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  • Yamaha NS-5000 speakers ... classical gas

    Available to audition in their own Lygon st Showroom. These are a speaker of remarkable presence and beauty. They are highly capable of presenting the music in a natural and completely unfettered manner. Properly powered it doesn't matter what the volume is, they retain their particular quality at low volume and can very nearly do PA type sound pressure levels while remaining tonally consistent throughout. A remarkable performance envelope.

    I fell in love with the spiritual and physical precursor to this speaker being the NS1000 of the 1980's, indeed I still have clients from that era who bought those speakers back then from me and feed them a diet of new amplification and sources every 15 years or so. These NS5000 speakers are better, like a new Lexus is better than my old Corolla.

    The official Yamaha NS5000 web page

    StereoNet on the Yamaha NS5000

    Soundstage Australia on the Yamaha NS5000

    The Absolute Sound on the Yamaha 5000 system

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    $19,990.00

  • Audio Research PH9

    The PH9 phono preamplifier is a great pairing with most cartridge and turntable combinations.

    A trio of 6H30 vacuum tubes are at the core of a simple and clear signal path to provide the most transparent preamplification possible.

    Five different impedance settings allow for cartridge loading, which can be changed on the fly with the included metal remote. Cartridge impedance, tube hours, auto shutdown, and other features are included in the menu system.

    The PH9 forms an integral part of our reference system and sits alongside the Audio Research Ref 6 preamp and 160M Monoblocks that power the Sonus Faber Aida 2s.

    We currently run the exceptional Acoustic Signature Ascona Mk3 Turntable with this system.

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    $18,995.00

  • Audio Research DAC 9

    The DAC9 digital-to-analog converter decodes most current formats with state-of-the-art vacuum tube technology. Five digital connections - USB, RCA, BNC, AES/EBU, and Toslink - provide connectivity to all of your digital sources. Quad DAC architecture provides a balanced digital signal, wide dynamic range, and decoding resolutions from red book CD up to 384 kHz and native DSD sampling rates. A pair of 6H30 vacuum tubes are the heart of the analog circuit. Both balanced and single-ended connectors are provided for output connectivity. Native-rate upsampling and selectable digital filters allow customization of the digital signal.

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    $18,995.00

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  • Audio Research LS28SE Pre Amplifier

    The LS28 has been a favourite pre-amp of mine for a number of years trumped only by Audio Research's Ref 6SE. But that Ref 6SE stays put (generally) in our reference system. It's the LS28 that gets moved around, played and loved in a whole lot of combinations. It was sad to see our demo unit go but it's gone to a good home where it'll be appreciated.

    The new LS28SE has the same musicality and relaxed engagement but even more clarity, focus and quickness. It's taking the expensive gold coupling caps from the REF 6SE and the same wiring and parts upgrades that the REF6SE went through.

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    $18,995.00

  • Chord Electronics Ultima Integrated Amplifier

    Chord Electronics has generally steered clear of full size integrateds prefering to manufacture separate pre and power amplifiers. There are many advantages with the separates design but many HiFi enthusiasts will appreciate the convenience and simplicity of the single chassis.

    This is still a 'no compromise' sort of integrated amplifier. The focs is on the very best of components especially the power supplies to create that Chord Electronics signature resolving sound. We find the new Ultima range though is warmer than its predecessors making it more forgiving and suitable to a broader range of speakers.

    At the moment, we are love the Ultimas with Spendor D-range and Dynaudio Contour and Confidence.

    This unit is expected to arrive in Australia in September/October 2023.

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  • Audio Research Reference CD6SE.... CD Player - Dac

    Sonically, the CD6SE is a stunner, uncovering new musical detail in every corner of your recordings and providing startling dynamics, both micro and macro. The top end is extended, airy and pure, while bass definition and impact are precise and powerful. The recording venues are lifelike, broad and expansive or close-up and intimate, depending on what was captured by the recording engineer. Like great analog, listening to music through the CD6SE draws you into the performance, not just the notes, with resolution and transparency that are in service of the music. Experience your music in High Definition

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    $18,495.00

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  • PS Audio PowerPlant P20, 3600 watt 10 Amp mains regenerator

    They call it the inky blackness hidden in the music ...

    The P20 is the ultimate cleanser for your mains power.

    Demanding systems require remarkable power. The DirectStream P20 Power Plant is the finest expression of the art of delivering protected, pure, regulated, distortion-free AC power.

    With peak power levels of 3600 watts, no equipment can tax the mighty P20. Finally, your most coveted components have the opportunity to unleash their full potential, no longer hindered by dynamic drops in AC caused by the unavoidable resistance of the miles of wiring between you and the power station.

