INTRODUCING A FINE NEW SOUND TO AMERICA

Visit us at Room 703

Surprise your Senses

PROUDLY FEATURING THE EXCELLENT

ABOUT FINKTEAM BORG SPEAKERS

FinkTeam Borg is a two-way loudspeaker to dream of.

Truth is incontrovertible.

FInkTeam’ s Borg will surprise you – rarely does a speaker in this size and price segment perform with such musical precision, verve and emotion.

The German manufacturer FinkTeam under the leadership of speaker design luminary Karl-Heinz Fink has created a two-way loudspeaker with outstanding traits.

Borg’s unique and beautiful cabinet has also been carefully crafted to avoid resonances. Coloration and time smear are reduced to a minimum, Borg produces a precise stereo image focus and the lack of interference will move you to listen for hours without fatigue. The result is a rarely heard harmonic tonality.

The speaker possesses a true ability to perform naturally and to provide music that sounds authentic, detailed and unadulterated by technology, and yet, magical. Experts worldwide agree that the Borg is a significant design accomplishment, it was featured on the official poster for the Munich High End 2019.

The acoustically finely tunable Borg is indeed a serious assault on the loudspeaker establishment.

Boston based Blink High End is proud to show this outstanding speaker at the New York Audio Show.

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ABOUT KROMA AUDIO SPEAKERS

Kroma Audio speakers are pure passion, emotion, and magic.

Kroma Audio was created out of a desire to combine the highest level of audio technology with the naturalness and realism of a live performance.

Kroma speaker cabinets are fully made from Krion, with carbon fiber inlays on the sides, also available in true 24-karat gold leaf, walnut wood and other finishes. Kroma has chosen Krion to manufacture the speaker cabinets because of the high acoustic insulation capacity of the material.

The speakers are coupled to the ground via included specially manufactured feet made of non-metallic components. There are as little as possible metal parts inside, not even screws. Instead, the drivers are mounted using thermoplastic screws.

The passive crossover is comprised of ultra high-quality components from Duelund, Mundorf and very special NOS components and is isolated in a hermetically separated chamber. The tweeter is made by Hiquphon, Denmark.

Kroma speakers always turn in a dynamic, vibrant, highly revealing lifelike performance. Their bass is fast, well-timed and utterly coherent, supremely linear from the lowest to the highest notes, plumbing to subwoofer-like depths and remaining ruler-like linear right up into their upper treble.

With Kroma Audio, Spain has put itself on the map of countries competing for the top, giving to the world an outstanding speaker line.

Blink High End will demonstrate Kroma Audio’s Julieta at Room 703.

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ABOUT ILLUSONIC IAP AUDIO PROCESSOR

The ILLUSONIC IAP is a Swiss Army knife for audiophiles. And More.

The Swiss Illusonic IAP is a unique audio processor, preamp, DAC, phono stage and more. It optimizes almost any sound system, room, and listening situation par excellence.

The IAP comes with 2, or up to 16 channels, with high quality DA converters. Almost any type of source can connect; Phono, digital, USB, network, HDMI. Unlike other audio processors that are pc based, the IAP does not need cooling and uses a dedicated signal processor. It has advanced pre-amplifier features:

•   Calibration
High precision filters, crossovers, and bass management linearize the system and optimize it for the room.
•   Clarity
An entirely unique technique, beyond room eq, making bass dryer and sound less resonating.
•   Immersion
Makes the sound more spacious than your room would normally allow. Optimally uses all available loudspeakers.
•   Center
Localization quality of an acoustic concert? Add a center loudspeaker and enjoy the world’s best center channel processing.
•   Dynamic Range
Remasters music in real-time for effortless casual listening.
•   Remote Tuning
Perfectly optimizing your system and room is as simple as this: measure your system, send the data to Illusonic, load our result into IAP – done!

The number of possibilities are immense: different rooms, different setups, different number of channels, different listening habits: Complexity is high and chance of error, too. To ensure an optimally tuned system for each customer, Illusonic developed its remote tuning system, by which Illusonic professionals analyze and tune each customer’s system and room acoustic. Tuning service is included for free with every IAP.

Blink High End will show the IAP 16 in a stereo setup at Room 703.

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ABOUT HiDIAMOND CABLES

HiDiamond cables. From Rome with love.

When thinking of Italy, high performance fast cars, luxury fashion, beautiful landscape and some of the world’s finest music come to mind. A newcomer to the US market, Italian company HiDiamond will impress you with their open, honest and fast musical sound.

