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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10.2023

10.2023

September 30, 2023 | No Comments

Bryston A110: $2300 For An Amazing Speaker Array! Two grand is a popular price point in the speaker market. What’s the best value for about $2k? Let’s up the ante a little bit because $2300 gets you into a WHOLE NEW WORLD for just a little more money. The majority of offerings in this range are Chinese imports. Most are flimsy, booming towers- that actually don’t go very deep. They are literally generic- made by job houses that output a myriad of different brands on different days. The Bryston A110 Array will absolutely BURY these flimsy imports when it comes
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09.2023

09.2023

August 31, 2023 | No Comments

JL Audio Double Subs Most hi-fi guys know that it’s very tough to get tower speakers to produce bass as deep and powerful as a good subwoofer. Much less TWO good subwoofers. Bryston is among the very few speaker companies who can give you such prodigiously deep bass in a tower that you might think- well, I really don’t need a sub. Bryston’s A3 tower runs $3290 per pair. It’s the least expensive tower out there to “trick” you into thinking a sub might actually be hiding in the dark over there. With virtually any other speakers, when you kick
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08.2023

08.2023

July 29, 2023 | Comments Off on 08.2023

Tubes! Rogue Sphinx V3 Integrated Amp $1700 With Remote (5h, 17w, 15.5d, 25 lbs, 100×2 into 8 ohms. 200X2 into 4 ohms) One of my favorite integrated amps on the planet is the tube driven Rogue Sphinx V3 (Version 3). When Rogue went from V2 to V3, it incorporated some important changes that made it a much better performer. Rogue insists that you can’t put a DAC or Bluetooth in an integrated or you’ll soil its pristine resolution. It’s easy to buy an outboard DAC or Bluetooth device for modest (to crazy) money. Please don’t disqualify the Sphinx because they
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07.2023

07.2023

July 1, 2023 | Comments Off on 07.2023

Bryston A1: $4990 Per Pair {47.5h, 9.25w, 17d, 71 lbs, 88 dB SPL, 4 ohms} They’re baaaaack! My fave sub $5k speakers are at long last back in the house. Covid 19 put Bryston behind the 8 ball as much as any company out there. After three long years of being at least 6 months behind on product delivery, Bryston is catching up. As they’re catching up, they’re finally producing some of their A Series speakers that were virtually extinct for three years. Tops among them is the Bryston A1. What a treat it is to have this smooth, powerful
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06.2023

06.2023

May 30, 2023 | No Comments

Magnepan MG 1.7i, $3000 Per Pair Shock of all shocks, Magnepan is catching up with providing us inventory! We actually have MG 1.7i in stock (black cloth/dark cherry wood) for the first time in… 3 years. C19 hit Magnepan as hard as any company. It was almost immediate in March of 2020, that Magnepan’s back orders became extreme. Orders of MG 1.7i, one of the best speaker values in the hi-fi hobby, ran 6 months or more. We always had orders in cue. We would get one pair here, then maybe a pair or two there. Still, we ran way
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