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A more traditional, modern chassis in the Atalante range of speakers that have been going for a very retro feel.

The same gorgeous wood finish but presented in a slim floorstander.

Revival Audio are the new kid on the block. Two chaps from Dynaudio who have broken out on their own and making speakers in a factory in France.

These are fantastic quality. You can tell that their engineers and design team know how to make a good speaker. Their sound is tight and controlled but relaxed as well. There isn't any shrillness to the sound just a nice easy listening quality. 

Very balanced and consistent accross the frequency sweep as well.

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Significant step-up from the VSi60 in every meaningful way Muscular 75 watts per channel, 50% more than the VSi60 New low profile anodized front panel Power transformer designed around the new (4x) KT150 output tubes Incorporates some key parts from the REF75 including proprietary coupling caps Learn More

The perfect centre speaker designed specifically to match Monitor Audio Bronze Front Left & Right speakers. Also in a small form factor so as not to detract from the actual screen. Learn More

To create a true in home theatre experience you'll need to get that feeling that the sound is coming from behind you. These work perfectly in system where there are 2 rear speakers but you need to get the most out of them. They disperse the sound using their dual driver, or dipole, array. Perfect for homes that are aiming at a 5 chanel surround system. Learn More

CD is not dead ... it's merely resting a little. In my humble opinion you haven't heard how good digital music can be unless you have heard a Cd or SACD through a really good player like this ...

Considered by many long term reviewers as the standard in SA CD and CD reproduction. The depth of musicality, extraordinary; The imaging, second to none.

The amount of times hardened audiophiles have said to me with this CD player, 'I haven't heard that in that track before', countless. We've put this CD player into a whole range of different types of systems. We find it very versatile as to what it can be 'matched' with and that's also a testament to it simply being a REALLY good CD player.

 "Hi Fi News" on the SA10S1 

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“A big improvement over standard USB cables, great performance over lengths of up to 5 metres.” When it comes to new products The Chord Company works on a simple principle:..

Please call for stock and availability of specific lengths

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A good stereo system is more than the sum of its parts and this particular compact selection of Hi Fi components offers that sonic synergy.

We love these Monitor Audio Bronze 50 loudspeakers that this package comes with. They are sweet and deep beyond their size and are well matched to the Rotel A10 amplifier ("built like a gun").

The glass plattered ProJect T1 SB turntable in wood finish comes with a decent ortofon cartridge and has electronic speed control. Charmingly retro but decently modern at the same time.

Jack Straw was an English politician instrumental in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 … although he was pro intervention the Bush government in the US at the time disliked him because he refused to countenance an attack on Iran. Our partner distributor Interdyn has put this system together to introduce a bit of Vinyl Shock and Awe into your residential circumstance. The name is really derived from The Grateful Dead lyrics by the way ... This system has the excellent Monitor Audio Bronze 50 loudspeakers with Rotel A10 amplifier and glass plattered Project T1 turntable.

 

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Clean power is important if you're chasing high end sound (and if you're here then of course you are!). Power filters give the incoming mains signal a thorough scrub before feeding it into your system. The Dectet filters your AC supply, then routes it out to ten points, separated into 3 different zones. There is a high current zone for your power amps and subs, then two separate 'isozones' to keep your analog and digital signals separate. Basically, stick all those switch mode supplies on one zone so they don't contaminate the other.

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This is a unique opportunity to purchase a current model, perfect condition top quality DAC

One of the very best DACs available. Every detail of this design has been lovingly thought out and designed with the one aim of recreating the best digital source possible.

We are selling this unit on behalf of a long term client. It has been meticulously looked after and comes with all of its boxes and accessories. 

 

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These are effectively the replacement for the Bronze 2 as the new range has evolved upwards in size and quality. That means they have some big boots to fill.

The old Bronze 1s tended to be the speaker of last resort if you really simply didn't have the space for some Bronze 2s. A little thin sounding, they lacked the luscious depth of the bulkier Bronze 2s. A great speaker for a satellite type setup with a matched subwoofer but struggled on their own to produce room-filling sound.

With the new 6th Generation Bronze baby bookshelf, they've fixed that up. It boasts a larger cabinet, increasing the resonanting chamber to give it a deeper more sonorous sound. The old Bronze 1 has been reborn as a Bona Fide stereo bookshelf.

On demo now.

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The new Bronze 100 Bookshelf speakers are the large bookshelves in Monitor Audio's 6th Generation of the ever popular Bronze Range. They replace the Bronze 2s but have been completely redesigned from the bottom up, not just tweaked here and there.

We're very sad to see the last of the Bronze 2s walk out the door because they've been such an awesome speaker for so many of our customers...in fact they were Carlton Audio Visual's best selling speaker if their generation

So the Bronze 100s have very large shoes to fill. Are they up to the task?

Yes they are. Actually, we think they're better.

An even bigger sound but with more tightness in the bass and that bit of refinement in sound that was lacking with the Bronze 2. There's no front firing port on the new Bronze 100 but this is a good compromise with this speaker and goes a long way to improving the sound. If you are worried about speaker placement being too close to a wall, a couple of foam bungs in the ports will solve that.

 

Actually the Bronze 100s are really good at low volumes and retain an even frequency balance across a wide spectrum of volume operations. Just generally many speakers are tuned so that they are only offering a full and balanced sound over a relatively narrow volume range. The Bronze 100s are a slightly unfashionable size but this gives them a particular advantage in this respect. They are one of the great all round loudspeaker designs for their sensible asking of the monies.

