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Last Week of Summer Against Hunger[08/24/2017 Newsletter]
The Ether Flow & Ether Flow C open and closed-back headphones are taking the headphone community by storm! Already one of the lightest and comfiest high-end headphones we’ve ever t... Read More
All Stillpoints products are engineered to eliminate distortion, to isolate your components and enhance your room in such a way that more of the music comes through. Perhaps best known for t... Read More
Backert Labs has finally created what we’ve always wanted, tube preamps which take the effort out of owning a tube preamp. The entire lineup offers zero maintenance, XLR and RCA inputs... Read More
The most overlooked part of the signal chain, every single electron of energy your gear consumes goes through a fuse first. This makes upgrading the fuses in your components one of the most ... Read More
One of the most exciting things we’ve played with this year is the 65V-1 tube integrated amp from Rogers High Fidelity. Like all Rogers tube amps, the 65V-1 sounds glorious, is hand-bu... Read More
Quadraspire, distributed by Sound Org, is one of our go-to lines for gorgeous, high-quality and upgradeable racks. The Q4 Evo Pack is a ready-to-go, four-shelf rack with a sculpted aesthetic... Read More
The AB-1266 Phi offers something unique in headphones; placing a pair of Abyss headphones on your head transports you away from workaday cares and into a new dimension, a new place, your "Pe... Read More
German manufacturer of high precision turntables and tonearms with turntables ranging from what we consider to be among the very best table-arm-cartridge packages for under $2k, the Primus, ... Read More
Clearaudio offers the broadest selection of analog products in the world! With a full lineup of turntables, tonearms, and cartridges, and all manner of analog accessories, if you’re in... Read More
Our friends at SOTA make beautiful turntables just outside of Chicago, IL. Consider the Moonbeam, an under $1k instant classic which includes a tonearm, precision machined high-density platt... Read More
What is a great turntable without a great cartridge? Upgrade your analog rig with some of our Summer Against Hunger sponsors! Air Tight, Shelter and Lyra cartridges from Japan, and van den H... Read More
We have loved Ron Sutherland’s phono preamps for years, he’s a master at extracting every molecule of music from analog systems and making great sound. His recently released KC V... Read More
The reviews are in and the ADVC Pro is a hit! Offering numerous improvements to the original, the Audio Desk System Vinyl Cleaner Pro model is the best of the best. Clean up your act with th... Read More
Master of acrylic creations and enthusiastic Summer Against Hunger sponsor, Gingko makes a broad array of turntable dust covers as well as a panoply of extremely effective vibration control ... Read More
At the most affordable end of our offerings is our long time Summer Against Hunger supporter, Herbie's Audio Lab. Best known for his highly effective yet very reasonably priced "HAL-O" vacuu... Read More
Harbeth follows in the finest tradition of classic BBC Monitors, making beautiful music with absolute purity of tone. Offering a standard of musicality seldom equaled, Harbeth speakers enjoy... Read More
We love REL subwoofers because quite simply they make the most musically involving and accurate sounding subwoofers we’ve ever heard. Adding a REL to your system improves the room&rsqu... Read More
Located in Boulder, Colorado, PS Audio has been creating high performance audio products since 1973. Of late these offerings have skewed towards the higher end, but with the introduction of ... Read More
Michael Green, one of the pioneers of high-end acoustic treatments, is still at it. His high-performance “pillow” products, like CornerTunes, XLTs and Squares are still the best ... Read More
As a premier brand in component isolation and maker of some of the most lust-worthy audio racks on the market, HRS has an enviable reputation for exceedingly high quality results. Their unpa... Read More
Artisanal brand Shun Mook Acoustics marches to the beat of a different drummer. Advocating sympathetic resonance as the pathway to acoustic nirvana, Shun Mook products feature Mpingo ebony, ... Read More
Pioneers of bearing-style isolation devices with the original RollerBlock way back in 1997, Symposium keeps advancing the state of the art. The RollerBlock Series 2+ footers are huge improve... Read More
Marigo Labs has built up an impressive reputation in the audio community with products designed to extract greater results from any component. Though they look simple enough, their Mystery F... Read More
Here is our complete list of Sponsors, all of whom double the CARE.org contribution to take it all the way to 100% of your purchases: The Cable CompanyUsedCable.comAbyss HeadphonesAcoustic ... Read More
Sponsors for our 22nd Summer Against Hunger.[08/15/2017 Newsletter]
In our last e-mail we showed you Special Offers from our Summer Against Hunger sponsors. In this edition we are adding more specials and will be highlighting ALL of our sponsoring companies ... Read More
Analysis Plus, a long-time supporter of Summer Against Hunger, is also one of our highest-value lines. Immensely popular with Musicians, Live-audio Professionals and Audiophiles, Analysis Pl... Read More
Audio Magic, best known for their cables, especially the "Liquid Air" cable series, also offers a wide range of interesting products including the highly effective "Black Out" “paint-o... Read More
The wait is finally over. Audioquest just released their new Beetle micro-DAC and it is wonderful! Based on the same 32Bit ESS Sabre DAC chipset in the Dragonfly Black, Beetle is an ev... Read More
