Shortly before the High End show in Munich last week it was revealed that Bowers & Wilkins long term major shareholder Joe Atkins had sold the company to Californian former Facebook chief financial officer Gideon Yu’s company Eva Automation. Atkin’s will become CEO for the combined company which brings expertise in wireless technology that could […]
Rega will be launching a new Planar 2 was developed over the past two years alongside the recently released Planar 3. It features the brand new RB220 tonearm which is packed with ‘groundbreaking’ new features. A new 24 volt, low noise motor, acrylic laminated plinth, newly designed central bearing.TonearmThe RB220 incorporates new ultra low friction, Rega designed, bespoke, zero play […]
Technics has today announced the specifications for the new non-limited edition Grand Class Direct Drive Turntable System SL-1200G, which will be available to buy in Autumn 2016 for those not fortunate enough to have purchased one of the only 900 limited edition SL-1200GAE turntables available outside of Japan. The 300 limited edition samples available for […]
Chord has officially launched its most ambitious cable range to date in ChordMusic. First previewed at Bristol last year it has taken until now for Nigel Finn and Alan Gibb to gather enough of this uniquely insulated cable to build both interconnects and speaker cables for the ChordMusic range. The ChordMusic interconnects have the same […]
KEF is to donate a pair of MUONs, its £140,000 statement loudspeaker, to ‘Time For Design’, a benefit auction in support of the brand new Design Museum in West London. The Design Museum, currently located in Shad Thames, will close its doors on 30th June and reopen in November 2016 at new premises in High […]
Quad latest loudspeaker range, the Z Series, is the first of many new products planned for 2016 in celebration of the brand’s 80th year. Like the S Series, the new range combines advanced Kevlar-coned bass and midrange drivers with a ribbon tweeter. The Z Series takes this fundamental design to a whole new level with […]
ATC Loudspeaker Technology is celebrating the 70th birthday of its founder and Managing Director Billy Woodman (below) with a ‘Signature’ version of a landmark ATC design. Based on the highly original and acclaimed SCM10 mini monitor from 1990, the Signature Edition SCM10SE is an immaculate reworking of the breakthrough model. Presented in a lustrous ATC […]
ATC Loudspeaker Technology’s new SCM19 Active Tower speaker system was conceived to deliver the company’s reference-quality audio from an elegantly curved floor-standing design, just 370mm wide and under a metre in height. Identical acoustically to ATC’s passive SCM19 2-way but utilising the 19 litre volume in a slim tower format the SCM19AT’s braced, sealed and […]
Rega has updated its most iconic turntable the Planar 3. The new P3 will be launched at Sound & Vision, Bristol this weekend and goes on sale late March/early April. Changes include a glossy finish on the plinth, thicker braces between armbase and main bearing and an improved platter. The biggest upgrades however have been […]
French spherical speaker specialist Elipson Audio has produced its first ever range of turntables. Entirely designed, developed and manufactured by Elipson in France, the Alpha and Omega are claimed to be the world’s first premium turntables offering the option of wireless technology. Every bespoke part of the turntable has been designed by Elipson’s engineers of […]
ATC Loudspeaker Technology has produced a new series of Special Edition speaker designs. Available in active and passive versions and based on ATC’s reference SCM50, SCM100 and SCM150 monitors, the limited edition SCM50SE, SCM100SE and SCM150SE models feature the Company’s proprietary acoustic systems set within beautifully curved cabinets, precision-finished in a choice of exclusive real-wood […]
One of the most prestigious names in studio electronics is making a DAC for us audio nuts! PrismSound’s forthcoming Callia is capable of converting PCM up to 384kHz and DSD at 64 and 128 (1x and 2x) and has both single ended and balanced outputs alongside coax, USB and optical inputs. Based on the British […]