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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!

These are the latest iteration of this big no compromise UK design. The outstanding characteristics of this speaker are the immense delicacy of the treble nature along with the massive attack offered by the exceptional bass drivers. The original Platinum 300 is still in use by many of our clients and is really hard to get a positive upgrade of. The third generation retains all those virtues of air and space with thunder but has refined and deepened the musical portrayal.

A speaker to die for ...

The Platinum 300 official site. 

The Platinum 300 review by Stereophile Oct 2023. 

A customer has decided to change over his SACD player for a serious streamer and this has meant we have a near new PS Audio SACD player Trade-in in stock.

This is the current Transport! And in immaculate condition.

These are incredible machines. Musical, resolving and detailed. 

These units have won accolades and awards galore.

For example the Absolute Sound gave it The Golden Ear award in 2021.

This unit comes with its box and all accessories.

A stylistic and fantastic sounding set of Headphones. Crispy and detailed with a tight bass.

Great as an all purpose, listenable set of cans. In a train, on a plane, working from home or in the office.

A set of wireless earbuds by the experts at Yamaha. Sounding better than the apple earbuds but not going to break the bank. These are a nice option to make your ears feel loved.

Super easy to use with voice activation, gaming mode, double device bluetooth connection and dual on each earbud for clearer calls.

These come in a range of colours generally we keep the black, grey and beige in stock but we can get the others. Please call us to check specific colour availability.

We're really excited by this new offering by SVS - A powerful subwoofer to hide away within a wall including a matching amplifier.

We get many enquiries regarding this sort of product but others out there only offer a piecemeal solution where one has to source a separate amplifier and build your own casing. 

For sure, it is still easier to install these as part of a bigger renovation or building project. But this is a simpler, workable system that will work in a variety of situations and be powerful enough to give a beefy Home Theatre experience.

The use of the term metamorphic in this new products description alludes to both the groundbreaking technology that is applied here and the potential ability of the prodigious bass output making the earth move for you ...

Devialet continues to produce unique and innvotive audio products that set the benchmark for top performance in their categories. This Mania applies the now established Pahantom tech to a portable wireless loudspeaker.

The Mania is available in light grey or black for $1400 or in a gold Opera version including desktop charger for $1700. It has a ten hour battery life, a 95dB output and a unique active microphone sensing system that adjusts the output pattern to match the acoustic environment.

I realy like the idea of having a Mania as an Australian lifestyle crossover device sitting in a charging cradle as an internal speaker then being taken outside when circumastance permits.

These are simply a good quality, great value set of stands. Very popular and suitable for a range of bookshelf speakers. Their new finish is an elegant Matt Black (this model isn't availble in White)

A wireless Audio system made by Sony for immersive sound in a 'wireless' package.

Included in this package is the matching wireless subwoofer

We are offering the PS Audio FR30s Ex-Demo for a very special price.

Now on demonstration in a dedicated space in Carlton Audio Visual.

Hi Fi News Verdict:  "The waiting is over, and the aspen FR30 speakers are nothing short of remarkable, setting new standards of focus, openness, weight and control at this price and well above. The build and finish are as immaculate as the sound, the unusual styling works remarkably well in the room, and the listening experience is a revelation. If you're in the market for speakers in this sector, listen to them - they're a bargain."

A beautiful Ebony Makassar wood finish a new warmer sound profile make these a distinct upgrade from the original Lirics. Still lively but with an even larger Sound stage.

I was even impressed by the beautiful box these come in. It looks like a picture of a rural scene in the Carpathian Mountains in Romania printed on the box.

Meze have continued to make waves in the Head-Fi world proving they're not just a short lived start-up, they're here for the long haul. Run by a small group of young(ish) Romanians who are passionate about keeping industry and manufacturing, as well as their families, in their native Romania. Their drivers come from just accross the border in the Ukraine. The Rinaro drivers have been the perfect match for Meze delivering the lithe, rich sound that they're renowned for.

The Liric IIs are on demo now at Carlton Audio Visual.

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.

This is a little unit from high-end German manufacturer, Loewe. They are famous for TVs but also make some neat pieces of audio. 

This is a modern clock radio with DAB+ as well as Bluetooth. It is portable and chargeable with a USB C cable with 14 hour battery life.

The lovely oak top and grey fabric finish make it equally at home on a bedside table and a picnic rug.

The Sussurro is one of those cartridges that will stay with you for life. A delicate instrument designed specifically to extract as much information from your Vinyl as possible. 

The MkII version is even lighter than the original. They have reduced the moving mass that creates the electrical signal for even more resolution and dynamics.

The sound of these is warm with little to no sibilance in the high end and oodles of width and depth to the sound. 

This is a Moving Iron cartridge but it does require a Moving Coil capable phono stage.

Soundsmith cartridges are handmade in the USA and are little jewels to adorn your most beloved Turntables. 

They are a Moving Iron design - the third, less talked about category of cartridge design. This design uses less mass than a Moving Magnet design so it's more reactive and dynamic.

The Paua MkII uses a new Aluminium Cantilever which is stiff where it's needed but is also acoustically dampening in critical areas.

An important factor when we choose we high-end cartridges to stock is their retipping service. We like to recommend cartridges that when something happens to the stylus there's a skilled in-house retipping service. Soundsmith offer just that.

And isn't the new sea shell casing just beautiful!

It's now here! The flagship integrated AV Receiver of Marantz's Cinema - the Cinema 30. This unit is the true replacement of the SR8015.

It matches its power and goes a step further with build quality and features.

This unit is made in their Shirakawa Japanese factory and has the class leading monolithic amplifier circuit design that sets it apart from its competitors. With that toroidal power supply in the ornate casing that hallmarks these top end Marantz Receivers.

This is the single box unit that is the iron hand in the velvet glove school of control over your loudspeakers.

It also comes with all the new features in the Cinema series. Dirac Live option, four independently controlled subwoofers and the new elegant chassis.

Marantz Cinema 30 official site (UK). 

"What Hi-Fi?" meets the Marantz Cinema 30 

An ultimate loudspeaker system released at the CES, the Suprema system costs $750,000 US and consists of two main 1.9m tall lute shaped speaker columns, two 1.5m tall elliptical subwoofers and an analogue electronic crossover in a lacquered wooden casing.

Described by Sonus faber as its most ambitious project ever, the Suprema system will be available to order worldwide from today. 

The system will be on display in the McIntosh/Sonus faber House of Sound in New York at 357 W 17th St and can be delivered worldwide.

This is fantastic value for a 'naked' body cartridge and is the perfect choice if you like an airy, spacious sound. It doesn't have as much life, dynamics and detail as the Starling and if you have a flexible phono stage, I would recommend the Low Output version of the Songbird.

For those who want an incredible cartridge with a transparency in the sound and don't have a fancy phono stage to match the low output models, this is a beauty.

Now born again under Heinz Lichteniger tutelage this massive state of art integrated amplifier has beautiful needles, remarkable nuvistor hybrid semiconductor devices, and makes 2.2 kilowatts into 1 Ohm.

Now this uses the unique output devices being the Nuvistor valves.

Nu-Vista refers to Musical Fidelity’s spin on Nuvistor tubes/valves that, according to the press release, “…were invented in the 1950s to solve the many shortcomings of conventional tubes. Unlike them, Nuvistor tubes offer very high reliability, low microphony, low noise, consistency from batch to batch, small size, relatively low power consumption and great technical performance.”

 Musical Fidelity official site for NuVista800.2