Aural Symphonics and designer Tommy Dzurak have long supported Summer Against Hunger. This American boutique cable brand creates high-performance hand-made cables. Of special interest is the... Read More
Designed and manufactured by the inimitable Chris Sommovigo in his adopted home of Japan, Black Cat Cables deliver cutting edge performance at very reasonable prices. Best known for his work... Read More
DH Labs offers an impressive array of very affordable cables as well as a comprehensive line of DIY parts for those who prefer to “mix their own drink”. Lately we’ve been s... Read More
Two years in development, David Elrod’s has just unleashed his massive new Master Series. Literally ahead of their time, these cables had to wait for manufacturing processes to catch u... Read More
Gutwire is a Canadian manufacturer of high quality cables and power conditioners. This year we’re focusing on their series of Ground Cables. Gutwire found that grounding the audio boar... Read More
One of our most stalwart supporters for Summer Against Hunger, Harmonic Tech pioneered the use of continuous cast, single crystal conductors in high end audio cable designs and has maintaine... Read More
High Fidelity Cables is known throughout the audio industry for their unique use of magnets to draw and focus electrical signals through their cables. All High Fidelity cables have incorpora... Read More
JPS Labs is a long-established high end cable manufacturer which has also turned their attention to the headphone community. We call them headphones, but whereas traditional headphones clamp... Read More
Kimber Kable is a terrific company and an ardent supporter of Summer Against Hunger. They recently released their first USB cable in the premium Axios line, Axios USB. As with Kimber&rs... Read More
The Lotus Group is an enthusiastic full participant EVERY year for our Summer Against Hunger fundraiser for CARE.org. This includes all Lotus distributed brands including Oyaide, FoQ, Acroli... Read More
The entire Purist line, including the new Diamond Dominus AC cable and the Poseidon series is available to borrow from our massive Lending Library.... Read More
Shunyata Research has always been on the forefront of cable design and cutting-edge noise reduction technology. This last year has been an action-filled year as they’ve released so man... Read More
A big thank you this year to Audio Plus Services, who has increased their participation in Summer Against Hunger with the addition of legendary cable brand XLO. Sister companies Siltech... Read More
With us for all 28 years of The Cable Co’s existence, and all 22 years of our Summer Against Hunger fundraisers, we are enormously grateful to Straight Wire for their incredibly genero... Read More
How many Cats do you need? All of them and the Wireworld Cat8 cables deliver! This latest spec for Ethernet cables offers even greater speeds, higher bit-rate accuracy and a noticeable impro... Read More
One of the founding members of the Audiophile community, MIT has been making high-performance audio cables for thirty years. MIT’s guiding principle has evolved over the decades; updat... Read More
This California based company isn’t very well known here in the US, but they are hugely popular in Asia, where reverence for the brand borders on worship. Offering an addictive combina... Read More
WyWires is making a name for themselves by doing things differently. Every cable is hand-made right here in the US, using high-purity copper conductors wrapped in organic cotton and nestled ... Read More
Alpha Design Labs specializes in very-high performance yet affordable audio products. An off-shoot of the revered Furutech brand, ADL delivers a broad array of cutting edge solutions from DS... Read More
We are proud to offer the legendary Dutch cable brand, van den Hul. Pioneers in the cable industry, van den Hul also make incredibly good phono cartridges like the Frog Gold ($3195) a light-... Read More
25 years ago, Synergistic Research opened their doors and welcomed a generation of audiophiles looking for ingenious solutions to common audio problems. Today SR is one of the best-known aud... Read More
We are getting questions about our Summer Against Hunger theme this year: "Declare Victory in August." Why Victory? In polls 90% of Americans say that global poverty is the same o... Read More
Cable Co 22nd Summer Against Hunger and Special offers.[08/01/2017 Newsletter]
The VooDoo Iso-Pods ($299/set of three or $399/set of four) are not the least expensive, nor anything like the most expensive footers available. They work on the principal of turning vibrati... Read More
Cardas will soon release a new black "Anniversary version" ($349) of their A8 "Ear Speakers" to celebrate their 30th birthday. The new Anniversary version of the A8 Ear Speaker has the same ... Read More
Focus on PREAMPS[07/15/2017 Newsletter]
The preamplifier is the "heart" of the system and is an essential part of a great-sounding system. While some may extoll the theory of a source-to-amplifier direct approach, in our long (mor... Read More
Preamplifiers with headphone jacks are pretty common. Unfortunately the headphone output of these preamps is typically an afterthought offering mediocre performance. This is also true of the... Read More
After some production delays we finally have received Cable Library samples of the new Shunyata Research power cords, interconnects, speaker cables and digital ... Read More
Special Offer: PS Audio, Plus Bybee and Sutherland[06/15/2017 Newsletter]
The PS Audio DirectStream DAC ($5999) and DirectStream Memory Player ($5999) is one of our very favorite DAC/Transport systems at any price, and on special this month for... Read More
In our April 2017 Email Newsletter, we wrote about the effectiveness of the Bybee Active Room Neutralizers ($1300/pair) and the Bybee Quantum Signal Enhancer ($120).... Read More
