If you are considering an in-wall speaker system the Focal IW 1002 is a great choice. Focal uses the exact same quality components found in their family of floor standing speakers.  The easily removable magnetic grille allows for custom painting to match your wall or ceiling.  The purpose-built enclosure serves two purposes. It controls the mid-woofer so your bass is smooth and also helps to inhibit sound transfer into other rooms.  We feel many in-wall speakers do not produce an acceptable level of sound quality and that these are definitely an exception to that rule.

Come in and audition these and we are sure you will agree.

Krell’s New Integrated Amplifier has just arrived!

Krell is finally shipping, in limited quantities, their second batch of this beautiful piece of Audio jewelry –  the S550i, available for $5000.

This is truly a music lover’s product with more than enough juice to control any speaker system on the planet.

We started warming up  our display unit in our showroom yesterday and already can tell it performs well above it’s price range. Huge sound stage presentation, lots of detail and control as we have come expect from Krell.  It boasts 275 watts per channel into 8 ohms and a whopping 550 into 4 ohms. It weighs 64 pounds but don’t worry, we can help you with the installation. For those of you considering a serious musical upgrade but may not have the real estate for separates, come in and have a listen for yourself.

Here is a link to a recent review (PDF) from reviewer Ken Kessler of Hi-Fi News and Record Review.

The future of digital music is finally here

Introducing an affordable way to truly upgrade all your digital music.

As most music lovers already know, “computer music” files tend to
sound compressed, lifeless and frankly boring. This affordable little device from Cambridge Audio will allow you to take any digital music from your phone, laptop, computer and make your sound system sing again.

Come in for an audition and experience the magic for yourself.

One of Focal’s tower design loudspeakers, the Electra 1038 Be represents the best of Focal’s technologies. We’re very, very excited about them and feel that they are probably the finest loudspeaker we’ve listened to in years in anything under the $20K price category. The Electra 1038 Be utilizes Focal’s famous beryllium dome tweeter for the top end which is absolutely one of the most beautiful high frequency responses anybody will ever hear.

These speakers are used throughout the world in many studios including DTS and Dolby studios for film mastering and reproduction. For the audio aficionado who really wants spectacular sound and a natural presentation the Focal Electra 1038 Be Speakers are definitely one of the best products in our showroom. Come in and have a listen.

Read details and specs about the Focal Electra 1038 Be Speaker on their website.

This turntable, called the Concept®, is made by clearaudio®, the German manufacturer of our main line of turntables. This product is quite amazing, because it’s not $200,000 like the top end of clearaudio’s turntables, it’s only $1,500. For a turntable at that price it has an amazing presentation and musical vinyl playback. When clearaudio designed the Concept turntable, they implemented a lot of the technological and engineering marvels that they learned by building $200,000 turntables.

The Concept actually has the Delrin platter that is used in their more expensive tables. The tone arm is suspended on a friction-free magnetic bearing so it’s totally isolated from the plate and the platter. This belt driven turntable is a beautiful piece of electronics that will provide spectacular sound quality.

Read about Concept turntable details and tech specs on the clearaudio website.