Audio Esoterica Issue 1 - 2020

Sennheiser’s Orpheus HE-1s are not only the first electrostatic headphones in the world with a Cool Class-A MOS-FET high voltage amplifier integrated into the ear cups, they’re also the world’s most expensive headphones. A second amplifier, which has all the inputs you’ll need to plug in your music sources, and whose sole purpose is to support the super-high-voltage amps inside each ear cup, sits on a housing crafted from glass and Carrara marble… the same type used by Michelangelo. The complete set can be yours for just $87,294. More info: https://en-au.sennheiser.com…

Sennheiser’s Orpheus HE-1s are not only the first electrostatic headphones in the world with a Cool Class-A MOS-FET high voltage amplifier integrated into the ear cups, they’re also the world’s most expensive headphones. A second amplifier, which has all the inputs you’ll need to plug in your music sources, and whose sole purpose is to support the super-high-voltage amps inside each ear cup, sits on a housing crafted from glass and Carrara marble… the same type used by Michelangelo. The complete set can be yours for just $87,294. More info: https://en-au.sennheiser.com…

The fabulous Chronosonic XVX, although designed by Daryl Wilson, contains much of the technology found in the WAMM Master Chronosonic designed by his father, the late David Wilson, who founded the company in 1974. The midrange driver is a new ‘Quadramag’ design using a rare Alnico magnet. ‘The unique QuadraMag midrange driver combines rare Alnico magnets in an entirely re-imagined geometry,’ said John Giolas, of Wilson Audio, ‘where four separate magnets are arranged in an innovative quadrature geometry, which improves efficiency and lowers distortion to ensure ultimate sound quality.’ More info: www.advanceaudioaustralia.com.au…

The fabulous Chronosonic XVX, although designed by Daryl Wilson, contains much of the technology found in the WAMM Master Chronosonic designed by his father, the late David Wilson, who founded the company in 1974. The midrange driver is a new ‘Quadramag’ design using a rare Alnico magnet. ‘The unique QuadraMag midrange driver combines rare Alnico magnets in an entirely re-imagined geometry,’ said John Giolas, of Wilson Audio, ‘where four separate magnets are arranged in an innovative quadrature geometry, which improves efficiency and lowers distortion to ensure ultimate sound quality.’ More info: www.advanceaudioaustralia.com.au…

If Daniel (Dan) D’Agostino designs a new amplifier, you can be sure that not only will it look like no other amplifier available, but also that it will use inventive circuit topologies and innovative materials to deliver state-of-the-art sound quality and that, further down the track, it will win awards right around the world. So all that lies ahead for the just-released first integrated amplifier in D’Agostino’s Progression Series. ‘The new Progression Integrated combines the elegance and detail retrieval of the Progression Preamplifier with the power and dynamic capability of the Progression amplifier topology,’ says D’Agostino. Rated with an output of 200-watts per channel into 8Ω and 400-watts per channel into 4Ω, the Progression is analogue-only at its heart, but you can option in a digital module that adds every digital…

If Daniel (Dan) D’Agostino designs a new amplifier, you can be sure that not only will it look like no other amplifier available, but also that it will use inventive circuit topologies and innovative materials to deliver state-of-the-art sound quality and that, further down the track, it will win awards right around the world. So all that lies ahead for the just-released first integrated amplifier in D’Agostino’s Progression Series. ‘The new Progression Integrated combines the elegance and detail retrieval of the Progression Preamplifier with the power and dynamic capability of the Progression amplifier topology,’ says D’Agostino. Rated with an output of 200-watts per channel into 8Ω and 400-watts per channel into 4Ω, the Progression is analogue-only at its heart, but you can option in a digital module that adds every…