 

Hi-Fi News have granted the Monitor Audio Bronze 100 "Outstanding product" Award 

On demo now.

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On Special for Black Friday until stocks run-out. Only WHITE and WALNUT available.

The largest of the new Bronze range by Monitor Audio, the Bronze 500s offer 8" drivers, not available in the previous Bronze models. This translates into deeper bass extension and a glorious open, large sound - something you really don't get at this price point with other brands. 

Monitor Audio have been a decade-long favourite at Carlton Audio Visual and after hearing their new Bronze range and the improvements they've made, we are sure our customers will keep loving them for decades to come. 

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The newest iteration of PS Audio's DirectStream DAC is absolutely scintillating in its ability to recreate digital source material. 

We have this unit sitting in the full PS Audio system with the BHK pre-amplifier, the 250 stereo power and the option of putting on the 300 mono blocks all feeding the PS Audio Aspen loudspeakers.

Dynamics, soundstage and depth are the key components that really set this unit apart.

We have had time now to play with the new Mt Massive software and as stated in all the hype, it really does make an enormous difference.

Have a read and a listen to what PS Audio have to say about the unit here

 

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This made an immediate and frankly stunning effect when I added it to the system pictured. Before we had been running the PS Audio Transport, DAC, and power amplifier together as a minimalist high powered high current set of kit readily able to drive the highly transparent Monitor Audio Platinum II loudspeakers. Adding the BHK Signature Preamp bought the system to life. The music leapt holographically into the room and was just a consuming experience. Whereas before it had been good, but somehow unmoving, now one was just swept up and carried off by the music. Brilliant. Learn More

The PS Audio Power Amplifiers are part of our triad of high end amplification that we believe can fullfill any niche of desire and satisfy the demands of the most ardent Hi-Fi enthusiast.

“The first amplifier I gave up a lifetime obsession with tubes for” Arnie Nudell, founder, Infinity Systems.

 

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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 recently released version of PS Audio's CD Transport. And what sets this unit apart from anything that PS Audio has done before and also anything that's been done before by any other HiFi company, is their galvanically isolated output stage. That means that the data is being transfered from the input stage to the output stage via a type of very focused short wave radio frequencies. Any vestiges of interference that inevitably occur when these stages are hardwired, are completely eliminated.

Input and output stages have their very own board and power supply to keep them completely separated as well. FPGAs (Field-Programable Gate Array; if you'd like to learn more about these very handy devices see Paul McGowan's video here) is utilised to ensure clocking and data buffering are spot on. 

The best way to use this unit and unleash its full potential is to use the I2S output or the HDMI out put to a DAC (like the PS Audio DirectStream) that can handle it. In this respect you can hear a complete Raw DSD file...and that truly is another experience. A DSD file is what makes an SACD an SACD. Instead of sampling at a determined fast rate (bit rate) the sine curve of the musical file, a DSD file samples the whole sine curve. These raw files are bigger and have to be compresesd to even push it out of a transport. But not with this unit and the I2S...full blown raw DSD files streaming into your speakers. Heaven.

Of course you can still use this unit without the I2S and it's still devastatingly good. A pair of BNC connectors will double a normal DSD output to make it DSD128 and this connection is particularly scintillating with a Chord Dave...

Read theaudiobeatnik review of the unit here (he uses the I2S connection with a non PS Audio Dac with superb results)

The PS Audio website has some extra reading on this unique product too

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The P12 Powerplant. The best way to do power regeneration. Clean up your HiFi!

We have many customers who have good existing HiFi systems and especially recently with Lockdowns and spending more time at home listening to their systems, they ask 'what's my next step? I want something better. But do I really have to spend big on a new amp? Or is it more worthwhile getting new speakers?' Yes, these are questions facing the priveleged with cash to spend in these uncertain times.

The obvious answer to these dilemnas in our minds is a regenorator....not just your average power conditioner but a unit that will take the power off the wall and turn it into a perfect 230V sine wave minus the background hum of our modern urban environments.

For those who LOVE a bit of hands on tech and physics, this unit will even show you what it's improving with its full colour touch display on the front panel. You can measure the distortion that's coming off the wall using a built in THD analyser and oscilloscope and see the improvements that it's making.

And for those who are simply concerned about the music sounding better, sit back and relax. You here more articulation. The beginning and ending of bowed notes in a string orchestra are discernible and there in all their glory. The die out of piano notes seem to disolve into an inky blackness and dynamics are bigger. 

Check out PS Audio's offical website here

Please note the Australian specifications for this unit are different to the American ones as the unit is designed to take Australian Voltage off the wall. For the Australian market, the P12 has 4 outputs.

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This is where power get serious. 9 power outlets delivering perfect AC sine wave to your precious HiFI. 

Sonically this can be a bigger difference than getting a new amplifier. We've had many HiFi enthusiasts blown away by the detail and the largeness of the sound that this delivers. 

And so many cool features to play with as well. You can measure the distortion and the improvements that the unit makes, you can set timed switch on and switch off sequences for your gear, measure output voltages, switch on/off certain zones. The geek in us all does a little happy dance with all the options.

But the real selling point is the sound. You don't realise how much of the power supply you hear through your speakers until it's not there anymore. 

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