How Speakers Make Sound

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Check out Animagraffs.com: How Speakers Make Sound.  It uses animated exploded diagrams to show the components of a dynamic loudspeaker driver and how they work.

 

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Hegel H160 integrated amp now on demo!

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The new Hegel H160 integrated amp is on demonstration at Serious Music.

The H160 is the newest in Hegel's excellent line of integrated amplifiers.  It delivers the outstanding Hegel sonic purity, dynamics and musicality through a wide range of Read the full post

Entreq grounding and vibration control products now on demo.

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Serious Music is now distributing Entreq products.  Entreq manufactures a range of audiophile grounding and vibration control products.

The Entreq grounding solutions are based on their selection of Ground Boxes which connect to unused input or output signal connectors on audio components, via Eartha cables. 

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Serious Music Announces its Record Cleaning Service

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Serious Music announces the launch of its record cleaning service.

Records are cleaned using the Vinyl Cleaner manufactured by Audiodesksysteme Gläss of Germany.  The Vinyl Cleaner is an automatic LP cleaning machine which used ultrasound waves and micro-fibre brushes to gently deep-clean your records.  As the many reviews testify, this is the most effective record cleaning machine available.

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Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) 2014 Show Report (page 1)

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The Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) 2014 was held from Friday 2014-10-31 to Sunday 2014-11-02 at the Sheraton Center in downtown Toronto.  Spread over four floors of the Sheraton, the show presented video projectors, TVs, cameras, 3D printing, CDs, vinyl and accessories for purchase, and paintings to complement the very healthy serving of high end audio products. 

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Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) 2014 Show Report (page 2)

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Bryston

The Bryston display was located in a very large, untreated room with a main demo system and many other products on static display. 

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Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) 2014 Show Report (page 3)

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Kudos/Norma

This simple system consisted of a Norma REVO CD player and REVO IPA-140 integrated amp driving the small Kudos X3 floorstanding speakers in a small untreated room.

Both of these manufacturers were new to me, but the system produced excellent sound, with surprising amounts of well-controlled bass, good imaging and a deep, wide soundstage.

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Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) 2014 Show Report (page 4)

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Naim/Focal

This system consisted of the Naim Statement NAC S1 preamp and NAP S1 mono power amps driving the Focal Grande Utopia EM speakers in a large, untreated room.  This is the same system used at NYAS2014 in New York (see my  comments on the system at NYAS2014 here).

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Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) 2014 Show Report (page 5)

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Raidho

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Toronto Audio Video Entertainment Show (TAVES) 2014 Show Report (page 6)

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Tidal Audio/Reimyo

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