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IsoTek Super Nova
£9995.00 (including VAT)
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For Immediate Release, May 2019 – IsoTek the leading brand of power conditioning solutions for hi-fi and home cinema systems launches the Super Nova at the High-End Show, Munich. The
new addition to the Ultimate Series, Super Nova is the most sophisticated (passive) front-end source component power cleaning system IsoTek has developed so far. The Super Nova
is designed for primary components that typically have a constant current draw, thus CD Players, Music Servers, DAC, Pre-Amplifiers, Phono stages etc. Each of the eight power outlets has its own dedicated power cleaning system, and each output has over 100’000 Amps (1840 joules) of protection, that’s over 800’000 combined. Priced at £9995.00 (including VAT), the Super Nova features ground filtering which is fully compliant with certification and safety standards; this is further clamped with an electronic protection circuit. Therefore, each connected component’s functional lifetime will increase as well as being totally protected against dangerous power surges and voltage spikes.
The Super Nova design includes a sophisticated new choke which allows a series connection that
quadruples the inductance giving a vast increase in filtering at a constant 10 Amps if needed. In turn, this provides a typical load of 25-40W a massive power reserve. In addition, two specialised radio frequency chokes which combined with capacitances produce a high level of classical (Pi filter) design filtration.
Furthermore, there is the unique Nova adaptive gate system which produces the optimum resistance
capacitance barrier eliminating differential mode cross-contamination.
Unlike some power clean concepts Super Nova not only adjusts to the connected load, it creates the
ultimate barrier to differential mode noise cross-contamination but also has the virtue of high transient power
handling ability should it be required. Consequently, bring a very reliable conditioner irrespective of
operation.
All internal wiring features silver plated ultra-pure OCC (Ohno Continuous Cast) Copper with IsoTek’s VAD
(Virtual Air Dielectric) technology. All PCB circuits feature double Oz copper. These qualities are remarkable
in themselves however when they multiple eight times they achieve exactly with IsoTek standards, which is
total isolation of each output socket from mains noise or in other words ultimate “isolation technology”.
Key Features and Benefits:
• Removes both common mode and differential mode mains noise.
• Over 100,000A (1840 joules) of instantaneous protection for each output socket.
• Eight medium-current outlets, rated at 16A, features a sophisticated new choke which allows a series
connection that quadruples the inductance giving a massive increase in filtering at a constant 10 Amps if
required.
• Eight unique conditioning stages ensure optimal isolation between each outlet, eliminating differential
mode cross-contamination.
• KERP© (Kirchoff’s Equal Resistance Path) technology ensures equal resistance and equal power
delivery to all outlets, with no interference from one socket to the next.
• IsoTek VAD barrier – To obtain a dielectric Constance close to a vacuum, IsoTek has created a Virtual
Air Dielectric offering just 1.0548 dielectric Constance. This air barrier is achieved by minimal conductor
contact and the use of an FEP (Teflon) bridge.
• Optional DC can be installed
• Available with UK, US, AU (Chinese) sockets.
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WilsonBenesch Reference Turntable GMT One System
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Wilson Benesch Announces GMT ONE SYSTEM ©
• The GMT ONE System © Turntable announced to mark Wilson Benesch’s 30th Anniversary.
• The GMT ONE System © features a new drive system called the Omega Drive. The Omega Drive is the world’s first axially orientated, precision magnetically geared turntable drive. The Omega Drive delivers unprecedented accuracy and virtually zero noise. Licensed and patented design.
• The GMT ONE System © has been developed with a holistic approach the turntable and all sub systems have been optimised to create a unified system. In addition to the Omega Drive, Wilson Benesch has developed the Alpha Isolation System, Piezo VTA System, three new tonearms and a dedicated new cartridge.
• The Alpha Isolation System developed in collaboration with a leading optical measurement system isolation company. The Alpha Isolation System is a microprocessor controlled pneumatic system that isolates the GMT ONE System © from vibration. Fully autonomous, operating with microscopic precision, within millisecond time-frames, providing isolation to 1.7Hz.
• Both the GMT ONE System © and the Alpha Isolation System are fully compatible with Wilson Benesch’s R1 HIFI Rack. Together the system forms a highly optimised complete analogue replay system.
• The Piezo VTA System is the world’s first remotely adjustable VTA. Fully controllable from the listening position, allowing unprecedented accuracy with adjustment to within 2.5 microns.
• Three new tonearms have been developed through collaboration with the AMRC Sheffield and the FEMTO Institute Besancon under the SSUCHY 2020 Research programme. The low-mass Moment Tonearm, a low-medium mass CTi-30 Tonearm and the medium-high mass Graviton Tonearm.
• Munich HIGH END 2019: Atrium 4.2 – E223 – The first public display of a the prototype GMT ONE System ©.
Wilson Benesch was founded upon an R&D project that gave birth to the WB-One Turntable in 1989. A subsequent design, the Full Circle followed in 1999. Both turntable designs featured novel materials science and technologies that when combined, delivered a new level of performance and design that did not exist before within their respective market sectors. In 2019, Wilson Benesch’s new GMT ONE System © sees this credo not only adhered to but celebrated, by presenting one of the most radical and innovative analogue replay systems ever seen before.
