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Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Features Features; Published: 15 April 2020 15 April 2020

Feature & Interviews – The ‘New’ Duntech Audio & Halcro

Around the mid-1980s and again in the late 1990s, two Australian brands jolted the high-end audio industry with uniquely-designed and disruptively-engineered debut products… In fact, you could say Duntech Audio’s towering Sovereign loudspeakers and Halcro’s distinct super-low distortion dm58 monoblock amplifiers were quite revolutionary. In fact, revolutionary was the word used in Halcro’s dm58 review on Stereophile magazine while Duntech Audio’s flagship were said to be “the most neutral and accurate” loudspeaker design in the world.

Details: Written by Stephen Dawson Stephen Dawson; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 April 2020 15 April 2020

Simaudio Moon 680D Network Player/DAC

What do you want from your audio gear? Usability and convenience? An absence of aggravation? Or supreme audio quality? The magic that can sometimes be realised in a fine stereo system? Sometimes these two considerations can be at odds. But not, it seems, with Canadian Hi-Fi maker Simaudio. I’ve now put two of its Moon-branded products through their paces and both have been glorious in their acoustic performance while being delights to use. The first was merely a straightforward DAC. But achieving similar effectiveness in a combined DAC and Network Streamer is a harder ask. Yet the Moon 680D has achieved just that.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 09 April 2020 09 April 2020

Yamaha’s New High-End Electronics & 3000 Series Loudspeakers Launch

Following on the 100 series’ ardent consumer praise and universal high acclaim from the audio press around the world, Yamaha now announces the new upgraded 200 series.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 08 April 2020 08 April 2020

Grado Needle-Drops New Opus3 Cartridge

New York’s cartridge and headphones specialist Grado has launched the new Opus3 cartridge, with the company aiming to incorporate many of the technologies included in its higher-end models into a mid-level product.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 07 April 2020 07 April 2020

aqua Announces LinQ Network Interface

aqua (acoustic quality) has launched the LinQ, a completely modular ‘Network Interface’ which marries your network to the company’s family of products to provide an all-round digital playback and streaming solution.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 01 April 2020 01 April 2020

World Exclusive: Dutch Master's Personal Collection Flagship Cartridge Debuts in Melbourne

Dutch company Van den Hul, known for decades as maker of superb cables and cartridges employing exotic materials and technologies, has shipped the sole sample of its new flagship cartridge to Australia for a global debut.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 April 2020 01 April 2020

Gryphon Audio Designs Ethos CD Player/DAC

How can an audio component, which is effectively a device with a specific function, stray as far away as possible, design-wise, from the ubiquitous plain rectangular box and still fulfil its purpose? What’s more, as an industrial designer, how to free yourself, how to deviate from constraints enforced by the rigours of architecture, functionality, usability, performance? Irrefutably, Gryphon Audio Design’s new Ethos CD player is proof-of-concept. It eschews design convention, seemingly tossing away the rule book…

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Ed Comment Ed Comment; Published: 01 April 2020 01 April 2020

Racks Not Ruin – SGR Audio’s Revamped Hi-Fi Rack & Manufacturing in Australia

For three years now, the extraordinary audio support systems from Australia’s own SGR Audio have been my reference racks-du-jour for component isolation and general vibration control at the highest level. My two three-tier Model V Statement racks not only perform as advertised – the Model V Statement features no less than six combined isolation strategies – but are also superbly built, beautifully finished and rather attractively designed.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 27 March 2020 27 March 2020

Retailers Awarded for Excellence

Recently, major Australian high-end audio and headphones distributor BusiSoft AV presented a number of awards to outstanding retailers around the country.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 23 March 2020 23 March 2020

Line Magnetic New Partnership In Australia

Valve amplification specialist Line Magnetic’s attractive retro-styled electronics are now available in Australia via new distribution partner Line Magnetic Australia.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 20 March 2020 20 March 2020

Thorens TD 1600 Turntable for Imminent Australian Arrival

Following the acquisition of the Thorens distribution rights in Australia by BusiSoft AV late last year, the company has announced the imminent arrival of the new TD 1600 turntable.