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This year, at The Aston Suite, we’ve chosen a premium 11.3.4 home theatre system comprising, for the first time anywhere in the UK, the new SVS Ultra Evolution speakers supported by award-winning SVS SB-3000 and PB-4000 subs. The classy and sophisticated Ultra Evolutions – recently recognised as ‘outstanding’ by Hi Fi News magazine – feature a visually striking curved baffle for their custom developed time-aligned drivers, ensuring ‘point-source’ phase coherence and imaging. The system is

Widening a positive consensus, two further UK reviewers have fallen for the magical charms of MoFi’s SourcePoint 8 dual concentric speakers. For Darko Audio, Phil Wright says “It does intricacy and refinement before switching to full-throated roar and back again, all in an instant. Orchestral works are handled with aplomb but the Sourcepoint 8 is equally at home playing Led Zeppelin, Infected Mushroom and the like – even at high volumes. It’s amazing how much

Two years in the making, the new Ultra Evolution speaker range from SVS follows a clean-sheet design featuring elegantly curved cabinets and new drivers, time aligned for greater accuracy and more convincing and immersive results. Reference hi fi guide Hi Fi News is the first UK title to audition the lineup and its flagship model, the 3-way UE Pinnacle. In the review for the July 24 issue, it says: “this speaker is not difficult to

The “supremely capable” Emotiva XDA-3/BasX A2 pre-power combo uses audiophile design architecture to blend DAC/Preamp and power amplifier together at a truly competitive price. Awarding a maximum 5 stars for features and value for money – and a recommended badge – Hi Fi Choice magazine says “…this combo steps aside and lets the recording do the talking, to a surprising extent…it’s the sort of sound that’s not normally offered, or even expected, at the price.

Karma has supplied Perlisten Audio and Ascendo Immersive Audio systems to Foundry, a new cinema and media room design showcase from ‘the framers’ of RP22. Foundry was conceived during the four-year creation of CEDIA’s RP22 Immersive Audio Design Recommended Practice and is the brainchild of Ben Goff of Cinema Lusso, Christiaan Beukes, owner of Cape Town based integrator Sphere Custom and Cinema Lusso Creative Director (now resident in the UK), and Officina Acustica Partner and