EnKlein Amphora Phono Cable

We are proud to introduce our first phono cable. The “Amphora”, constructed of pure fine silver conductors with silver RCA ends and optional Rhodium plated DIN termination. The “Stiletto” construct is derived from the stage 2 assembly used in the Zephyr and Prairie Fire interconnects. The thin film shield and sacrificial ground of 99.999% oxygen free copper configuration creates a passive damper for extremely low capacitance and reactance, targeting the preservation of signals from a broad range of cartridges, including extremely low output cartridges. The Stiletto design was demonstrated at CES 2012 to the delight of many, with a 0.2 mV cartridge.

The Amphora exhibits a low noise floor, revealing intimate full range detail, concise decay, controlled lower octaves and like all EnKlein cables; pace, dynamics, and natural tonality.

Pricing starts at $3,595 USD for the first 1.5 meter.

Dalby Audio Design Vinyl Stabilizer Weight

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Weiss MAN301 Music Server - inside

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AVM ML8 Music Library/Server

€9900+

Hartvig TT Signature Turntable

From Danish music lover Soeren Hartvig comes the Hartvig TT Signature turntable with battery power supply "to ensure incredible reproduction of sound and distinguish itself from digital media as the analog sound is both smooth and reproduces the music down to the last detail.

Hartvig Audio will be represented with a booth in Munich Exhibition in Room 120f.

Jadis Calliope cd transport

€29000

Outputs - Spdif, AES, ST and Jadis Dig Signal

Weight - 50kg

TIDAL Prisma preamplifer

The all new TIDAL Prisma: It closes the gap between our classic, the TIDAL Preos, and our flagship, the mighty TIDAL Presencio.
The intention was: how can we offer the perfomance of our extremely expensive Presencio into a more compact cabinet?

So we redesigned the Powerdeck and the Linedeck of the flagship and designed it all for one cabinet as an internal dual stack design. Needless to say we are more than happy with the result and achieved our goal.

Extremely fast and transparent fully balanced minimal path topology
True dual mono pre amplifier with fully regulated power supply
Internal dual stack design isolation platforms
Only 1 high precision resistor in the signalpath for level adjustment
Remote control for volume and intelligent soft mute
Can be configurated as 1:1 direct mode
Autarcic power cord inputs for analog section and control section
Intelligent remote function for TIDAL power amplifiers

The official premiere and start will be in 2012 at the HIGHEND 2012 Munich show in early May.

Crystal Cable Absolute Dream cables

Crystal Cable's new top-range Absolute Dream (interconnects, speaker cable, power cords, with USB/Firewire models coming later in the year) combines four coaxial runs which are twisted at 45°. Two coaxes run pure signal, the other two operate in Crystal Cable's patented Bridge setup.

Pure mono-crystal conductors show up in both the cores and the braided shielding. The pure silver cores are covered by Dupont's Kapton and Peel dielectrics before two shielding layers (one silver-plated copper, one gold-plated silver) are applied.

The final quad braid is covered by a transparent outer sleeve for a unique appearance and terminated with carbon Furutech connectors.

Special identification barrels hold laser-engraved serial numbers.

The Absolute Dream models will be launched at the HighEnd 2012 Munich show.

Hegel H300 integrated amplifier

Price 30,000 NOK including a dac.

250watt output in 8 ohm.

Synästec Audio Origo Sacd player

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FM Acoustics Resolution 255 MkIIR

FM Acoustics has upgraded the 255 MkII preamplifer with a remote control.

Price ca CHF 38000

Audio Alto AA CD202 cd player

€4800

Audio Alto

Vertere Acoustics Pulse cables

 

Pulse Hand-built
€4000

Pulse hand-built utilises several internal conductors.

Pulse MicroLine
Pulse MicroLine conductor is Teflon coated with bespoke high purity copper strands plated in silver to a pre-defined thickness. New manufacturing methods were incorporated to handle the fragility of this critical conductor. The MicroLine strands, being a fraction of a human hair in thickness, create a challenge in the construction of the hand-built Pulse, limiting the overall length to a maximum of 2.0m. This conductor is only implemented in the hand-built Pulse cables.

Pulse HairLine
Pulse HairLine conductor is similar to the MicroLine, Teflon coated with over 3 times the number of bespoke high purity copper strands, plated in silver to half the thickness. The HairLine strands, also thinner than human hair, are designed with a ‘slow’ twist requiring special manufacturing techniques that ensure absolute quality and consistency.

Pulse ModeLine
Pulse ModeLine conductor, Teflon coated with several bespoke high purity copper strands is plated in silver to twice the thickness of the MicroLine. The ModeLine strands, with a ‘fast’ twist, are designed to assist wideband audio signal transmission through three main conduction layers. As per MicroLine and HairLine, there are both ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ conductors of ModeLine to ensure absolute signal quality.

