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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 15 April 2018 15 April 2018
Gryphon Audio Designs Diablo 120 Integrated Amplifier
High-end specialist Gryphon Audio Designs is renowned for the quality of its products in all aspects of design, be it style, engineering principles or sonic performance. Recently, the company has had considerable success with the astounding Diablo 300 integrated, a powerhouse offering which, as the name suggests, is rated at 300 watts per channel. The Diablo 300’s modular design is capable of accepting a top-shelf DAC and phono stage while bearing the usual Gryphon (for short) engineering and artistic design flair. Now, that glorious integrated amplifier sees the spawning of an offspring in the Diablo 120, a smaller sibling with just about half the power albeit with its bigger brother’s outstanding nuclear DNA running strongly through its circuit chromosomes.
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- Written by Josh Givorshner Josh Givorshner
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- Published: 15 April 2018 15 April 2018
Absolare Signature Integrated Amplifier
Absolare, a company with facilities both within the USA and the Netherlands, is one of the brands that has made me cross a ‘divide’. From the introduction of its Passion series preamplifier and power amplifier separates in 2012, Absolare immediately positioned itself as a brand that was luxurious, bespoke and innovative.
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- Published: 05 April 2018 05 April 2018
Audio Note-Kondo Japan Appoints New Australian Distributor
High-end iconic brand Audio Note-Kondo Japan has appointed Ultimate High-End as the new distributor in Australia.
Peter Vo, Founder of Ultimate High-End has been an admirer and owner of the products for some time and reached an agreement with the Audio Note Co. Japan management to form the new partnership to handle the superb and highly-regarded valve products in Australia.
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- Published: 13 April 2018 13 April 2018
New Monoblock Amplifier from Audio Research
Audio Research has just announced the release of the new Reference series REF160M monoblock amplifier which introduces a new industrial design and aesthetic, beautifully marrying the company’s classic themes with the latest in display technology.
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- Published: 10 April 2018 10 April 2018
Go Figure - Chord Electronics' New App for Poly
Chord Electronics’ highly successful and very portable Poly music streamer has been given a bump-up in terms of functionality and usability via the slick-looking GoFigure dedicated configuration App.
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- Published: 04 April 2018 04 April 2018
… And More Ground-Shaking Local Industry News
In photo: KEF Brand Ambassador Johan Coorg about to index Michael Di Meglio while Lawrence Chu, KEF General Manager for Asia Pacific, holds Di Meglio still.
It’s been announced that Michael Di Meglio, an important figure in the Australian Hi-Fi industry, has resigned from his current position at Advance Audio Australia.
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- Published: 04 April 2018 04 April 2018
Musical Fidelity Launches New DAC
A new M6 series upmarket, yet well-priced, Digital-to-Analogue Converter has been announced by the UK’s high-end audio electronics specialist Musical Fidelity.
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- Published: 03 April 2018 03 April 2018
OPPO to Cease Production
OPPO, the highly acclaimed digital specialist producer of award-winning universal disc player/streamer/DAC products has announced that it will cease production of its current digital player lines and its excellent head-fi products.
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- Written by Tom Waters Tom Waters
- Category: Reviews Reviews
- Published: 01 April 2018 01 April 2018
Trinnov Amethyst Preamplifier, DAC and Digital Processor
Here in the land Down Under, we’re in the homeland of DEQX. Due to their pricing and powerful local marketing, it’s likely hard for other manufacturers of competing products to get a foot in the market. For that reason, to me companies like Trinnov Audio and Holm Acoustics have always had a sense of mystique about them – you just don’t hear that much about them in this country. But once you start investigating on the web, you can find a great deal about the design and philosophy of Trinnov Audio.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
- Category: Ed Comment Ed Comment
- Published: 01 April 2018 01 April 2018
Spin the Black Circle… Clean
So, I made the plunge-of-faith into the liquorice abyss by purchasing a pre-loved analogue rig – a hot-rodded modified Michell Engineering Orbe SE packaged with Trans-Fi tangential tonearm and other associated goodies. I own many hundreds of records and, over the years, have sporadically purchased more vinyl while not even owning a turntable (a Garrard and subsequent Pro-Ject were sold many years prior). The turntable acquisition was motivated in part by wishing to review analogue gear. The deal was clenched when the prospect presented itself to review that Japanese gem, the outstanding Shelter Harmony MC cartridge; who would disregard that opportunity? But mostly I’ve held the desire, for some time, to reconnect with the great music that guided my own rite of passage, most of which also marked indelible guideposts along the history of music.
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- Published: 29 March 2018 29 March 2018
Loudspeaker Specialist Grover Notting Launches New Website
Grover Notting, Australian manufacturer of globally-acclaimed studio monitoring systems, has launched a thoroughly revamped website (www.classicaudiodesigns.com.au) featuring comprehensive product information and detailing the innovative designs and developed engineering philosophies applied across the wide range of the company’s offerings.
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- Written by Edgar Kramer Edgar Kramer
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- Published: 15 March 2018 15 March 2018
TARA Labs The Muse Interconnect and Speaker Cables
Over the last few decades, periodical fluctuations notwithstanding, the increased availability and reduced cost of high-grade materials, in conjunction with the development of more advanced software-controlled CNC machines and engineering software/computer modelling programs, have allowed the development of high-end audio of increasing sophistication and complexity. While this has meant that current affordable audio components offer superb engineering and build quality, at the other end of the scale, we have über high-end equipment employing up-to-the-minute material technologies and sonic performance that encapsulates what is presently technologically possible. Cable manufacturers are also utilising this wider engineering tools palette, adopting new techniques and materials in complex designs to bring the humble ‘wire’ up to spec in order to more adequately support these more sophisticated electronics and speaker systems. Enter TARA Labs’ The Muse.