    DirectStream P20 regulates both long-term fluctuations and peak dynamic without deviation, ensuring a solid foundation from which to build a state-of-the-art system. Its low output impedance and unhindered AC delivery are equivalent to less than 50 feet of 12 gauge wire connected directly to your city power source without the connecting miles of wire, the many transformers, and the multiple neighbors weakening and contaminating your power.

    The most demanding music systems require nothing less than the P20.

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    $17,995.00

  • Van Den Hul Colibri XGW 'Gran Cru'

    The VDH Colibri XGW 'Gran Cru' is the culmination of A.J. van den Hul's 44 years of phono cartridge research and development. The Colibri Gran Cru (a special Grand Vintage, you might say) features hand-wound gold wire coils and a solid boron cantilever while the outer shell, or cartridge body, is constructed from the Koa tree. This is a Hawaiin tree revered for its use in instrument making and some surfboards.

    This translates to a targeted set of resonance patterns within the structure leading to pleasing music reproduction.

    Pairing this Koa wood with the hand-wound matched crystal gold coils AND an extra magnet for even more resolution means this cartridge hits the next level in performance.

    This is an extraordinary cartridge, that gives you everything - Resolution, musicality, huge dynamics and warmth. 

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    $17,500.00

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  • Chord Blu Mk2 CD Transport ... worlds best CD and digital transport?

    Available for audition in-store, with the Chord DAVE. The Blu MkII is a compact, FPGA-based upsampling CD transport which offers the world’s most advanced filter technology. Used with DAVE, the combination delivers class-leading CD sound quality and technical performance. At the heart of the Blu MkII lies an enormously powerful Xilinx FPGA. Rob Watts’ (Chord’s Digital Design Consultant) has used this to create his exclusive WTA M-Scaler technology, which incorporates the most advanced filter of its kind in the world. The Xilinx FPGA has also enabled a key breakthrough in tap-length (the technical indicator of how complex the interpolation filter is) taking Blu MkII to an unprecedented 1,015,808 taps. Learn More
    $17,000.00

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  • Audio Research VSI75 SE....Now with KT150 Valves

    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
    $16,995.00

  • Isotek Mosaic Genesis

    Available in store for audition. IsoTek’s EVO3 Mosaic Genesis is a state of the art hybrid power cleaning system, combining the full mains sine wave generation system seen in our Ultimate Series Genesis, combined with the high current, low impedance Direct Coupled Design circuit from the ward winning Titan. 

    The EVO3 Mosaic Genesis offers audio or audio visual systems a massive leap forwards in terms of performance. Expect to have a significant expansion of the sound stage, with incredible openness and transparency. The Direct Coupled Design technology, allows for low impedance high current delivery to two dedicated outlets. These are specifically designed for power amplifiers, active loudspeakers or sub woofers.

    EVO3 Mosaic Genesis is an easy to install full system upgrade.

    Housed in a machined aluminium chassis with fully functional display showing in coming voltage, THD and mains frequency and outgoing voltage, THD and power consumption.

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    $16,799.00

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  • Acoustic Signature Hurricane Neo (without Tonearm & Cartridge)

    The next level in analogue reproduction. The Hurricane introduces a second motor to stabilise and raise the performance of the already exquisite, Tornado Neo.

    These German turntables are high mass engineering marvels. Designers have tried many other ways to build turntables like springs, magnetic levitation and light weight acoustically dampening materials. Essentially they have skirted around having to actually build proper bearings to cope with the loads of real High Mass decks. Building real bearings like those in the new Neo range of Acoustic Signature is hard!

    The silencer concept in the Acoustic Signature Turntables have also elimated the resonant frequencies that casued issues in other High Mass turntables.

    Dynamics, precision, naturalness and spine-tingles are all there for the taking with the Hurricane Neo. 

    There are few companies that are truly made-in-house and Acoustic Signature is one of those rare manufacturers. Literally pieces of metal are delivered to Acoustic Signature and what comes out is a perfectly formed Turntable. 

    This is one of those coveted pieces of Audio equipment that will out live you and probably your children. It is heirloom quality and when you purchase one, I advise putting it in your Will to avoid familial conflicts later on...

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  • Van Den Hul The Platinum Hybrid MKII (RCA or XLR)

    The PLATINUM HYBRID MKII is the ultimate quality balanced interconnect. It is composed with finest ultra-pure solid platinum signal conductors and a platinum colored HULLIFLEX ® High Density jacket.

