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For many Rega Tonearms and Turntables, when we put a non Rega cartridge on them we need to lift up the Tonearm vertically ever so slightly to create just the perfect Vertical Tracking Angle (VTA) for your new cartridge.

On some other tonearm and turntables designs you can do this VTA adjustment with a little knob on the side of the tonearm, with Regas we need to physically prop the tonearm up just a bit so the angle is just right for your new cartridge. 

Rega make their own spacer to do this prop up but it's a fiddly affair requiring us to take off the tonearm, insert the spacer and reinsert the whole tonearm. The HiFi Guru is much simpler. We can slide the two halves under the tonearm and Voila!

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Cyrus has always produced musical streamers without a brittle harshness to the sound that often creeps in to this purely digital medium. They have a lyricalness akin to vinyl that is effortlessly listenable.

The new Cyrus streamers now use the BluOs software also used in the Bluesound gear. But they haven't deviated from the path of the essential Cyrus sound. Both of the new Cyrus streamers exude that classic Cyrus musicality...but now with a seamless, easy-to-use software interface! 

This Streamer doesn't have the fancy high resolution screen or the lovely touch buttons of the Stream XR. It also has only the first generation QXR DAC and not the upgreaded 2nd generation DAC.

It is upgradeable with a PSX-R2 power supply but you won't be able to plug in the superior PSU XR into this unit.

Still what a precision unit that oozes musicality and musical definition.

Come and here it at Carlton Audio Visual today!

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The brand new Acoustic Energy Coriniums are now on demonstration at Carlton Audio Visual

Acoustic Energy was founded in 1987 and its ethos has always been about bringing high-end sound to an affordable level. The Corinium, however, is taking this further. This time Acoustic Energy has developed its own high-end loudspeaker.

Acoustic Energy has always been clear on what its sound is. For each new speaker design, Acoustic Energy have their team listening and referencing their old speakers to match the sound and then go in with acute measuring devices to verify what they're hearing.

The goal was to continue the hallmark Acoustic Energy sound yet add another two levels of performance on their current reference speakers. 

This meant an excruciating years long process to find the perfect driver materials that would exactly match their criteria. 

The bass drivers are Carbon like the 500 series but don't let this fool you, they have been redesigned behind those cones so that they are faster and less coloured than their little brothers.

The tweeter has been completely redesigned. Now using a Tetoron driver which holds its shape under extreme excursion but also has the signature Acoustic Energy warmth and engagement.

The last interesting piece of this design I'll mention, although there are many that you can read about here, is the front baffle design. It is made of two materials: mdf housing the bass and mid drivers and an aluminium front baffle which holds the tweeter isolating the tweeter from any unwanted infractions from the mid and bass.

All in all, the Coriniums are a beautiful and thoughtfully made set of speakers. Still not extravagantly expensive...although this is all relative of course. 

 Stereonet on the Acoustic Energy Corinium November 2023 

 "AV Forums" on the Acoustic Energy Corinium April 2024 

(Pricing varies with colour/finish choice)

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The AE300 is a new compact stand-mount loudspeaker suitable for small to medium sized rooms. Following on from the award winning AE100, it offers a significant step up in both audio quality, materials, and cabinet finish.

The design aim is for a very full bodied and smooth character from a compact enclosure, these are sweet and unfatiguing to listen to for along periods. This makes the AE300 one of our go to recommendations for sitting in shelving in a contemporary open plan residence.

They are $1399 in Black or White finish and $1599 in real wood finish walnut

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We are Vinyl lovers at Carlton Audio Visual. The people who work here love Vinyl and without exception have a record player at home...most have multiple! Our customers have also held the torch for vinyl through the long dark years of the nineties and early 2000s when most had forgotten about the joys of a Turntable, we had a dedicated and passionate team of clients and staff who loved their LPs. Since then Turntables have become trendy and people have rediscovered why they were loved for so long.

And when customers are at a point in their journey where the lifelong admiration and obsession with vinyl and HiFi has taken hold, we recommend the Stellar Phono Stage. It will last a lifetime of cartridge upgrades and swaps. It will extract the most out of a $8499 cartridge (Van den Hul Crimson Stradivarius MC is a sensational pairing with this unit) as it will with a $500 Moving Magnet cartridge.

