Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Stage III Power Cords – Triton, Kraken, Trydent
















Stage III announces new power cords.

Kraken ($8,400 USD/1.5 meter)
Triton ($6,000 USD/1.5 meter)
Trydent ($4,000 USD/1.5 meter)

Within 3-4 weeks we will have another new power cord below the Trydent with an estimated price of $2,000 USD/1.5 meter.

In late 2014 we will have another new power cord above the Kraken. This will be a monster power cord which could be in the $15,000 USD range.

With the introduction of the Kraken technology we quickly discovered how superior this design was over all previous Stage III power cords. Therefore it became necessary to replace all the models. All of our new power cords share the Kraken technology.

The Triton is around a 75% Kraken inside, and also palladium/ silver
The Trydent is almost a Triton, but with all silver and less damping/shielding
The new entry model will be around a 25% Kraken with all silver
The new monster… well you will simply have to wait for this one

All the current model power cords will be discontinued.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

EnKlein David interconnect




























$14000/16000 rca/xlr 1m

The “David” analog interconnect is our new hallmark cable design bringing the story of David and Goliath to life in your system. The cable incorporates two of our new design concepts; Dragon Skin shielding along with our patent pending shield energy dissipation controller, and a new noise rejection cable topology. The concept of the shield energy dissipation controller has been extended to remove noise from each of the individual conductors within the cable.

The body of the David is constructed with our proprietary “Uni-Tube” sealed air tubes to maintain an atmospheric balance not affected by changes in barometric pressure or humidity. Each fine silver conductor is hedged by our patent pending Forward Feed Shielding technology incorporating a shield energy dissipation controller. This method reduces conductor distortions and interactions providing increased air in the upper octaves paired with a controlled, deeper low end.

Pairing with our Dragon Skin shield technology creates an environment for your music to thrive! The Dragon Skin concept is a 4 part shield topology using; “Super Metals” alloys of Cobalt and Nickel, aluminum, copper, and steel. Dragon Skin electromagnetic shielding protects the signal from outside electromagnetic interference and reduces electromagnetic interference generated by the cable.

Eliminating or reducing the electromagnetic influence between cables reduces the noise floor introduced by the cables of an audio system. Each layer is specifically designed for each cable type to perform a specific task, and when added together creates an extremely effective electromagnetic barrier.

Monday, February 17, 2014

DaVinciAudio Disco Volante

















Finally DaVinciAudio developed a less expensive turntable with technical basics of our AAS Gabriel & In UniSon.

Start with the standard model of Disco Volante and whenever you want, you easily upgrade to the ultimate version, that you see on this picture.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Horch Referenz Stage and Powerstage

















€47000

One of the absolute best preamps on the market.

Sounds much better than Dynaudio Arbiter preamp. Horch Balance at €15000 uses the same technology quality level as the old Arbiter.










































€45000 /pr

The successor of Dynaudio Arbiter amps.
One of the most legendary products.

This is an older version of Powestage, the latest Mk II version looks different.

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Accuphase A-70




































































































































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VdH The Excalibur













€19500 /pr

After The Grail SB (Phone-amplifier) and The Emerald (Pre-amplifier), the last item in our electronic equipment range: The Excalibur (Power-amplifier) is available now.

Our employee Juergen Ultee has really created a super design. The two The Excalibur mono-amplifiers were, for the first time, demonstrated during the Munich Hi-End show.

As you can see at the picture taken in the demo-room.

The 26 Kg. housing is the same as used before in The Grail SB and The Emerald.

And the dark red wooden side panels produce a very attractive visual cosmetic tough.

Some of the interesting specs are:

Completely DC coupled circuitry. To work also in warm environments, the temperature is constantly monitored and active controlled by two extremely silent air-vans. This gives a very compact design related to the produced power of  minimal 100 Watt at 8 Ohm load impedance. The clipping level is 112 Watt at 8 Ohm. And at 4 Ohm load impedance,  the output is 130 W. The clipping level is at 4 Ohm over 150 Watt.

The output of The Excalibur is protected against shunts of any type and any DC input.

The frequency range is limited at the input at 380 KHz.. The amplifier without input limitations is flat till over 10 MHz. This to create equal internal signal speed for both 10 Hz and 100 KHz. to maintain very precise phase relations  and related spacious orientation.

The input connectors are both balanced (33 KOhm) and unbalanced (26 KOhm).

