Thursday, January 2, 2014

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

APL SDT-M Digital Transport











The SDT-M reads from SDHC memory cards, up to 64GB.

It can process DSDIFF/DFF files, up to DSD256 rate, or uncompressed WAV files, up to 384kHz.

There is a RJ-45 connector on the back providing either PCM or DSD data/clock lines, as well as Coaxial S/PDIF output up to 192kHz/24bit.

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Aurender X100 Series Music Server





















































































Specification

Control
Aurender Conductor for iPad Series

Storage
X100L - 6TB HDD & 120GB SSD
X100S - 1TB HDD & 120GB SSD

Output
USB 2.0

Format
AIFF, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, M4A, APE, DIFF, DSF

Size
X100L - 215x83x355mm
X100S - 215x83c257mm

Weight
X100L - 7,5 kg
X100S - 5 kg

Monday, December 23, 2013

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Goldmund Telos Headphone Amplifier














A new Goldmund Amplifier is born and will be presented to you in Los Angeles in January. It is the Goldmund Telos Headphone Amplifier.

It can drive any headphone even the least sensitive ones, and adapts to any impedance.

Being a Telos, it brings exceptional dynamics (80V rails). It comes with built-in gain adjustment and its volume control is similar to that developed for the Mimesis 22H, with unique linearity and perfect channel balance.

Last but not least, Goldmund innovates again with the first headphone amplifier integrating built-in DSP that allows unique signal treatments like Time correction (Leonardo) or Binaural decoding, for continuous and smooth head tracking in all angles.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Audia Flight Strumento No. 8 mono amps


























Technical Data:

Output power per channel Wrms 8/4/2 ohm 500/1000/2000
Input sensitivity 1.41 Vrms
Frequency response (1W rms -3dB) 0,3 Hz ÷ 1 MHz
Slew-Rate (on 8 ohm) > 200 V/μS
THD < 0,05 %
S/N Ratio 110 dB
Input impedance Unbalanced 7,5 Kohm
Balanced 7,5 Kohm
Damping factor (on 8 ohm) > 1000
Main voltage AC (50-60Hz) 240 V
Power consumption 3300 W MAX
Dimensions and weigth 450x280x500mm (wxhxd) - 95 Kg
Shipping dimensions and weigth 580x410x700mm (wxhxd) - 125 Kg

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

D’Agostino Momentum integrated amplifier















Industry awards and new Momentum integrated amp highlight D’Agostino LLC plans for 2014 International CES

At International CES, January 7-10, 2014, in Venetian Hotel suite 29-223, Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems will be debuting its new Momentum integrated amplifier and celebrating many recent honors from industry publications and organizations. The company invites and encourages CES attendees to visit the Venetian suite to audition its latest products.

The Momentum integrated amplifier brings many of the technologies from the Momentum amplifiers and preamplifier to a broader market. From the front, the integrated amp closely resembles with Momentum preamp, with the same illuminated indicator dial inspired by Swiss watches. Like the preamp, the integrated amp offers six balanced XLR inputs. It also continues the preamp’s bypassable tone controls for bass and treble, so the sound can be adjusted to suit the recording, the room or the other equipment in the system, all without affecting fundamental audio quality and musicality.

Using the same essential design concepts as the original Momentum amplifiers, the Momentum integrated amp delivers 200 watts per channel into 8 ohms and 400 watts per channel into 4 ohms, both rated conservatively. Like the originals, the integrated draws less than 1 watt of power in standby mode, and employs 1% metal-film resistors, 69 MHz output transistors

Monday, December 2, 2013

Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Reference




























$14000

Berkeley Audio Design is extremely pleased to announce the availability of the new Alpha DAC Reference Series.

The Alpha DAC Reference Series embodies everything we know about digital to analogue conversion taken to an unprecedented level – a level that requires new design concepts & new components at the edge of what is possible.  The result is an immediacy and presence of music reproduction that is simply real.

We literally designed the Reference Series before is was possible to built it.  Almost three years in development, the Alpha DAC Reference Series uses components designed to our specifications that were not commercially available.  Several suppliers were not able to meet our requirements which delayed the release of the Reference Series by more than one year.  But those obstacles were overcome and now the Alpha DAC Reference Series is a reality.

The presence & sonic reality of the Reference Series is the result of digital to analogue conversion at a new level of accuracy made possible by tremendous electrical & mechanical noise isolation coupled with extreme time domain stability.  Ceramic circuit board materials are used in all critical areas and the enclosure is carefully engineered to minimize electrical noise while maximizing mechanical stability.  The Reference Series weighs over 40 pounds and the entire enclosure is precision machined from a a solid billet of 6061 – T aluminum alloy.

