Some Post-Show Followup from Brian Tucker of Pro Audio

[MylesBAstor]

ReVox Tape machine....Back To The Future !
WOW ! One of the most talked about new product announcements at HIGH-END Munich. The Horch House engineering team along with ReVox announced the new professional ReVox tapemachine.

• Transport based on the Studer B67
• Speeds: 7.5/15 ips
• NAB/CCIR playback EQ.
• All new professional electronics
• New head design using ‘Butterfly’ configuration
• Upgradeable to record/playback mastering
• Target price $4500 for Playback-only

U.S. Debut at RMAF Denver Oct. 8th; Delivery Q1 2017
NEWS: New OEM tape-heads are available for legacy ReVox and Studer machines starting at $417, call our office for more info; 847-526-1660



Star Wars....and more to come ! Yello; Dark Side of the Moon to name a few. All one-off copies of the masters from Sony, Warner Bros. and others. These tapes are 15 ips CCIR copies. Presently 60 titles in there catalog; 100 by years end. Come see us at RMAF where these tapes will be available.


The new Sonoma series was again a real hit at High-End Munich. Dealers from Europe and Asia said it is the BEST DAC ever ! The real treat was comparing the analog source, Telefuken M-15 tape deck, running a one-off copy of the master tape of Barbara Dennerlein’s Hammond B-3 jazz album through the PBD Pinot (ADC). The analog master was 15 ips CCIR recorded (w/PBD recording software) through the Pinot/Merlot @ quad DSD. WOW !
Looking forward to listening to this tape on the new ReVox tape-deck !
Clich here for more info.
Still getting wonderful accolades from Axpona here
Awards: click here
Contact us @ [email protected] or proaudio@comcast for more info or demo.


Arthur Khoubesserian’s latest turntable, (GET-it), who want to get-at the music from their vinyl-spinner at a lean price. Included is the new F7 thread-bearing pickup arm (and) dust-cover (not shown).
I’ve put my London (Decca) Super Gold on this pickup arm for music nirvana !
Available in July at a target price of less than $900 retail.


Close-up of the new thread-bearing F7 pickup arm. Unique suspension design works like a hybrid unipivot with easy adjustments for VTA, antiskate, and azimuth.
Available; F7 only @ $599.


Vector V re-visited in African Grey (as in parrot), Shown with the FX3 on the newly designed ‘Kradle’ with BO!NG suspension.
Vector V w/FX3 is $5290.
Cradle isolation table $TBA.
Click here for more info.

[MylesBAstor]

The NEW Lumin U1 Audiophile NetworkMUSIC Player was the ‘center-piece’ at Lumin’s HE booth.
Based on the Lumin Flagship S1, the U1 has no built-in DAC, add your own favorite DAC with the six (6) digital outputs.

• Audio File Formats: DSD Lossless (DSF, DFF, DoP) PCM 32/384kHz; DSD 128. 5.6MHz
• 4 low-phase re-clocking crystal oscillators
• New Linear power supply from S1
• Control: Apple IOS and Android 7” devices
• Native Tidal/Qobuz and Tunein Radio support
• Price: $5900 in brushed Aluminum or Black anodize.

More info click here.


The new Röst integrated amplifier/streamer with CI protocol for Control 4 and Crestron.

• Integrated Amplifier
• Completely controllable by Control 4
• Lots of trickle down technologies from the H360
• Pricepoint not established but will sit between H80 and H160
• Fabulous sound
• Streaming and Airplay

RÖST is one of Norway’s most beautiful places, and it is a word meaning ’Voice’.

Available Q4


And ‘last’, but not least, the Mohican CD Player.

The Mohican


Our last and final CD Player

CDP2A and CDP4A will no longer be manufactured, but we have a good stock still remaining in our warehouse.

Pricepoint above CDP4A

Note: Uses HD30 DAC

Available late Summer/early Fall 2016

Questyle was every place for headphone listening and portable HIGH-END listening pleasure. True discreet/class A/ Current-mode amplification.

The new 800 ‘reference’ golden-series using the Rogers Ceramic printed-circuit-boards....huge perfomance increase.

Piccolo by digibit

The new aria piccolo has inherited the genes of its “big brother aria”, it’s fanless, comes with a new powerful intel Celeron motherboard, 2TB storage and includes a DAC supporting PCM music files up to 32 bits and 384 kHz (DXD), and DSD64/128/256. aria piccolo is compatible with AirPlay™ and DLNA™ and, like the original aria, supports extended metadata fields for all music genres and is fully automatic for populating a wealth of classical music detail.

• HD MUSIC SERVER
• HIGH QUALITY DAC
• EASY TO USE
• POWERFUL

aria piccolo, is a ripper, streamer, multi-room player and DLNA server which has been designed for budget conscious users and sets a new reference in price/performance ratio for an all-in-one system. It incorporates a fanless design with ultra-low power consumption, so it can always be kept on and ready to serve-up your favorite music.
Price: $1995 (no DAC)
Price: $2495 (w/DAC)
More info click here.


wamp is a new computer audio device with some market first capabilities such as:
1. True wireless, only the power cord is required
2. wamp (Wireless Amp) is a power amplifier (150W at 8 Ohm, at 0.1% THD) and a wifi streamer player housed in a discrete box that becomes nearly invisible under the loudspeakers, so it will convert any loudspeaker system into an active and wireless hifi system able to play high resolution music files up to 24bits-192Khz using wifi, besides Bluetooth™ technology is supported for convenience.
3. A wireless Airplay™ and DLNA™ streamer player compatible with any iOS and Android device as well as PC, Mac and internet services (Spotify, Tidal, HeartRadio, QQ, Pandora, etc. and Tune in) able to stream 24bits-192 KHz.
4. A DLNA™ renderer that plays back hi-res music (up to 24-192) from wireless or networked (NAS) servers.
More info click here.



Shows WAMP positioned under a typical speaker. The only cable possibly showing will be the AC cord.



WAMP STREAMER is all what you’ll need to add to your ancillary hifi system to enter into the new streaming and wireless world. wamp streamer is a very affordable general purpose wired and wireless streamer and DAC that plays music in up to 6 rooms from any digital or analog source or internet services (Spotify, Tidal, Tune in, iHeartRadio, Pandora, QQ, etc.) in hi-res up to 24-192. If you wish to wirelessly stream the music played back from your CD Player, Tuner, TV, etc., just connect them to wamp streamer and stream in perfect synchronization. wamp streamer works in combination with wamp providing a wireless “link” function to you ancillary equipment or as standalone streaming to any DLNA compatible renderer or active speaker.