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- Published: 01 May 2021 01 May 2021
Rockna Audio Wavelight Digital-To-Analogue Converter
When Australian importer Audio Heaven casually waved the wand of temptation about reviewing Rockna Audio’s latest digital-to-analogue converter, I was all restrained excitement. Here’s a company which has garnered unanimous acclaim across the globe for making advanced proprietary-technology digital products from an unlikely birthplace. Not only did this assignment promise good, good, good vibrations but it’s a product hailing from Romania which is simpatico with my own paternal Germanic-Romanian heritage. So, Rockna Audio’s newest offering, the rather elegant slimline entry-point Wavelight DAC arrives, fresh from the former Eastern Bloc, with a potent musical pledge combining a proven alternative methodology with a twist of 21st century tech.
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- Published: 20 April 2021 20 April 2021
Rotel Announces New RA-1592MKII RA Series Flagship Integrated Amplifier
A stream of engineering and circuit design improvements have been announced by Rotel for its new 15 series integrated amplifiers including the flagship RA-1592MKII.
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- Published: 20 April 2021 20 April 2021
Totaldac d1-digital-mk2 reclocker Drops
In synchronicity with an expanding product portfolio including high-end amplification and loudspeaker systems, Totaldac continues its original digital path with the new d1-digital-mk2 reclocker.
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- Published: 19 April 2021 19 April 2021
Vertere Tempo Motor Drive
Precision timing is of the essence when it comes to the crucial motor accuracy in turntable design – Vertere’s new Tempo motor drive promises strict adhesion to drive precision.
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- Published: 15 April 2021 15 April 2021
Vicoustic VicAudiophile VMT Kit Acoustic Solution
Portuguese acoustic products manufacturer Vicoustic has announced ‘VicAudiophile VMT Kit’, an all-in-one packaged solution for optimising audio enthusiasts’ listening room acoustics.
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- Published: 15 April 2021 15 April 2021
REL Acoustics Unveils New Serie T/x Subwoofers
Creator of some of the most highly-acclaimed low-end transducers in high-end audio, REL Acoustics has announced T/x, a new line of performance subwoofers.
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- Published: 16 April 2021 16 April 2021
Transparent Cable Introduces Connoisseur Collection Generation 6
Interface specialist Transparent Cable has launched its Generation 6 cabling solutions across the company’s upmarket products, right up to the über high-end Magnum Opus line.
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- Published: 15 April 2021 15 April 2021
The Funk Firm Houdini Cartridge Decoupler
Obviously, The Funk Firm’s Houdini cartridge decoupler hints at some kind of trickery, some wand-charm waived onto this unique product. Audacious association aside, Houdini shows evidence of ingenuity with genuine performance potential. How did the Houdini perform, after taking… umm, sheltering support over our already sonically stellar in-house cartridge and tonearm combo? Can Houdini free your sound from its resonant captive chains? Will the diminutive component’s performance captivate through to the final Prestige?
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- Published: 14 April 2021 14 April 2021
JBL's New 4309 Monitor Fills Big Shoes
Venerable JBL, a division of the giant Harman International’s Luxury Audio Group, has announced the new 4309 loudspeaker which rounds-out the Studio Monitor series with its smallest offering.
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- Published: 07 April 2021 07 April 2021
Heschl Audio Labs HAL 300 Power Amplifier
Australian Heschl Audio Labs takes knowledge and circuit design derived from the company’s first cab-off-the-rank high-tech HAL 350 integrated amplifier and refines it to create the new HAL 300 power amplifier.
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- Published: 01 April 2021 01 April 2021
Classé Audio Delta PRE Preamplifier and Delta MONO Power Amplifiers
How does a great brand, a veritable audiophilic powerhouse, return after a creative hiatus? How does it regain market recognition, recapture the imagination and re-stimulate the desirous impetus of audio enthusiasts who held it in such high regard? In the case of Canadian Classé Audio, now under the umbrella of powerhouse D & M Holdings, it starts by re-inventing the entity and forcefully re-launching onto the world’s high-end audio stage. It then follows by introducing re-imagined products which, while preserving signature aesthetic motifs, improve on their predecessors with re-engineered and evolved design concepts. Incorporating these core philosophies, to a heightened status, are Classé Audio’s new Delta PRE and MONO flagship components.
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- Written by Barry Jones Barry Jones
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- Published: 01 April 2021 01 April 2021
KEF Blade Loudspeakers
The KEF Blades are gorgeous looking speakers. They have elicited nothing but compliments and occasional awe from every visitor I’ve had during the past couple of months, including one very keen tradesman who did all but insist on hearing them after finishing some painting on my balcony. The Blade is no longer a new speaker, despite the futuristic looking visual design, however, it’s an important loudspeaker design and it’s been too many years since I’ve listened to a KEF flagship model (discounting the limited-edition Muon) so when opportunity knocked, I opened the door.
