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NuForce Releases Affordable, Modular High-End Audio Components
|(Editorial note: The AVguide.comn news desk recently received word that NuForce was releasing an entire family of compact, modular high-end audio components, including the Icon HDP—a combination headphone amp, preamp, USB and S/PDIF DAC, the ...read more -
Marantz Announces NA7004 Network Media Player
|(Editorial note: Earlier this summer, in a line show held in NYC, Marantz announced a large and far-ranging group of products, one of the most interesting of which is the firm’s new NA7004 Network Media ...read more -
Furutech Announces Daytona 303 Multi-Mode AC Filter/Power Distributor
|(Editorial Note: Earlier this week, the AVguide news desk received an updated press release on Furutech’s new Daytona 303 power distribution module, which promises to provide high levels of surge protection and to dramatically reduce ...read more -
Affordable Amps, Preamp from Aaron of Germany
|(Editorial note: Earlier this month the AVguide news desk received word from Parker, CO-based Aaudio Imports that the firm would be importing a series of “affordable, high-value” amplifiers and a new preamp from the German ...read more -
Grateful Dead Member Embraces McIntosh Audio Gear
|(Editorial note: Earlier this week the AVguide news desk received a press release—in this case, actually more of a human interest story—pointing out that Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead has embraced McIntosh audio gear ...read more -
Dynamic Contrasts’ RTS Audio Rack Takes Vibration Control To Extremes
|(Editorial note: the AVguide news desk recently received a press release from Salem, OR-based Dynamic Contrasts announcing the release of the firm’s radical new RTS audio equipment racking system, for which the company makes some ...read more -
Musical Fidelity Previews Potent AMS100 Pure Class A Amp
|(Editorial note: AVguide recently received word from the British high-end audio company Musical Fidelity regarding the release of the firm’s new flagship AMS100 power amplifier, which Musical Fidelity claims is “the most advanced pure Class ...read more -
Phiaton Announces PS 20 NC "Half In-Ear" Noise-Canceling Headphones
|(Editorial note: When AVguide/Playback editor Chris Martens attended the Can Jam, Chicago 2010 event several weeks ago, one of the most interesting and affordable in-ear headphones he got to sample was Phiaton soon to be ...read more -
Vincent Audio Debuts Hybrid Vacuum Tube Headphone Amplifier
|(Editorial Note: Many AVguide readers are familiar with the high-tech and high-end, yet value-priced home audio products from the German firm Vincent Audio, whose European-designed products are largely manufactured in China to help hold costs ...read more -
Definitive Announces New Bipolar SuperTowers, Matching Centers, Surrounds
|(Editorial note: As many AVguide readers may already know, the products that first put the Baltimore, MD-based loudspeaker manufacturer Definitive Technology on the high-end audio “map” were a series of bipolar tower-type loudspeakers. Later, the ...read more -
S1 Digital Media Server Features Cloud-Based Storage
|(Editorial note: The AVguide news desk has received a press release about the new Mirage Media Server jointly developed by Autonomic Controls and S1 digital. What AVguide readers may find fascinating about the server is ...read more -
MartinLogan Announces New Ethos Hybrid Electrostatic Loudspeaker
|(Editorial Note: Many members of the three AVguide.com communities—The Absolute Sound, The Perfect Vision, and Playback—are fans of electrostatic transducers (whether we are speaking about loudspeakers or headphones), so that we are eager to hear ...read more -
Asgard & Valhalla Headphone Amps from Sumo/Theta Veterans
|(Editorial Note: The AVguide.com news desk received word that Jason Stoddard, who describes himself as the "designer of Sumo products in the 90’s that included Andromeda III, Polaris II, Diana, Artemis, Theorem and Axiom," had ...read more -
Bryston Announces BDP-1 High Resolution Digital Music Player
|(Editorial Note: Earlier this week the AVguide news desk received a press release from the Canadian firm Bryston LTD, announcing the release of its new BDP-1 High Resolution Digital Music Player. The BDP-1 could be ...read more -
Turtle Beach Ear Force DSS Enables 7.1-Channel Sound from Headphones
|(AVguide.com and The Perfect Vision are always on the lookout for innovative new ways to enjoy surround sound, and so our curiosity was piqued by a recent Turtle Beach press release announcing the firm’s Ear ...read more