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New Roon Labs Nucleus Streaming Devices
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- Published: 19 February 2018 19 February 2018
Digital playback software specialist Roon Labs has had a stellar rise in terms of what, arguably, many audio enthusiasts and music lovers around the world consider the best music playback platform. The company’s superbly designed software, with its state-of-the-art user interface and comprehensive metadata provision, is compatible with just about every file type and many music streaming services including Tidal. An ever-growing number of ‘Roon Ready’ devices also spreads across the spectrum of digital file playback. Now, Roon Labs announces its next indent into the audio space.
X Marks the Spot
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- Published: 16 February 2018 16 February 2018
Digital specialist x-odos has announced the release of its second generation x|one a new high-end music server featuring a number of improvements and overall refinements over its predecessor.
Krispy Audio Opens New Showroom in Sydney
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- Published: 12 February 2018 12 February 2018
We love finding hidden treasures… And in Krispy Audio’s new showroom, we found a soon-to-be-not-so-hidden audio lover’s gem tucked away in a suburban commercial complex on the leafy northern edges of Sydney. To get there, you’ll take an easily-accessed and early exit off Sydney’s Pacific Highway, part of Highway 1, the country’s longest asphalt river pointing you to Central Coast towns lining our beautiful beach-lined shores and snakes right up north to tropical Queensland. SoundStage! Australia hit the road and visited the new auditioning facilities camera in-hand and with keen ears at the ready.
McIntosh Releases New MC611 Power Amplifier
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- Published: 08 February 2018 08 February 2018
McIntosh continues to expand its product offerings with the announcement of a new monoblock power amplifier, the MC611, featuring the company’s proprietary technologies, solid engineering and superb industrial design.
Processing Soulution DACs
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- Published: 05 February 2018 05 February 2018
Swiss audio specialist Soulution has announced it is the first high-end electronics company to implement Leedh Processing to its two top-end DACs in the 560 and 760 offerings.
MSB Technology Announces Two More Affordable DAC models
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- Published: 31 January 2018 31 January 2018
California’s MSB Technology, a company specialising in high-tech analogue and digital technologies since 1985, has just dropped the news of the soon-to-be-available lower price-point digital-to-analogue converters in the ‘Discrete DAC’ and ‘Premier DAC’.
How Fun! Fundamental Audio Launches with New Appointments
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- Published: 29 January 2018 29 January 2018
New Melbourne-based distributor Fundamental Audio has announced the acquisition of distribution rights in Australia for Germany’s Vincent Audio and Italy’s Solidsteel racking systems.
Microphase Audio Design SAT Mk.II Loudspeakers
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- Published: 25 January 2018 25 January 2018
Inspired by Jean-Marie Liere’s original French SAT design back in the mid 1980s, the SAT Mk.II is now reanimated with new bespoke drivers, a meticulously updated crossover, a reinvented cabinet and a rebirthed location in Sydney Australia.
DS Audio's New DS-W2 Cartridge and Equalizer
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- Published: 16 January 2018 16 January 2018
DS Audio has just upgraded its highly-acclaimed DS-W1 cartridge to the new DS-W2 which now features a number of design improvements said to make for better information retrieval and all-round performance enhancements. The DS-W2 is claimed to be a comprehensive improvement over the DS-W1 – now to be phased out – which was heralded as the ‘world’s best cartridge’ by two German audio publications – Stereo and Audio magazines.
Qutest DAC
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- Published: 09 January 2018 09 January 2018
Chord Electronics has been making high-tech digital-to-analogue converters with proprietary FPGA circuitry for quite some time and, in fact, may have been among the first to do so. Another signature theme of the company is a design aesthetic that tends to blend superb build quality with ever more diminutive form factors. Enter the new Qutest, Chord’s tiniest DAC packed with the company’s ever-evolving digital technology.
Massive Musical Fidelity Australian Pricing Restructure
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- Published: 20 December 2017 20 December 2017
Audio Marketing, Australia’s distributor for Musical Fidelity, has managed to build a very high profile and a respected reputation for the UK manufacturer over three decades of uninterrupted representation in this country. Now, in an effort to offer extraordinary value to Australian customers, Musical Fidelity’s wide product range has been reinvented at the retail level to slot into never-seen-before price points.