    After our very successful introduction of the MC-SILVER IT MkIII Balanced some two years ago, we have been looking at any possible improvement. This time we worked our way backwards.

    With our vast knowledge on metal technology we have started by calculating the ideal specifications for the conductors and matched the type of metal that possessed these numbers. It turned out that two 0.3 mm solid core ultra-pure platinum conductors were right on the dot.

     

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    $15,999.00

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  • Auralic Leo GX.1 Reference Master Clock (inc Premium Cable)

    LEO GX.1 is a breakthrough in digital audio system clocking — the first master clock ever
    that can feed a DAC directly with a working signal so precise we had to use new
    benchmarks to measure its performance. Wider staging, pinpoint locational accuracy, and
    an expanded dynamic range are just some of the benefits you’ll hear when you implement
    LEO GX.1’s one-of-a-kind approach to clocking that literally bypasses the traditional
    limitations of internal DAC clocks.

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    $15,995.00

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  • McIntosh MA7200 Integrated Amplifier

    A Solid state beast of a machine that can play loud and hard.

    "An astonishingly good amplifier... Blending together the brand's modern take on traditional analogue approaches with a healthy dose of digital inputs plus a top flight phono stage, headphone amp and battleship build quality." ... "A very elegant sounding amplifier with a lot of power in reserve... a hefty amplifier that is capable of great things and a lot more than just brute force, the MA7200 doesn’t just look the part, it sounds the part!" ...

    Come and try it out.

    McIntosh MA7200 official site 

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  • Michell Orbe (no Tonearm)

    Michell utilise an inverted oil circulating bearing technology that completely revolutionised turntables when they introduced it. It results in near non existent friction in the bearing that leads to a tight and defined bass sound that other turntable companies can't reproduce.

    An extra heavy design that absorbs vibrations creating the perfect inert platform for music playback as well as a spiffed up motor and power supply set this deck apart from other Michell Turntables.

    Generally we specify a tonearm like the Rega RB3000 (RRP $2749) on this deck.

    For a number of our staff members, the Orbe has been the Turntable of choice. The vinyl obsessives amongst us revel in the dexterity and clarity of sound this deck produces. True HiFi fanatics rejoice...Amen.

    This version of the Orbe complete with perspex plinth and lid that keep out pesky environmental disturbances (something as simple as walking around on the floor near the Turntable) to create an even more inert deck and controlled sound.

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  • Denon PMA-S1 integrated Japanese Amplifier

    This is a rare amplifier and Rab's favourite. A classic, Japanese built elegant monster. We believe this is the only one in Australia.

    It has sat in Rab's favourite demo room for many years and he has in particular loved its pairing with a set of Monitor Audio Platinum 500s. As we're moving around our demo rooms a little, it's time to find a good home for this chiseled jaw beauty...

    The extension in the bass that this amp can produce is incredible and its mids are smooth and mellow. The highs are agile, brilliant but not harsh.

    This is a whole different ball game from the commonly available Denon amps. It was a classic as soon as it came out of the factory.

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  • IsoTek EVO3 Nova Power Conditioner

    The IsoTek Evo3 Nova is a passive power conditioner designed to remove common mode and differential mode mains noise to lower the overall noise floor of your system and bring out more detail and emotion in the music.

    The advantage of a passive conditioning is that it stays well out of the way of the sound signature of your gear. Doing all the good stuff in terms of noise floor and protection but not adding a presence that you may or may not like into your system. Different people will always feel differently about this but that is the theory at least.

    We now have one of these big conditioners on the floor in the shop so we can even lend them out, if you're nice, and you can do your own comparison!

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  • Synthesis A100 Titan KT66 Ultra-Linear Integrated Amplifier

    Top of the ACTION range, the A100 Titan is a hi-performance valve integrated amplifier using all tube technology. 100W per
    per channel using 8 x KT66 valves in ultralinear push-pull configuration. Input stage uses ECC83/12AX7, phase splitter uses
    12BH7. Utilising a custom output transformer resulting in a rich sound stage with an authority that must be heard to be
    appreciated. 4 line input, USB and SPDIF inputs, pre out. Inbuilt DAC uses dual mono Wolfson WM8740 dacs, sampling up to
    192KHz / 24bit. Remote control for volume and inputs.

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    $14,999.00

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  • Rega Isis

    Rega, usually so famous for their excellent turn tables, have launched their new reference class CD player and it is a thing of beauty. Moving away from a naming convention of heavenly bodies (and hence Roman deities) we have something distinctly more Egyptian in the Isis. Learn More

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