By: Dennis Burger, January 5, 2017 Where do you go after you’ve created one of the most critically acclaimed speakers of the past decade, if not longer? I’m referring, in case it needs spelling out, to GoldenEar Technology’s Triton One, a speaker that garnered the sort of ink in the year of its release that’s normally reserved […]
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Classics For The Modern Age Quad gave its team of designers and engineers a specific brief for Artera: combine the qualities that have made Quad one of Britain’s most revered hi-fi marques for many decades with fresh industrial design and the very latest high performance audio technologies. Artera’s crisp, clean aesthetic both evokes Quad’s past
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by TAS Staff | Jan 05th, 2017 REL T/7i $999 A special round of applause is due this mini-sub for music lovers. The new T/7i is even faster and tighter than its forbear, yet remains tonally supple, with well-defined timbres. It’s also remarkably potent for a single, forward-firing 8″ driver augmented by a quick-reacting, downward-firing
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THE ONE AND ONLY Boasting an all-valve amplifier stage and digital inputs, this is an intriguing mix of old and new tech. Ed Selley gets to grips with it. Quad VA-One – Hi-Fi Choice, December 2016 Such is the diversification of functionality attached to integrated amplifiers in recent years, that a valve amplifier fitted with a selection
by TAS Staff | Dec 29th, 2016 Air Tight ATM-1S $10,450 JM has been delighted to have this stereo tube amp in her reference system. No matter what style of music she played, no matter what speakers she paired it with, the Air Tight ATM-1S delivered the sonic goods with naturalness, beauty, and ease, while
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by TAS Staff | Dec 12th, 2016 Monitor Audio Gold 300 $5700 Monitor Audio, a forty-plus-year-old UK-based manufacturer, is one of the pioneers of metal-driver technology. Melding impressive sound with cool-looking functional design, the surfaces of its proprietary C-CAM (Ceramic-Coated Aluminum/Magnesium) alloy metal-dome bass and midrange drivers are dimpled with small, round indentations in a
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Award winning loudspeakers, without the need for bulky amplifiers and trailing wires. 30 Oct 2016 For over 30 years, The Wharfedale Diamond Series has been the go-to speaker for entry level, high-fidelity sound. Praised for articulated performance at an affordable price, Diamond 200 series has won multiple awards, with What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision commenting
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Packing a lot into a small space for a low price, Paul Rigby reviews the Q Acoustics Concept 20 speakers by Paul Rigby | 30 Oct 2016 Q Acoustics have a well deserved reputation for creating value for money designs. Partly because they save money by not owning their own top quality research and development
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(October 14, 2016 – Stevenson, MD) GoldenEar Technology is very pleased to announce that we have been awarded a patent by the US Patent Office (US 9,462,391 B2) on our unique Dual-Plane Inertially-Balanced Technology, as incorporated in our new, award winning SuperSub™ Series of powered subwoofers, the SuperSub X ($1249/ea.) and SuperSub XXL (S1999/ea.). This
by Alan Sircom| Sep 27, 2016 If ever there was a speaker that best encapsulates ‘affordable excellence’ in audio, it would be the GoldenEar Triton Five. This tall, elegant floorstander is priced to compete with two- and three-way tower speakers, yet the cloth-wrapped Triton Five manages to combine a D’Appolito-style ‘MTM’ (mid-treble-mid) layout with extremely high
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