AudioMachina

CRG and CRS enter production

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:00:21 +0000

Our new CRG (Compact Reference Grand) and CRS (Compact Reference Subwoofer) will enter production this spring. The CRG is a 3-way monitor, twice the size of the incredible CRM, which offers higher overall performance but still within a very reasonably sized package. The CRS is an active subwoofer based on the revolutionary performance of the PURE and Maestro systems, designed for perfect compatibility with either CRM or CRG. As with all our products, the performance-to-size ratios of these systems are utterly mind-boggling, and well worth your time to find out just what is possible at the edge of the art.

AudioMachina at CES

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:10:43 +0000

Our recent exhibit at CES of the astounding CRM/CRS combination, with the superb ModWright Instruments electronics, produced ridiculously good sound, once again garnering many comments that this was the best sound people had heard in the entire show. Many people commented that our system, at a total cost of less than $35,000 for the entire system, outperformed most systems costing ten or more times as much. My genuine thanks to everyone who stopped by and listened carefully, and my sincere regrets if you missed the opportunity to see and hear what is possible at this price point.

Breakthrough TI crossover technology

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:49:54 +0000

We have completed a monumental breakthrough in crossover technology, codenamed “Ti”, and resulting in a quantum leap in performance in our Maestro system. Whereas the earlier version of Maestro was merely more-than-competitive with other designs in its price range, and routinely outperformed systems costing 2-6 times as much, the new Maestro Ti has achieved a quantum leap in performance over anything in the world at any price. In head-to-head comparisons against the very best speakers in the world, the gap between the Maestro Ti and anything else is not subtle. In transparency, soundstaging, seamless top-to-bottom performance, and just plain “disappearance into nothingness”, the Maestro Ti is a revelation. Even I quite literally would not have believed that this level of performance was possible. Until I heard it with my own ears, that is.

Tokyo International Audio Show

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:29:16 +0000

We have recently returned from the Tokyo International Audio Show, where the new PURE MKII made its international debut, displaying truly exceptional performance in conjunction with the extraordinarily musical Einstein electronics. Our heartfelt thanks go to Zephyrn, our exclusive importer/distributor in Japan, for a wonderful display once again. Sorry we missed RMAF this year, but we keep hoping RMAF will alter their scheduling so as not to directly conflict with the Japan show. Hopefully next year!

Review of the AudioMachina Maestro

admin — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:30:23 +0000

A rave review of the new Maestro has been published in issue 41 of Positive Feedback online. Bob Levi concludes: “The AudioMachina Maestro: if you only want to consider the best loudspeakers in the world under $100,000, here’s your very first loudspeaker to audition.” The full review can be found at www.positive-feedback.com/Issue41/audiomachina_maestro.htm

Maestro at CES

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:32:13 +0000

The final production version of Maestro was demonstrated to great acclaim at CES 2009, with many listeners commenting that once again the AudioMachina room offered the best sound at the show. Our heartfelt thanks go to our co-exhibitor ModWright Instruments for the extraordinarily musical (and astonishingly reasonably priced, given its level of performance!) upstream system. We’ve heard systems many times the price that haven’t come close to the overall musicality and realism of this one. Bravo Dan!

Grand Prix award winner

admin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 01:33:17 +0000

We have just heard that the AudioMachina PURE System has been awarded the coveted Stereo Sound Japan Grand Prix Award for 2008! We are deeply honored to have been selected for this prestigious award, and deeply gratified that the PURE System has shown itself to be one of the best of the best in the world.

AudioMachina in Tokyo

admin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:34:08 +0000

We have just returned from the Tokyo International Audio Show, where our new PURE System was introduced to widespread acclaim and amazement. Our distributor Zephyrn set up an exceptional demonstration, placing the PURE System directly in front of a huge, state-of-the-art, reference-quality, omnidirectional speaker system costing nearly $100,000/pair. The audience spent the entire show standing up and walking to the front of the room, trying to figure out which speaker system was actually playing! It was astonishing how difficult it was to tell them apart. Even I (Karl Schuemann, designer of the PURE System), upon walking into the room on the second day and hearing some amazing full-range music playing, assumed that it was the huge speakers. The room was so packed I couldn’t reach the front, and it was only several selections later that I finally got the courage up to ask the gentleman running the demonstration which speakers were actually playing!!! Upon his telling me that it was indeed the PURE System playing, I could only shake my head in wonder like everyone else. Our heartfelt thanks go to Zephyrn for a wonderful demonstration of our new baby.