Headphone listening is an intimate and highly personal musical experience. To enjoy the best results, most enthusiasts favour a dedicated headphone amplifier married with a good pair of headphones – the amplifier being as important as the headphones in determining the quality of sound. Continue reading ADL launches X1 portable USB DAC/headphone amplifier
The award-winning Icon Audio PS3 phonostage has been replaced by the new PS3 MkII, a cost-no-object flagship phonostage that takes the top-end of the Icon Audio range to a higher level.
Continue reading Icon Audio launch PS3 MkII phonostage
Improving on the original award-winning Clearaudio Performance and Performance SE turntables, the Performance DC integrates a high-torque, smooth and quiet DC motor into the chassis. The motor is similar to that used in Clearaudio’s high-end Ovation and Innovation series turntables and provides superb speed stability and very satisfying ease-of use with start, stop and speed selection controlled by the touch of one of four illuminated buttons situated on the smart new plinth…. Continue reading Clearaudio introduce new Performance DC turntable
Dartmouth-based high-end audio specialists Timestep are delighted to announce their precision tonearm mounting to couple the new SME M2-9R tonearm with the legendary Technics SL-1200 series turntables. Continue reading Timestep arrange the perfect marriage: the SME M2-9R tonearm meets the Technics SL-1200 turntable
In 1958 GEC introduced the KT88 valve, designed specifically as a hi-fi valve and intended to be the best. For 52 years it reigned supreme until Tung Sol released the bigger and better KT120, developed from the same design but with more power to drive more demanding modern loudspeakers.
Now Tung Sol has announced the arrival of the KT150: even bigger with more power, and more refined. Continue reading Icon Audio launch world’s first KT150 valve amplifiers
Exposure Electronics is delighted to announce the release of the 3010s2 phonostage.
Continue reading Exposure introduces 3010s2 reference phonostage
Clearaudio is thrilled to be recognized in Compamedia GmbH’s celebrated TOP 100® listing of innovative SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) for 2013. The TOP 100® seal of approval is awarded annually to the most innovative SMEs throughout Germany….
PRESS RELEASE Clearaudio receives prestigious innovation award
High quality headphones are a must in the current age of personal and portable electronics, but all too often they are supplied with inferior, throwaway cables. Headphone listening is an intimate experience and enthusiasts rightly seek better sound. Continue reading ADL launches iHP-35 audiophile headphone cables
Transfiguration cartridges are masters of natural musicality. The exclusive patented yokeless ring-magnet generator construction places the moving coil at the focal point of the magnetic flux field leading to a new level of focus and natural resolution due to the reduction of phase errors generated by the magnet-with-pole-pieces construction of other cartridges. Continue reading Immutable Music announce new flagship MC cartridge: the Transfiguration Proteus
Can listening to music be any more intimate than via headphones? It’s just you and the sound in your head. But as we all know, intimacy tends to reveal shortcomings. Continue reading ADL launches H118 headphones: superb sound, supreme comfort
David Denyer PR | The hi-fi specialist 