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Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 16 November 2023 16 November 2023

Gold Note Launches DS-1000 EVO Streaming DAC

Italian all-rounder Gold Note, who offers a wide range of electronics, analogue components (from cartridges to turntables to phono stages) and loudspeaker systems has announced the new DS-1000 EVO Streaming DAC high-resolution player.

Details: Written by Barry James Johnston Barry James Johnston; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 November 2023 15 November 2023

Stenheim Alumine Two SE Loudspeakers

Stenheim was founded in 2010 in Switzerland by five founders, all of whom were intensely passionate about music and its reproduction in the best possible quality at home. Now, and for around a decade in fact since Stenheim's first years, the company's helm is guided by CEO and owner Jean-Pascal Panchard. Music, of course, is where you may find yourself intimately connected to each of the emotional components which curate the soundtrack to your life. Stenheim’s motivations are based around principles of a love for music and a deep and well-practiced knowledge of the engineering ideologies required to bring such aspirations to fruition, and give a voice to the imagination, also a company of which I had very little knowledge prior to this review sample being sent to me.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Features Features; Published: 13 November 2023 13 November 2023

Tokyo International Audio Show 2023 Coverage

Konnichiwa! I was landing in one of my very favourite cities in the world yet, despite all my previous visits to Japan, criminally, I had never attended this, from all reports, delightfully quirky and densely teeming show. Hitting the Tokyo International Forum early on the morning of the first day (Friday, as this is a three-day show), I was impressed by the anticipating throngs assembled. It was, after all, the Tokyo International Audio Show’s 40th Anniversary, so the sense of excitement was palpable. Further, I was struck by the Forum’s architectural grandeur, a complex edifice of metal and glass. I was off to a kakkoii start.

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

Magico Launches M7 Loudspeakers

A direct trickle down from the company’s flagship M9 released back in 2020, acoustic transducer specialist Magico has announced the new M7, a penultimate model to the über ‘M’ line of loudspeakers.

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

Aqua Acoustic Quality La Diva M2 CD Transport

“A pure CD machine”. That’s the headline grab Italian digital specialist Aqua Acoustic Quality uses for La Diva M2. The CD transport thoroughly expresses the company’s digital engineering chops; it’s a no-holds-barred disc spinner aimed at uncompromisingly extracting the best possible performance from the polycarbonate pits. It has also been made to couple to the company’s acclaimed resistor ladder-based digital-to-analogue converters. The silver disc is at the cycling point of ‘old-is-new-again’. Much like the gloriously sounding yet cumbersome reel-to-reel tape, and the nostalgic yet tragically flawed cassette (really?). Let’s not even mention the ongoing and celebrated vinyl renaissance. CD’s popular resuscitation? Yep, vibing that way. How timely then, that La Diva M2 CD Transport is here for a spin. It may be a convincing rejuvenation of the still excellent four-decade old laser reading technology.

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

Sonus faber Serafino G2 Homage Loudspeakers

Oh. My. Goodness! That was my primal auto-response. It was an instinctive reaction for the intro to this review of Sonus faber’s insanely beautiful Serafino G2 Homage. Man these things are jaw-dropping, eye-popping, stunning. Master violin artisan Santo Serafino would be like “Now that, is a tribute…” In its newest iteration, Serafino is perfectly proportioned, exquisitely built and masterly styled. As part of the Homage series, it stands as the penultimate offering topped by the larger Amati Generation 5. Yet, Santo Serafino would also be asking “like my instruments, does its beauty also allure with irresistibly seductive sound?”. Well, let me tell you the Serafino G2 story…

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 25 October 2023 25 October 2023

dCS Releases Vivaldi Transport II Upsampling CD/SACD Transport

In an affirmation of what may be a revival of the silver disc’s popularity among audio enthusiasts, dCS has launched Vivaldi Transport II, a state-of-the-art ‘Upsampling CD/SACD Transport’.

Details: Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer; Category: Features Features; Published: 24 October 2023 24 October 2023

Standout Rooms at StereoNET’s Melbourne Hi-Fi & AV Show 2023

Like a foghorn blaring over Albert Park lake, StereoNET’s Hi-Fi & AV Show summoned audio and music lovers from around the country and delivered a bigger and super-varied audio feast at its traditional venue, Pullman Melbourne Albert Park.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: Features Features; Published: 23 October 2023 23 October 2023

SoundStage! Talks Australia Video: From Italy with Luxury: Livio Details the Sonus Faber Serafino G2 Loudspeaker

SoundStage! Australia’s editor in chief, Edgar Kramer, talks to Sonus Faber’s chief of design, Livio Cucuzza, about the Serafino G2 loudspeaker’s design, technology, and performance targets for the penultimate model in the company’s upmarket Homage series.

Details: Written by Mark Busby Mark Busby; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 October 2023 15 October 2023

Titanic Audio Model A Moving Coil Cartridge

One of the more recent arrivals to Australian shores in the analogue space is the Titanic Audio’s line of cartridges and analogue accessories from Ireland. The company’s main core products are a new range of Moving Coil cartridges which have been a welcomed addition to the product selection available to Australian vinyl lovers. With a nod to the rich history of ship construction in Belfast, Titanic Audio have produced cartridges with ship-like profiles, complete with portholes, lines and machine cut body art. This review explores the sound and construction of the Titanic Audio Model A Moving Coil (MC) cartridge which has a medium voltage output, features cutting edge construction and an unusual conical shaped stylus.

Details: Written by Tom Waters Tom Waters; Category: Reviews Reviews; Published: 15 October 2023 15 October 2023

Weiss Engineering HELIOS Digital-to-Analogue Converter

Switzerland’s Weiss Engineering is renowned for its no compromise approach to gear for professional mastering studios around the world. For years Weiss has been at the forefront of digital engineering, and each generation of its products has raised the bar even further. The new HELIOS digital-to-analogue converter is the company’s latest high-end Hi-Fi flagship product.

Details: Written by News Editor News Editor; Category: News News; Published: 06 October 2023 06 October 2023

Sonus faber Introduces Duetto Active Wireless Loudspeakers

The new Duetto speakers from Italian specialist Sonus faber combines the latest wireless and multi-format playback technologies with the company’s “decades old philosophy of the most natural sound reproduction”.