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- Written by Travis Kelly Travis Kelly
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 15 March 2021 15 March 2021
Line Magnetic LM-34IA Integrated Amplifier
It was with an open mind that I welcomed the invitation to review this particular component from Line Magnetic. My curiosity was piqued and came from a place of genuine interest in the LM-34IA integrated amplifier. An interest to see if indeed the rumours were true – that the Chinese manufacturers we've seen emerge into the vast landscape of the audio industry have left their mediocre beginnings behind and become capable of competitive, world class offerings. Even at this particular price point, one that you would regard as 'entry level' into the chasm that is tube gear.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 10 March 2021 10 March 2021
AudioSolutions Virtuoso B Loudspeakers
Highly-acclaimed Lithuanian high-end loudspeaker maker AudioSolutions has announced the release of Virtuoso B, an upmarket standmount speaker bearing several of the company’s bespoke trickle-down technologies.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 03 March 2021 03 March 2021
Estelon Loudspeakers To Debut in Australia
Offered in this country for the very first time, a select sampling of Estonian specialist Estelon’s unique high-end loudspeaker designs will be hitting our shores Q2 2021 via a new partnership with luxury audio importer Advance Audio Australia.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 02 March 2021 02 March 2021
DiDiT Announces New DAC and Amplifier Streamer
After what has been a long gestation and subsequent development and improvement period, DiDiT finally… did it – the company announces production of the revised, and at last finalised, DAC212SEII and Hyper-AMP212.
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- Written by Stephen Dawson Stephen Dawson
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 March 2021 01 March 2021
Linn Majik DSM/4 Network Music System
Do we really need to talk about Linn? It is one of the most famous companies in high-end audio and, back in the 1970s, it was one of a small group of British companies that changed the way all of us thought about high fidelity sound reproduction. Its most famous product was – is, since a revised version is still in production – the Linn Sondek LP12 turntable. Next year ought to be a big one for Linn, since it will the 50th anniversary of its turntable. But since much of the world is digital now, Linn has long been involved in that part of audio as well. Which brings us to the Linn Majik DSM/4.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 March 2021 01 March 2021
Totaldac d-1 direct Digital-to-Analogue Converter
If you survey classic CD players, the ones that were the format’s leading lights in its golden age throughout the 90s, you’ll spot a common theme. The ubiquity of multi-bit digital-to-analogue conversion using DAC chips which are now expensive and rare. In an alternate methodology, resistor ladder-based conversion (R2R) has taken the sonic performance of multi-bit DACs to a level which, by the zealous testimony of many astute audiophiles, crowns the technology as the ultimate glory of digital. In fact, some manufacturers are engineering proprietary modular ladder architectures while others achieve conversion by painstakingly aligning regiments of carefully-matched high quality resistors. French digital specialist Totaldac is in the latter camp. Here, we look at the company's recently introduced top single-box solution, the d1-direct digital-to-analogue converter.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 25 February 2021 25 February 2021
Metaxas' Sinfully Beautiful Papillon
Multi-award winning Australian artist, industrial designer and engineer Kostas Metaxas introduces the bespoke Papillon, his audio company Metaxas & Sins’ third reel-to-reel player/recorder.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 23 February 2021 23 February 2021
Line Magnetic Event Coming to South Australia
Line Magnetic Australia is teaming-up with Adelaide’s GrizzlyWorks High Fidelity Audio for an event that sees the showcasing of the former’s best electronics and the latter’s latest audio racking system.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 19 February 2021 19 February 2021
McIntosh Laboratory Announces New MCD85 SACD/CD Player
The new McIntosh Laboratory MCD85 is a full-featured SACD/CD player with digital inputs and a design language which matches it to a growing range of the company’s most recent releases.
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- Category: News News
- Published: 18 February 2021 18 February 2021
Meitner Audio MA3 DAC/Streamer Lands in Australia
Meitner Audio’s recently-launched next-gen digital hub solution, the new MA3 digital-to-analogue converter and streamer combo, lands in Australia.
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- Written by News Editor News Editor
- Category: News News
- Published: 17 February 2021 17 February 2021
YG Acoustics Loudspeakers More Coherent via Sonja Series Upgrade
In a further development of the many proprietary technologies YG Acoustics has implemented in its Sonja range of high-end loudspeakers, the company now introduces the DualCoherent 2 crossover refinement.
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- Category: News News
- Published: 16 February 2021 16 February 2021
New Copland CSA 150 Hybrid Integrated Amplifier
Danish audio specialist Copland has introduced a new flagship ‘CSA’ series hybrid integrated amplifier with a comprehensive features set making it a powerhouse hub for analogue and digital audio.
