2022 02 August 2022
Japan's Soulnote Products Arrive in Australia
Japanese company Soulnote brings its relatively newly-updated third-generation products to the Australian market via a partnership with Absolute Hi End.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 01 August 2022 01 August 2022
McIntosh Laboratory MA12000 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier
Yes, I know, beauty is in the eye of the beholder… but man, McIntosh Laboratory’s MA12000 is a thing of pure splendour. Its style perfectly balances retro-modern industrial design with technical innovation, as dichotomous as that may seem. Plus, the company’s highly-engineered proprietary amplification technologies signal (pun intended) high performance potential. So it’s not just a pretty faceplate. And with ample power on tap, this beast-of-an-integrated forcefully declares, “Hey, I may look hipster-cool but I sure as Hell can pummel with a wall of sound”. Hail The Grateful Dead…