Pulse EarthLine
Pulse EarthLine conductor, Teflon coated with multi stranded high purity copper strands, is plated in silver to 2/3 of the thickness of the MicroLine. The EarthLine defines an exact DC reference for all the alternating signals and in conjunction with the MicroLine, HairLine and ModeLine conductors provides maximum low level detail with remarkable dynamic range. Each and every hand-built Pulse cable is fully shielded with the necessary number and combination of internal conductors to a pre-specified twist and terminated with Vertere proprietary reference RCA or balanced XLR connectors.

Line Level Analogue Interconnect
The Line Level Pulse-R, conceived with the constant line-level signal in mind, is internally configured differently from the tonearm cable. It is designed to conduct complex, alternating, wideband and dynamic audio signals with absolute integrity. Following in the footsteps of our hand-built Pulse, Pulse-R provides unrestricted signal dynamics while preserving the intricate low level detail.

Pre Out Analogue Interconnect
Pre Out Pulse-R internal conductors are also configured differently from the Pulse-R Line Level in order to work effortlessly with and cater for the altering preamplifier output signal. Preamp output is volume controlled, where the signal level is amplified or attenuated as desired, which in turn causes the noise floor to change with it.

Tonearm Cable
Pulse-R external Tonearm Cable, similar in design to our hand-built Pulse, also enables the miniature cartridge generator to drive the phono input with ease. Pulse-R cable construction facilitates conducting the delicate phono signal as well as accommodating the substantial RIAA equalisation on the LP.

Price 0,85/1,15m

Pulse-R €2550/2800
Pulse-B €950/1050
Pulse-C €300/350

Internal Conductors
Pulse-X Loudspeaker Cable has a unique internal design and construction.
It utilises a DC zero conductor providing ground reference for the fully shielded and multi-conductor audio signal.
The signal shield is connected at the amplifier output to the DC zero ground for optimised performance.
This arrangement is also applied to bi-wired applications even when using a single connector at the amplifier end.

Price 2/2,5m - €1630/1950


Vertere

Audrilabs Novachord

$19000

Audrilabs Novachord is an integrated amplifier based on a hybrid preamp running in class A. This preamp drives an analog class D power stage. The classic 6H30Pi Russian twin triode is the tube of choice because it works with very low resistor values in the signal path.

This design is free of global negative feedback and there’s only very little local negative feedback. There are two mono preamplifiers and two power amplifiers into one chassis.

Inside the Novachord there are four toroidal transformers. The power stage is fed by a huge 1.4KVA power toroid with a 88.000µF capacitor bank to generate 500 watts into 4Ω. Each preamplifier channel with its multi-layer circuit board has its own toroidal power transformer and separate power supply. The fourth transformer feeds the LCD, touch-screen management micro controller and tube heater supplies.

Volume attenuation is via a DACT 24-position stepper attenuator.

With its orange/black touch screen for input/bypass/setup selection and that lone multi-function master control, the Novachord presents an exceptionally tidy and modern face to the world.

Novachord has 3+1 RCA+XLR inputs and one pair of top-quality Furutech speaker terminals.

Power specs are 220/500w into 8/4Ω. Peak output current is 46A. Frequency response is 4Hz to 60kHz ±3dB. Damping factor is 1.500 @ 1kHz. Dimensions are 480 x 474 x 154 DxWxH.



Audrilabs

Audiomat Drive D1

€6000

Fono Acustica new Armonica speaker cables

€16000 2m /pr

Hand-made thermo-treated precious metal conductors are blended in proprietary ratios. Air-insulated dielectrics with ultra-effective shielding and large vibration-isolating tubing are supplemented with external anti-resonant African hardwood blocks.

Terminations are via custom-made 24K gold-plated spades with African hardwood barrels and hand-soldered joints. Each signal phase runs separate cable legs and resonance blocks.

Lector Audio Digicode S-192 Dac

€4500

The new Digicode S-192 digital tube D to A converter is based on R2R, high-resolution dac, output circuits is design around vacuum tube type miniwatt.

Digital signals are accepted up to 192 kHz 24-bit on all inputs, USB input too.

The Digicode S-192 is also equipped with word clock input and digital spdif output for general purpose application.

