Audio Esoterica - June 2022

84 Pages·2022·70.1 MB·English

A NEW LANGUAGE
FOR HOME CINEMA
The Elementi Fire range incorporates compression The Air range uses pleated diaphragm ribbon
drivers for dynamic and detailed cinema sound, but tweeters for a uniquely open soundstage, where the
without harshness, thanks to FIR filters which tune not image floats in front of you. Experience the finesse
just frequency but phase. The result is a speaker that of a pleated diaphragm tweeter, with power to match
sounds powerful, clean, warm and effortless. compression driver systems.
Models: Firefly, Phoenix, Fire-Dragon Models: Zephyr, Sirocco, Tempest
The Fire range, its amplifiers and associated Earth subwoofers will be available from Cogworks: www.cogworks.io.
Elementi is more than a new brand: it’s a new approach.
Meet the Elementi Fire, Air and Water ranges of out of the rack and into the cinema, in slimline
digital active speakers, and the Elementi Earth modular units which can mount on the wall or
range of digital active subwoofers. Designed to behind the screen. This doubly overcomes issues
precisely satisfy the demands of modern home of long runs of speaker cables, and of excessive
cinema design, they also bring the power amplifiers heat build-up in overstocked equipment racks.
The Earth subwoofers are designed for The forthcoming Water range of height speakers
high power handling and minimal power are designed to envelop the listener with power
compression. Concert-grade PRO drivers, to match the Fire and Air series speakers.
driven by high current amplifiers, deliver
prodigious bass that hits hard and fast. Models: Maelstrom & Tsunami
Models: Basalt, Onyx, Obsidian, Kola
For more information on the full Elementi range, visit elementiaudio.com.au
contents
AUDIO ESOTERICA #1 2022
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News
KALISTA DREAMPLAY XC CD PLAYER/ 06
STREAMER/DAC/PREAMP
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REVIEWKEF BLADE TWO META LOUDSPEAKERS
CHARIO ACADEMY SONNET 08 Seeking speakers that will do the hi-fi deed of
LOUDSPEAKERS transporting you into the time-capsule of a
recording? The beautiful Blades are aching to
MERGING TECHNOLOGIES NADAC 10
astound you.
NETWORK DAC
REVIEW MCINTOSH C12000C CONTROLLER; 18
C12000ST PREAMP; MC3500MK II MONO
POWER AMPLIFIERS
An analogue system that will exude a sense of pride
in the privilege of owning such a product – not only
in the buyer but also in the generations it’s passed
onto in the future.
REVIEW KYRON GAIA EVOLUTION STEREO 24
SYSTEM
Put your eyes right up to the pages of the review
and you still won’t spy a ‘cabinet’. Indeed, this non-
box dipole speaker design is uniquely unusual.
REVIEW HOLBO MKII AIRBEARING 30
TURNTABLE SYSTEM
An intriguingly unconventional turntable that
arrives with an off -board box which is not an
isolated power supply, nor a phono stage, but
an air pump.
REVIEW BOWERS & WILKINS 800 SERIES D4 36
LOUDSPEAKERS
The hype surrounding a new B&W 800 Series is
always considerable, and yet somehow always
justifi ed too. This range truly sounds as good as
it looks.
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Features
AUDIO CONNECTION 44
Step inside this newly redesigned Sydney hi-fi
destination store, which has possibly the most
high-end system any shop has available in
the country.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF 56
AUDIOTECHNICA’S 60 YEARS
Heading down a rabbit hole of Japanese-language
sources, we anticipated a history of cartridges,
headphones and pro audio gear. But what struck
us before long was the company’s relentless
innovation in their development.
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No 1, 2022
50 REVIEW JBL PROJECT K2 S9900 LOUDSPEAKERS
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When you see the word ‘Project’ preceding a JBL speaker
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Editorial
A-Line range is a highly detailed and dynamic performer
Editor: Greg Borrowman
compact enough to fi t into most homes. [email protected]
Contributing Editor: Jez Ford
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64 REVIEW GOLDMUND TELOS 590 NEXTGEN II Art Director: Kristian Hagen
INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER [email protected]
A traditional separates approach but with the preamp, Contributors
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power amps, digital module and power supply all
Simon Holland, Hugh Douglas, William H. Fisher,
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74 REVIEW MUSICAL FIDELITY M6X PHONO STAGE Management
A game-changing phono stage in more ways than one (or Managing Director: Neville Daniels
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CHASING
THE DREAM
KALISTA DREAMPLAY XC
T
hink you don’t want a CD player anymore?
