Posted on October 31, 2023 by The Audio Emporium
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…
Category: Audio Emporium, Newsletters Tags: elys, Rega, turntable
Posted on September 30, 2023 by The Audio Emporium
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…
Category: Audio Emporium, Newsletters Tags: Bryston Speakers, Bryston Tiny A, IsoTek, Isotek Corvus V3, JL Audio D-110, JL Subwoofers
Posted on August 31, 2023 by The Audio Emporium
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….
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Posted on July 29, 2023 by The Audio Emporium
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…
Category: Audio Emporium, Newsletters Tags: integrated amp, Rogue Audio, Rogue Cronus Magnum III, Rogue Sphinx, Tubes
Posted on July 1, 2023 by The Audio Emporium
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…
Category: Audio Emporium, Newsletters Tags: Bryston A1, Bryston Speakers, Bryston Tiny A, Rogue Monoblock Amp, Rogue RP-7
Posted on May 30, 2023 by The Audio Emporium
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,…
Category: Audio Emporium, Newsletters Tags: audio streamer, BlueSound, IsoTek, Magnepan, magnepan 1.7i, NAD, nad c3050, Node, node x, polaris
Posted on April 29, 2023 by The Audio Emporium
NAD C389 Integrated Amp $1500: 130×2 (4h, 17 1/8w, 14 1/2d, 130 w/ch, 8 ohms) In the Feb 2023 newsletter I told you the C389 was imminent. Turns out, they made me a liar by about two months. You can refer to the Feb newsletter for the nuts and bolts. Finally, we have C389 in the flesh. It’s HERE and it is…
Category: Audio Emporium, Newsletters Tags: McIntosh, McIntosh MI-502, NAD, NAD C389, stereo integrated
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