MrSpeakers has worked with legendary headphone designer, Bruce Thigpen (founder of Eminent-Technology and pioneer of numerous planar magnetic speaker technologies), to produce ETHER, a new planar-driven pair of open-backed, on-ear headphones. They have produced a new kind of Planar technology, the V-Planar, with extra knurling. ‘What is knurling?’ you ask, apparently knurling turns the flat […]
Denon® Electronics has announced a new partnership with TIDAL, This new partnership gives HEOS users a new option for high fidelity music streaming. Users can access their TIDAL account directly through their HEOS system via the HEOS app, available for iOS, Android™* and Kindle Fire. Don Freeman, Denon’s Vice President of Marketing, says: “This is […]
No its not Easter but KEF has an EGG for us. It seems like the market is awash with Bluetooth systems at the moment but KEF has reinvented its successful ‘egg’ design, to be Bluetooth enabled, with superior 4.0 aptX compatibility and featuring KEF’s famous Uni-Q driver from the KEF Blade. It’s a plug-and-play’ package, with built-in amplification and DAC and can […]
MCRU and SliC Innovations have announced the launch of the Eclipse C loudspeaker cables. They have the same patented cable design as the SliC interconnects and the designer, electrical engineer Eugene Howe just asks hifi owners to audition the cables and come to their own decisions about them. Available exclusively from MCRU, in any length from […]
GIK Acoustics has announced that the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has issued utility patent US 9,091,060 for GIK’s proprietary design of its acoustic absorbers. The patent covers the design and construction of GIK Acoustics’ 242 Acoustic Panels, 244 Bass Traps with FlexRange Technology, and Monster Bass Traps with FlexRange Technology. GIK Acoustics’ patented design begins with a […]
Leema Acoustics, the Welshpool based hi-fi manufacturer founded and run by two ex-BBC sound engineers, has launched the Xen 2 loudspeaker; the original Xen having been the result of a research project to squeeze a BBC-graded monitor speaker into a 5L cabinet! The new Xen 2 is based on the previous model (deleted in 2008), […]
Now in its eleventh year the much loved Fest Jazz at Chateauneuf-du-Faou certainly didn’t disappoint visitors this year…if only the same could be said for the weather which was excitedly moist to say the very least.
Founded by keen audiophile Darren Hollands, MBA Co already has three products in an expanding portfolio while actively seeking worldwide distribution for its loudspeakers and electronics. The line-up includes Progression floor standing loudspeakers, Pulse stand-mounts, plus the Status integrated amplifier. Already on the drawing board is a smaller, sealed speaker dubbed The Spur, and a […]
Fanthorpes in Hull (East Yorkshire) are hosting an event in three weeks’ time showcasing the brand-new AVID pre-amplifier and monobloc power amplifiers in their store. The system was launched at the Munich Hi-end show and retails as a complete system in excess of £85k. However, this will be the first time it will have been […]
ER4S, ER4PT and HF series of isolator earphones from Etymotic Research have just been launched onto the UK market. Unlike most earphones Etymotic earphones are designed to be inserted inside the actual ear canal. The airtight seal created by the earphone’s custom-designed ear tips allow highly-focused sound waves to reach the ear drums and the […]
Melodika, one of the biggest Polish manufacturers of hi-fi cables is expanding its Purple Rain range with headphone and subwoofer cables.The new headphone cables are: – adapter mini jack 3.5mm socket-socket: MDGMJ02 – adapter mini jack 3.5mm plug – jack 6.3mm socket: MDPMJGJ – jack 6.3mm plug – mini jack 3.5mm socket extension cord (length: […]
The Absolute Mediaserver (from Swiss high-end brand Orpheus) which was showcased for the first time to the public during the High End 2015 in Münich will be officially launched on the market in September 2015. The Absolute Mediaserver is equipped with an Intel i3 processor, mSata SSD for the OS, a built-in ripper, 2 headphone ports, HDMI […]
The Kassandra uses the AD1865 chip, an 18bit R2R converter, which they say is probably the best sounding audio DAC …in fact they use 32 of them,16 converters per channel. The 16 converters in each channel work in complimentary mode, so that 8 converters are inverted. The two differential converter banks work in synchronicity to […]
Swiss company Soulution have announced their new SACD player, the 746+. Retailing at 70,000 CHF, production will be limited to just 20 units. The 746+ unites a top quality optical drive, a super-precise master clock generator, an intelligent digital signal processor with over sampling, high quality analogue output stages and a new, highly precise and […]