This one you will want: indeed, Kalista’s
DreamPlay XC is more than a CD player —
it’s a CD/SACD player, but also a streamer,
a DAC and a digital preamplifi er all in one, with the
internal DAC distinguishing it from the otherwise
identical DreamPlay X. So while that X model outputs
digitally via AES/EBU, coaxial SPDIF or I2S, the XC
adds analogue balanced and unbalanced outputs.
Kalista is a French brand spun off from
Metronome Technologies in 2014, and it aims to
create the highest possible level of audio equipment.
Its range of sources began with a CD transport,
then developing conversion technology and fi nally
streaming, with the DreamPlay XC as the ultimate
expression of their advanced technologies and
design — the technical secrets of which, we may
say, they keep awfully close to their Gallic chests.
The standard DreamPlay X retails at $109,995
and the DAC-equipped DreamPlay XC for
$119,995. More information:
www.kedcorp.com.au
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SEEING THE WOOD
T
he wood drying takes six for six months until the correct internal
months. Then there’s 90 humidity is measured, before machining
minutes of machining begins and then assembly of jointed slats
to fl awlessly form the with dovetail joints, which Chario regards
cabinet elements. And as the best solution in attaining structural
that’s followed by a full rigidity for its hefty loudspeakers.
126 hours of artisan handcrafting before These Academy Sonnets, then, are solid
fi nal assembly and quality control sees a standmount speakers, measuring 45cm
single pair of Chario’s Academy Sonnet high and 34cm deep, weighing 14kg each.
loudspeakers signed off and ready to be The drivers also are designed and made in
shipped from their home in Italy. Italy, a 32mm Silversoft dome tweeter and a
Chario has been handbuilding 170mm woofer of Rohacell structural foam.
loudspeakers for 47 years from its base in
Milan, long favouring heavy wood cabinet The two-way standmount Sonnets
construction, and strictly of Italian origin sell at $8999, and are distributed
sourced from walnut plantations in the in Australia by Audio Dynamics:
north-east of the country. They’re age-dried www.audiodynamics.com.au
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PROFILE: MERGING TECHNOLOGIES
M
erging Technologies is CD). Among the big names that have for an external computer or other source
a Swiss company best championed Merging’s products in their device from the mix.
known for its prowess in studios is Bob Ludwig, with his renowned The Merging NADAC utilises the
digital audio record- Gateway Mastering Studios in the US Ravenna protocol to transmit audio via
ing systems, delivering utilising the company’s tech. Ethernet at gigabit speeds from its source,
hardware and technology to allow pristine- This ultra high-defi nition audio is no allowing for extremely precise error
quality media to be captured in world-class longer limited to the realm of the mastering correction and jitter-reduction, delivering
studios around the globe. studio, however, with the company now DSD performance as it was captured in the
After a decade working for fellow off ering up a suite of products for the home studio itself (quite likely from Merging’s
Swiss audio-maker Nagra Kudelski, audiophile. The Merging NADAC (Network own technology). It’s off ered in two
designer Claude Cellier founded Merging Attached Digital to Analogue Converter) versions — Stereo and Multichannel-8 —
Technologies in 1990 with the intention is the star of the show — its mission aim is one with a pair of XLR and RCA outputs,
of mastering the art of digital signal to off er a consumer DAC that brings with and another with eight of each. Both
processing. Soon after it was established, it the same purity, clarity and transparency models deliver the improved linearity,
Merging Technologies became one of the that Merging is renowned for in the studio. lowered noise fl oor and greater dynamic
fi rst companies to produce a DSD (Direct To complete the suite, Merging also off ers a range aff orded by eight channels merged
Stream Digital) recording system, and then dedicated external power supply (Merging into a stereo pair, while the dedicated
went on to co-develop the DXD (Digital Power), as well as the Merging Clock for the eight-channel model can operate with
eXtreme Defi nition) format alongside ultimate source in precision timing across eight discrete outputs if desired.
Philips. This new DXD format worked at a connected network. There’s also the
352.8kHz/24-bit and was initially introduced Merging Player, which essentially off ers the The Merging NADAC is available in
in the Merging Pyramix workstation to same functionality as the NADAC but with Australia now for $16,690 (RRP) from
combat the issues presented by editing the added benefi t of an on-board music Absolute Hi End. More information:
and mastering for SACD (Super Audio source, eff ectively removing the need https://absolutehiend.com
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