February 2020 | Newsletter No. 10HRS-130 Loudspeakers win The Absolute Sound Editors’ Choice Award Welcome to our February newsletter. Our thanks to our long term readers and a warm welcome to new subscribers. The big news in this issue is our HRS-130 loudspeaker receiving its second Editors’ Choice award from The Absolute Sound. Our HRS-130 loudspeaker has just received its second Editors’ Choice award from the top US audio magazine The Absolute Sound. That makes a total of three awards that the HRS-130 has received from this magazine: we must be doing something right. Dick Olsher, the reviewer who nominated the HRS-130 for the award, has designed several loudspeakers himself and consequently probably knows more…
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he next generation of Boulder integrated amplifier will begin shipping in all-analogue form, closely followed by the streaming analogue and digital version. Boulder Amplifiers has announced the immediate release and shipment of the 866 Integrated. The 866 is a part of the 800 Series and the successor to the highly successful 865 Integrated Amplifier. The 866 Integrated is Boulder’s first integrated amplifier to feature the option of digital inputs. Cost Saving Value was a focus when designing the 866, and significant effort was put into the efficiency and cost reduction of design and manufacturing than any previous product from Boulder.…
The middleweight contender… Cards on the table. I’ve owned the YG Carmel (reviewed here) and the YG Carmel 2 (reviewed here), each of which I’ve reviewed in these pages in January 2012 and July 2015 respectively. You can read them here and weep. I’m addicted to the ultra-high resolution, low distortion, lightning reflexes, dynamic range and the holographic imaging of the Carmel speakers. They are not for everyone. Due to the particular way they are constructed from billets of aircraft grade aluminum, they cost a lot of money, and due to their relatively small size, they don’t reach down all…
Galder & Odin Gold Edition. Fusion of design, technique, craftmanship, and mind blowing performance. For those who do not compromise. www.bergmannaudio.com
Critical Mass Systems first caught my eye at a Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. As I traipsed about from floor to floor, desperately hoping that the packed elevator wouldn’t resemble a Turkish sauna or simply break down, I came across a large room wherein stood a gleaming set of black Critical Mass Systems Maxxum racks that looked as though they had emerged from the Ferrari paint shop or its equivalent. The equipment they were supporting was almost an afterthought because the racks themselves were so fetching—to the max, as it were. Fast forward about a decade or so and I receive…
Analysis Plus is essentially an engineering firm that has chosen audio manufacturing as one of the areas to focus their resources. What I find interesting is that the fundamental concepts and design geometry that Mark Markel had identified years ago has remained essentially unchanged within their product line. In today’s popular culture, a large cross-section of people are drawn to new, improved, enhanced, or next generation, all of which basically boils down to the concept of different. Now, Analysis Plus has developed refinements to their products over the years, with advancements in conductor materials, terminations, and minor tweaks of the…
Come join us of a unique Audiophile Club of Athens (ACA) event at Melody Club on Saturday December 14th at 18:30! Matthieau Latour, Nagra Audio Division Director will be present at the event.Nikos Antypas from the renowned Greek bank Socrates will also attend. We will run demonstrations of our core systems featuring Speakers from YG Acoustics, Estellon & Diapason, Electornics from Nagra, Boulder, Sugden & Lehman audio, Digital from Nagra, MSB, Roon Nucleus, Sonore, Turntable playback from J. Sikora, Brinkmann & Bergman and lots more….
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