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Welcome to the July 2011 edition of the highend-electronics Newsletter!
KR Audio VA340 MkII 300B integrated amp
Voxativ Ampeggio on the front page of the Stereophile
Art Dudley wrote for Stereophile issue August 2011:"...the Voxativ Ampeggios showed the same considerable transient speed, spatial presence, dramatic ease, and physical impact as the best Lowther applications I've heard - and lacked the English speakers' most egregious flaws."
"Low frequency tones, from just below 40Hz and up, had real power, color, and physicality via the Voxativs... Midrange sounds were open, clear, and stunningly present: the kind of playback performance that makes use of the word transparent not only forgivable but almost mandatory. The trebles were similarly clear... and, perhaps most important of all, there was no upper-mid response peak. No shout. No glare. No shit!"
"...the Voxativ Ampeggio went beyond sounding good: More than once, with too many records to mention, I found myself stopping to marvel at its brilliantly good pitch certainty... I was able to enjoy everything I played through them - not just as sound but as music - without fatigue, frustration, or, worst of all, lack of interest."
"...the sort of spatial presentation that some audio perfectionists cherish: a deep and sizable chunk of pure, open sound, mined from the original quarry and transported to the listener's room, "air" and all: The Voxativs, more than any other flea-wart-friendly speakers with which I'm familiar, did the soundstaging thing. In spades."
"More than just a Lowther without a shout, this is a Lowther with a foundation, a Lowther with real bass - a high efficiency, single-driver loudspeaker for which no excuses need be made. Just a few years after giving up on the idea, I've now encountered a single-driver dynamic speaker I could live with; in most audio reviews that's faint praise, but in this one it's a revelation. In the months ahead, I'm certain the Voxativ Ampeggio will change many more minds..." check out the entire review
VALVET soulshine8 tube preamp
Knut Cornils, owner and designer of VALVET in Germany, developed a second version of his top-line, highly recognized and award winning tube preamp soulshine. The soulshine8!
Like the original design it uses only one Mundorf Supreme Silver/Gold/Oil capacitor per channel and the circuitry has been re-designed for the use of 6SN7 tubes instead of ECC802S and 12BH7A. Not only one but two pairs of "Full Music" 6SN7 tubes doing their little magic and make the sound even more resolving with more authority and weight. The signal path is wired with pure silver/gold alloy wire and is as short as possible. We're eager for the first unit arriving and doing some tube rolling with 6SN7GT NOS black-glass Tung-Sol from the 1940ies.
Artos Audio from Germany
Last minute news... We're proud to anounce that we are going to be the US importer for Artos Audio Germany.Artos Audio manufactures a series of exclusive speaker systems that combines innovative technology and traditional craftsmanship in a perfect way. Inspired by the unique Air-Flow-Technology invented by the Austrian engineer Stefan Fekete designer of Consensus Audio, Lumen White and Ayon speakers.
In cooperation with the world renowned company Accuton, a series of exclusive driver systems has been designed to perfectly match the cabinet/cross-over designs of each of the five models.
Phaselinearity, perfect impulse response and high-efficiency have been the primary goals for the design of the crossovers that uses the best parts available from Mundorf and Duelund.
A pair of Artos Sunrise, the entry model, is already on the way to the US. More in our next newsletter...
