Aimed at the budget market the Cyrus ONE amp packs a lot of features into its diminutive box, allied with the equally budget friendly ONELinear speakers you have a full system for a little over £1000. Ian Ringstead takes a listen.
Emotiva’s DR Series’ XPA-DR1 mono, XPA-DR2 two-channel and XPA-DR3 three-channel models utilise up to three pairs of Differential Reference™ Amplifier Modules, fed by a fully regulated, 3 kW switch mode power supply within a heavy-duty chassis.
Audionet will be launching a new integrated amplifier at High End Munich.
Cary Audio say that the introduction of the SA-200.2 ES and SA-500.1 ES solid-state power amplifiers represent the next generation of the SA design. They employ a modular approach that ensures, say Cary, “consistency in performance, and ease of manufacture and serviceability”.
Hercules Integrated is the younger brother of S.A.Lab’s flagship Hercules MkII Magister of Music. S.A.Lab say it is ‘ a more compact and affordable amplifier which is technologically identical to grand Hercules MkII Magister of Music’.
Boenicke Audio will be at High End Munich 2018 showing their W5SE and W13SE+ loudspeakers, their integrated amplifier and their swing rack. Plus they will also show their own line of cables, prices are not yet available for these though.
Croatian Hifi brand, Sound Carrier, who specialise in making valve amplifiers, have released their new 24 kg EL34 Monoblocks.
The April Edition of Hifi Pig’s free, downloadable E-magazine is a very special one, featuring Women in Hifi. Women who work in the Hifi Industry and female audiophiles.
Audioplus Laboratories is a relatively new Italian Hifi brand that was born in 2016. After its first appearance at High End Munich 2017, it now presents a complete line of electronics, in the mid and high-level range.
Benchmark has introduced a new headphone / line amplifier with four 256-step relay-controlled attenuators and four 16-step relay-controlled boost amplifiers.
Bryston will be at AXPONA in room 496, to launch their new 24B³ six channel amplifier.
The successor to First Watt’s SIT-1 and SIT-2 amplifiers is now going into production. Like them, the new SIT-3 uses a Static Induction Transistor (VFET) in the power stage of a simple no-feedback amplifier.
Italian brand, Gold Note will be at AXPONA 2018 showing their products that have recently become available in the USA.
The Parasound Halo 2.1 Integrated Amplifier with DAC is a fully featured integrated amplifier with an on-board DAC and much more. David Robson takes a listen to this £2999 well specified amp.
PS Audio will be exhibiting at Axpona, April 13th -15th, in the three-room Journey/Creation suite on the first floor of the Renaissance Hotel, near the entrance to the Expo Hall. The room is located near both the main show entrance and the seminar/concert room.
The Edge series, from UK hifi brand Cambridge Audio, represents the culmination of 50 years of audio engineering and a completely new design, that has taken over three years for the nine-person in-house engineering team to complete. Cambridge Audio wanted to keep the signal path short across the series. Only 14 components feature in the signal […]
Elipson has announced the launch of the Music Centre Black edition featuring Bluetooth HD wireless and Google’s Chromecast Audio. Design by Jean-Yves Le Porcher, this new version of their Music Centre has a black satin finish chassis for the circular case, and a touch sensitive user interface under the CD slot.
The Parasound Halo 2.1 Integrated Amplifier with DAC is a fully featured integrated amplifier with an on-board DAC and much more. David Robson takes a listen to this £2999 well specified amp.
Leema Acoustics, based in Wales have launched an Anniversary edition of their well received Tucana II integrated amplifier. Hifi Pig takes a listen.
Based around Auralic’s Lightning DS Streaming Platform, which is one of the most intuitive and responsive software systems around for devices of this type, Polaris incorporates a wired/wireless streamer, a music server – via additional HDD/SSD, a DAC, a moving magnet phonostage, a preamplifier and a stereo power amplifier. Dan Worth tries out this £2875 […]
Denon is introducing a pure AV-Amplifier after a long absence from the AV market. This will be the first AV-Amplifier Denon have released since their AVC-A1HDA back in 2009. The AVC-X8500H is a 13.2 channel AV Amplifier and features Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and Auro 3D surround decoding, with 13 channels of built-in amplification.
TAGA Harmony have released their second vacuum tube amplifier, the TTA-500.
TAGA Harmony HTA-800 is a 50W / 8ohm hybrid integrated amplifier utilising two 6N3 tubes in the preamp section and four Toshiba transistors at the output. High-performance tubes and a high-power shielded toroidal 200W transformer provides stable power.
Atoll Electronics, based in Normandy, France, has announced their Signature range. The all new designs include 2 integrated amplifiers IN200 (pictured) & IN300 with an optional integral DSD DAC with Bluetooth and optional phono stage.
Last year, Hifi Pig visited Apurna, a French High end amplifier manufacturer based in Valence.
Decent Audio, the North East UK based hifi importer and distributor will be exhibiting at Bristol Sound & Vision this month.
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.
Bryston has announced that they will be working in collaboration with StormAudio, an audio hardware manufacturer based in France, enabling both companies to, they day, “leverage their respective design and manufacturing expertise in an array of new product offerings”. As a byproduct of the cooperative effort, Bryston will be unveiling an SP4 surround processor and […]