An extra XLR connector is available to link trough to another Excalibur in case you like to work Bi-Amped.

The power voltage needs to be specified: 120 V or 230 Volt.

For packing we use the same sturdy cases as are already used for The Grail SB and The Emerald.

Also two versions in cosmetics: The regular crème version with the dark-red side panels and also a black version with light wooden side panels.  And in case your customer wants Ferrari red housing, we will supply on specification with some extra cost.

Duelund RS Copper foil Capacitor














We are starting first production batch of the new Duelund RS copper capacitor. Available in loudspeaker and electronic renditions.

The Duelund RS will substitute the VSF in our line up bringing a more CAST like level of performance to a much lower price range, than previously possible.

Friday, February 14, 2014

TotalDAC DSD option












Vincent Brient of TotalDAC reports that they now offer a DSD option for all d1 Series Vishay-foil R2R ladder DACs.

They still work the same way for PCM but now also accept DSD in the standard DoP format via USB, AES/EBU and S/PDIF. The 69-bit volume control also works with DSD so the preamp functionality remains.

Our USB to AES/EBU reclocker now also accepts DSD and can transform DSD to 24/176.4 PCM with volume control. This can make any DAC DSD-ready. Our music server too handles DSD via DoP or converts it to PCM.

Jakutis Analog of Lithuania
















Milky Stork - $9950














Dalia - $9750




















Black Stork - $9550
















Emu - $9350
















Starling - $7600















Ouzel - $6800
















Sparrow - $5600

Jakutis turntables are made from high quality materials: stainless steel, bronze, brass, granite, specific woods, processed using the latest technology (cnc machining, plasma coating and others). The selection of all technical solutions is based on the given acoustical requirements. Serious consideration is given to the appearance of the turntable, as a good-sounding turntable must be also be a good-looking object in the user’s home.


Basic Concept of Jakutis Design

A very heavy table utilizing spherical rubber dampers to support a heavy sub-chassis. The sub-chassis carries a heavy platter as well as the tonearm. This assembly (the tonearm,platter and sub-chassis) constitute a single, independent structure, floating on spherical dampers. A low-power but extremely stable synchronous motor is located on the table and drives the platter via a belt.

Turntable Core Parts

1. Stand and Table:

Some turntables ( Stork and Dalia, for example ) have legs, because they are heavy , thus they do not require additional stands or tables. The legs are made of stainless steel tubes, filled with acoustic damping material. The stands can be leveled by tuning the spiked feet of each leg. The legs support a 60mm (Dalia, Milky Stork) or 40mm (Black Stork) thick table, measuring 470x 470mm and made of granite . The lower part of the legs is combined 30mm (Dalia, Milky Stork) or 20mm (Black Stork) thick granite panel. The foot spikes sit on flat pads.

2. Sub-chassis:

All turntables have one of two types of sub-chassis : conical, made of marble with triangular frame ( Milky Stork, Black Stork, Dalia ) or plate-type, made of granite ( Starling, Ouzel ). A triangular frame is made of stainless steel tube which is then filled with an acoustic damping material. Marble was chosen because for its good acoustic and mechanical properties. Plate type granite can be made of Matrix Anticato (Starling). This naturally occurring composite stone was formed during the cooling of molten lava, and has a laminated structure; it is well suited to the damping of ambient vibrations. The plate-type sub-chassis (see Emu ) can accommodate two or three tonearms.

3. Suspension:

The sub-chassis rests on spherical elastic dampers which in turn rest on machined bronze supports. The height of each support can be adjusted to level the platter. The dampers themselves, being spherical, absorb shock from all sides equally. Dampers of varying elasticity are available and are easily replaced.

4. Magnetic Bearing:

The bearing is a classic type – a 9mm steel shaft within a steel sleeve. The outer surface of the shaft and inner surface of the sleeve are precisely polished. The difference is that tip of shaft rests not on steel or ceramic ball, as usual, but on magnetic pillow, created by two neodymium magnets. This eliminates hard mechanical thrusts between the shaft and bottom of bearing and reduces vibrations of the platter. As the diameter of magnets is only one inch and the distance to tonearm is long, this does not affect the cartridge. The assembly is located in a 35mm diameter stainless steel housing that is filled with oil.

5. Motor:

The platter is driven by a low-speed (250 rpm) synchronous Crouzet motor, mounted to 5 a kg bronze body in a stainless steel housing.

