Owned, and founded in 2011, by engineer Gediminas Gaidelis, AudioSolutions design and manufacture loudspeakers in Vilnius, Lithuania. Gediminas got in touch with Hifi Pig to tell us more about the European manufacturer’s new line of loudspeakers, Figaro.
McIntosh has announced the MC611 Quad Balanced Power Amplifier. The monoblock MC611 Quad Balanced Power Amplifier produces 600 Watts of power. A pair of MC611s can drive a hifi, or add additional units to power each speaker of a home theatre.
Danish loudspeaker manufacturer Dynaudio has rebooted its Xeo active wireless hifi speaker family. The new Xeo 20 and Xeo 30 speakers replace the Xeo 4 and 6, and join the Xeo 2 in the company’s range.
The new generation of PIEGA Premium loudspeakers from Switzerland feature the companies new LDR 3056 high-range ribbon tweeter in it’s top of the range model.
Sound Fowndations are this year making their exhibit more ‘Bristol-friendly’ by pitching it at what most of the show-goers seem to want. Previously they have had one room with a ‘big’ system: Clearaudio Innovation, DS Master One, Gamut amps and speakers etc, with the system price coming to well over £50k.
Harbeth Audio Ltd. announced a third release of new limited edition products, continuing the celebrations of their 40th Anniversary year, in December 2017
Brainwavz, established in 2008 with a focus on offering ‘high quality products at a competitive price’, has announced its B400 Quad Balanced Armature Earphones in the UK.
In 2017, British brand Exposure launched the ‘XM’ series of hifi components, packing high-end features into a compact and affordable design. New to the series and launching at Bristol 2018 is the XM HP headphone amplifier.
2018 sees the launch of two new built-in speaker ranges from Focal, with the introduction of the all new entry-level 100 Series and additional products added to the mid-priced 300 Series.
Devon-based Timestep has signed an exclusive distribution agreement to import Glanz tonearms from their native Japan to the UK. Visit Timestep at Sound & Vision Bristol to discover them.
Musical Fideity’s M6 Encore Connect is a ripper, streamer and preamplifier all in one handy, if substantial box. It costs £3629 and Lionel Payne hooked it up to his system to see if it came up to scratch.
We first came across the Belgian 432EVO Master Music server at High End Munich 2017, it is now available to buy.
Soulution is the first high end electronics manufacturer in the world to license “Leedh Processing” for its D/A converters 560 and 760. “Leedh Processing” is an algorithm for increasing or decreasing the volume level of a digital music signal.
Feliks Audio, a Polish based manufacturer of hand crafted tube amplifiers, has released a prototype of their new desktop amplifier that can power both speakers and headphones.
Prism Sound, manufacturer of the Callia hifi DAC, pre-amplifier and headphone amp, has seen a significant investment in its pro products by Mark Knopfler’s British Grove Studios, buying enough PT-HDX compatible interface cards to ensure that every one of its Prism Sound ADA-8XR multichannel converters can now connect to its six Pro Tools® HDX™ systems.
Catch up on all the Hifi News and Hifi Reviews that we covered in the first month of 2018…