05.2018

Air Tight AL05 Bonsai Speakers $2500 Per Pair: (10 3/4h, 6 3/4w, 8 3/4d) Bonsai is designed for the SERIOUS near field listener. That is, you have a den or small room where you want the utmost in quality, but don’t need ferocious SPLs. Bonsai is designed to be the ULTIMATE speaker for precise articulation and imaging. When you want to squeeze every drop of nuance out of your music in a “personal” space, Bonsai is ideal. Bonsai is a four inch one way design with alnico magnets and NO crossover in the road. There are no additional drivers to
Read More

04.2018

Mytek Liberty DAC With MQA! $995 Balanced And Single Ended Outputs! We’ve sold boatloads of Bluesound Node 2s. Node 2 allows you to procure the signal and stream CD and MQA sound. We told you there would be a better sounding MQA decoding DAC one day. We said you could improve your sound by adding said DAC to your Node 2. That day is now! Mytek is a company that is highly esteemed in the pro market. The Liberty is a great DAC that can straddle the pro and consumer fields. We are especially happy that Liberty doesn’t cost $5k!
Read More

03.2018

McIntosh MA-252 Integrated Amp: $3500 (100×2) Tube Preamp Section, Solid State Power Amp Section. Mac has introduced this new retro looking, luscious sounding, integrated amp! It is a pure analog unit. It features two high level RCA inputs & one set of XLR inputs. It also supports MM phono. It even has a subwoofer out. It has a 1/4” headphone jack on the front. MA-252 has menu generated tone controls. It uses two 12AX7a and two 12AT7s preamp tubes. Again, the power amp section is solid state and does not use autoformers. MA-252 does come with remote control. The amp
Read More

02.2018

Now On Display And In Stock! Emotiva T-2 Speakers It has taken a while for the bigger tower in the Emo family to come out. But here it is, ready to rock your world for a grand per pair. Emotiva T-2 Towers, $1000 Per Pair (42 1/16h, 10 11/16w, 12 1/4d, 59 lbs ea) The T-2 tower is brand new. It’s been in the works a while and has finally landed. T-2 is the unabashed bigger brother to the already successful, moderately sized T-1 tower. Sneaking the term “bash” in here is appropriate as T-2 CAN BRING IT. To offer
Read More

01.2018

NAD C328 Integrated Amp $550 (50×2, 2 3/16h, 17 1/8w, 11 1/4d)     NAD has made a typical NAD move. They have brought out a new, high performance, sleek, integrated amp at less money than their prior offerings! NAD is the king of power and stability in integrateds. Rated at 50×2, C328 will comfortably hit peaks of 100×2. Further, NAD is happy to address low impedance’s. You can buy the speakers you love the sound of without fear of low impedance’s toasting the amp. You cannot say that about the OTHER GUYS. Probably the most reviewed 100×2 integrated is
Read More

12.2017

Hegel H190 Integrated Amp, $4000 (150×2)   Hegel has just spiffed up its mid line integrated amp. H190 has the same power as its predecessor, but now has double the damping factor. Double the damping factor means more grip. H190 can get your speakers to start and stop faster. Double the damping factor means increased dynamic range, yielding the most noticeable improvement in H190. Hegel has improved its patented Sound Engine Technology. Now it’s called Sound Engine 2 (SE2). SE2 is similar to current dumping. With no global feedback you get a cleaner, more immediate sound. SE2 helps create high
Read More