Ron Sutherland knows phono stages and has earned praise throughout the industry for his designs ranging from the new, affordable KC Vibe ($895) all the way up to the reference-leve... Read More
Sonoma Electrostatics Headphones and REL Wireless Tech[05/15/2017 Newsletter]
Most headphone hobbyists at some point are drawn to the sound of electrostatic headphones. Electrostatic headphones excel at speed, clarity and transparency, but as most users have discove... Read More
The year was 2009 the financial meltdown was all around us; it was impossible to pick up a paper, turn on the TV or check your ever-depressing 401K results without sensing the building was a... Read More
New Products and New in the Library![04/14/2017 Newsletter]
Good news for our international customers: High Fidelity Cables is now producing a European version of their extremely popular MC-0.5 AC conditioning module ($299) with a Schuko/Euro connect... Read More
While MrSpeakers started out modifying Fostex orthodynamic headphones, they have since moved into the big leagues, designing and manufacturing from scratch several reference level orthodynam... Read More
We have always held that room acoustics (along with speaker placement) has an enormous impact on the overall sound that any audio system can produce, or more accurately RE-produce. Unlike he... Read More
The same science is used in the design of the Bybee Quantum Signal Enhancers ($120). These are powered by an internal battery with a 10 year life, rather than needing to be plugged... Read More
Spring is a beautiful time of year in the Northeast. And purchasers of any new Rogers High Fidelity amplifier even their new model 65V-1 costing only $3995, will be entit... Read More
The New High Fidelity Cables "Reveal" Series: Listening Notes[03/15/2017 Newsletter]
There seems to be a new high performance headphone hitting the market every few months. However few offer the history and engineering prowess that Focal brings to the table. Focal has been..... Read More
Many of our customers have already experienced the positive effects of the magnetic conduction technology on their AC powerlines by way of the MC-0.5 Module ($299). Very effective for ... Read More
New Products, and New In The Library[02/15/2017 Newsletter]
Audeze has become the dominant purveyor of Orthodynamic (Magnetic Planar) Headphones. Magnetic Planar is a technology that works very well for full size headphones (and large speakers s... Read More
One of the things that is fun about working in a specialty audio shop is that we get to play with all of the cool toys. During the last couple of years we have been extremely impressed by th... Read More
As mentioned in our last Newsletter, we have just received the new Synergistic Research PowerCell 8 UEF AC Power Conditioners and we have put them through our “critical” listenin... Read More
CES 2017 Cable Company Show Report[01/16/2017 Newsletter]
We had received in December a pre-production sample of the first of the new “Reveal” range of affordable cables from High Fidelity Cables. This Texas-based manufacturer in... Read More
Furutech has completed the range of their new top-line NCF connectors for AC applications. Basically NCF is about generating negative ions to eliminate static interference with AC conduction... Read More
Audience is one of the cable manufacturers who have adopted Furutech's costly NCF power cord connectors for their top end products, in this case the new Au24SX PowerChords. Unusually for Aud... Read More
One of our highest value lines for audiophile parts and adapters, Voodoo Cables has released two new high end "PowerPhase" Duplex outlets. Available in Gold, or Rhodium-plate, over tell... Read More
5. Shunyata Research's new topline Hydra Triton V3 and Sigma Series Interconnects and Speaker Cables
The pyramid-shaped Denali line conditioners ($3495-$4995) have been a huge success for Shunyata. But performance can be a two edged sword when it forces you back to the drawing board to upgr... Read More
Following the successful launch of the new Powercell 12 UEF ($4495-$5995) line conditioners in mid-2016, Synergistic Research has a scaled down and more affordable 8 outlet Powerce... Read More
Rogue Audio’s new RH-5 ($2495) may be the most flexible headphone oriented preamp available. Offering all manner of headphone outputs, preamp out flexibility, and even an optional phon... Read More
Rogers High Fidelity is another of our favorite electronics manufacturers, but unfortunately (for many of us) their amps start at $8k and go up from there...until now! Rogers launched a... Read More
AudioQuest has evolved their first headphone, the Nighthawk, into two new designs for 2017: the open back NightHawk Carbon and the closed back NIghtOwl Carbon. (In this case &... Read More
Audeze was showing off two models of the first planar-based in-ear monitors for Apple i-devices, the i-Sine 10 ($399) and i-Sine 20 ($599). These come with a Lightning cable incorporating a ... Read More
We have been watching with interest the development of a MOFI line of analog components, which at CES appeared to be just about ready for prime time. Having assembled a rather nice team of c... Read More
Chord Electronics from England was showing off their upcoming “Poly” music streamer (hopefully available Spring 2017), an add-on module for their wildly successful Mojo ... Read More
PS Audio has a number of projects in the works including a whole new range of affordable (~$1500 each) electronics line called “Stellar” consisting of a DAC/preamp combination, b... Read More
Finally here is where this writer gives into his own audiophile aspirations to digress from strict affordability and/or the system upgrade products which other show writers will overlook, in... Read More