December 2025 - Sound fusion 🇬🇧

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A sound fusion between electronics and acoustic speakers, between your audio system and the listening room to recreate the moment of musical interpretation, is the grail of all music lovers.

This requires transducers capable of absolute transparency, uncompressed dynamics, all registers reproduced intact, tones so realistic that they are palpable, alive.

ALSYVOX Italian designer and manufacturer in Spain, succeeds in the tour de force of creating emotional sensation, the thrill when melomanes listen to all his ribbon panels speakers. Incomparable. The Absolute Sound awards a second time, in a row, the award for best overall product of the year 2025 to an ALSYVOX, this time to the huge Michelangelo which was being demonstrated in Munich. After Caravaggio XX at the end of 2024, reviewers salutes the stunning sound reproduction, but also the perfect technical mastery and manufacturing as an instrument factor would. Many visitors at Munich also favored Botticelli XX which was used at a Swiss electronics brand room.

ALSYVOX Michelangelo XX

If this model allows uncompressed sound reproduction in very large listening rooms, other models are adapted to each room dimension and this without concession, TINTORETTO - BOTTICELLI - CARAVAGGIO - RAFFAELLO. I invite you to come and listen.

REIKI AUDIO : Major progress in streaming

The British brand is for me and for many audiophiles, a new era in dematerialised restitution: precision, finesse, accuracy of tones, dynamics and above all a beautifully reproduced soundstage. If the brand made the buzz when they launched their ethernet cables, JundoStream Reference and RakuStream+ cables, it is mandatory to test them and listen to them in their ecosystem, that is to say take the REIKI Audio PRO PSU power supply with the SuperSwitch, use their ground cables. And then, magic works, a sound universe close to recording or unamplified music in concert is created.

Permanent demonstration of SuperSwitch Pro Extreme with JundoStream Reference and RakuStream, JundoUSB Reference and RakuGround Pro cables at PHP AUDIO.

REIKI AUDIO JundoStream Reference and RakuStream +

OMICRON Group : PHP AUDIO and ALSYVOX

Daniele Coèn, Alsyvox designer, uses a large number of OMICRON products in his auditorium in Valencia (Spain), because each element brings more performance, more resolution but above all more naturalness, realism on timbres, voices, sound space. Pleasure and tools !

ALSYVOX room was extremely well treated by Mario of OMICRON who implemented decouplers, Power Boost, Faraday and other Teslas. French customers are delighted and also many enthusiasts in Germany.

At PHP AUDIO, the edge approach is the same. Today our demonstration system uses 1 TESLA, 4 FARADAY, 4 Power Boost and 4 X1 Harmonisers. OMICRON cable holers have replaced our previous Synergistic Research UEF Carbon offering better neutrality and air . The result is stunning with improvement and this without any drawbacks. Designed and manufactured in Italy, they also have the merit of remaining affordable in price.

OMICRON X4 decoupler - in brass with 2 decoupling stages and height adjustable

WEISS : DAC 205 MKII et 204 MKII

Evolution of 2 DACs from the Swiss manufacturer, 204 mKII and 205 mKII. DAC205-MK2 accepts incoming digital audio in S/PDIF or AES/EBU formats and provides an immaculate analogue output that improves the integrated DACs in most audio interfaces, CD players and other devices with digital audio outputs.

MK2 includes an improved DAC board with ES9028PRO chip and an output stage close to zero ohm, further increasing performance.

Combined with the PSU102 external power supply, the 205-Mk2 DAC offers performance close to the DAC 501 for music lovers who do not want an integrated streamer.

WEISS Engineering 205 Mk2

NEWS

Other brands in 2026 ? : it's well committed but we have to wait a little. The multiplication of brands is not my target when we have ALSYVOX, APURNA™, HARMONIX, OMICRON, PLAYBACK DESIGNS, PRANAWIRE, TAIKO AUDIO, REIKI AUDIO and WEISS. But some products will captivate our customers as they are our dream for months... !

RECORDS OF THE MONTH

Thanks to Adrien, for musical discoveries when we met, listening to his excellent system, tall Quad ESL speakers, APURNA™ Prélude amplifier and recently OMICRON X4.