NEWSLETTER Nr. 29 - SEPTEMBER 2013

Newsletter Highlights:

At our last show, The California Audio Show in San Francisco, we successfully debuted two new products from Germany - the Voxativ PI speakers and the SoundWaves Cantano Grande turntable and tonearm. This event also marked the first public appearance in the US for totaldac from France. We showcased the D1 tube dac.

Reaction from the press about the sound in our room was very positive throughout:

Jack Roberts - Dagogo.com:
"...the new Voxativ Pi speakers with KR amps, this was one of the speakers from the show I hope to review, they sounded incredibly alive!"

Jason Victor Serinus - Stereophile:
"...Nice Nice Nice. So Warm. Nice Nice Nice. Absolutely captivating. Just great..."

Mal Kenney - PartTimeAudiophile.com:
"...while the PI doesn’t sound quite as unrestrained as its larger stablemates (Ampeggio Due), it delivers more of their immediacy and color than you would expect..." - "...Mulligan’s sax growls out in a way that I associate less with speakers and more with... well... a sax!" - "...for my tastes, this was one of the special rooms at the show..."

KR Audio Kronzilla SXi

John Bamford wrote: "...hook up this SXi to a pair of serious floorstanders and you'll likely be blown away... the SXi's music-making seems quite effortless and even if it is driven beyond its means there's no obvious 'hard' clip. Frankly, the Kronzilla SXi is a staggeringly capable amplifier, and one that provides a clear window through which to judge the fidelity of all recordings..."

Check out the entire review

High Fidelity CT-1 Speaker and
CT-1E Phono Cable

Bruce Kinch of Positive Feedback Online wrote: "...High Fidelity Cables elevated my system to new levels of performance. They convey a soundstage that is wider, deeper, and higher than I've heard here before; they resolve tremendous low-level detail from deep bass to high treble, and are dead quiet..."

"...all this is achieved without added treble emphasis, and thus the cables can occasionally seem to lean toward the warm and rich side of the road to sonic heaven, but they get you there in style. The music flows naturally—organically is again the word that kept coming to mind—and to me that speaks to excellent timing across the frequencies..." Check out the entire review

VALVET L1 tube pre-amp and E1r mono-blocks

Christian Bayer wrote: "...one thing is clear to me. The main thing most amplifiers do is deliver information, like: Miles Davis - Trumpet - Solo - Studio recording 1959. But the Valvets do more than that, they present the music as a whole, communicate the real meaning behind the music and invite the listener to re-discover his favorite music..."
Check out the entire review

KR Audio Kronzilla DXL mono-blocks

KR Audio's flagship amps have been reviewed by Mike Malinowski in his 1 Million Dollar System, not once but twice. One review was published at 6moons.com and another one as a video review on AVShowrooms.com.

Mike Malinowski (Aug 2013): "...they sounded spectacular top to bottom. To be frank, the DXL do display certain traditional SET virtues like micro dynamics, the flow from one note to the next, that midrange magic and musical decays. But this is not your typical SET or triode sound since there's also extension, deep bass, low-end grip and PraT for seemingly the best of both worlds..."

CLICK HERE to read the review on 6moons

CLICK HERE to watch the videos on AVShowrooms

Synergistic Research Transporter Ultra SE

It provides a much lower noise floor and a big sound improvement even compared to Galileo MPC’s.

The Transporter Ultra SE is taking SR Active Shielding to the next level and is only outperformed by the new EnigmA Dual Valve & Solid-State Power Supply. For more information Click Here