You'll hear control, detail and presence; There's a spatial awareness in the sound and transparency that reveals itself when you plug this into any system. And it performs well above its pay grade. We really believe to better this you'll have to pay $17K for some Audio Research gear and hell...even then, I'd say some people will still prefer this phono stage for it's clarity in the mid range.

The only thing that we find annoying about it...it requires a remote control to operate. You'll need that in the very first instance to turn its mute off in order to get any sound. And then of course all its plethora of settings that give it such versatility for all cartridges are adjusted on the remote. So don't...like us...loose the remote! *

Also, you need to be patient with this machine and run it in. It really is night and day the difference that makes. We even have some Blue Horizon RIAA filters to use as burn in tools on new units so you don't have to put hours on your cartridge burning in the phono stage. We can do that in store for free, for you.

See the PS Audio official site here

Read Stereophile Review here

And one from theaudiobeatnik here

*Remote was found...and we now tape the remote to the unit :/ 

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This is the perfect cartridge to sit on a Rega turntable. It is exactly the same as the standard 2M Bronze but has a slim profile so you can mount it on a Rega without the need of a spacer.

Even the styli are interchangeable with the standard 2M Bronze.

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Price includes Shelf and bracket.

The Q4 Wall Bracket, made in Bamboo and provide a rigid support for your main source component. 

The Quadraspire HiFi wall brackets consist of a back plate with 2 arms that have holes for locating the adjustable spikes of the Q4 or SVT shelf and allows for precision levelling of the shelf. The Bamboo wall support, which is available in black or silver, can hold a component up to 40 kilos.

There are some optional upgrades with these shelves for increased isolation. Including the Q4 Bronze upgrade for an extra $300 and the super plush SVT Bronze upgrade for an an $650. 

There are some upgrade options with the shelf itself as well. Please contact us for more details. 

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The Lumina I, Sonus Faber's entry level bookshelf speaker. A cute and sultry mix of leather and wood adorned with a classic Sonus Faber tweeter. Pulling them out of the box, I have to say, I was surprised by how compact they were and afraid that their limited physical stature might detract from the auditory lusciousness I come to expect from the Italian Speaker manufacturer.

I shouldn't have been worried though. Even without a proper run in, they are rich and sweet - quintessentially Sonus Faber. Perhaps it's because the Lumina range is now made in Sonus Faber's Italian factory alongside their high-end big brothers that these beauties ooze class beyond their price point and size.  

At this price these are a must-listen pair of bookshelves and a favourite with a crowd after a small yet stylish speaker.

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Garrott Brothers business was founded by the Garrott twins. They were two Australian brothers who dedicated their lives to making music better for everyone. Starting off in the hey day of vinyl in the 70s they incorporated some fantastic technical advances into affordable cartridges. Standard cartridges that came on Turntables back then left alot to be desired and the Garrott Brothers business grew very quickly.

Unfortunately the 1990s saw the demise of vinyl and the rise of the CD. At the same time one of the brothers was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. I won't go into the tradgedy and circumstances of their deaths. If only they had lived long enough though to see the comeback of Vinyl and its popularity blosom again.

We're lucky that their molds and castings live on and new cartridges can be made so their expertise lives on in this age of vinyl renaissance. 

The K1 is the conical model of cartridge in their K series. But it's not to be equated with just an old conical cartridge. The K1 is a step up from the average conical cart and this will translate into more detail and musicality in the sound.

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Sonos have nailed it with these headphones, slick and comfortable with magnetic memory ear cusions. they weigh 312 grams ... thats less than Apples, They have really nice physical controls ... no silly swipe things ...

Feel every frequency with superior precision and clarity. Maximise your immersion with lossless streaming, spatial audio with dynamic head tracking and world-class Active Noise Cancellation. Hear what’s going around you with Aware mode.

Enjoy up to 30 hours of battery life, exceptional comfort and flawlessly clear calls. Connect to your devices wirelessly via Bluetooth, or use the included USB-C and 3.5 mm cables. Plus, bring home theatre content to life like never before.

"The Guardian" on the Sonos Ace headphone

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EVO3 Sequel power cable offers increased performance over IsoTek's multi-award winning Premier, featuring optimised conductor strand geometry and active shielding.

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The new range of the Homage series is nearly here and it promises to be everything and more than the extraordinary series it is replacing. 

An even tighter bass allowing for extra detail has been promised as well as a very smart looking Graphite colour-way!

