Bristol is back, after a two year COVID induced sabbatical the UK’s biggest hi-fi exhibition is going to happen. You can see an exhibitor list here but the following brands will be among those with some lovely stuff to see and hear at the Marriott City Centre for three days from February 24th. We will […]
Sennheiser’s updated HD 660S2 responds to hi-fi community feedback, crafting a headphone that skillfully balances reference-level detail with engaging frequency response, it says here. Sennheiser product manager Jermo Koehnke puts it thus: “The new HD 660S2 offers listeners what they requested most from the headphones’ predecessor. With precision and power like no other and new […]
In 2018, dCS launched the Bartók – an upsampling network DAC designed to deliver exemplary sound quality. In 2022, dCS issued a major software update – Bartók 2.0 – including an upgrade to the mapping algorithm that controls the dCS Ring DAC technology, improvements to DSD upsampling and new digital filter options. Another year on and it’s time for the […]
Ansuz Acoustics have introduced a new flagship series of audio cables and power distributors – Ansuz Gold Signature. The Ansuz development team has always known that gold has the potential to significantly increase sound quality, but unfortunately, gold can also do the opposite. The challenge was to find the optimum amount of gold in combination […]
The Innuos line of music server/streamers and network music players now include MQA Core Decoder technology. With the certification, owners of Innuos servers and network music players can now stream and play MQA files up to 24bit/96 kHz for non-MQA DACs and up to 24bit/384 kHz for MQA renderer/decoder DACs. Innuos music servers and network […]
Network Acoustics Muon Pro ethernet filter Network Acoustics is bringing its professional 1Gb/s streaming Muon Pro system to the home audio market. The aim of the Muon Pro Ethernet Filter and Streaming Cable is to eliminate the noise from streaming systems and thus allow those systems to reveal the full glory of the music. Originally […]
Cambridge Audio has added the AXN10 and MXN10 to its range of network music players. The full-size, limited edition AXN10 (above) joins Cambridge Audio’s entry level AX Series of hi-fi separates.The MXN10 (below) offers the same features and functionality in a more compact form factor, making it a discreet and easy way to add streaming […]
Reducing unwanted high frequency noise in a hi-fi system audibly improves the system’s sound quality. Computer Audio Design (CAD) has pioneered a portfolio of highly effective solutions to the problem, and now adds the new USB Control – which also happens to be the company’s most compact and affordable solution yet. Computer Audio Design’s multi-award […]
Clarisys Audio, the Swiss based manufacturer of full-range ribbon speakers has appointed Sonata as its exclusive distributor for the UK. Inspired by classic ribbon speaker designs of the 1980s, Clarisys Audio have re-imagined them, making use of the latest materials and manufacturing processes so that they can finally enable this technology to fully realise its […]
Tellurium Q’s Statement II cables “look simple but were a highly complicated task to engineer for the sound quality they release in a system. The example they give is the speaker cable, although each type of cable needed its own development. In the case of the speaker cable there is a minimum of eight layers […]
The new SIVGA SV023 are an open-back design with 50mm dynamic drivers which have been designed and engineered by in-house. Larger drivers can sometimes deliver a significant increase in headphone weight. However, with the SV023, the engineering team has delivered a custom driver within an ergonomic headphone design weighing just 318g. Housed in a real […]
The new Ansuz Mainz8 Generation 3 series is equipped with Ansuz most sophisticated and most advanced noise reduction, resonance control, and dither technologies. In developing this new generation of power distributors, Ansuz was able to draw on their latest research findings on specific material properties and leverage the acoustic effects of innovative composite materials. This […]