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Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 20 February 2023 20 February 2023

Copland Introduces its New CTA407 Flagship Integrated

Danish electronics specialist Copland refines its industrial design and enhances its amplification engineering via the new and highly-evolved CTA407 integrated amplifier.

Details: Written by Steven JM Polley Steven JM Polley; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 February 2023 15 February 2023

Revival Audio Atalante 5 Loudspeakers

The French have a saying, “pièce de résistance”. It is a term I am quite familiar with from my culinary background and in its origin means, “the chief dish of a meal”, or “the most noteworthy item of a group.” Since 1789, this French phrase has been used in English and in modern times can refer to anything as being “an outstanding item”, “a masterpiece” or “a memorable moment in one’s career”. It’s not a term I use lightly. Even in the culinary world I would rarely do so but, as I discovered during my time listening and evaluating Revival Audio’s Atalante 5 speakers and reflecting over all my notes, “pièce de résistance” is the ideal phrase that comes to mind. Even the drivers developed for the Atalante models could be deemed the most noteworthy among their peers and an outstanding achievement in this audio veteran’s long career. Could the Atalante 5 speakers be worthy of 3 Michelin Stars?

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 01 February 2023 01 February 2023

Lyngdorf Audio Unveils Cue-100 Standmount Loudspeakers

In a revitalised push to expand its loudspeaker offerings Lyngdorf Audio launches the new Danish-made and -designed Cue-100 high-end standmount loudspeakers.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 February 2023 01 February 2023

Alexandria Audio The Monitor Loudspeakers

The high-end audio industry has been shaped by companies hatched as a result of aspirations and achievements from creative engineers. Often, these engineering artisans have firstly been music lovers, who sought to manifest their passion by bringing to fruition the audio objects of music lovers’ desires. In the case of new entity Alexandria Audio, two music-loving audiophiles with engineering chops pooled their skills and shared zeal to bring to market Bali-designed loudspeakers which are far removed from cookie-cutter me-too-ness. Of the two models on the company’s speakers catalogue so far, The Monitor appears on the surface, as the more conventional offering. Yet, The Monitor offers its own distinct twist on the classic high-end two-way standmount.

Details: Written by Barry Jones Barry Jones; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 01 February 2023 01 February 2023

Harmonic Resolution Systems DPX-09545 Damping Plate

I have to admit I was a little sceptical about reviewing the HRS Damping Plates. I figured that, like a lot of tweaks, there’s often not a great deal of science to support the claimed benefits. In addition to that, I’ve often thought that advocates of such tweaks tend to hear differences mainly because they want to hear differences. Since I was pretty much indifferent rather than wanting to or expecting to hear an improvement, I explained to a friend that this might be the first review assignment I’d refrain from engaging in… Better to say nothing than to say something negative right? With that in mind I figured that rather than research the product, the company, the engineering philosophies (if any), I would first conduct my listening tests and remain as free from influence as possible so, despite a desire to delve deeper, I exercised self-restraint. Which means that despite the next few paragraphs, you should know that the actual listening tests were conducted first!

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 18 January 2023 18 January 2023

Sonus faber Announces New Homage Collection

As a result of substantial engineering advancements and aesthetic refinements, Italian loudspeaker specialist Sonus faber unveils the new Homage Collection loudspeakers.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 17 January 2023 17 January 2023

Musical Fidelity Launches Flagship Amplification

After an extended Research and Development effort, Musical Fidelity produces a spare-no-expense Nuvistor-based preamplifier and stereo/monoblock power amplifiers.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Features Features; Published: 15 January 2023 15 January 2023

Factory Tour – Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems

Who would have thought cacti could be considered beautiful? The prickly mono-tone plants are hardly… aesthetically pleasing. But to my eyes, there’s an alien-like beauty in the impenetrably thorny forms. They’re… peculiar. Yet, despite their pin-pointed armour, the poetic paradox is that they offer lifesaving, fluid-filled fleshy stems. They’re everywhere across the North American west. Legions of them, reflecting across the windscreen on the drive to Pheonix, across Arizona’s parched landscape. I’m on a… relentless (yes, fully intended) mission to once again meet-up with the man himself. Dan The Man. At the Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems facility in Cave Creek out beyond the sparse Phoenix outskirts.

Details: Written by Barry Jones Barry Jones; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 January 2023 15 January 2023

Kudos Audio Cardea C10 Loudspeakers

What makes a pair of speakers a great pair of speakers? The purists would say absolute accuracy and the ability to faithfully reproduce the original source material. And they would be right. But absolute accuracy comes with ‘baggage’. The primary baggage being size and cost and, even when this baggage is accommodated, the speakers then have to work within the confines of the physical listening environment (rarely can a pair of 6-foot-tall speakers perform well in an average sized Australian living room). Then there are the limitations of the associated equipment in order to achieve full potential. But how would a mid-sized standmount speaker like the Kudos Audio Cardea C10 perform in real-world home environments? We shall see…

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 05 January 2023 05 January 2023

Naim Audio Announces New Classic Series

Coinciding with the CES 2023 consumer electronics event in Las Vegas, Naim Audio has unveiled the new ‘Classic’ 200 series components complete with an optional dedicated power supply upgrade.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 04 January 2023 04 January 2023

Totaldac’s New DAC Trio

French digital specialist Totaldac has announced a trio of DACs featuring refinements to the company’s proprietary ladder-based technology coupled to improved output circuitry.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Features Features; Published: 01 January 2023 01 January 2023

Wilson Audio Factory Tour & WAMM Master Chronosonic Audition

There’s a distinct feeling, a saturating melancholy as we drive the open road through the American West. It’s the vistas of barren desert and red-earthed canyons. The romantic depictions in Hollywood-SuperScope and panoramic art inspired by the folklore of pioneering wagon train settlers, fortune-seeking adventurers and fierce pony-riding warriors. It’s with that mood-blanket that I launch into the road trip – to Salt Lake City and on to Provo – across cracked desert hard-bordering snow-crowned mountains. In Provo, at the foot of the soaring Rockies, we arrive at Mountain Vista Lane, Wilson Audio HQ.