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Aurender has just recently joined our ever expanding group of digital streamers. Quickly establishing themselves as one of the very best digital front end offerings in the world, Aurender was Founded in 2011 by Harry Lee. Made in South Korea, it has at it's core a team of people passionate about producing the very best in music.

The ACS10 is a streamer, CD ripper, hard drive storage & caching server. A veritable do-it-all unit for your digital front end. When your source material is dealt with from start to finish in an audio sensitive manner, the music is simply better.

See the official Aurender website here

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Monitor Audio are continually updating their speakers and making discernible improvements to the sound and finish of their products.

Their latest refresh sees a new slant on the ever popular Silver range. An updated mid/bass driver and wave guide on the tweeter are the major improvements to the sound. But the apple is not falling far from the tree. For those who have always loved the sound of the silver range, you won't be shocked by drastic changes in the core sound. Simply slight improvements in clarity and presentation.

The same goes for the finish of the cabinets. There are changes to the colours. The walnut is richer and less red. I think it looks more natural. We also see the wide spread availability of the White and Ash (likened to the old natural Oak) finishes in Australia as well as a Gloss Black and an Oak Black finish.

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The Yamaha NS-800A speakers have just landed at Carlton Audio Visual. We've had them running in and stretching their wings in the main demo space.

The NS-800A feature the same innovative cabinet design as the top of the range NS-5000 speakers. That is to say that instead of packing the insides of the cabinet with acoustically absorbing material like foam, Yamaha uses their 'absorber tubes'. These don't completely dampen the sound rather they keep a freshness and pep to the music.

Even without being fully run-in, these speakers are exciting, forward and immeadiate. They don't quite have all the pep of the NS-5000s but that's to be expected given that the NS-5000s are nearly triple the price.

They also don't feature the Zylon drivers of the NS-5000s having instead a pulp (paper) mix in the driver. The Zylon evidently works to give the higher range of speakers extra punch and attack.

But the lineage is still clear and if you love that Yamaha pure and fast sound, you're going to love these.

What I've also noticed is unlike a lot of bookshelf speakers, the mid-range is still quite present with the NS-800a. They are quite consistent throughout the frequency sweep and don't show the characteristic hole in the mids which plagues many a lesser set of bookshelves.

You won't be dissapointed by their bass either. Rich and full. Surprising for a bookshelf speaker, even one like this, that is on the larger side. But more importantly articulation and attack are not lost in the bass either. This can be another pitfall of less efficient bookshelves that find it difficult to articulate bass lines and give you more wooliness than crispness.

 

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One Subwoofer to Rule Them All. Introducing the SB16-Ultra.

An unrelenting passion for awesome bass performance and engineering perfection guided every aspect of the SB16-Ultra subwoofer’s design.

Groundbreaking technology, rigorous design and extreme testing in real world and laboratory environments allowed SVS to achieve massive output levels, extreme low frequency extension, near-perfect frequency response accuracy, and pinpoint transient response.

The culmination of all SVS design advancements, SB16-Ultra represents the greatest leap forward in performance and innovation since the inception of subwoofers.

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The SKYLINE HYBRID is an elegant small twin conductor loudspeaker cable with outstanding qualities. Learn More

The Il Cremonese speakers have the scale and presence of the highest of the high-end loudspeakers. Coupled with a magical musicality.

They are beautiful ... simply and astonishingly.

"The Absolute Sound" announces the Il Cremonese

"Hi Fi News" on the Il Cremonese

"Stereophile" on the Il Cremonese

Get back the total value of your existing pair of speakers (any brand) when you trade them in and purchase a pair of new Sonus faber speakers.

Hurry up! The extraordinary #tradeintotradeup promotion lasts until 1st December 2023.

Time to embrace the Sonus Faber unparalleled performance has finally come.

For a limited time only, you have the great opportunity to Trade In your speakers toward the purchase of a new pair from Sonus faber. As part of our constant effort to enrich people’s lives with exceptional sound quality, we are making an unprecedented offer which is valid for some of our collections: Lumina, Sonetto, Olympica Nova, Heritage, Homage and Reference. 

Please be aware that the new Sonus faber speakers must be 2.5 times the value of the speakers traded in. Please see dealer program document for details.

Hurry up! The extraordinary #tradeintotradeup promotion lasts until December 1st in Australia. 

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This unit is about 10 years old now but it is still a solid quality unit. This was a trade-in against a new surround sound amplifier. Great as a good quality, great value unit.

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