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Qualiton – A Young Brand With A Long History

Audio Hungary got in touch to tell us more about their Qualiton brand, their products, philosophy and their history. “Audio Hungary Ltd., owners of the Qualiton brand, started off in 2012. This essentially came about when they purchased Univox Ltd, a manufacturer of industrial PA equipment. Without wanting to make this a lesson in economic history: […]

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NuPrime Audio DAC-10H and ST-10 Power amplifier

NuPrime Audio has announced the release of NuPrime DAC-10H, a DAC & Headphone Amplifier (MSRP$1,795) and NuPrime ST-10, a Reference LE class power amplifier (MSRP$1595). The DAC-10H offers PCM 384K & DSD256 decoding with a high-power balanced headphone amplifier. This DAC with dual headphones outputs has 6 gain settings. The DAC-10H’s balanced headphone amplifier is […]

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New Multi-Channel Amplifier From Parasound

Parasound has announced the launch of their new ZoneMaster Model 1250, a universal amplifier which can simultaneously power a home theatre surround system and additional zones with independent sources. The ZoneMaster 12-channel power amplifier has connections for 24 speakers combined with 2-ohm stability, allowing the use of two speakers per channel. It’s rated at 12×50 […]

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Cary Audio At RMAF 2014

Cary Audio will be at the 2014 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) in the Marriott Towers Room 8025 from October 10th-12thin Denver, Colorado with the following kit. The eagerly awaited DMC-600, which will be shipping later this year. The DMC-600 is a digital music center incorporating a CD transport and a wide array of digital inputs, […]

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Hifi Review – Black Pearls’ Birth 100 Ampilfier

Black Pearls is a relatively newcomer to the audiophile marketplace and their first product, the Birth 100 Integrated amplifier, certainly looks like a well thought out product from the outside. Hifi Pig’s Stuart has the Black Pearls amplifier at home for a close up and personal review. “Hifi Pig first bumped into the Greek “Black […]

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Rogue Audio Shipping ST-100 Monoblocs and Pharoah Integrated

Rogue Audio who we met at the Munich High End show has announced they have begun shipping the new ST-100 tube power amplifier. With circuitry adapted from their M-180 monoblocs the ST-100 will be rated at 100WPC and offer both RCA and balanced inputs. The ST-100 from Rogue audio will feature custom wound  transformers coupled […]

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NuForce IA-18 Integrated Amplifier

NuForce, Inc have announced a single-chassis integrated stereo amplifier, the IA-18. The unit incorporates  components used in NuForce’s c Reference Series products including much of the same circuitry as the P-20, the company’s most recent flagship preamplifier, a Cross Matrix Array (CMA) capacitor module, and two V3 output amplifier modules. The IA-18 features five analogue […]

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New Canor TP134 Integrated Amplifier

Hi-Fi distributor Sound Fowndations has announced the addition of the CANOR TP134 valve amplifier to its portfolio of high quality audio components. The CANOR TP134 is a high quality stereo integrated amplifier that uses EL34 output valves to generate 35 watts per channel operating in pure class A up to 10 watts per channel. The […]

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Audiolici A25 Valve Amplifier

Audiolici is a Portuguese audio company based in oPorto. The company was founded in 2007 and specialise in the design and manufacture of valve based pre and power amplifiers. Their latest product is the Audiolici A-25 valve amplifier which is an integrated valve amplifier. The input selector of the A-25 is designed around four pairs […]

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Conrad Johnson LP125sa Valve Amplifier

The latest in the series of Conrad-Johnson vacuum-tube power amplifiers, the LP125sa is announced for release in the UK by Audiofreaks distribution. The high-end amplifier is a single stereo block and, at 125 watts per channel has ample power for the majority of high-end loudspeakers. The LP125sa audio circuit consists of three stages. The input […]

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New 501 Reference Series from TEAC

