High End Munich 2024—Tracking Angle’s Day One Video Coverage

many new and thrilling new merchandise debuted on the present

New product debuts abounded at High End Munich. I used to be attempting to cowl merchandise within the analog area—turntables, cartridges and phono preamps—and located many every day, however whereas I used to be at it I came across many different new and thrilling merchandise you will see on this day one protection. All costs are approximate.

The day began with a curious coupling of Technics and Lamborghini. It appeared that Lamborghini needs some vinyl playback caché and Technics needs some luxurious to rub off on it, although with "high shelf" merchandise just like the SL-1000R and SP-10R, the products are already there.

U.Ok. primarily based Origin Live launched the "2 Point" Renown "tremendous arm" promoting for $26,000. Founder Mark Baker’s son walks us via numerous Origin Live’s less expensive merchandise.

A brand new firm, Silence Audio, that was at High End Munich 2023 arrived with a model new TT-1 turntable and arm that appears to be extraordinarily effectively engineered and manufactured and for the primary yr will price round $12,000, which appears to be a particularly excessive worth proposition.

Gryphon, greatest recognized for its electronics, shocked everybody by launching a Brinkmann-based Apollo turntable and proprietary Siren phono preamplifier plus a extremely modified Ortofon MC Diamond cartridge—The Gryphon Black Diamond DLC— costing roughly $20,000. The remaining manufacturing model of TechDAS’s Air Force 10 air bearing pivoted tonearm made its debut on the present as did the brand new Wilson-Benesch Prime Meridian turntable, one mannequin down from the $370,000 GMT One turntable that debuted final yr. My overview shall be in an upcoming situation of The Absolute Sound.

Meanwhile the "opinions" are in from viewers on this YouTube channel who’ve listened to the three tracks introduced right here utilizing the GMT One turntable and the opinions have been virtually 100% optimistic "wows" (not as in wow and flutter).

Ypsilon up to date its extremely regarded VPS-100 phono preamp with a brand new energy provide and tube complement. I’ve oned the silver model of the unique for greater than decade and hope to get to listen to this replace as quickly as doable.

J.Sikora debuted the KD9 its least pricey arm that may promote for round $4500. And Analog Relax launched a brand new circa $20,000 mannequin 2000 cartridge. I reviewed The Analog Relax 1000 a number of years in the past and located it bridged the hole between heat wooden bodied cartridges and extra analytical ones housed in metallic.

Kronos launched its Discovery phono preamp however few particulars emerged the primary day as Louis Dejardins was out of the room after I visited. I bought extra data later within the present.

Other debuts embody a brand new fiftieth anniversary Watt Pupply loudspeaker from Wilson Audio, Pendulum, a $15,000 built-in amplifier from Dan D’Agostino , a nonetheless within the works less expensive Siegfried amplifier from VTL.

There’s much more protection developing of days two, three and 4 plus some shocked after I went to Switzerland after the present and visited HiFiction (Thales and EMT) after which hitched a journey with Vladimir and Slobodan to go to HSC maker of the tremendous luxurious Masterline 7 phono preamp designed and constructed by a thirty yr veteran of Studer-Revox. Neither Vlad nor Slobodan threatened to kidnap and take me to a conflict entrance and each made jokes about their names so…..