A new high output, all metal IR remote control with direct input source selection is provided with the Reference Series.

Careful consideration was given to providing the highest possible reproduction of DSD files by the Alpha DAC Reference Series.  99% of modern DAC’s, including the Alpha Reference Series use mult-bit D/A converters because they provide better performance than 1-bit converters – even those who advertise “native” DSD compatibility.  So, at some point, the 1-bit DSD stream must be converted to multi-bit for all of those DAC’s.

We could, like many other manufacturers, convert 1-bit DSD to multi-bit within the Alpha DAC Reference Series and show “DSD” in the front panel display.  That would be the easiest approach from a marketing perspective.  But that would also mean increasing the amount of processing in the DAC during playback which would degrade audio quality, and audio quality is the reason the Alpha Reference Series exists.

Fortunately, virtually all reproduction of DSD files using external DAC’s occurs with a computer based music server as the source.  If the 1-bit DSD to multi-bit conversion is done first in the computer it can be performed with extremely high precision and superior filtering that preserves all of the content of the DSD file.  Computer DSD to multi-bit conversion can be at least as good as that performed in a DAC and without adding processing noise near or in the D/A converter chip.  Another advantage of computer based DSD to PCM conversion is that if higher performance DSD versions such as DSD 4x appear in the future they can easily be supported with a software upgrade.

For all of those reasons, DSD capability for the Alpha DAC Reference Series is provided by an included state of the art software application that provides either real time conversion of DSD 1x and DSD 2x to 176.4 kHz 24 bit PCM during playback or conversion to 176.4 kHz 24 bit AIFF or WAV files.  The software application is included in the price of the Alpha DAC Reference Series and is compatible with either Windows OS or Mac OS based music servers.

The Alpha DAC Reference Series supports 32 kHz to 192 kHz 24-bit PCM through four input; Balanced AES, Coaxial SPDIF 1, Coaxial SPDIF 2 and Toslink Optical.  Independent, single-ended and true balanced analogue outputs are provided.  Dimensions are 17.5 inches Wide X 12.5 inches Deep X 3.5 inches High.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Friday, November 15, 2013

LUMIN is now available in Black anodised finish















It comes complete with a matching black anodised PSU.

Due to the extra manufacturing processes needed, LUMIN Black is special order only.

Mirand Audio A2
































€6400

Bandwidth: DC – 1MHz
2x150Watt into 8 ohm, 2x300Watt into 4 ohm
Standby: 0.5Watt
Idle: 60Watt
Max. power consumption: 800Watt
Features: 12V trigger
WxHxD: 440 x 150 x 425mm
Weight: 18Kg

The Mirand A2 stereo unit will be followed by Mirand A3 (mono version of A2), Mirand P1 (preamp with DAC), Mirand I1 (integrated amp with USB interface) and Mirand A1.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Spectral DMA-300 RS and 400 RS Reference Series amplifiers















DMA-300 RS €23000
DMA-400 RS €43000 /pr

Spectral Audio is pleased to introduce the new DMA-300 Reference Standard amplifier, the second signature component in our Reference Standard line, Our first RS component, the DMA-400RS monaural amplifier marked the culmination of a multi-year research effort by our engineering team. Engineering director, Keith Johnson set as his goal for the new generation amplifier the elimination of subtle but intrusive energy storage artifacts occuring in active circuit devices. The solution, the creation of critical small scale driver and larger scale gain devices which exhibit virtually no energy storage or thermal tail memory represents a major advance in amplifier accuracy, and is fully implimented in the DMA-400 RS. Today, the DMA400 RS is recognized worldwide as an important breakthrough in high-end amplifier technology and a new reference for the most demanding system applications and the finest loudspeakers.

Upon finalization of the DMA-400 RS, Spectral engineers embarked on an even more challenging task, develop the first stereo reference standard from Spectral, and distill the unrivalled listening
experience of the DMA-400 into a single chassis component. Production cost or complexity would not be a concern.

- Replicate the unique "you are there" quality of the DMA-400.
- Parallel the extraordinary clarity and purity of the DMA-400.
- Equal the unprecedented settling accuracy and intertransient silence of the DMA-400.
- Achieve unmatched dynamic expression, drive and sonic "life" in a single chassis amplifier.

