Last night, 1st December, we provided sound reinforcement for the Alvaro Sanchez guitar recital held in Emmanuel & Son's piano showroom in Kallang Way. Update: Click HERE for video excerpt. The opportunity to work with Alvaro happened by accident on Wednesday 28th November. The available microphone and guitar amp were not able to render a …
Review: REDGUM Audio RGPH2ENR Signature Series Phono Stage
Read SoundStage! Australia's review of the REDGUM Audio RGPH2ENR Signature Series Phono Stage. Edgar Kramer writes: What should you ask of a high quality phono stage? In my view, a well-engineered phono should provide adequate gain from the groove-on-to-cartridge-on-to-tonearm pick-up, interpolate the signal from input through to the output stage and on to the amplification …
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Review: REDGUM Black RGi35ENR in TNT New Zealand
"In the many years of my hifi hobby journey (beginning in the early 1970s), many products have come and gone that disappointed or had unjustified prices. This one is quite different...From the first play, I was relishing the REDGUM experience, and that feeling of potency and musicality, and this is certainly not just another amplifier!" …
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REDGUM Black-series Design Philosophy
Extracted with permission from Mono & Stereo's review of the REDGUM Black RGi120ENR integrated amplifier. In the review, Matej Isak did an email interview with Ian Robinson, REDGUM's founder and designer. RGi120ENR is very different sounding and performing integrated. Can you elaborate on why it sounds so different? Always a tricky one to answer as …
REDGUM RG8MP Media Player
Headless, meaning that no screen, keyboard nor pointing device are required for operation. After power-up the media player is controlled from a PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone via a web browser. Supports streaming services such as Tidal and Spotify. Read more about it on the REDGUM web site. We will have one in the demo …
StarMount Studio Gets the Axis VoiceBox S
"A very good musical reference for both work and leisure. It is good and critical in the mid-band, and stereo imaging is very impressive. Mixed an album with them and it translated well to other mediums without any adjustments. And this was the first time I have mixed with these speakers! I've been doing lots …
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The Fountek Patent for the Ribbon Tweeter Used in the Axis VoiceBox S
Geek alert! The Fountek ribbon tweeter used in the Axis VoiceBox S has the tweeter foil mounted and tensioned in a way that dramatically reduces resonances in the tweeter. The mounting also avoids the distortion-causing stretching that other corrugated foil tweeters undergo as they age. What you get is high-frequency response that is smooth and …
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Goose bumps
Watching and listening to Barbra Streisand's 'Timeless' concert from 31st December 1999, and 'David Foster & Friends'. At home, playing out from a Mac Mini with VLC, through the REDGUM RGDAC8, to a REDGUM Black RGi120ENR driving a pair of Axis VBS and a pair of active Axis EBS. Very moving. We had the prototype …
The Axis VBS is Soundstage! Australia’s Reference Near-Field Monitor
See the partial screen capture from the latest review posted in Soundstage! Australia: The Axis VoiceBox S is their reference near-field monitor.
New REDGUM DAC arriving on 31/7!
The RGDAC8, in the Amplifolia range. Ian is bringing it with him to the Meet the Designers session on Monday 31st July. We've been listening to a prototype over the past few months and it is promising, to say the least!
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