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Monster displayed their extended headphone series.
MSB showed the Analog DAC, available in a wide variety of colors. Based on a custom, discrete, ladder-type d/a converter operating at 384kHz, is capable for 80-bit processing and features MSB's Femto Second clock.
V90 appears to be one of the most popular Musical Fidelity product series. Displayed here are the DAC, the amplifier, a wireless streamer, a headphone amplifier and the phono preamp all housed in the familiar, compact chassis.
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Musical Fidelity showed this wireless system…
… and its accompanying loudspeakers, featuring a rather strange baffle surface.
Naim Audio showed their highly hyped wireless audio system, Muso…
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… with six amplifiers, a variety of high quality finishing options and a minimalistic user interface.
Naim also displayed their Statement top-of-the-range amplifier series. Pictured here, the power amplifier, a non-compromise design, based on custom power semiconductors.
QRT series from Nordost is a modular solution with products designed to solve power grid problems such as EMF and waveform distortion.
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Nordost also showed their Sort cones Sort (in different versions, depending on the application) as well as several new cables, including the special headphone cable Heimdall 2 and the power cord Tyr 2.
North Star Design DACs (from top, Impuse, Excelsio and Supremo). All of them support DSD streams.
Orpheus Lab demonstrated the Heritage DAC (which now supports DSD)…
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… the SA-CD player, based on the VMK-5 optical drive from Esoteric…
… and two new products as well, a power amplifier capable of 250W/8 Ohm per channel or 1000W/8 Ohm in bridged mode…
… and the preamplifier, that completes the Heritage series.
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Pawel Acoustics unveiled the prototype of a new floorstanding loudspeaker that will be called Capriccio. It has several similarities with the Arabella but it seems to use a different tweeter.
Phonosophie presented a vast array of products…
… among them this preamp that includes an active crossover (in the left part of the photo)…
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… and a new turntable fitted -apparently- with a Pro-Ject tonearm.
10a Reference from Pluto Audio displayed with its standard carbon fiber mat and -occasionally- with a new one, made of copper fiber, presented for the first time in Munich. The observant visitor could spot…
… some quite suspicious alterations in the tonearm wiring.
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PMC debuted their Twenty.26, the larger model in the Twenty series, a three-way design that includes a 2-inch dome midrange driver. The woofer (designed exclusively for the Twenty.26) is loaded through a transmission line while the tweeter is the same as in all other Twenty models.
Polk Audio displayed their top LSiM series of loudspeakers…
… along with an LSiM705 cut-out, showing the inner structure of the cabinet and the double bass reflex used.
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