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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 August 2020 01 August 2020
JL Audio Fathom f110v2 Powered Subwoofer
Bass. We all love it. Come on, you know you do! You can muse audiophilic to your heart’s content on “accuracy” and “neutrality” but when you’re cranking Led Zep or Yello to 11, all talk of “balance” goes down the gurgler in an intense sensory wave of low-end pleasure. Fun so it Hertz. But what if I told you about a low frequency generator which is capable of both supreme accuracy and all-out visceral joy? All in a pretty and small package. Well, I be talking JL Audio Fathom f110v2. Yes, it will play nice and audiophile-like with your super-precise high-end mains and, should you desire some outright fun, it’ll also test the construction integrity of your house… and your neighbour’s house.
Nordost Cables to Enhance Your Music Experience
In light of our ‘coming soon’ review of the unique Nordost QPoint and QSource products, we thought it appropriate to draw attention to a rare Australian promotion for the specialist company’s digital cable lines.
AudioSolutions Releases New Overture Mk.3 Loudspeakers
The new Overture Mk.3 loudspeakers from Lithuanian company AudioSolutions adopt several technologies and construction techniques from the company’s upmarket Figaro, Virtuoso and Vantage lines.
DS Audio Grand Master Optical Cartridge
Analogue and optical technology master DS Audio has unveiled the new spare-no-expense Grand Master cartridge with dedicated outboard equaliser and power supply.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 15 July 2020 15 July 2020
Yamaha GT-5000 Turntable & Tonearm
What enthusiast with an appreciation of audio history and who values music, from its creation to its recreation, would not love to own a beautifully designed and superbly engineered music-playing component with the tag ‘Gigantic and Tremendous’? Images of a looming multi-driver Gojira-like loudspeaker come to mind but Yamaha, the world’s oldest music company, has revived this sensational term – coined decades ago in the GT prefix for descendants GT-1000 and GT-2000 – to moniker its new flagship turntable, the GT-5000. And yes, Yamaha’s new vinyl spinner sits comfortably with that overt descriptor. The muscular GT-5000 fits the bill by not only featuring Yamaha’s updated engineering and latest refinements of proprietary technologies, but by also being rather… Tremendously Gigantic.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 13 July 2020 13 July 2020
Mark Levinson and Master Class Video Interview
SoundStage! Talks: SoundStage! Australia Editor-in-Chief Edgar Kramer chats to Mark Levinson regarding Daniel Hertz and Master Class "Digital Cello Palette" Sound Enhancement software.
Gryphon Audio Drops VANTA Flagship Cables
Danish high-end specialist Gryphon Audio has announced VANTA, a new flagship über cable line comprising the full gamut of audio wiring options.
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- Written by Stephen Dawson Stephen Dawson
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 July 2020 01 July 2020
Rega Research Aethos Integrated Amplifier
British firm Rega Research is known for one product category above all: turntables. But the Rega Aethos is not one of those. It’s an integrated amplifier. Indeed, it doesn’t even have a phono input. But even so, the Rega Aethos is definitely an amplifier for the lover of analogue music.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 July 2020 01 July 2020
Perfecting a Room – Vicoustic Room Acoustics Products
Having the best audio system in the world can amount to naught if it sits within the context of a room which suffers from a mediocre acoustic signature. Yes, every room has an inherent acoustic signature, or profile… sounds produced within it are influenced by the room’s dimensions, the materials employed in its construction, the objects within it and the relationships between its boundaries. Different loudspeaker designs will have distinctive environmental interactions ultimately resulting in varying degrees of influence on the sonic performance.
Audio Research LS28SE Preamplifier Now Shipping
While the LS28 Special Edition was announced several weeks ago, Audio Research is rolling the new anniversary preamplifier off the production line making it now available in Australia.
Bowers & Wilkins’ New 700 Signature Edition Loudspeakers at SoundStage! Australia for Pre-Review Audition
Bowers & Wilkins announces the revision of its successful 705 S2 and 702 S2 with a number of important technical enhancements, and a stunning new finish, warranting their tagging with the company’s prestigious ‘Signature Edition’ moniker. We were thrilled to be offered the opportunity to review the range-topping 702 Signature Edition loudspeakers which were delivered to SoundStage! Australia HQ days prior to the press announcement.
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- Written by Peter Katsoolis Peter Katsoolis
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- Published: 15 June 2020 15 June 2020
MSB Technology Premier Digital-to-Analogue Converter
Once much maligned, digital audio is now the most likely to be at the vanguard of advancing the state of the art in high-end audio. In this endeavour, there can be few companies with as distinguished and successful a pedigree as MSB Technology. Since its DIY beginnings in the 1980s and still family owned the company has continued to grow, stunning the competition with stratospherically priced fare like the Reference and Select line of Digital-to-Analogue Converters. Hearing the flagship Select in unfamiliar territory at recent audio shows and demonstrations, it took me no time at all to appreciate that I was in the presence of sonic greatness. For most of us, however, no matter how incredible the sound quality of these exalted devices, they remain the realm of aspirational fantasy. When MSB recently introduced the more affordable Discrete DAC and its bigger brother (sister?), the Premier DAC, I jumped at the chance to experience in my own system MSB’s trickle down technology in action.
