Steinway Lyngdorf has launched a collection of speakers designed for the “ultimate Hollywood cinema and large format screening rooms”. The X Series speakers are made specifically for both private and commercial projects.
Audio Emotion will once again be in the Baird 1 Suite at the North West Audio Show. This year their room will feature a number of UK premieres including:
Chasing the Dragon has become one of the world’s leading audiophile record labels. In January, they recorded Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, complete with Piano Concerto No 5.
Ammonite Audio will be showing their own range of improved mounting collars and spacers for Jelco tonearms and their modular machined alloy armboards for Technics SL-1200 turntables.
RD Acoustic of the Czech Republic, have released their own RCA audio cable.
Brooklyn instrumental rock trio Concrete Concrete have shared their emotive and intricate new single ‘Hues’. The single is taken from their highly anticipated debut album ‘Drifter’, which is due out 2nd August 2019.
SYD by Kanto is a standalone speaker that you can connect a turntable, CD Player, TV and even by bluetooth. It costs £289.99 and here Harry Smith puts it through its paces.
In a move that reinforces PMC’s importance in the world of music production, the company has opened new demo studios on the East and West Coasts of the USA, to give recording professionals the opportunity to work with PMC’s monitor range in the studio environment.
Designer Noriyuki Miyajima has earned a worldwide following for his artisan phono cartridges. The new Saboten L (‘L’ denoting its line-contact stylus) is a low-output moving-coil (MC) design. It also happens to feature a cactus-spine cantilever, ‘Saboten’ being the Japanese word for cactus.
Following on from the April launch of the Melody X, Marantz has launched the new Marantz Melody M-CR412, featuring CD playback, FM/DAB+ radio and built-in Bluetooth.
In which John Scott confronts a philosophical pachyderm, feeds it a bun, pats it gently on its trunk and sends it on its way. Or John Scott takes delivery of the Micromega M150 Integrated amp/DAC/streamer costing £5499.
Automatic is Izzy Glaudini (synths, vocals), Lola Dompé (drums, vocals) and Halle Saxon (bass, vocals). The band first met while immersed in L.A.’s DIY music scene and started jamming together in 2017. Once they started playing out, word quickly spread about their explosive live shows. Over the past year they have become a mainstay on […]
Sunderland post-punk 4-piece Roxy Girls have shared their new single ‘Trials and Tribulations’. Having recently signed to Moshi Moshi Records, the single is accompanied by the announcement of the bands’ forthcoming mini-album ‘A Poverty Of Attention’, which is due out 6th September.
By Night is the brand new record by the Californian four-piece, Plague Vendor. They bring a hard, fast and loud sound which is very enthralling. The album has 10 songs on it and not one is a disappointment. Their sound could be described as punk or garage rock but ultimately they are an impressive hard […]
The Mediterraneo from Italian brand Gold Note is their top-level turntable and it’s certainly a bit of a looker, but how does it perform. The UK price for the Mediterraneo in Italian Walnut is £5,445.00 and this includes the B 5.1 Tonearm. Stuart Smith finds out how it performs.
For twenty-five years, British Hifi brand AVID has championed vinyl reproduction with its turntables.