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- Published: 02 November 2017 02 November 2017
McIntosh Laboratory’s First-Ever Hybrid Integrated Amplifier
As one of the longest-lived audio specialist brands, iconic American company McIntosh Laboratory has specialised in manufacturing high quality electronics and speaker systems for near-on 70 years. Now, for the first time in the company’s history, McIntosh has announced the new MA252 integrated amplifier combining the beauty of valves in its preamplification stages and the power and control of solid state design to drive the speakers.
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- Written by Peter Katsoolis Peter Katsoolis
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 November 2017 01 November 2017
SPEC Corporation RSA-M3EX Integrated Amplifier
The first time I was called an “audio-maniac” was as I was trying to put my left shoe on my right foot at a sake restaurant after a night out in Tokyo with Junji Kimura, the master craftsman of then underground Japanese brand 47 Laboratory. It was the mid-1990s and this then student had travelled to Berlin to study, of all things, Japanese law. But yours truly had an ulterior motive: to stop over in Tokyo on the way home and, with the help of Yoshi Segoshi, the US distributor for 47 Labs, go hang out with Kimura-san and convince him to sell me a Gaincard amplifier and a Flatfish CD transport and Progression DAC at a ‘student’ discount price.
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- Written by Josh Givorshner Josh Givorshner
- Category: Features Features
- Published: 01 November 2017 01 November 2017
Sonic Purity with the Pure Music Group
The showroom of an audio distributor is not what generally comes to mind when you think of ‘sonic purity’. In reality, your average audio showroom sound is frequently sullied by the reverberation of a dodgy commercial drywall partition job or by the noise of a home theatre system blaring down the hall. Combine that with the bothersome clamber of other patrons and the low-level bass blur from all the passive movement of the drivers of every unused speaker randomly crammed into the corners, and you’ve got a recipe for sonic disaster.
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- Published: 28 October 2017 28 October 2017
Zero Gravity– MAG-LEV Audio Levitating Turntable
Australian audio distributor Audio Magic is living up to its name by acquiring the rights to add to its portfolio the recently-launched MAG-LEV Audio magnetic Levitating turntable.
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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.
