They tell us … When examining their roots, the new Ferrum team came to realise that the region where they all were born and worked for the latter part of their lives has a history of craftsmanship. One of those craftmanships was fuelled by the very large deposits of iron in the Warsaw area, which […]
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Q: Are Pro-Ject turntables made in China? A: “These new turntables are being hand-built in Germany. The Pro-Ject Automat series of turntables include the latest in high-quality automatic turntable mechanism that’s easy to set up and use.”
Originally published here in February 2006 Howard, is it true that way back you were the owner of the World’s first fully balanced vinyl replay system? Possibly the first; certainly one of the first three ….. so I’m told. I purchased the Brinkman 10.5 tonearm before I became a dealer, and paid £2,200 from the […]
Pro-Ject was founded in 1991, during the onslaught of the compact disc and CD players, with the mission to offer the best analogue experience for reasonable prices. In a time where the digital audio media had been on the rise, and vinyl was declared as outdated and dead, Heinz Lichtenegger kept his belief in the […]
We are told … A subdivision of Mitshubishi that manufactured loudspeaker drivers in addition to home and studio loudspeaker systems, started in 1941 to manufacture monitors for N.H.K. (Japanese Broadcasting Corporation) but closed down in 1999 and apparently stopped making drivers even earlier than that, the full range drivers derived from the original NHK designs […]
We are told … Digital specialist based in Blue Lake in Claifornia, USA and founded in the mid 80’s. Initially best known for their high end CD players but later diversified into high end DVD players and DAC’s etc. and in the last few years of the company’s life actually branched into the world of […]
John Atkinson writes: Someone, I forget who it was, once wrote a perceptive essay on how in any field of human endeavor, apparent perfection is attained only when that field is in the process of being superseded. The Palace at Versailles was built when the power of the French monarchy was well into decline; Wagner’s […]
We are told … A loudspeaker manufacturing company initially founded by and named after Friedrich Müller and Wolfgang Backes and was based in Saarbrücken, in Saarland, Germany. Early history is not completely clear to us, the two gentlemen are certainly offering products in the latter half of 1971, trading as a partnership under the name […]
They say … Meet one of the world’s greatest loudspeakers The product of many years of intensive design and engineering work, Siltech’s Symphony delivers a sound as close to the original recording as can be. A massive investment in research and development was made to deliver a cost-no-object reference loudspeaker of superlative ability. Mr. van […]
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They say … THE PEARL PELEGRINA, the Masterpiece of THE PEARL COLLECTION, takes its name from a rare 55-carat pearl that was discovered in 1913 and dubbed « the incomparable ». Each of the 70 speaker pairs will bear a numbered plaque in this exclusive series. THE PEARL PELEGRINA, will satisfy the most demanding music lovers, audiophiles who […]
