Transfiguration Axia S Cartridge
Janine Elliot takes the £1375 Transfiguration Axia S cartridge for a spin.
Idris Muhammad – Boogie To The Top. The Very Best Of (Robin Songs / Cherry Red)
Jazz funk is not a genre I’ve explored a great deal but this album suggests it may well be having a bit of a deeper delve… Idris Muhammad was born Leo Morris in New Orleans in 1939 and says that he’s a “natural drummer” whose gift came from the “Creator”. He made his recording debut […]
Daniel Cacija – Lifeline (Mons Records)
Croatian Cacija fled that war torn land in the early 90s to seek safety with his family in Frankfurt, Germany where aged just six he began professional music lessons and received a degree in classical piano from the city’s conservatoire. Cajica gained both a Bachelors and a Masters Degree at the Kunstuniversitat in Graz, Austria […]
PureAudioProject Trio15TB SE Special Offer
PureAudioProject have got in touch to let us know about a price drop on their open baffle Trio15TB SE. It is now available for US$2,999 in the US and Asia, and EUR2,999 in Europe, featuring the new Aluminium Frame and upgraded OB-A15SE woofers (prices excl. VAT and shipping) Also existing customers and subscribers to their mailing list can get the following upgrades. […]
Boxing Clever
The Pros and cons of buying off the internet. “I left the receipt for it lying around and she found it by chance, which was bad news!! Very bad news!!! The fact I had for years just bought and changed kit regularly without often mentioning the actual price I had paid for it couldn’t go […]
Pink Floyd Heading Up The Bill At DALI Evening In The Midlands
Danish audio company DALI are getting together with specialist Walsall high-end dealer Sound Academy to host a very special music evening on 23rd of September. There’ll be a live feed to the London launch of the new DALI Opticon series of loudspeakers on but the store is also putting on a special event of its own. […]
Hana Lab Audio Server and Amps
Croatian-based newcomer “Hana-Lab” has recently announced their new audio server plus Class D amp set in a stylish and unusual design. This versatile fanless audio server has integrated DAC which supports high-resolution playback (configurable with a 24/192 or 32/384 DAC) and a variety of streaming services (Spotify, Internet radio, UPNP/DLNA playback, Airplay, etc.). It plays […]
Amplifier Technologies Release BGW Immersive Sound Amplifiers For Home Use
Developed for Dolby Atmos commercial theatres, these BGW amplifiers are now ready for use in Home Cinemas. Designed in recognition that increased channel density required to playback Dolby Atmos in a commercial theatre would lead to significant crowding in the projection booth, Morris Kessler and his team designed a series of high-channel-count, flexible amplifiers. All […]
Smaller Maggies For Smaller Rooms
“What do you do if you covet Magnepan’s soaring loudspeakers but don’t have the largest of listening rooms?” asks the company’s latest press release and it seems they have just the solution with their new 0.7 (‘point seven’), a scaled down version of the brand’s acclaimed 1.7 model. The new 0.7 (‘point seven’) is a […]
Vivid Audio At National Audio Show 2015, Whittlebury, Saturday 19th to Sunday 20th September
Jake Purches of Vivid Audio UK got in touch to tell us about what they have in store for Whittlebury visitors this year: “We are showing just two loudspeakers from the Vivid range. The V1 (used to be V1.5) which is the entry level loudspeaker at £6500, a two way speaker based on the same […]
Lots Of Head-Fi Premiers At CanJam Europe 2015
The third annual headphone show CanJam Europe on September 26th and 27th in Essen, Germany, will be presenting a huge variety of headphones and accessories. The event’s organisers were aiming for 100 brands, more than 110 have already signed up. The seminar and workshop track has experts speak on personal audio topics and the “Best […]
Free Room Set Up Seminars At Whittlebury
GIK Acoustics, manufacturer and seller of acoustical absorption and diffusion products, is pleased to announce that GeneralManager David Shevyn will give two educational talks on the importance of room treatments at the National Audio Show in Whittlebury Hall this weekend. Mr. Shevyn will present a discussion on the importance of room treatments and the basics […]
CDs
The CD was a revelation in its day and I even recall one very animated presenter from Tomorrow’s Worldsmearing jam, or was it marmalade, over one of the discs, wiping it off and then playing the disc…But are they worth bothering with now?
Devialet Ensemble
French company Devialet have taken the audio world by storm since they launched and Stuart Smith now takes a listen to their £5590 Ensemble package.
Eclipse At RMAF
ECLIPSE, the high-performance loudspeaker division within Fujitsu Ten, the multi- billion-dollar global technology giant, is to exhibit at The Rocky Mountain Audio Fest! ECLIPSE will be taking selected models from its legendary range of loudspeakers and subwoofers, to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2015 (October 02nd – 04th 2015). Following the company’s successful participation at […]
McIntosh C52 Preamplifier Announced
Another new preamplifier from McIntosh has been announced on the company’s website, hot on the heals of the C1100 that we broke news of yesterday. “The C52 is the most advanced, single chassis solid state preamplifier we’ve ever made” the company say. For connecting analogue devices, it includes 3 balanced and 4 unbalanced fully assignable […]