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Wilson Audio Factory Tour & WAMM Master Chronosonic Audition
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 January 2023 01 January 2023
There’s a distinct feeling, a saturating melancholy as we drive the open road through the American West. It’s the vistas of barren desert and red-earthed canyons. The romantic depictions in Hollywood-SuperScope and panoramic art inspired by the folklore of pioneering wagon train settlers, fortune-seeking adventurers and fierce pony-riding warriors. It’s with that mood-blanket that I launch into the road trip – to Salt Lake City and on to Provo – across cracked desert hard-bordering snow-crowned mountains. In Provo, at the foot of the soaring Rockies, we arrive at Mountain Vista Lane, Wilson Audio HQ.
SoundStage! Talks Australia Video: How Dan D'Agostino Maintains Momentum - SoundStage! Talks Australia
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 19 December 2022 19 December 2022
SoundStage! Australia Editor in Chief Edgar Kramer visits Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems’ Phoenix facility to have a chat with the man himself, Dan D’Agostino, to discuss the company’s products and future direction.
Audio-Technica Shows New Flagship Cartridge & Turntable at Audio Connection
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 15 December 2022 15 December 2022
Audio-Technica celebrates its 60th Anniversary since the company’s inception by founder Hideo Matsushita, with the release of a flagship cartridge and a limited edition commemorative turntable.
SoundStage! Talks Australia Video: Daryl Wilson’s Speaker Quest to Create Soul-Stirring Sound
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 13 December 2022 13 December 2022
SoundStage! Australia Editor in Chief Edgar Kramer visited Wilson Audio’s Utah HQ last month to tour the facility and chat with the formidable driving force that is Daryl Wilson. Now the company’s CEO and sonic visionary, in this video, Daryl describes the Wilson Audio ethos and how he works to create music reproduction that moves him.
Whisky & Vinyl at Audio Connection
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- Written by Tom Waters Tom Waters
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 11 December 2022 11 December 2022
Audio Connection, Crosstalk Records and Bladnoch Distillery held the 'Music, Whisky and Vinyl' public event showcasing the best turntables, rare and exclusive vinyl and tipples of excellent whisky. It was held at the newly renovated Audio Connection shop in Leichhardt.
SoundStage! Lead-In Video: Alexia V - Wilson Audio's Latest Speaker Vastly Improves Predecessor - SoundStage! Australia
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 09 October 2022 09 October 2022
The SoundStage! Australia Lead-In video series showcases products that are soon to be reviewed on SoundStageAustralia.com. In this episode, SoundStage! Australia editor-in-chief Edgar Kramer runs through the new Wilson Audio Alexia V loudspeakers' features and broad list of improvements over its successful predecessor.
Magico LLC – Advanced Design Insights & Factory Tour
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 October 2022 01 October 2022
They tell me it’s a dry spell in San Francisco. More of a drought really. So as the aircraft descends without slipping through the lightness of a single cloud, I land at SFO International Airport, having trekked from Sydney via a quick Honolulu gate-skip. As I lean on the wall of the window seat, I’m bathed by a Californian sunshine which I’m told has dried-run for months. A contrast from the endless webbed feet-producing deluges in Sydney. The purpose of my visit? A surprise invitation, weeks prior, from Alon Wolf Magico LLC’s CEO to experience the ideologies and activities at the company’s HQ. And to be blissed-out by a very special musical treat…
SoundStage! Talks Australia Video: Magico's Maestro - Statement-Speaker-Maker Alon Wolf
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 25 September 2022 25 September 2022
SoundStage! Australia’s editor-in-chief, Edgar Kramer, traveled to San Francisco earlier this month to visit the home of statement-level speaker-maker Magico. While there, he had a short chat with head honcho Alon Wolf to discuss modern manufacturing and the benefits of incorporating the Klippel measurement and quality-controls systems into the company’s design process.
Retail Store Profile – Hi End Audio, a Very Private Affair
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 15 September 2022 15 September 2022
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.
The Grand Reopening of Audio Connection, Sydney
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 13 June 2022 13 June 2022
There are refurbishments and there are transformations. The new Audio Connection has undergone a serious transmutation. Like an amalgamation fusing ample reserves of experience, business smarts and bold chutzpah to deliver a powerful new narrative… a world-class audio haven, now profoundly rejuvenated. Yes, the words ‘Grand Opening’ are super-appropriate.
Crystal Cable Launches Future Dream 22 at Sound Gallery
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 11 June 2022 11 June 2022
In a coincident function to the StereoNET Hi-Fi Show Melbourne 2022, premier high-end audio store Sound Gallery held an after-hours event celebrating the recent launch of Crystal Cables’ new Future Dream 22 line. In person on the night were company principals Gabi and Edwin van der Kley Rynveld. Shown above are Sound Gallery hosts Kama and John Ong, now in tulpenmanie, as Gabi van der Kley Rynveld presents reproductions of the Dutch icons.
StereoNET Hi-Fi Show Melbourne 2022 – Part 2
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 07 June 2022 07 June 2022
The eager crowds at the ticket booth were of similar healthy girth on the three mornings of the show. First thing too. Patiently they waited while the ushering and checking of tickets saw them off into the hotel’s belly. Now, the show report continues on to Part 2...
