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T.H.E Home Entertainment Show

Sunshine, surf, and music are on tap when T.H.E. Home Entertainment Show returns to Newport Beach, CA on June 1-3, 2012 for the second year in a row!  This year, the event will take place in two locations: the Newport Hilton and the adjacent Atrium Hotel—both located across the street from the Orange County Airport. […]

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Hawkwind « Onward »

This arrived only a couple of hours ago and was immediately placed in the cd player. I’m a bit of a Hawkwind fan! It’s a double CD and comes in a gatefold type case…very nice. Track one kicks off proceedings and is Hawkwind at their riffing best and with the usual electronic twitters that Hawkwind […]

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Naim Uniti 2

Naim has launched the NaimUniti 2, the successor to the NaimUniti, at the Munich High End show. This new edition of Naim’s original all-in-one player has a 70W per channel amplifier whereas the original had just 50W. It boasts a new CD player section with a new tray and transport and a new Burr Brown […]

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Poor Quality Downloads are Killing Music

In the first three months of 2011 just over 20 million CDs were sold in the UK, but this figure dropped to 15.3 million in 2012 – a drop of 25%. Sales of vinyl in the UK experienced growth in 2011 of almost 40% over 2010 figures but still only account for 19.5% of non-download […]

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Sony SS-AR1 Set for European Launch

Sony SS-AR1 is a 57Kg, $27 000 loudspeaker that up until now has not been available in Europe. This scenario looks set to change as the company have been demonstrating the loudspeakers at this years Munich High End event to German dealers. The SS-AR1 is predominantly a wooden loudspeaker with the baffles being sourced from the […]

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Nagra Jazz Preamplifier

Nagra, the Swiss company long associated with the Montreaux Jazz Festival, have announced, at the Munich High End show, that they will introduce the Nagra Jazz preamplifier. Giving the preamplifier a name is something of a departure for the company, but the same compact size as other Nagra preamplifiers such as the PL-L and PL-P […]

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Lampizator Upgrade News

Lampizator have announced that as of next week all their DACs that come equipped with a remote volume will have remote controlled switching of digital inputs too. There will be no price increase.  There will be a retrofit package available as a kit for 100€ and DACs which are sent to Lampizator for upgrades or […]

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KEF unveils the LS50 50th Anniversary Model

KEF has announced the introduction of its new LS50 Mini Monitor speaker; a concept derived from the legendary LS3/5a and designed to bring professional studio monitor concept into the home. The LS50 monitor is claimed to deliver a “rich, multi-dimensional ‘soundstage experience’ that is out of all proportion to its size.” Patent-pending acoustic designs, together […]

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“Audiophile Desktop System” at Munich

Founded in 2000, the Chicago (US) based company CEntrance develops innovative audio entertainment products and licenses its technology to industry brands, such as Playback Designs, Bel Canto, Benchmark, PS Audio, and Lavry. CEntrance will be demonstrating their “Audiophile Desktop System” at this year’s Munich High End show and very interesting it looks too. The system […]

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KEF introduces free £50 Voucher for their Online Store

As part of KEF’s on going 50th Anniversary celebrations, from 1st May the company  will offer a free £50 voucher to anyone signing up to KEF’s weekly KEFTalk newsletter. The free voucher can be used against any product in the brand’s online KEFStore on purchases over £300. All purchases are supplied by the nearest official […]

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NOLA to debut new Loudspeakers

NOLA will debut the Grand Reference VI (Pictured) at the upcoming 2012 Munich Hi End Show. This 4 tower system is the flagship model from New York State (US) based Nola and now incorporates Unison Crossover Technology so one pair of mono block amplifiers or one stereo amplifier can drive all four towers. Drive units […]

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RTI Announce 4 and 16 Channel Amplifiers

Not strictly home hifi but interesting news none the less:Minnesota (US) based Remote Technologies Incorporated (RTI) have announced that the company is now shipping its new four-channel CP-450 and 16-channel CP-1650 audio amplifiers. Designed as the perfect complements to RTI’s eight-zone AD-8 distributed audio system, these powerful new amplifiers provide an additional 50 W per […]

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Amphion Ion+ Loudspeaker

The widely regarded Finnish loudspeaker manufacturer Amphion has announced its latest Ion+ which is said to give a perfect near-field performance and room filling live-like sound. The new Ion+ has a frequency response of 52-25 000Hz and crosses over at 1600Hz and a quoted sensitivity of 86db. It is a two way design with a […]

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Esoteric Announces K-05 CD/SACD and DAC

The new Esoteric K-05 is a combined CD/SACD player as well as an outboard DAC for decoding your digital audio stored on your PC, MAC or media server. This unit uses the highly regarded ESOTERIC VRDS mechanism for playing of any form of CD or SACD.  It also is fitted with Digital to Analog conversion […]