Clearaudio’s Innovation range of turntables now has a new entry point, the Innovation Basic. Borrowing technology from the Innovation Compact and Master Innovation – the new Basic packs a raft of features at a more accessible starting price of £3,400. The resonance-optimised chassis features Clearaudio’s three-point design with its ‘sandwich’ construction of Panzerholz (a solid, […]
Bryston has joined the analogue revolution and released the first turntable to bear their mark. Custom made by GoldNote in Italy with a Bryston designed and built power supply the BLP-1 is a mass loaded, rigid plinth design with a titanium tonearm and tungsten bearings, 35mm thick Delrin platter, modular bearing system and separate power […]
Karma AV now has the new Mark-Levinson № 526 dual-monaural preamplifier, billed as being “the complete preamplifier for enthusiasts of all music formats”. The № 526 has 12-inputs, Pure Path circuit topology, a class-A ‘Pure Phono’ stage, a 32-bit DAC, and a class-A Main Drive headphone output. Designed and engineered at Harman’s Engineering Centre of […]
The Chord Company has launched the Shawline cable range, which has been carefully designed to do, what it describes as nothing. Its 30 years of design and manufacturing experience means that the company can now make cables that it says do nothing but carry the signal. They claim that it adds no colouration, has no […]
Focal has unveiled three new headphones. They are said to combine “exclusive technology, remarkable audio performance” and the brand’s own design codes”. This month also sees the inauguration of Focal’s new production line at its site in Saint-Etienne, France which will be entirely dedicated to manufacturing Elear and Utopia headphones. Great claims are being made for […]
Following the Planar 2 and 3 already launched this year we heard rumours last week that the RP1 was to follow suit, the Rega Planar 1 has now arrived and costs £248. Features include a brand new RB110 tonearm built with ultra-low friction, zero play bearings. New bias assembly and integrated arm clip plus automatic […]
Vertere has a new black finish for its SG and RG turntables and we think it looks a bit saucy. Note the Audio Technica ART 1000 cartridge onboard this SG, that is a combination to contend with. Even on the entry level MG turntable this cartridge combines speed and sweetness like nothing else. A review […]
Audio Research has built the Foundation Series a new range of tube electronics at what for them is a low price point of £6,998 a piece. The first three models include the LS28 line stage preamplifier, the PH9 phono stage, and the DAC9 digital-to-analog converter. A new amplifier will follow, with other products to complete […]
Cyrus Audio is launching its first Kickstarter campaign on 1st July, with the aim of raising £50,000 to develop the SoundKey, a micro-sized DAC designed to get the very best musical performance out of mobile phones. Aimed firmly at the new generation of music lovers who use their mobile phones as the primary source, the […]
TEAC has decided to cover all the bases with its latest product launches. The TN-570 is a new belt-driven turntable that combines a clear acrylic platter with an S-shaped tonearm, all mounted on a composite black marble/high-density MDF base. The PD-301DAB on the other hand is “one of the most compact CD players available" (it’s just 6.1cm high), and incorporates […]
Meridian Audio, has launched its most ambitious DAC to date in the £15,000 Ultra, a 384kHz/24-bit dedicated digital to analogue capable of playing “virtually any recording format including DXD, DSD64 and DSD128 (DoP), and MQA”. The Ultra DAC is the first Meridian product to give users the option to select one of three upsampling filters […]
What more can a company do after launching “one of the best DACs available today?” According to Metrum and two of the Ear’s reviewers their current flagship Pavane is hard to beat but at least one idea was not been tried yet. The idea of having a decent volume control that eliminates the need for […]