Audio Esoterica is a spectacular new high quality publication for the discerning audiophile. Only the very best high-end components are featured, in dramatic photographic layouts that emphasise product design and engineering excellence while the industry’s leaders provide insider insights to Australia’s most experienced audio journalists. Audio Esoterica is all about the very best that the high-end audio world has to offer.
Audio Esoterica • No 1, 2021
WILSON AUDIO ALEXX 5
BERGMANN GOLD EDITION GALDER TURNTABLE
NEWS
TIVOLI HI-FI
DAN D’AGOSTINO MASTER AUDIO SYSTEMS PROGRESSION • INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER
SONUS FABER ELECTA AMATOR III • LOUDSPEAKERS
MUSICAL FIDELITY M3x VINYL • PHONO STAGE
BEL CANTO e1X DAC/CONTROL& e1X AMPLIFIER • PREAMP & STEREO POWER AMPLIFIER
YAMAHA NS-3000 • LOUDSPEAKERS
BEHIND YAMAHA’S “MAKE WAVES” SLOGAN
CLASSÉ DELTA • PRE AND STEREO POWER AMPLIFIER
CLASSÉ DELTA STEREO POWER AMPLIFIER
CLASS-A & CLASS-AB
WHERE IS CLASSÉ MADE?
A SHORT HISTORY OF SPENDOR LOUDSPEAKERS
SPENDOR A7
SPENDOR D7.2
INTERVIEW • Philip Swift has been the owner of Spendor since January 2000, and was previously co-founder of Audiolab. “I’m always thinking about the future,” he says, “that’s where my interest and focus has always been”. But here Jez Ford persuades him to delve into the key moments of his hi-fi past.
BRYSTON BCD-3 • CD PLAYER
BRYSTON BDA-3 DAC
ELECTROCOMPANIET ECI 6 DX MKII • INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER/DAC/STREAMER
AUDIO SOLUTIONS • MASCOT, SYDNEY