The AVID Hifi Reference Four is a £15 000, British designed and manufactured standmount that weighs in at an impressive 40 Kg including dedicated stand. Janine Elliot takes a listen to this innovative design.
Manger Audio is now offering two filter designs for the Linn Exaktbox for its p1 (pictured) and z1 passive loudspeakers. The two filter designs use either minimum phase or linear phase filters, of which the former was developed by Daniela Manger and the latter by Linn UK themselves.
Kii have described their new Kii Three loudspeaker system as a “Brilliant mix of cutting-edge amplification and DSP that delivers the full-frequency dynamics of a large high-end floor stander from a super-discreet active system”.
Described as “the ultimate track car for the road”, the Senna hails from McLaren’s Ultimate Series range and boasts an engine capable of producing 789bhp, which, say McLaren “in combination with the car’s 1198kg dry weight, delivers an unprecedented power-to-weight ratio that pushes the performance of a road-legal hypercar to entirely new levels”.
The new Monitor Series is a new family of speakers from Monitor Audio. Monitor say: ‘ Their orange driver cones offer a contemporary focus to the sleek proportions and bring fun and functionality across the range’.
Cyrus Audio has announced the imminent arrival of a new stereo loudspeaker system designed to partner with the Cyrus ONE amplifier.
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.
Bryston has announced the introduction of their Active Loudspeaker lineup, featuring three speaker models of different sizes (Model T Active, Middle T Active (pictured) and Mini T Active) a DSP-enabled active crossover (BAX-1) and Cubed Series Bryston amplifiers.
PMC will be at the forthcoming ISE (Integrated Systems Europe 2018) show, to present its premium lines for the world of high-end home theatre design and custom installation.
KEF has today launched the Q50a Dolby Atmos-enabled surround speaker, designed to enhance the new Q Series loudspeakers by making any KEF Q Series surround configuration compatible with the surround sound format, Dolby Atmos.
Following the recent launch of their new, more conventional styled Prestige Facet, passive hifi loudspeakers, Elipson’s parent company AV Industry has teamed up with Google to announce two new powered wireless versions featuring Google’s Chromecast Audio supplied free for full high res. multi-room streaming capability.
The first showing of the Amare Musica Diamond Firefly loudspeakers took place at the Audio Video Show 2017 in Warsaw, last November.
As you may well know, we are big fans of Avantgarde Acoustic’s loudspeakers and are proud owners of their Duo XDs, in bright red. Avantgarde Acoustic are well aware that their speakers do not hide away in a corner, or on a shelf, and are proud of their stand-out appearance.
Every once in a while a product comes onto the market that is so obvious and so simple that you can’t help but think “How did I not think of that?”, the KALSU from Kralk Audio is such a product. About six months ago Alan from Kralk contacted me to tell me about this loudspeaker […]
Aqua’s La Diva and new Formula xHD will be at CES Las Vegas USA, January 9-12, 2018, VENETIAN HOTEL – suite 35-307 as part of the LAMM Industries system.
We hope you all had a very merry Christmas and holiday season wherever you are in the world. Catch up on the Hifi News and Hifi Reviews that we brought you in December 2017. Here’s wishing you all a happy, prosperous, healthy and musical 2018!
Kralk Audio are a small company headed up by Alan Clark and based in the North of England. The Elite 2s are a standmount speaker with an off board crossover and cost £2500. Ian Ringstead fires them up.
Finnish manufacturer Amphion Loudspeakers has announced the release of their Helium410 (pictured) Helium510, Argon0, and Argon1 bookshelf loudspeakers with redesigned cabinets. The two Helium models have also upgraded components.
Harbeth Audio Ltd. have announced a third release of new limited edition products, continuing the celebrations of their 40th Anniversary year.
“Stone Speakers” is the project of two young Italian guys, Michele Gastaldello and Giacomo Munari who driven by an enormous passion for the Hifi world, have created some stone hand carved speakers with a very unique and original design.
Cotodama of Japan has announced the UK availability of its Cotodama Lyric speaker; a speaker that enables visualisation of lyrics on a translucent screen.
Finkteam have announced that David Jefferys will be joining them. David brings many years of experience in the Hifi business and the in-depth knowledge of distributors and retailers in Europe that Finkteam need to find suitable partners to bring the WM-4 and future products to market. You may not have heard of Finkteam themselves, but […]
British brands Naim Audio and Princess Yachts have partnered together to deliver an audio solution and step forward in the sound quality, for the luxury marine sector.
KEF has launched its R700 loudspeaker in a new ‘Black Edition’, a deep and lustrous new finish that uses new black components to adorn the gloss black finish of the cabinet.
During the summer, we brought you the news that British loudspeaker brand, Harbeth, had launched their ‘Summer of Sound’ competition, inviting music makers aged 16-24 to submit an original piece of music in any genre for the chance to win a pair of Harbeth speakers.
Last night we received the following message from John Giolas of Wilson Audio: “We at Wilson Audio are saddened to inform you that Dave Wilson recently discovered that he has a rare form of bone cancer. He had been seeking the source of some discomfort he’d been experiencing for some period of time. He and Sheryl […]
Dominic Marsh takes a listen to the Tannoy Revolution XT8F floorstanding loudspeakers costing £1499.
Setting off to the Warsaw show feels like going on an adventure. We went last year so we know what to expect, it’s the second biggest European show after Munich so there is a lot to cover but Warsaw, unlike Munich, still manages to keep that intimate and cosy feeling. The show is split into […]