Ruark Audio’s R5 Signature offers a combination of eye-catching industrial design, luxurious materials, an exceptional feature count, and class-leading audio engineering. Building on more than three decades of high-end audio and craftsmanship pedigree, the R5 Signature one-box music system has a piano lacquer finish with rose gold metal detailing. Creating a true piano finish requires a vast amount of […]
Cambridge Audio’s Evo is an all-in-one music player that “combines timeless design, cutting edge technology, streaming smarts, and incredible audio performance into one streamlined and compact box. You simply need to add speakers to start enjoying music.” Evo has walnut wood side panels that complement a black anodised aluminium cabinet. It comes with a choice […]
Renaissance has been appointed to represent Audiovector loudspeakers in Scotland. Renaissance is the long-standing distributor of Moon, VPI and Nordost, and Audiovector is the perfect addition to its portfolio of industry-leading brands. Owners of Audiovector loudspeakers benefit from a unique scheme whereby they can return their speakers for an upgrade to a higher level or […]
Merason has added the pow1 regulated linear PSU for its frérot entry level DAC. Designed exclusively for the Merason frérot it generates -12V and +12V, both regulated in two ways; the second regulation being particularly low- noise and discrete. The rectifier diodes built into the pow1 are special types which, in contrast to usual rectifier […]
Ouija has released a turntable specifically aimed at those wishing to contact their lost friends and relations via the cosmic medium of vinyl. The Ouija Plana has been specially designed to assist in seances for deceased relatives who suffered from audiophilia and vinylitus. Its makers claim that playing a loved one’s favourite album backwards will […]
Gold Note’s new PH-1000 phono stage combines a digital interface with a Class-A discrete component design, and claims to offer “the widest range of equalisations, gain, load and capacitance adjustments to correctly match any cartridge ever developed”. It has 18 EQ curves available for stereo, mono and 78rpm records and allows EQ adjustment to “virtually […]
The latest addition to Wilson Audio’s collection is the 161cm tall Alexx V, which sits just below the flagship Chronosonic models in the company’s extensive range of high end loudspeakers. Featuring an ‘open gantry’ design devised for the Chronosonic project to support the three enclosures for mid and high frequency drivers, and offering increased structural rigidity […]
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In the summer of 2021, Wilson Benesch will launch its next generation of infrasonic generator technologies (or subwoofers). Developed in Sheffield, England, the new Torus Series is based on the on the award- winning Torus design that precedes it with the aim of meeting the challenge presented by timpani, kick drums, kettle drums, musical instruments […]
PMC is marking its 30th anniversary by opening PMC Studio London, a state of the art Dolby Atmos music mixing suite that will be used to demonstrate the company’s loudspeaker products, including the new ci series, which are particularly suited to this ground-breaking immersive audio format, Based in a former piano factory in Islington, PMC […]
Cambridge Audio has updated its range of network audio streamers to include the latest Tidal Connect technology. This allows control of music playback on Cambridge Audio streamers directly by using the Tidal iOS and Android app. Tidal Connect support is available on Cambridge Audio’s current line-up of streamers that use its StreamMagic streaming platform. Tidal […]
Karma-AV has introduced the SVS 3000 Micro, a subwoofer designed to deliver “shockwave bass” from a cabinet that’s smaller than a 30cm cube. Featuring innovations from the reference SVS 16-Ultra subwoofers married to active 8-inch drivers and an 800W amplifier with discrete MOSFET output, the 3000 Micro “delivers a performance that eclipses other micro designs […]
At the heart of the Astell&Kern AK USB-C DUAL DAC Cable (£109) sit two Cirrus Logic CS43198 MasterHIFi DACs which support high-resolution audio playback up to native DSD256 and 32bit/384kHz. The dual DACs are paired with an independent analogue amplifier, designed for Android smartphone, Windows 10 PC, tablet PC or MacOS computers* and have the […]