September 2025 - Goodbye stranger 🇬🇧

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Music is a bewitching passion, it exists only by composers and performers of talent, sometimes genius. A thought this month, Rick Davis from Supertramp had left us leaving a legacy of lyrics and melodies that, often associated with our teenage memories, have a particular flavour.

In recent weeks, listening to various works, classical, Japanese music, contemporary music has allowed us to discover new accessories that have singularly allowed much more natural, organic but also very immersive restitutions by the sensation of palpable room atmosphere.

OMICRON Group : fantastic components

The catalogue of the transalpine creator is so complete that I will limit myself today to the last 2 components received.

X4 decoupler is a 3-stages and non-circulating ball system, a pure oscillating system. I use it under OMEGA AUDIO CONCEPT Nano the Element mains power supplies but recently under the TAIKO Extreme: it's a slap! More definition, greater aeration. The feet are used by 4 in "inside" configuration allowing the server's very rigid box to maximise vibrations. The improvement in naturalness is clear, better than the original aluminum+Panzerholtz feet.

OMICRON Group X4 decouplers in titanium finish

Power Boost is a local vibration absorber with a magnetic function. It is adjustable thanks to 3 sliders and a key to obtain an optimized function for each device. A Power Boost is now used on the TAIKO Extreme power supply linear power supply and the other 2 on Alsyvox Botticelli X panels bases. Neutrality and ability to reveal fine details is clear and rewarding, the sound of the Shakuhachi is beautiful, fluid, powerful without aggressiveness. Magic...

OMICRON Group Power Boost

APURNA™ : Excellence and Art

Since 2017, Franck Borne's brand seduces, amazes and is to date the best amplifiers listened to by all brands and prices combined.

Power capabilities increased over years and this year, internal preamplifier (optional) improved its signal-to-noise ratio of more than 6dB. This preamp is stereo in Prélude, mono in each Soprano or Apogée. Munich 2019 video and the list of the evolutions since the company launched these unique electronics.

I will test 2 other amplifiers by the end of 2025 or Spring 2026, will they be better? On the sidelines of the answer, they are even more exclusive and rarer. What is certain is that Prélude, Soprano and Apogee use avant-garde technology that makes them absolute reference amplifiers, with enormous transient power capacities at the service of music, and distortion rates at the limit of the measures. from 3800 to 7500W on transients...

Our last London and Berlin visitors said that the ALSYVOX - APURNA™ couple combined with TAIKO / PLAYBACK / PRANAWIRE are at the top of the best listenings they achieved.

APURNA™ Apogée - coloris pureté des cimes

TAIKO : Extrem router

The end-of-year arrival of the Extreme Router (15 weeks delay after order 😕 due to its success). This box completely isolates the Ethernet network of your streamer/server from your home network. It makes it possible to get rid of non-isolated disturbances by other means including switches, which makes listening infinitely more realistic.

OTHER BRANDS

In addition to our selection, on request, we can provide GRIMM network drives, INNUOS, OMEGA AUDIO CONCEPTS electronics / cables and power strip. 2 to 3 other brands will be added to this additional catalogue by the end of the year.

Other Brands

PS AUDIO

P20 Powerplant remains the best solution to obtain a perfect voltage sector with distortion less than 0.1% (typically houses are around 2%) and it can power your front end devices (CD player/Server - streamer, turntable, line and phono preamps, DAC) and also your amplifiers even powerful mono blocks. Battery-powered solution does not allow mono blocks power with very good sound (see the Stromtank test on Stereophile) not to mention reliability concerns. P20 is also the only one to provide a very large running power capacity without using fan cooling system, always a noisy solution.