HiDiamond enable you to hear what your source and loudspeakers mean to express. They are beautifully well designed and built and stand out. Hi Diamond cables feature a treated copper core known a 4VRC. HiDiamond “bakes” the copper four times to achieve the highest purity and sound quality (normal baking only takes place twice). Then graphite is added into the mix o act as a barrier to noise.

You will notice an isolator pod along the length of the cable itself. The cables cancel the skin effect between individual leads and therefore the width of the musical signal barrier, guaranteeing greater linearity and low amplitude of the sine wave.

HiDiamond cables reveal and energize the performance without being exaggerated or clinical. They allow detail and musicality to flow, the enhanced focus and precision gives the presentation a lift and a shine while infusing it with extra energy.

From a reviewer: “Used in a variety of systems, these cables never failed to impress – and they also boast superb construction”. Competing with the very best, HiDiamond have a previously unseen and unheard of performance – cost ratio.

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Labor Day Headphone Sale – Continues until Sunday September 8th

From Monday 09/02 to Sunday 09/08
– by appointment –

Subject to availability
Blink High End. 129 Franklin Street, Cambridge MA 02139

HIGH PERFORMANCE HEADHPHONES AND AMPLIFIERS

SONOMA M1 HEADPHONE SYSTEM

“The Sonoma Model One is a delightful listening experience.It is is not just a headphone though, it’s a very good DAC, correction DSP, and amp.” “Music listening pleasure is the paramount characteristic for any audio gear in my opinion and the Model One delivers. Headphones should be evaluated on that score, and I’ll need the Model One to compare. Up on the Wall of Fame it goes!”
Innerfidelity.com

~~$4,995~~ Inquire price

SENNHEISER HD820 Closed-back
~~$2,400~~ New Inquire price
Open Box Inquire price

PIONEER SE-MASTER 1
~~$2,500~~ New Inquire price
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TECHNICS Premium EAH-T700
~~$1,200~~ New Inquire price

HIFIMAN HE1000se
~~$2,499~~ New Inquire price
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BEYERDYNAMIC DT 1770 PRO
~~$699~~ New Inquire price
Open Box Inquire price

BEYERDYNAMIC DT 1990 PRO
~~$699~~ New Inquire price
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BEYERDYNAMIC T1
~~$999~~ Open Box Inquire price

BEYERDYNAMIC T5p
~~$999~~ Open Box Inquire price

BEYERDYNAMIC A20
Headphone Amp
~~$700~~ Open Box Inquire price

HIFIMAN Sundara Planar
~~$500~~ New Inquire price
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SENNHEISER HDV 820 Digital Headphone Amp

~~$2.400~~ New Inquire price
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LYNX HILO Thunderbolt
~~$2,595~~ black or silver. Demo, Inquire price

SENNHEISER 660 S
~~$500~~ New Inquire price
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KEF M500
New Inquire price

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Absolute Sound Winners at Blink High End

Absolute Sound winners at Blink High End

On its most recent edition, The Absolute Sound awarded the Golden Ear 2019 winners and this year’s Munich High End Show’s best performers .

Browse below to read the reviews

“Combining a simple and marvelous user experience with a clean, incisive, and accurate sonic envelope, the Select DSM won me over in short order.”

Greg Weaver, The Absolute Sound

“Linn’s complete reforming of its Network Music Player platform, introduced to the world last September as the Selekt DSM, brings a new level of convenience, functionality, and especially performance to the “lifestyle” category of product that Linn created. Combining a simple and marvelous user experience with a clean, incisive and acurate sonic envelope, the Slekt DSM won me over in short order. The combination of its distinctly accurate and articulate sound, when taken to the next level by the application of Room Optimization (Linn’s native room-correction technology), easily fits this new, modular solution to the top of the list of a growing number of similarly priced products from competitors with names like Aurender, Cary, Esoteric and more notably Naim.”

From $5,200 to $18,102

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In an unexpected twist, Anthony H. Cordesman includes Qobuz Streaming Service as an essential part of a high-end system, especially for classical music. Linn streamers, Devialet Phantoms and Technics streamers support Qobuz. We invite you to audition and compare.

“The Expert Pro 220 is one of the best amplifiers ever. Its technical performance is at the very highest level, with extremely low distortion, low noise and extraordinarily low response into loads.”