The result of more than 20-years of collaborative development, the GMT ONE System © ground-up optimised turntable design that represents a coherent unified solution. Developed under the project name ‘Mondrian Project’ – the GMT ONE System © which has benefited from grant funding from both the UK and Europe (on-going), allowing the company to draw upon the expertise of Professors, Doctors, Engineers and Design Engineers working at the forefront of cutting edge of advanced research within their respective fields.
The GMT ONE System © derives its name from Greenwich Mean Time which has for 135-years been the reference by which people around the world have measured time. The GMT reference is thus inspired by the novel drive system behind the GMT ONE System © which lays claim to being the most accurate drive system ever developed for a turntable.
This drive system does not rely upon a belt, it does not rely upon an idler drive, nor a direct drive system. The GMT ONE System © deploys a recently patented magnetic gear technology which shifts the paradigm by redefining a completely new mode of drive, the Omega Drive. For generations, the historical methods of providing “accurate drive” have stood unchallenged. The Omega Drive attains unprecedented levels of accuracy and virtually zero noise thanks to the axially orientated binary bearing design at its heart.
Any high precision system, especially those where measurement and transcription are concerned, rely upon structural stability. Wilson Benesch introduces the Alpha Isolation System to compliment the Omega Drive. Developed in partnership with an industry leading optical measurement system isolation company, the Alpha Isolation System achieves levels of isolation that function at the microscopic level where resonance is a major concern just as it is in vinyl transcription. Pneumatic rams that are electronically monitored provide precise levelling. Even if the system is disturbed during use, it will re-adjust within milliseconds to zero. The resonant frequency of the system is 1.7 Hertz.
Three new tonearms will be available to use with the GMT ONE System © at its launch. The new tonearm designs take the concept of vinyl transcription into the 21st-century. The reference tonearm Graviton © features a high modulus, geometrically optimised single piece carbon fibre tube. The armtube is further enhanced by a sandwich construction that achieves an industry standard in terms of specific stiffness. Joining Graviton © is a low mass design, Moment and a low-medium mass design, CTi-30. All three tonearm assemblies are based on uni-directional enhanced carbon fibre that is further enhanced by both carbon nanotubes and graphene. Each design is complete with headshell and counterweight components that have been additively manufactured using State-of-the-Art manufacturing technologies. Both 3D printed carbon-fibre – polymer components and powered sintered grown titanium components have been realised, achieving optimised geometric forms from aerospace materials technology and in the process a new benchmark in terms of performance within the industry.
The GMT ONE System © frames current technologies and renders them in the past. Imagine physically manually adjusting the VTA on a tonearm from the position of the turntable, whilst trying to hear the nuanced differences. Now envisage the future, being able to make the same adjustments remotely from your listening position to within 2.5 microns – a degree accuracy within VTA adjustment that has prior to now been unthinkable. The Piezo VTA remote control adjustment system, like all sub-systems in the design, is a result of collaborative contributions made by so many.
The GMT ONE System © redefines turntable design. It creates a new dialogue between the vinyl enthusiast and their replay system, changing the user’s experience of analogue replay forever and setting a new standard within the high-fidelity high-end audio market.
Pricing and Availability
Pricing: unconfirmed
Availability: Q4 2019.
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BØRRESEN 05
Floor standing Loudspeaker
The BØRRESEN 05 is the latest development from Michael Børresen. Though specifications are not yet public, this big loudspeaker has completely taken the breath away from the audience in the few auditions we have done so far – more about the BØRRESEN 05 soon.
SPECIFICATIONS
Frequency response 25-50000 Hz (50 KHz)
Sensitivity 90 dB
Impedance > 5 Ohm
Recommended Amplifier > 50 W
H: 124,1 x W: 30,5 x D: 58,0 cm
H: 48.9 x W: 12.0 x D: 22.8 inches
Weight: 75,0 kg / 165.35 lbs
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L10 Dual Monaural line-stage (two chassis)
L10 Monaural line-stage (four chassis)
M10 Stereo power amplifier
M10 Monaural power amplifier
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BOULDER 1108 MM / MC Balanced Phono Stage
The 1108 is a new phono preamplifier that replaces the 1008 and slots in between the 508 and the 2108. Because of the recent revisions and success of the 1100 Series, the last remaining component to be redesigned was the 1008 phono preamplifier. The 1008’s appearance was a holdover from the previous 1000 Series and the changes made internally bring the new phono preamplifier up-to-date technologically. The most obvious design change is the modernized front panel and casework that now matches the rest of the 1100 Series, featuring rounded corners and topographical map detailing on the front panel. LED colors are the same as the rest of the 1100 Series, and the button layout is much like the 1110 Preamplifier. The topography lines also match and line up with the other components in the series. Inside, the changes include a newly designed logic control system and a new power supply. Logic control was chosen to eliminate any noise from running microprocessors that could be picked up by the initial phono high-gain stage, and the previous 1008 had the power supply located close to the control section where noise could radiate and cause problems. We’ve also increased the operating efficiency of the power supply and pushed any supply noise to well outside of the audio band and even farther out past the bandwidth of the phono preamplifier’s gain section.