TEAC have recently announced the launch of a new series of hifi seperates called the 501 Reference series. The series includes the AI-501DA class D integrated amplifier (pictured) with 192kHz USB Audio Input using BurrBrown PCM5102 D/A , the PD-501HR CD Player with 5.6MHz DSD-file-recorded disc nativeplayback, the HA-501full-analogue dual monaural headphone amplifier and finally […]

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Naim Nap 100 Power Amplifier

Hot on the heals of the DAC-V1  Naim have launched the NAP 100 power amplifier, which they say is a “classic expression of traditional Naim power amplifier engineering”. Naim’s latest addition to their power amplifier stable offers 50 watts per channel at 8 Ohms, and 100 watts at 4 Ohms, the NAP 100 is a […]

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Audion Select Passive Pre-amplifier

Audion have today announced the release of their latest product Audion Select, a passive pre-amplifier. “The name “Audion Select” has been given as it’s mainly an input selector and in the double entendre stakes its also quite a select product.” Said Graeme Holland of Audion. The basic Audion Select is a passive pre-amplifier with 5 […]

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Van de Leur Audio Eyes International Markets

Van de Leur Audio is a Dutch company who hand built high-end audio products and as from today, their website is  open for visits in the English language. Since the introduction of the Van de Leur Audio 002 tube preamplifier and their Audio 402 Class-D dual mono amplifier the company has received high praise and […]

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Burson Conductor

The Burson Conductor is a DAC, Headphone amp and Pre-amplifier in one box. At the heart of our DAC is the ESS SABRE32 Reference DAC chip with patented 32-bit Hyper-stream DAC architecture and Time Domain Jitter Eliminator technology. The Conductor also features the well reviewed Soloist Headphone Amplifier and a FET output stage Pre-amplifier. The […]

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Audio Power Labs 50TNT Monobloc Amplifier

The 50 Watt RMS, 50TNT monoblock amplifier is Ohio based Audio Power Lab’s latest product and was officially launched at the Capital Audiofest earlier in the summer. The company say the amplifier is the “ultimate marriage of astounding audio transparency and sophisticated physical design” and is hand-built by the company in Ohio . The amplifier […]

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Lampizator GM70 Monobloc Tube Amplifiers

Lampizator, the famed Polish manufacturer owned by the maverick genius Lucasz Fikus, has announced that they are to introduce a new monobloc tube amplifier for the European market only. The company are aiming the GM70s at people who would normally buy a stereo 300B amp, but with 30 WPC instead of 8 supplied by the […]

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Channel Island Audio to Build Amps for Von Schweikert.

California based Channel Island Audio have announced that they have been selected to to design and custom build the amplifiers for Von Schweikert Audio’s flagship VR-11 MK 2 and VR-9 MK 2 loudspeakers. The VR‑11 loudspeaker will make its debut appearance at the MOD DAC 2012 Show in the Raffles City Convention Centre in Singapore […]

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NAD Announce Two New AV Receivers

NAD has announced two new products targeted at both the home and the custom install market, the T787 and T777 AV Receivers. The T787 and T777 are both 7-channel amplifiers that are power output rated at 4 ohms with all channels driven across the full 20Hz to 20kHz frequency range. The T787 is rated at […]

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“Audiophile Desktop System” at Munich

Founded in 2000, the Chicago (US) based company CEntrance develops innovative audio entertainment products and licenses its technology to industry brands, such as Playback Designs, Bel Canto, Benchmark, PS Audio, and Lavry. CEntrance will be demonstrating their “Audiophile Desktop System” at this year’s Munich High End show and very interesting it looks too. The system […]

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RTI Announce 4 and 16 Channel Amplifiers

Not strictly home hifi but interesting news none the less:Minnesota (US) based Remote Technologies Incorporated (RTI) have announced that the company is now shipping its new four-channel CP-450 and 16-channel CP-1650 audio amplifiers. Designed as the perfect complements to RTI’s eight-zone AD-8 distributed audio system, these powerful new amplifiers provide an additional 50 W per […]