The newest speaker in Focus Audio’s Signature Series
is the FS988 ($12,000 per pair), a
three-way speaker with a top-of-the-line Scan-Speak Revelator tweeter and a Nomex/Kevlar
Hexacone woofer and midrange driver. [www.focusaudio.ca]
Indiana Line loudspeakers include the real-wood-finished
Arbour 4.02 (right), priced at $795 per pair, and the vinyl-clad HC505 at $550 per pair.
We can't wait to give a pair of these Italian-made budget-priced speakers a listen. [www.vmax-services.com]
Richard Kohlruss of VMAX Services has a knack
for finding great-sounding integrated amps, and his latest is the Norma Audio Electronics
Revo 50, a stylish unit that features 50Wpc output from its high-current MOSFET output
stage. The price is $3495 with a built-in phono stage and $3195 without. [www.vmax-services.com]
The NuForce Icon-1 integrated amplifier outputs 12Wpc,
enough to drive the new S-1 loudspeakers. The S-1s utilize a single full-range driver per
enclosure that is rated to play from 100Hz to 20kHz. The Icon-1 comes in four colors and
has USB as well as 3.5mm and RCA inputs. Price for the Icon-1/S-1 package is $399. [www.nuforce.com]
The Siltech Pantheon made an appearance at
last year's CES, but as is so often the case, this large, expensive speaker hasn't been
available until now -- and it sounds better to boot. We're sure it's no easy task to mate
dual 16" woofers in an isobaric configuration with an electrostatic tweeter, but the
Pantheon does it.
