Timo Engstrom streamed John Scofield and Pat Metheny’s serpentine “The Red One,” Metheny’s acoustic guitar exploration of “And I Love Her,” and Tribal Tech’s “Face First,” a bludgeoning 90s jazz fusion piece.
The system played these streams with solid fidelity to the source while revealing the good (“The Red One”) and bad (“Face First”) of the recordings.
Equipment…
Accompanying exhibits that combined products from Basso Continuo, Dan D’Agostino, dCS, Krell, Meridian Audio, Nordost, Perlisten, Velodyne, Vicoustic, VPI, VTL, Western Electric, and Wilson Audio (among others) were a host of industry luminaries. Among these were Dan D’Agostino and Burhan Coskun (D’Agostino Master Systems), Joe Reynolds (Nordost), Luke Manley (VTL), Charles G. Whitener (Western Electric), and…
The base model costs $32,900/pair, equipped with the paper-coned AC-X field coil driver, the Andagio is also available with higher-resolution drivers including the wood-coned AC-X2 at $36,900/pair. In the video, Ines Adler introduces the Andagio and discuss its features and sound.
The Andagio can also be fitted with a “hybrid field coil driver,” the…
Henke told me that the new Quad components will be available within six months. The 303 will offer 60Wpc, cost approximately €1500 apiece…
The Autograph 12 is built around Tannoy's current 12" concentric driver with an AlNiCo-magnet motor on the mid/bass driver. “The new design retains AlNiCo for the legendary midrange Tannoy is known for while employing a dedicated neo-magnet for the tweeter, a redesigned waveguide, and many other improvements to form a new flagship driver design for the brand,” a press release stated.
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A Primary Control Kinea turntable (€17,900) with new Primary Control Solaris Tonearm (TBD) and Air Tight Opus-1 cartridge (€13,500) fed an Air Tight ATH-3 S SUT (€2677) then an Air Tight Reference Phono Stage ATE-3011 (€27,500).
An Air Tight Control Amplifier ATC-7 (€30,000)) drove the same company's new ATM 1E Mono Power Amplifier (TBD) or the not-as-new ATM-3211 Mono Power Amplifiers (€78,000).
Speakers…
Amplification was the same tricked-out, tube-powered bonanza I saw in in Jeffrey Catalano’s High Water Sound room at AXPONA: Acustica Applicata’s new Alieno Tube Phono Stage (€35,014), Line Preamplifier ($75,000), and the new Alieno 150-120 LTD stereo amplifier (€56,107). The 150-120 LTD allows use of either 300B or 2A3 tubes—150Wpc…
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Gunther premiered a number of products at High End Munich, including the Aria phonostage ($24,000), Vero phonostage/recorder ($24,000), Solo headphone amplifier ($17,000), Solo Base preamp/streamer/recorder ($12,000), Solo 3X mono amplifiers and active crossover ($15,000 apiece), and Mass…
The newest thing from Technics is this Lamborghini-inspired SL-1200–variant turntable. Here’s hoping it doesn’t run fast—but I’m not holding my breath.
While we’re on the Lamborghini theme: I’m not sure whether to consider this a table radio or a console audio system, since it’s quite large.
Many products from German high-end manufacturer Burmester have a mirror finish—though the company now offers a…