Mytek Liberty DAC With MQA! $995 Balanced And Single Ended Outputs! We’ve sold boatloads of Bluesound Node 2s. Node 2 allows you to procure the signal and stream CD and MQA sound. We told you there would be a better sounding MQA decoding DAC one day. We said you could improve your sound by adding said DAC to your Node 2. That day is now! Mytek is a company that is highly esteemed in the pro market. The Liberty is a great DAC that can straddle the pro and consumer fields. We are especially happy that Liberty doesn’t cost $5k!
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03.2018
McIntosh MA-252 Integrated Amp: $3500 (100×2) Tube Preamp Section, Solid State Power Amp Section. Mac has introduced this new retro looking, luscious sounding, integrated amp! It is a pure analog unit. It features two high level RCA inputs & one set of XLR inputs. It also supports MM phono. It even has a subwoofer out. It has a 1/4” headphone jack on the front. MA-252 has menu generated tone controls. It uses two 12AX7a and two 12AT7s preamp tubes. Again, the power amp section is solid state and does not use autoformers. MA-252 does come with remote control. The amp
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02.2018
Now On Display And In Stock! Emotiva T-2 Speakers It has taken a while for the bigger tower in the Emo family to come out. But here it is, ready to rock your world for a grand per pair. Emotiva T-2 Towers, $1000 Per Pair (42 1/16h, 10 11/16w, 12 1/4d, 59 lbs ea) The T-2 tower is brand new. It’s been in the works a while and has finally landed. T-2 is the unabashed bigger brother to the already successful, moderately sized T-1 tower. Sneaking the term “bash” in here is appropriate as T-2 CAN BRING IT. To offer
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01.2018
NAD C328 Integrated Amp $550 (50×2, 2 3/16h, 17 1/8w, 11 1/4d) NAD has made a typical NAD move. They have brought out a new, high performance, sleek, integrated amp at less money than their prior offerings! NAD is the king of power and stability in integrateds. Rated at 50×2, C328 will comfortably hit peaks of 100×2. Further, NAD is happy to address low impedance’s. You can buy the speakers you love the sound of without fear of low impedance’s toasting the amp. You cannot say that about the OTHER GUYS. Probably the most reviewed 100×2 integrated is
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12.2017
Hegel H190 Integrated Amp, $4000 (150×2) Hegel has just spiffed up its mid line integrated amp. H190 has the same power as its predecessor, but now has double the damping factor. Double the damping factor means more grip. H190 can get your speakers to start and stop faster. Double the damping factor means increased dynamic range, yielding the most noticeable improvement in H190. Hegel has improved its patented Sound Engine Technology. Now it’s called Sound Engine 2 (SE2). SE2 is similar to current dumping. With no global feedback you get a cleaner, more immediate sound. SE2 helps create high
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11.2017
Bluesound Node 2, $500: MQA and CD Streamer If you have not bought a Node 2 from us yet, you need to stop by – or order one on the phone! 414-354-5082 Bluesound is part of the NAD family. They didn’t ask my opinion but, I would have said, call it NAD Node 2 so everyone will know it’s from an established audiophile company. Since “nobody” has heard of Bluesound, one might be leery. I assure you, be leery NOT. Ah, these clever marketing people… they’re often too smart for their own good. Node 2 streams Tidal or
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10.2017
We Welcome Hegel’s New H90 Integrated Amp $2000 (60×2) 3 1/8h, 16 7.8w, 12 1/4d, 27 lbs Hegel Audio of Oslo, Norway, brought out its H80 integrated amp ($2k) in 2013. H80 has been a defacto price class leader since its inception. Here we are four years later and H80 has been superseded by the new H90. We’re happy that H90 is the same price as H80. It has an improved version of Hegel’s patented Sound Engine technology, dubbed Sound Engine 2. With SE2 comes superior damping factor whose spec is 2000. Most amps have a damping factor of
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09.2017
New Entry On Our Site: ABC’s It’s up near the top, called ABC’s. It is a short list of my recommendations on how to assemble a dynamite system. It approaches the task from the beginning, with the Milwaukee credo of getting a dollar’s worth of performance for each dollar spent. Print it out. Highlight. Visit to discuss/audition! Mobile Fidelity UltraDeck+ $2000 MoFi introduced its StudioDeck+ ($1150) a couple months ago. I’m glad they did the roll out in summer when business is slower- because the StudioDeck+ has been on back order since day one. Mofi has been busy trying to
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08.2017
GoldenEar Triton Reference Speakers In Stock! $8500 Per Pair GoldenEar has begun shipping its new Triton Reference speakers. GoldenEar has made great value speakers since its inception. The T-Ref is no exception despite its up market price tag. T-Ref is larger than its brethren, of course. This allows the use of two new 6” mid-woofs used in a D’Appolito config. Centered between them is a spiffed up new ribbon tweeter. The speaker is rounded out with three, 6×10” powered subs. The amp is 1800w with DSP control. T-Ref is tuned with four, 9 1/2×10 ½ side firing Quadratic Radiators, two
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07.2017
New $800 Theater Amp From Emotiva: 125×5 Emotiva has just introduced its A5175 power amp. It provides a solid 125×5 with all five channels driven into 8 ohms. Emo is betting that this hits the sweet spot for most buyers. It is a notch above A500 ($500, 80×5), and notch below XPA5G3 ($1600, 250×5). Hence Emo now has three versions of terrific five channel amplifiers! It has commensurate 7ch amps too. Back In Stock- Emotiva MC-700 Pre-Pro $600 No sooner than Emo brought out its MC-700- it went on back order. We only had a handful and then… were out
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