Australian HiFi – July 2019

SHOW REPORT

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then you’d hope so with prices at $US58,500

for the stereo and $US118,500 for a pair of

mono M500s.

Simaudio’s latest power amplifier, the

Moon by Simaudio 860A V2 (£16,750),

replaces three models in the range and is

bettered only by the megabuck 888 in the

Moon by Simaudio range. The 860A V2 in-

corporates tech that’s designed to ensure even

operating temperature for both high and low

level output transistors irrespective of output

requirements. Fully balanced, it’s rated to de-

livers 225-watts per channel in stereo form or

750-watts when bridged to mono, and a pair

worked a treat with Dynaudio Confidence 50

speakers.

Technics has launched its first network

streamer. The Technics SL-G700 is also an

SACD/CD playerwitha metaldiscdrive,mul-

tiroom capabilitywithChromecast,balanced

and SE out withvolumecontrolandMQA

compatibility.

 The new SME-manufactured Garrard 301 turn-

table in its Loricraft plinth; iFi’s all-in-one wireless

system, the Aurora, whose case was designed by

Julien Haziza; Audio Note Melius power amplifier

with an EL34 push-pull output stage rated at

32-watts per channel; Keith Monks’s ‘Your Logo

Here’record-cleaningmachineforOEMsales.

 PMC set up 19.2 channels including Wafers for

the height channels and three of the big Fenestria

floorstanders at the front and played brand

new, unreleased Atmos mixes of Miles Davis’

Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain that sounded

extraordinary.