high end audio exhibition munich

may 2018

Metaxas Turntable with it's own tonearm
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Metaxas Reel to Reel at an indicated price of $32'000
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Otari Reel to Reel machine, showing a strong come back of reel to reel machines

Italien company selling copies of master tapes
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Pavarotti live concert available on reel to reel
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YG Acoustics loudspeakers, still one of the finest speaker brands out there

Brinkman turntable with very sophisticated German tangiential tonearm

German valve amplifier, called Bittner
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Bittner preamplifier
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Avantgard Trio horn loudspeaker. To the great pleasure of visitors, played via a Clearaudio turntable, sounding a lot better than previous years, demonstraded via downloads

McIntosh 1.25 kW and big blue meters
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Nagra of Switzerland, also showing off the superior quality of reel to reel tapes

Constelation, fantastic quality at a price
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Cessaro horn speakers
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Karma loudspeakers, also using a superior analogue frontend
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TechDAS turntable, made in Japan, using air isolation technology, undoubtedly one of the finest turntables available today

Beautifully designed Estelon loudspeakers

Marten, high quality speakers, made in Sweden

New SME Synergy turntable
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New Audio Research Ref 160 Monoblock, operates in Ultralinear mode and Triode mode. Built-in tube hour meter with additional tube protection circuitry. For us, undoubtedly the finest amplifier we have heard

JL Audio Fathom 112v2, still the best subwoofer available today

JL Audio active crossover

MBL Extreme, for many visitors the best sound at the Munich show

Jeff Rowland integrated amplifier, showing it's qualities on the new Vividaudio speakers, excellent sound

Ayer monoblocks, beautifully executed
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Dan D'Agostine new amplifier Relentless, at a cool $250'000
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Jadis with stunning looks

Nordost paired with Raidho speakers

Another monster speaker

Exceptional Kronos turntable

Swiss made Nagra preamplifier
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Nagra valve power amplifier
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Magico, using the highly acclaimed Solution amplifiers, made in Switzerland

Kii, launching their new bass module, offering an additional 3500 Watts per channel, which now makes it a serious contender for the world's finest speaker system. Visitors were highly impressed by transparency, definition and enormous bass power. No doubt, Kii seems to be ahead of their competitors, hence the long waiting list

Kii Three with non-standard finish
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Beautiful Jadis turntable, made in France

Heavy weight turntable, made in Italy

Interesting loudspeaker, made in Eastern Europe
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Accapella hornspeaker with plasma tweeter, offering exceptional sound
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This new Technics turntable with separate power supply got a lot of attention from the visitors, costing a cool EUR 15'000

Kondo system, reproducing their typical valve sound

MBL 101 loudspeakers, our personal favourite at the show

MBL CD player with gold finish

MBL's successful stereo amplifier C21

MBL Integrated amplifier

MBL CD transport, undoubtedly the world's finest transport

Reference preamplifier from MBL

Innuos, using the Kii loudspeaker as their reference
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EAR showing off their beautiful valve amplifiers, using a reel to reel machine. Unfortunately, their choice of speakers was not ideal

Luxman turntable
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Quad speakers driven by Luxman electronics

Another monster speaker, driven by VAC valve equipment

MBL drive in gold
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Der Vorverstärker from MBL, one of the finest Solid State preamplifiers available today

One of the leading Dacs today

Audio research factory visit

June 2017

Audio Research Factory Entrance
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Some outstanding units from the past greet you at the entrance hall
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Foundation Series
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Chess pieces made out of valves
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David Gordon, Managing Director of Sales, explaining construction of Ref6 board

Ref 750 assembly

Ref 250 assembly
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Valve testing - AR tests and matches all their valves very carefully, before and after burn in

Valve storage, ready to be shipped

Quality Control Section

GSi75 Integrated Amplifier

GS150 Power Amplifier

Sound Room, offering exeptional reproduction

Equipment on demo, Ref10, Ref3, Ref6 and Ref9

Glorious Ref250SE, driving Aidas
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Warren Gehl's environment, where final listening tests are done on every AR equipment before leaving the factory

Ref 150SE waiting for Warren's final listening approval

More old favourites

Ready to be packaged

Assembly of Ref750

Ref750 with KT150

Servicing of Ref300

jeff rowland factory visit

June 2017

A beautiful pair of Model 7's in Jeff's Museum

Stunning workmanship

Connsumate Preamplifier, finest SS Preamp available in it's days

Note the Penny & Giles pots

Famous Model 1 Amplifier

Capri Preamplifiers ready to be packaged

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Impressive Daemon Amplifier, offering 1500 Watts per channel
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Impressive Daemon Amplifier, offering 1500 Watts per channel
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Capri combined with new Headphone Amplifier, also offering 2x 50 Watts as a standard Amplifier

Plenty of spares available

New Model 535, replacing Model 525

Model 725 Mono
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Incredible PSU which will offer an independant power supply with enormous capacity which can be partnered up with the Corus Stereo Preamplifier and the Aeris Pre DAC. The PSU can hold the power after power interruption for 30 minutes!

Model 725 with expensive Lundahl Transformers
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Daemon Integrated input options

Corus Preamplifier

Corus Preamplifier

Connsumate Preamplifier in for servicing

high end audio exhibition munich

may 2017

Acoustic Signature Turntable

Audio Research G150 Power Amplifier

Audio Research GSPre Amplifier

Audio Research VT80 Amplifier

British Horn Speaker

Exotic Horn Speaker

Goldmund Amplifier

Goldmund Loudspeaker

Krones Reference Turntable

MBL Loudspeaker

Nagra Reel to Reel

Marc Levinson Turntable

New Sonus Faber Standmount Speaker

Stein Hornspeaker

Wilson Speakers and Nagra Electronics