Equipment
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Very cute - Tannoy's Arena satellite, seen in assorted colours and with a selection of stands, brackets, a centre channel model and a subwoofer
Pioneer's latest hard-drive/DVD recorder, the DVR-920H, with HDMI connection - too new for the press kit, but we suspect the presence of a massive hard drive
Chord's ferocious top-of-the-line monoblock power amplifier
-- the kilowatt (into 8 ohms!) SPM 14000. Price is £37,800 per pair, and they weigh 75kg each
From Chapter Audio, the dashingly handsome Precis integrated amplifier - 2x125W, remote control, four pairs of single-ended and one pair of balanced line inputs. £2500 gets you the cleanest-looking integrated ever
Vifa's superbly-styled Touch series of loudspeakers, with piano finish to the sides of the enclosures, silk dome tweeters and sideways firing woofers in the column speakers. Sensitivity is 85dB across the range
A rival to PrimaLuna? Affordable Valve Company's Class A EL34 valve amplifier
Halcro MCA50, the company's new five-channel amplifier 350W RMS…but they didn't say if that was per channel, or in total!
Back in action, the legendary Dynavector tonearm in revised form -- a genuine classic
Heed's Envoy, a three-way omnidirectional floorstander with
ceramic/aluminum 8in woofer, 50mm titanium dome mid and 25mm titanium dome tweeter
A trio of odd-shaped speakers from Marshall Choong Audio, (l-r), the Trueno38 Subwoofer and Segovia speaker with ribbon tweeter, both in gloss black, followed by the Diaz with ribbon tweeter and mid, clearly not named after Cameron. The Segovia's and Diaz's ribbon tweeters measure 75mm long
Cadence's Okki Nokki record cleaning machine -- a snip at £175
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High-Performance Audio Reviews
