04.2024

04.2024

April 2, 2024 | No Comments

Rogue Sphinx Magnum $2000 (100×2) My favorite integrated amp value just got better! An already classic integrated has been improved in crystalline detail and a more airy top end. Rogue has made the Sphinx v3 ($1700, 100×2 with Skeleton remote) for several years now. It’s a dynamite integrated amp, with MM/MC phono section, outstanding headphone amp and uses two 12AU7 tubes in the preamp stage. The tubes are JJs from the Slovak Republic. Rogue provides a matched pair- vs just grabbing any two out of boxes- to insure you have proper channel balance. Oh, and it’s built in the USA,
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03.2024

03.2024

February 29, 2024 | No Comments

Bryston Model T-10 Speakers, $20,000 Per Pair {72h, 12w, 17d, 133 lbs, 92 dB SPL, 4 ohms} Black Ash, Walnut, Walnut Expresso, Boston Cherry, Natural Cherry Bryston has just shipped its LINE ARRAY big boy towers, Model T-10. The T-10 denotes that Bryston has been making speakers over a decade. All Brystons are made in Canada with a 20 year warranty! Model T-10 is a full assault on putting the musicians in your room. Most speakers are quite scaled down from reality in their presentation. We understand that and accept them for what they are. Your wife would prefer shorter/leaner
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02.2024

02.2024

January 31, 2024 | No Comments

Magnepan MG 2.7i Speakers, $6350 Per Pair With Oval Bases (72h, 22w, 2d) Magnepan’s BRAND NEW, MG 2.7i has arrived! Magnepan rarely introduces new speakers. When they do, it’s a big deal. With MG 2.7i, it’s even a bigger deal because this is now the least expensive model in the family to use Maggie’s True Ribbon Tweeter design. MG 2.7i gives us STATE OF THE ART high frequency detail and shimmer due to its use of Magnepan’s True Ribbon tweeter design. If you haven’t heard Maggie’s True Ribbon for a while, you owe it to yourself to test drive it
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01.2024

01.2024

December 30, 2023 | No Comments

Bryston Meets Axiom In 2010 James Tanner (Bryston CEO) designed a loudspeaker for Bryston to use as a tool to evaluate its electronics. James wasn’t happy with commercially available speakers by the big names due to limited bass, dynamic range and sound stage. So he created his own! Bryston hired a friendly Canadian company down the road a piece, Axiom, to build these Gibraltar-ish prototypes to his specifications. James and the engineers at Bryston were thrilled with the results of The Model T (for Tanner). The Model T was put into duty in house at Bryston. There was a massive
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12.2023

12.2023

November 30, 2023 | No Comments

McIntosh MA8950 Integrated Amp: 200×2 McIntosh won’t let dealers post pricing on their higher end gear. That’s their rule and we have to comply. How many players are in the field on a baseball team? Mac is still made in Binghamton, NY, with luscious blue meters. It’s the coolest looking and most reliable gear in our business. Have you heard… we don’t last forever. Let’s have some FUN while we’re on the planet! Of course you could be prudent and boring. You could just buy a Yamaguchi integrated for $500 that will sound as dry as white toast. Hey, if
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11.2023

11.2023

October 31, 2023 | No Comments

Rega Turntables Of England Rega was started by Roy Gandy in England in 1973. He and his wife still run the company! Audio Emporium has sold Rega since we opened in 1977. Rega’s niche has always been to make great sounding, affordable tables. In the early years, Rega made the turntables, but bought tonearms and carts from other sources to round them out. They were outstanding for their day. By the mid 80s Rega was making its line of tables, arms and even cartridges, in house in England. Regas have always had the fit and finish of a UK product,
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