In development for over two years, the MD 806 provides access to FM, DAB, and DAB+, as well as Internet radio stations via its onboard WiFi antenna or LAN, and locally connected music collections (MP3, AAC, FLAC, WMA, Real). Its 3.5” touchscreen displays metadata, genre, bit rate, codec, and sampling rate for the playing track, while personal audio collections (accessed through a local network or USB connection) are navigable by artist name, album name, or musical genre.
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"Take a picture of me stroking this gorgeous thing," I said to Rosemarie.
"Yes, boss," she sighed.
Don’t like orange lava? (What’s wrong with you?) Potential owners can customize their Mera ELBs. Pick your favorite colors and clean away.
“Do you have any new products?” I innocently asked Hans-Ole Vitus, Vitus Audio’s uncompromising founder and designer.
His eyes went wide.
“Yes. I hadn’t slept for two weeks leading up to this show because I’d been worrying about all the new products.”
The RI-100 ($12,000) is the first new component in Vitus’s Reference series. It uses a brand new transformer design, and provides 300W RMS into 8 ohms running in class-A/B mode. The user has the option of adding a DAC, headphone amp, and…
I know it’s just marketing talk, but I have to admit that I like it.
The new Dali Fazon F5 (1499) uses a 1.1” dome tweeter and two 5” mid-woofers, while the cabinet is curved to avoid any parallel sides and prevent standing waves. Special spring-loaded terminals developed by Dali work together with the speaker’s integrated base to neatly conceal speaker cables. (Because, really, who wants to see speaker cables?) In…
Rosemarie was dressed to perfectly match this lovely, simple system: Dynaudio’s small and capable DM2/6 loudspeakers ($800/pair), matched with NAD’s C 565BEE CD player, C 165BEE preamp, and C 245BEE amplifier.
“Just sit right here and look pretty,” I told her.
“What?”
“I said, ‘You look so pretty.’ What did you think I said?”
Time and time again during the Munich High End Show, I was impressed by the ways in which hi-fi was presented.
The issue of cost, which is so often prevalent at our shows, also seemed nonexistent in Munich. Even the issue of sound, our reason for existence, seemed easy to overlook in light of the pure fun, obvious physical…