Børresen M8 Gold Signature speakers Audio Group Denmark proudly announces the Børresen M8 Gold Signature, a flagship loudspeaker created to define a new reference in ultra high-end sound reproduction. Designed and handcrafted in Denmark, the M8 Gold Signature rep-resents the most advanced and uncompromising expression of Michael Børresen’s loudspeaker philosophy to date. Developed without conventional […]
Origin Live Ground Anchor tonearm grounding box Origin Live is excited to announce the launch of the Ground Anchor: a grounding box that connects between your tonearm grounds and your phonostage. The Ground Anchor reduces noise from airborne noise as well as mains noise, system noise and microphonic component noise. All of which affect the […]
Aavik M-880 mono power amplifier A reference-class power amplifier engineered to control the most demanding loudspeakers. Audio Group Denmark announces the launch of the Aavik M-880, a reference mono power amplifier developed to meet the highest demands of modern loudspeaker systems. Designed and handcrafted in Denmark, the M-880 represents the most advanced and uncompromising execution […]
Davone Reference Three speakers The first Davone speaker I saw was the Ray, a very distinctive and beautiful design with a single stalk stand and a curvy shape wrapped in bent plywood. It immediately brought to mind the Eames Lounge Chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames in the fifties – the name that Davone […]
Hifi Network Hifi Network‘s system consisted of an AVM Ovation SA 8.3 Lite amplifier, a CS5.3 CD player/streamer/integrated amplifier, and a pair of Elac Concerto S503 speakers. A Clearaudio Innovation turntable was also on dem, but not whilst I was in the room. Still, streamed music sounded particularly open and spacious, demonstrating the resolving powers […]
An interview with Bugge Wesseltoft At the end of November this year, I was honoured, and privileged to spend more than an hour with one of Europe’s most uniquely prolific jazz piano players, Bugge Wesseltoft. His albums have been reviewed extensively over the past few years in The Ear, and his latest release has become […]
Chord Electronics quantum materials research Strange things are afoot in East Farleigh. Chord Electronics have bought and refurbished the Victorian boiler house that sits between the Pumphouse that the company has inhabited for decades and the river for which these buildings were created. This new facility has allowed Chord Electronics to move its offices out […]
Little Fwend Low Mk2 automatic tonearm lifter Back in the heyday of turntables and vinyl, let’s call it the ‘70s, there were many automatic turntables that lifted the arm when it got to the end of the record, they even stopped the platter spinning and only the diligent felt the need to put the vinyl […]
Saving Grace is an unexpected and charming musical surprise, courtesy of one of rock’s most revered crooners. Warning! This album is mostly folk, country, and bluegrass music. And to add to the shock it is well recorded to boot. Robert Plant’s recent musical collaborations have led him away from rock into the arms into country, by […]