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Pseudo-balanced Oxygen free copper conductors ARAY technology Unique direct gold-plating technology Fully floating high density shielding Ultra reliable over-molded strain relief Available RCA to RCA. Please call for stock of specific lengths. Learn More

4 x 50mm titanium spike mounts for lightweight racks and components. Hand crafted in Japan

These are the same size as the standard steel SM5 isolation devices but they are built from titanium.  Can the change of materials make a difference?  Absolutely: the titanium Silent Mount SM5s are identical in size to the stainless steel SM5s but are considerable lighter. The reduced weight improves energy transfer and this is why the titanium version produces a better performance.  Timing, dynamics and coherence are all improved and the image is more solid with instruments and voices well defined and accurately placed within the soundstage.

The titanium SM5s are designed to be used with any high performance rack or table.

We use them underneath an Audiophile Star Base rack in our demonstration room and we have also used them with turntable supports, where the improvements to sound quality are particularly striking. Like many upgrades it very easy to quickly get used to the big improvements that the titanium SM5s make.  Taking them out of the system is genuinely surprising and leaves you in no doubt as to how much of a contribution they are making.

All Silent Mounts are supplied with a set of self adhesive thin felt pads. If the rack is sited on anything other than a carpeted floor, the felt pads should be fitted to the base of each Silent Mount. The felt pad has been specifically chosen to minimise any vibration between the Silent Mount and the floor and will ensure that you get the best performance. If the silent Mount is being used on a carpeted floor the Felt pads should not be fitted.

Each Silent Mount SMF5 titanium isolation mount will support up to 50 Kilos in weight.

Each pack contains 4 Silent Mounts.

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C-screen is a brand new shielded speaker cable aimed at both audio and home cinema systems.  It joins the award-winning line up of Chord Company shielded speaker cables, including the acclaimed Clearway and the high-performance Signature Reference.

Our design objective was to produce a cable discreet enough for easy installation, with all the performance benefits that shielding can bring.  C-screen is just 8mm in diameter and flexible enough to route around corners with ease. It’s finished with a white outer jacket which protects the shielding and makes it virtually invisible against white skirting boards.

C-screen features multi-stranded oxygen-free copper conductors, insulated with low-density polyethylene and arranged in a twisted-pair configuration to reduce interference. The cable is then enclosed in a PVC casing that reduces mechanical noise and spaces the conductors correctly, relative to the twin-foil shielding.

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Available in 0.75m, 1.5m, 3m, 5m, 10m & 20m lengths this ethernet cable is perfect for your audio requirements.

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At Carlton Audio Visual we have a long history of supporting Australian made Hifi so we jumped at the chance to add another promising Australian made speaker to our inventory.

And these are an impressive little speaker. The goal was a large ‘full-range’ sound, with accuracy and detail. Also high on the ‘to-do’ list was an ability to perform well in difficult acoustic spaces and create a very easy to listen to sound in these acoustically ‘normal’ rooms.

They use an Isobaric design which means it has a compound driver array with a big passive radiator on the back for incredible bass extension. The unusual design allows the bookshelf speaker to reach low frequencies that should only be possible with $15K Floorstanding speakers. The low frequency extension from these compact thirty somethung centimetre boxes has the listener instore immediately looking for the hidden subwoofer. You have to look at a seriously fiscal Dynaudio Confidence or Sonus faber Homage to get that kind of low frequency reproduction from a speaker of this size from imported product ... those are $20K plus designs ....!

No we are not saying that these are better than those loudspeakers ... but this unique isobaric design does some things extraordinarily well.

They offer an open slightly diffuse midrange that portrays a very wide soundstage. It does not have the explicit midrange presence of so many tweaked and bright imported designs but also lacs that fatigue factor that is endemic to those designs.

Soundstage on these is also impressive. Very wide and capable of filling a large space without the necessity of a critical listening position .. you dont need to have your head centimetrically placed to hear all the music. .

Bear in mind though, these little speakers are $4999 which is a neat price for the tricks these speakers execute. Of course if you triple your budget you can get a better speaker but these will put smiles on many faces for under $5k.

"Soundstage Australia review on the Dellichord FR6 by Edgar Kramer

Official Dellichord website

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4 x 50mm stainless steel spike mounts for racks/loudspeakers. Hand crafted in Japan.

“Not only did these improve every element of the sound, they also made it much easier to properly level my speakers and that improved things still further.”

There are lots of reasons for using Silent Mount isolation devices.  First of all there is the undeniable and obvious improvement in sound quality.  We’ve used these beneath floor standing speakers, beneath speaker stands and beneath racks as well.  In every case, the audible improvements are obvious and consistent.  Better definition, better detail and a greater sense of drive and rhythm.  We also think that image and depth improve as well.

SM5 stainless steel Silent Mounts have been designed to improve the contact between the spikes fitted to equipment and your floor. No matter how hard you think your floor is the pressure that the tip of each spike places on it is extremely high. The SM5 silent mount will make it far easier to stabilise your equipment/rack and will improve the high speed energy transfer.

All Silent Mounts are supplied with a set of self adhesive thin felt pads. If the rack is sited on anything other than a carpeted floor, the felt pads should be fitted to the base of each Silent Mount. The felt pad has been specifically chosen to minimise any vibration between the Silent Mount and the floor and will ensure that you get the best performance. If the silent Mount is being used on a carpeted floor the felt pads should not be fitted.

