34 years. That’s how long Bad Religion has been a functioning entity! Occupying a genre not known for cultivating longevity in its participants, they’ve endured line-up changes, fluctuations in popularity and label changes and are (deservedly) absolute icons of punk rock. However to use sporting parlance, you’re only as good as your last game… so […]
Luxury high end audio manufacturer Gryphon Audio Designs of Denmark is celebrating the launch of their greatest loudspeaker achievement yet, the four-tower Gryphon Pendragon. Conceived to be partnered with the Gryphon Pandora preamplifier and Mephisto (stereo) or Mephisto Solo (monoblock) power amplifiers, the three-way Gryphon Pendragon system employs a bass tower (eight 8” bass drivers […]
THIEL Audio, the lexington based high-end loudspeaker manufacturer, has announced that consumer electronics senior executive Bob Brown has been appointed to the company’s board of directors and will take over as interim COO effective immediately. Brown, recently named to CEDIA’s board of directors, brings a rich legacy and successful track record in the performance audio […]
It’s that time of year again and around comes what many in the high-end audio community feel is the “must go to” hifi show in the calender. I’m talking of course about the Munich High-End Exhibition 2013 which takes place 9th May – 12th May, 2013 – with the Thursday being trade visitors day. This […]
Bryston, LTD has announced that award-winning studio designer Carl Tatz has selected the Bryston 4BSST² stereo amplifier to power the control room monitors in a studio designed for multi-Grammy®-winning engineer Bob Bullock. “I brought the first Bryston 4B to the Nashville studio scene in the ’80s. It has since become the world standard for pro […]
Aurorasounds’ is a high-end audio company from Yokohama, Japan. Designer and director Shinobu Karaki has 28 years experience working for Texas Instruments Japan Inc and is also a passionate musician, music teacher and an audiophile. Aurorasounds’ latest development is a phono-stage called VIDA (Vinyl Disk Amplifier). The two box VIDA uses an LCR network for […]
KEF has added a Linear White and Rosewood finish to its Q Series speaker range. The Q Series uses the Uni-Q driver array and bass drivers which help deliver an “extremely detailed and spacious sound image even from the smallest models”. There are nine models, including three floorstanders, two bookshelf speakers, two fully specified and […]
US audio cable manufacturer, DH Labs has announced the latest in their range of loudspeaker cables, the Deity Speaker Cable. The cable has been designed to be used in high-end audio systems and the company claims it delivers “the most accurate and uncoloured signal transmission possible, along with extraordinary harmonics and tonal balance”. The Deity […]
This is the second album from Projected Twin, the brainchild of Adelaide local Shaun Holton. Following on from the similarly titled, self-produced debut Earth to World, Earth vs World was made possible by the increasingly successful Pledge Music organization. For those unfamiliar, Pledge and similar organizations take donations towards the cost of recording upcoming albums […]
Nuclear Blast Records Sophomore albums are always an interesting proposition. Not only because they are supposedly “difficult”, but also because they often give a more realistic representation of a band’s sound and future direction than their debut. Many bands skew off in a radically different direction on their second albums, eager to avoid stereotype and […]
British audio cable manufacturer, Black Rhodium has announced the launch of its latest stereo interconnect named Tempo. The design of Tempo is based very closely on the company’s Coda interconnect cable with two differences: The Silicone rubber type GPC insulation of the 19 individual 16-gauge silver plated copper conductors has been increased from a thickness […]
In the second of our ongoing series of Behind the Brands interviews we speak to Graeme Holland who heads up the high-end valve amplifier manufacturing company Audion. If you are involved in the Hifi industry and are yourself interested in being included in the Behind The Brand interviews then please do get in touch with […]
Graeme Holland heads up Audion, a high-end valve amplifier manufacturer based in South West France, having traditional values and service, yet at the forefront of tube technologies. Now celebrating 25 years of supplying and creating high-end audio products, Audion goes from strength to strength.
With its Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), standalone Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) & Preamp, Digital-to-Digital Converter (DDC), standalone Digital-to-Digital Converter (DDC) with analog input and Headphone Amplifier this little unit from Tokyo certainly seems to be well specced. All in one device for USB DAC, standalone DAC & Preamp, USB-DDC, standalone DDC with analog input, headphone amplifier. Asynchronous USB operation: […]
NuForce, Inc have announced a single-chassis integrated stereo amplifier, the IA-18. The unit incorporates components used in NuForce’s c Reference Series products including much of the same circuitry as the P-20, the company’s most recent flagship preamplifier, a Cross Matrix Array (CMA) capacitor module, and two V3 output amplifier modules. The IA-18 features five analogue […]
Merrill Audio announces the release of two new models of their Veritas amplifiers, a Dual Mono version called the VERITAS Twins, and Bridged Monoblocks called the VERITAS Siamese Twins. All three models are built around the Hypex Ncore NC1200. Priced at USD $9,000, the VERITAS Twins Dual Mono Amplifier provides the sonic and build quality […]