The digital inputs are:

Spdif IEC-958 as RCA connector @ resolution 192 Khz 24 bit
Spdif IEC-958 as BNC connector @ resolution 192 Khz 24 bit
AES-EBU AES-3 as XLR connector @ resolution 192 Khz 24 bit
Opto toslink digital input @ resolution 192 Khz 24 bit
Asyncronous USB PC/MAC input @ resolution 192 Khz 24 bit support stable KS/WASAPI protocol


Output / input digital services

Word Clock (W.C.) clock input
Spdif as BNC output

Analog output

Unbalanced output as 2.5 volt 250 ohm
Real balanced output as 2,5 volt 250 ohm

Performances

Input selector by sequential single shot by push button, led indicator for selected input.
Led indicator for analog and digital supply

Led lock for spdif/aes-ebu input
Separate power supply model PSU-DGC

Windows driver for XP/Vista/7
No any driver required for OSX-Apple mac computer ( the USB interface is native)

Densen B-475 Super Leggera Cd Player

DKK 50,000

B-475

FM Acoustics Resolution 233 Harmonic Linearizer

Price CHF 29000

The FM 233 Harmonic Linearizer allow precise correction and linearization of non-optimal recordings. They do this in an absolutely unique way. For the first time bad resonances, colouration, noise, obnoxious sound and other limitations are improved without affecting the balance of the audio signal. While the characteristics and transparency of the original signal is kept pristine, attenuated parts of the music spectrum can be strengthened.

The method of operation is rather intriguing as the entire audio signal takes a direct path from input to output. The improvement is achieved by a unique additive/subtractive Linearizer bank that corrects aberrations. Using just five controls, any frequency (or group of frequencies) in the entire audio band can be optimized without negative influence inflicted on the original audio signal. Furthermore, the signal always remains purely in the analogue domain.

When looking at the front panel one could be reminded of an equalizer. However, the Harmonic Linearizer's mode of operation is different and avoids all limitations. The FM 233 are not used like an equalizer as every control is dynamically interacting with the others in a unique linear multi-parameter process. There is no ripple in the pass band and no phase shift/discontinuity, both of which are unsolved problems of equalizers.

Massive improvements in the reproduction quality of CD, DVD, Tape, LP and any other source are now reality. The improvements are described anywhere from "truly amazing" to "incredible".
While some near perfect recordings will not need much linearization, good recordings will become great, mediocre recordings will become rather nice and some downright unlistenable recordings will become listenable. The improvements are rather intriguing and must be experienced to be fully realized.

Adjustment - 50Hz, 200Hz, 800Hz, 3,2Khz, 12,8Khz

Input/Output impedance - 100k/10ohm

Max input/output - 8,7V/19,5V

AVM Ovation PA8

€6500+

AVM

Burmester 111 Reference Music Server

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Krell S-550i integrated amplifier

It has not only the usual unbalanced and balanced inputs, the S-550i also includes an iPod dock.

The volume control is a balanced resistor ladder, so channel tracking ought to be essentially perfect.

It's rated at 275 watts into 8 Ω and 550 watts into 4 Ω.

Price $5,000, S-550i should be available in March 2012.

Happy New Year - 2012

Aqua Acoustic La Scala HD dac

€2800

Combine the latest cutting edge technology with time proven innovation.
"La Scala" will make you love your digital collection without regretting the analog sound. Transparency, musicality, brightness, timbre and spatial coherence, proper scanning time of each musical note and harmonic richness to excite, as with listening to the analog master.

The components with extraordinary attributes of quality, reliability and durability, as well as sonic (capacitors: axial snap-in and 105 ° long life, metal film resistors and film low noise 1% and 0.1%, etc..). Every single component has been chosen and selected after extensive listening tests.

The intense design work and cure to detail is full gratified at every listening.

Specifications:

• Digital inputs:
3 coaxial S / PDIF (2 RCA & 1 BNC) 75 ohms
1 AES / EBU balanced 110 ohms
• High resolution asynchronous High-Speed USB port with resolution up to 24bit and 192KHz streamed into the DAC. A Xcore microcontroller is interfaced directly in I2S protocol conversion board bypassing the digital receiver
• galvanic isolation between digital section and analog
• Digital decoding is done by our exclusive circuit DFD (direct from decoder) without any digital alteration (upsampling, oversampling, digital filters, etc..)
• digital phase selector on front panel
• transformers current / voltage conversion (I / V)
• NOS ECC82 TELEFUNKEN valves analog stage in pure class A without feedback and led polarization
• tube anode supply circuit made with "virtual battery"
• the strands are fed and stabilized by a specific voltage regulator with power rising gradually to lengthen the life of the valves
• D to A conversion made by 4 Burr Brown PCM1704-K with 24-bit resolution and power MOSFET operated by constant current generators made J-FET and BJT
• aluminum anti-resonant cabinet with Nextel and aluminum front panel with a thickness of 10 mm

Aqua Acoustic