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A small yet powerful and very resolving sound, this power amplifier is a classy option in that $10K price point.

The perfect unit to pair with Chord Electronics Prima Preamplifier.

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Manufactured by legendary English HiFi company, Chord Electronics, this little desk top amplifier is at home driving speakers and Headphones.

A cute yet substantial amplifier packed with a lot of smart technologies in its circuitry. This unit self-monitors and corrects for any errors leaving a super clean and detailed sound.

 

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The English brand Chord Electronics have taken the HiFi world by storm in the last couple of decades. Their new Pre 3 and matching Ultima 5 embodies their progress over that time.

It was emblematic to see Chord Electronics Pre and Powers on a whole range of systems at the most recent Munich Hi-End HiFi show. Most notably Monitor Audio chose Chord to power their brand new Concept 50 Loudspeakers even though they own a not to shabby amplifier brand, Roksan.

Chord produces equipment on another level. There is no trial and error, snake oil or guesswork that goes into Chord. It's cold hard engineering, knowledge and a dedication to simply producing exceptional quality units - with no compromise.

 

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Our go to reference RCA cable in the store for years. In its 4th Generation. A Benchmark in performance at its pricepoint.

The Signature Tuned ARAY RCA uses separately shielded oxygen free copper silver-plated conductors in Tuned ARAY conductor geometry, PTFE insulation and dual layer foil and high density braid shielding effective to very high frequencies. The outer jacket of each conductor is FEP and the cable is held in the correct configuration with black braided outer jacket.

Now running some specials on these cables as their new version, SignatureX, comes into Australia now.

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The fantastic Clearway cable now comes in a 2 RCA to 3.5mm termination, very handy!

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For those with impeccable musical tastes...you need to have something that's just a bit more special to connect your Hi-Fi components.

A balanced interconnect is a great place to start. The extra conductor in the balanced interconnect lowers the noise floor of the system presenting your music on an inky black background whereby the notes in the music jump out as colourful musical droplets...basically - you'll hear more detail.

The Epic cable is itself a highly musical cable where resolution is enhanced particularly in the bass.

This is the sort of cable worthy of beloved Hi-Fi systems...

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Chord Odyssey uses the same materials as Rumour.   Odyssey’s heavier gauge conductors bring so much more detail and dynamics to a system, along with a degree of control and definition that can transform the performance of both floor and stand mounted loudspeakers.  Odyssey was launched in 1998 and set a new standard of performance. It’s neutrality, its compatibility and consistency of performance from system to system made it very rapidly our most popular speaker cable.

Hi-Fi News magazine liked Chord Odyssey so much because of its performance and price that it won the best speaker cable award for five years in a row.

Over the years, changes have been cosmetic only. The current version has a white PVC outer jacket with a diameter of 8mm, still discrete in speaker cable terms and still good enough to let even the biggest of systems sing like they should.

The conductors used in Odyssey are also found in Chord Epic and Epic Reference speaker cables.

If you’re considering Odyssey you should also have a listen to the similarly priced Chord Shawline

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350W of serious power amplification. This unit is not only a work of industrial art, it's everything and more than what you'd expect in terms of grip, control and musicality.

I've been pleasantly surprised with the new versions of Chord Electronics Pre and Power combinations. I found many of their previous models of stereo power amps harsh and brittle but this is different - this sings. 

This is a must listen if you're looking for a beefy power amplifier.

It has had some stellar reviews, unsurprisingly and it's no wonder that there were lots of Chord Power amplifiers powering speakers at the latest Munich HiFi show earlier this year.

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For your viewing pleasure. Chord have been making HDMI cables for a long time now and their design focuses on good quality shielding and conductors.

They're also slim to fit in those hard to reach places behind TVs.

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Silver-plated speaker plugs that fit any speaker cable as an instant upgrade to your hi-fi system and using technology developed for the flagship ChordMusic and Sarum T cables. Learn More

Sarum T speaker links are more that just the final link for a system full of Sarum T cables. They are an easy way of getting the last ounce of performance from any high resolution speaker system, regardless of the speaker cable you’re using.

The links feature Taylon® insulation are fitted with our ChordAlloy™ plated ChordOhmic banana plugs and spade connectors.

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Miles Davis said that "it is not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play".

This system lets you hear that inky blackness inside the music that audiophiles crave. It is quite unique but perhaps not as well known as it should be. 

We have it set up with a pair of Dynaudio loudspeakers and the for absolute purity of reproduction it is exceptional.

Chord Electronics Ultima 5 Power & Ultima 3 Pre In-Depth Review – Hit Me Baby One More Time (soundnews.net)

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We saw this first at the Munich Hi Fi Show last May and have been greatly anticapating it's arrival. Chord have consistently broken new ground with their DAC technology and this is the top of the class in the world today. Amongst it's peers ithis is the smart and healthy sixth former who is going to get into Oxbridge without even revising, and who hopefully goes on and finds a cure for cancer. We expect great things of you DAVE. 

Instead of traditional off-the-shelf solutions, Chord use an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) in its high-end DACS and their own software to do all the number crunching. And DAVE is no different. This newest arrival also features a high-grade filter with enhanced processing powers and full high-res audio support, including DSD and DXD files up to 768kHz. Outputs include XLR and standard RCA connectors, plus an advanced headphone output. Inputs include USB Type-B, two optical and four coaxial digital sockets.

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