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- Published: 25 October 2017 25 October 2017
KEF LS50 Wireless Now Roon Ready
The almost ubiquitous Roon platform has now been added to the highly-popular and award-winning KEF LS50 Wireless speakers, an addition that makes for a playback package with an impressive features list.
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- Published: 26 October 2017 26 October 2017
Ayon CD-T Mk. II Reference CD Transport
Austria’s Ayon is catering to a big sector of the audio enthusiast market by releasing a dedicated CD transport, the CD-T Reference Transport, with the rationale that there are hundreds of thousands of CDs in collections around the world deserving of the best in disc playback.
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- Published: 24 October 2017 24 October 2017
Poly Is a Cracker – The New Poly Streamer from Chord Electronics
Chord Electronics is on a roll with high-tech DAC and headphone amplifiers of superb standards (see our review of the extraordinary Hugo 2 here) and now, with the new Poly, the company expands its reach to include its newest solution for smartphone devices and high quality portable audio.
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- Published: 23 October 2017 23 October 2017
The New Black - Bel Canto Designs' Black EX Components
Minneapolis audio specialist Bel Canto Design has just announced Black EX, a new range of products to slot in between the company’s small format e.One and über high-end Black lines.
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- Published: 23 October 2017 23 October 2017
In Vinnie Veritas
From the designer of the acclaimed Red Wine Audio product lines comes the new ‘Made in the USA’ Vinnie Rossi LIO product range, available for the first time in Australia courtesy of local distributor Audio Magic.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 18 October 2017 18 October 2017
Nocturnal Vision – SoundStage! Australia at the KEF LS50W Nocturne Launch in Amsterdam
Amsterdam, among the coolest and most beautiful cities in Europe with its iconic channel-seared winding network ever-circling, was the locale for the launch of the new KEF LS50W Nocturne. I, along with press from around Asia and Europe, was invited to attend the event which was launched by KEF Managing Director Grace Lo. The new special edition speaker, a variant of the highly successful original design, has been created via a symbiotic spawning from the technical and artistic minds of Dr Jack Oclee-Brown KEF’s Head of Acoustic Engineering and one of Europe’s leading high-end designers Marcel Wanders.
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- Published: 16 October 2017 16 October 2017
Sennheiser’s New Audiophile Quality HD 660 S Headphones
Sennheiser’s expanding high-end product range has a new arrival in the HD 660 S over-ear open-back dynamic headphones which build on the extremely popular and highly-acclaimed HD 650 product.
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- Published: 15 October 2017 15 October 2017
Interdyn is Roon Ready
Audio specialist Interdyn has announced a new partnership with Roon Labs which will provide distribution exclusivity to the ‘oldest serving distributor in Australia’ for all Roon products.
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- Published: 15 October 2017 15 October 2017
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 Speakers
Bowers & Wilkins produces some of the most desirable audio products in the industry. The company spans its considerable engineering and marketing prowess across a wide range of speaker lines encompassing all major price points while applying the same ideal to its evolving personal audio/headphone and ‘life style’ wireless speaker products (an expanding high-end car audio line specialises in systems for luxury models for BMW, Maserati, Volvo and more). But to this writer, it’s especially gratifying to know that the company has a tremendous impetus in its model for nurturing musicians and their art. Bowers & Wilkins’ Society of Sound is a platform for many international artists to showcase their talent and creativity to music lovers across the globe.
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- Published: 15 October 2017 15 October 2017
Chord Electronics Hugo 2 Transportable DAC/Headphone Amplifier – Digital Playback at the Cutting Edge
The two main growth areas of audio playback right now are digital-to-analogue converters and the headphone/headphone amplifier space. For those wanting a better, higher fidelity experience, headphone sound quality can be dramatically improved by combining the two. And a DAC can also have anything from a mundane to a revelatory influence on a high-end audio system. So what is the result of an undertaking to combine both ‘disciplines’ when the company involved is Chord Electronics, a leader in high-tech engineering and pioneer of several proprietary technologies which place it at the cutting edge of digital playback?
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- Published: 13 October 2017 13 October 2017
Be Weiss – New DAC501 and DAC502 from Digital Specialist
From its days in the professional recording industry until the present day, Daniel Weiss has grown the eponymous company to be one of the leaders in digital design in the high-end audio space. The new Weiss DAC501 and DAC502 promise to take digital playback to another level.
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- Published: 11 October 2017 11 October 2017
Tokyo International Audio Show 2017 (TIAS) – 10 Of Note
The following short report and photography was kindly submitted by John Ong*.
Japanese are serious people, they take everything seriously and that attitude was clearly evident at the Tokyo International Audio Show. It could be seen in the way the show was organised. The rooms sounded a lot better than most other shows I have attended over the years around the world. The attendees were very polite and understanding. They are also surprisingly engaging, or try to be, despite the difficulties of the language barrier. Throughout the three days of the show it was clear that concerted efforts were made to improve the sound while always complying with visitors’ requests and questions.
