The Miyajima range of moving coil cartridges from Japan is now available in the UK. Noriyuki Miyajima started out building mono cartridges to his own design and now has a range of handmade MCs with hardwood and composite bodies using a mix of conical, elliptical and Shibata styli. Miyajima is being distributed in the UK […]
Bowers & Wilkins is lending its biggest speakers ever to the WOMAD festival later this month. The ‘Sound System’ active PA stack stands 3.2 metres tall and incorporates 36 drivers in 12 separate enclosures. These are Rohacel and Kevlar bass and mid cones allied to aluminium tweeters of the sort found in the company’s domestic […]
Having shown this high end pairing twice at CES Primare has officially launched the 60 series pre/power amplifiers. Made up of the PRE60 at £6,500 and A60 250 watt power amplifier this is Primare’s most ambitious and feature packed combo for a long time. PRE60 has a gorgeous OLED display, balanced and single ended in […]
Created by Longdog Audio and distributed by MCRU the XLCR was designed specifically to power the Naim Unitiserve. Un-like the existing power brick supplied with the unit the XLCR is a fully regulated linear power supply. It is well documented that switch mode power supplies (SMPS) can degrade sound quality, a linear design takes away […]
We saw the SLIC Innovations interconnect at the Brighton show, now it’s ready to roll. This new British brand has created the Eclipse ‘C’ interconnect cable. This uses “radical new technology unique to SLIC Innovations, and sounds like no other cable on the market” says David Brook, genuine northerner and linchpin of distributor MCRU. The […]
Hot on the heels of the news that the Beatles’ mono albums have been remastered at Abbey Road for re-release on vinyl Ortofon has created a mono cartridge to get the best out of them. The 2M Mono Special Edition was developed in cooperation with Apple Records owner Universal Music Group in order to bring […]
PS Audio has launched a Kickstarter campaign for ’Sprout’, its forthcoming all-in-one integrated amplifier. The Kickstarter campaign on launched at 8:31 am MST on Monday June 16th and was funded in less than an hour. Those after a heavily discounted ‘Sprout’ have until July 16th to nab a bargain. ‘Sprout’ was shown in prototype form at […]
Digital audio specialist Computer Audio Design has launched a “highly advanced” new USB cable using patent-pending proprietary technology. The new CAD Cable is a “no-compromise” USB cable specifically designed to maximise sound quality from USB-equipped music playback systems. It has been painstakingly designed by CAD’s Scott Berry, a British-based US-born electrical engineer who has worked […]
While many companies are jumping on the headphone bandwagon some others have seen an opportunity to join the new vinyl revolution. Norwegian electronics maker Elelctrocompaniet has launched the ECG 1 turntable which comes with a Jelco arm and an cartridge made by Soundsmith. The turntable is built out of an acrylic and aluminium sandwich on […]
Dynaudio has revised its Xeo range of wireless loudspeakers. Xeo 3 has become 4 and Xeo 5 is now 6. These bookshelf and floorstanding models have had a variety of changes including improved DSP, advanced Class-D amplification and a new “highly-tuned” crossover. There is now an auto play function, which means you don't have to […]
Magico is celebrating its tenth birthday with the M Project loudspeaker. This limited edition floorstander is the first from the company to sport carbon fibre side panels and top and bottom plates that are “edge-free” to optimize dispersion. Both front and side panels are curved to kill off internal standing waves and remove the sharp […]
The latest plus version of Super HL5 is the last model in Harbeth’s range to benefit from its RADIAL2 mid/bass driver. This 200mm example has a revised surround and an injection moulded dust cap. It’s allied to a 25mm dome tweeter and 20mm super tweeter in a 635mm high stand mount cabinet. As ever with […]