The DMA-300 RS is a high-tech showcase featuring cutting-edge component technologies from around the world. An exotic family of custom semiconductor devices and ultra-precision passive components has been developed with the assistance of some of the most advanced high-tech suppliers from the instrumentation, RF and microwave industries. In an approach similar to the DMA-400, unique high-speed transistors, exotic film capacitors, hand-calibrated resistors, high performance diodes and specialized magnetic components were all commissioned for Spectral's DMA-300 RS.

The result is a new standard for linearity and signal resolution in a stereo power amplifier. More important is the stunning natural clarity and listening involvement that results from these many advances. The DMA-300 RS reveals the true musical reality locked in fine recordings, a musical world that is absolutely compelling, immersive and more than a little addictive! The construction and component technologies of the DMA-300 Reference Standard are costly and select; they do not lend themselves to production efficiency, As a result, the DMA-300 RS will be hand-built in limited quantities similar to the DMA-400 RS monaural amplifier.


DMA-300 RS Specs

Power Output (continuous):
@ 8 ohms - 225 Watts RMS
@ 4 ohms - 410 Watts RMS
@ 2 ohms - 615 Watts RMS

Output Current:
60 Amps peak per channel

Frequency Response:
±0.1 dB, DC-150 KHz
±1 dB, DC-1 MHz
±3 dB, DC-1.8 MHz

Distortion Static:
Less than 0.015% from DC to 100 KHz, typically 0.009% @ 225 WRMS/8 ohms

Distortion Dynamic:
8 Tone Cluster Test 20 KHz
@ 500 Hz separation
0.01% 8 ohms
0.015% 4 ohms

Rise Time:
Less than 400 nanoseconds

Setting:
1.5 microseconds to -40dB

Slew Rate:
600 volts/microsecond

Signal to Noise:
97dB unweighted, 107dB ASA A

Crosstalk:
102dB @ full power 8 ohms

Input Impedance:
10K ohms

Sensitivity:
1.5 volts/nominal output

Line Voltage:
100 volts, 120 volts, 220 volts (internal wiring)

AC Voltage Range:
±10%

Maximum Consumption:
1600 Watts

Quiescent Consumption:
250 Watts

Operating Temp:
0° to 50° Celsius range; 32° to 122° Fahrenheit
 
Weight:
29kg

Size:
482 x 184x 458mm

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Friday, September 13, 2013

Röcklinger HPA1 OTL














































SEK 22500

Specs:

Pure Tube® OTL – without output transformer and caps
Dual mono
high quality potentiometer
6,3mm stereo jack
Impendance: 30, 60, 300 och 600 ohm
Tubes: 2 * ECC82, 1 * ECC99, 4 * 6C19
Power output 0,8W 30 ohm, 1,2W 60 ohm, 1,9W 300 ohm, 1,7W 600 ohm at 1kHz 1%THD
30, 60 ohm class AB1, 300, 600 ohm class A

Frequency range 10 – 650 000 Hz -3dB
Damping factor >10
Distortion 0,14% 300ohm @ 1,0Vrms in @ 1000Hz
Maximal input signal 2,2Vrms


115/230V (50/60Hz), 90VAC
Oversized 120VA toroid transformer
Dimensions 230x230x80
Weight 4,8 kg

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Boulder 3060 - Specs

















Specifications

Continuous Power, Each Channel
Watts THD 20-2 kHz THD 20 kHz
900 8 ohm 0.0008% 0.0035%
900 4 ohm 0.0009% 0.0045%
900 2 ohm 0.0014% 0.0090%

Peak Power, Each Channel
Watts
1000 8 ohm
1650 4 ohm
2000 2 ohm

Equivalent Input Noise, 20 kHz BW  1.5 µV

Magnitude Response, 20 to 20 KHz  +0.00, -0.04 dB
Magnitude Response, -3dB at  0.015 Hz, 200 kHz

Voltage Gain  26dB

Input Impedance  Balanced: 200 KΩ,
Unbalanced 100 KΩ

Common Mode Rejection  60 Hz: 90dB, 10 kHz: 70dB

Inputs  3-pin Balanced
Output Connectors  2 sets of 6 mm / .250 inch wingscrews

Power Requirements  220-240 VAC
50-60 Hz, 300W nominal, 6000 W at maximum output

All specifications taken at 240 VAC mains Power

Weight:  Amplifier: 355 lbs. (161 kg),
Granite Base: 86 lbs. (39 kg),
Shipping: 563 lbs. (256 kg).

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

VTL S-200 Stereo Signature Amplifier

















$10000

RF Florentina with Pi Greco, MSB, and Kronos






























































Pi Greco (AM Audio) P-1X















Pi Greco (AM Audio) A-1000X
















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Saturday, August 10, 2013