6. Platter:

The platter can be made of brass, brass with acrylic insert, aluminum with acrylic insert. Diameter of platter – 320mm , weights about 10 kg.

























$1750

Oil damped unipivot tonearm

Statically balanced

Bearing: carbide tungsten point on sapphire thrust pad

Effective mass: 14 grams

Down force: 10 ÷ 30 mN

Cartridge balance range: 5 ÷ 32 grams

Armtube: Red Cedar

Effective length: 12”

Mounting distance: 11.64”

Overhang: .52”

Offset angle: 17.6º

Weight : 670 grams

Fine VTA adjustment on the fly

Azimuth adjustment

Stand with VTA-lifter made of stainless steel

Central shaft made of bronze

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Sparkos Labs Discrete Op Amps








Sparkos Labs has created a family of discrete op amps in an 8 pin DIP compatible package optimized for high performance audio applications.

These devices are drop in replacements for many common, yet inferior audio op amps and are uniquely compensated for trouble-free swap out into virtually any circuit. Having a footprint of a mere 0.33 square inches, these devices are one-third the size of any other discrete op amp on the market.

Class A biasing and high output current capability coupled with a proprietary compensation scheme requiring multiple NPO dielectric capacitors make these discrete op amps impossible to fabricate as a monolithic IC.  These devices utilize matched transistor pairs encapsulated within a single device package for the input stage and internal current mirrors, which retains the advantage that monolithics have with device matching.

Sparkos Labs offers an extremely high loop gain device at 140dB to 600Hz, and a low loop gain device at 68dB with an ultrasonic pole (coming soon). Each device is fully specified, and is available as a single or dual discrete op amp.


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Goldmund Mimesis PH3.8 Phono Preamplifier
















After many years and many requests from distributors and final customers, Goldmund is glad to introduce a new phono preamplifier that will delight the most demanding audiophiles: The Mimesis PH3.8.

This unit will be an upgraded version of the Mimesis PH3 Phono Preamplifier, acclaimed for being extremely clean, detailed, and lively.

The Mimesis PH3.8 will look just like the Mimesis PH3 in the picture above with slight changes on the front panel switches. Final pictures will soon be available for viewing.

The Mimesis PH 3.8 will be available in March.

Goldmund Metis Tower



































Another new speaker from Goldmund is approaching the production benches of our factory.

Slim and extremely elegant with its gold plated top, the Metis Tower answers the increasing demand for high quality lifestyle products.  It is active and wireless so extremely easy to install and use.  All you need is an USB dongle (it is delivered with the Metis Tower) or a Goldmund Processor for more elaborate set ups (several sources and/or multichannel system).

It is the first “tower style” speaker by Goldmund but it maintains the company’s look thanks to its typical aluminum finish and suits any decor with its very classic lines.

Stymex Obravo HAMT-1

















€1500

The world first Coaxial two-way headphone design by an implementation of  AMT tweeter and Dynamic Neodymium driver.


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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Thales Speaker Cable


















$3200 - 2.0 meter pair, Spades or Bananas
$300 - Additional .5 meter pair, Spades or Bananas














Speaker Jumpers:

$1000 - 6 or 8 inch set of 4, Spades or Bananas

Our experience in winding the finest internal wirings of purest copper for our tonearms made us following this philosophy for specific Speaker cables.

Each conductor is made of ten ultrathin copper wires, pairwise twisted and casted into nylon, shielded by an extra apiral wire.

They are available from 2.0 to 7.0 meter length with Spade or Banana terminations.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Audio Consulting Rubanoide Dvaijnoy Dipole Loudspeaker and Rubabass






















Features:

Frequency response: from 100Hz to 20KHz
Over 103dB/w/m efficiency
Impedance 4 ohms and purely resistive
Dimensions: d 32 cm, w 55 cm, h 145 cm
Weight: 36 Kg

Price: CHF 85'000.00/pair

Veneer to customer's requests

















Mipa bass amps on top

Features:

Frequency response: from 15Hz to 200Hz
Over 96dB/w/m efficiency
Impedance 4 ohms / element and purely resistive
Dimensions: d 50 cm, w 65 cm, h 55 cm
Weight 36 Kg /unit

Price: CHF 60'000.00/pair of elements

Veneer to customer's requests

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Emiral SE-833 MX Challenge
































€30000 /pr

Power output - 80 watt class A
Weight - 45 kg

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Saturday, February 1, 2014