Robert E. Greene, The Absolute Sound

“The amplifier uses Class D circuit to rough out the output signal and Class A analog amplifier to trim things to perfection. And effectively perfect they are. But what sets the Expert Pro into a realm above all the others is the SAM system, wherein the performance parameters of your speakers, measured by Devialet, are downloaded (by the user) onto a n SD cardayd the n loaded into the Expert Pro. At this point, the Expert Pro ‘knows’ what electrical signal in the bass should be sent to the speakers to produce an acoustic replica of the Expert Pro’s input.[…] The result is better phase behavior (and hence better ‘timing’) and lowered distortion”. Read More

$9,990

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“The Technics R1 Reference System remains as compelling than ever, consistently ranking among Best in Show contenders. […] It features a directness and purity that is rare, beguiling and intensely musical”.

Alan Taffel, The Absolute Sound

“At $53,000 for the whole shebang – network audio player, stereo amp, and full-range speakers – […] the R1 components wield innovative technology to address some of audio’s most intransigent problems. The result is solid-state electronics that produce the dimensionality of tubes, digital sources with analog alacrity, and dynamic speakers as coherent as planar. In the years since the R1’s introduction, Technics has expanded the Reference Class to include two new turntables: the gorgeous SL-100R ($20,000, includin’ arm) and SP-10R ($10,000 drive only).” Read More

$18,000

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SPECIAL PRAISE FROM THE MUNICH HIGH-END 2019

BØRRESEN, AAVIK ACOUSTICS AND ANSUZ ACOUSTICS

Jim Hannon and Jonathan Valin – The Absolute Sound

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“The Aavik C-300 preamplifier with DAC served as the digital front end to a thrilling system with Aavik M-300monoblocks, Borresen 05 speakers, and Ansuz DTC Supreme cabling, which has half of the inductance of its predecessor. By so effectively damping resonances, one can hear deeper into the music. It makes for a very engaging system! As in Chicago, this combination was stunning with incredible soundstaging, bass slam and articulation, and transient speed—it sent shudders down my spine! Mercifully, the system also produced natural timbres along with incredible detail.”

Jim Hannon – Sources and Cables

“New to Munich, Michael Børresen’s $110k, two-and-a-halfway, seven-driver (with ribbon tweeter), Børresen 05 quasi-D’Appolito floorstander driven by an Aavik C-300 integrated preamp and M-300 monoblock amps, and cabled by top-line Ansuz wire in a CD-only digital system was the last exhibit I visited on the last day of the show—and the listening experience was well worth the wait. Very beautiful in timbre with truly remarkable delicacy of color and articulation on guitar and voice, it had the naturally crisp presence of Michael’s previous ribbon designs combined with a newfound sweetness of timbre that was ravishingly lovely and natural.”

Jonathan Valin – Loudspeakers

PAST WINNERS

Sonoma M1 – 2018 Editors’ Choice Awards: Headphones $700 and up

“This new electrostatic design is packed with proprietary technologies, including an innovative electrostatic panel. The result is a headphone of extraordinary clarity and cohesion, a “whole cloth” sound that can only be achieved with a single full-range transducer and no crossover network. The speed and clarity of the electrostatic panel are presented within a harmonically neutral tapestry along with spot-on pitch precision in the bass. A world-class design.” Read More

$4,995

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Questions? Call us at (617) 225-0700 and we’ll be happy to help!

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Devialet Expert Pro 220 wins TAS Golden Ear 2019 and is named “one of the best amplifiers ever”

DEVIALET EXPERT PRO 220 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER WITH THE SAM (SPEAKER ACTIVE MATCHING) SYSTEM.

$9,990

“The expert Pro is one of the best amplifiers ever. Its technical performance is at the very highest level, with extremely low distortion, low noise, and extraordinarily flat response into loads. The amplifier uses a Class D circuit to rough out the output signal and a Class A analog amplifier to trim things to perfection. And effectively perfect they are. But what sets the Expert Pro into a realm above all others is the SAM system, wherein the performance parameters of your speakers, measured by Devialet, are downloaded (by the user) onto an SD card and then loaded into the Expert Pro At that point, the Expert Pro “knows” what electrical signal in the bass should be sent to the speakers to produce an acoustic replica of the Expert Pro’s input. It watches the speaker, checking it 86,000 times a second, and arranges things so that the speaker will reproduce the actual input. The result is better phase behavior (and hence better “timing”) and lowered distortion. Also the system tracks the dynamic envelope that the speaker can generate, and when response can be safely extended, it extends it. The results are all but uncanny. The superb but small Graham Audio LS5/9 suddenly sounded like a an equally good but much larger speaker, capable of a far more truthful picture of the bass of orchestral music, for example. Dynamic limits still existed, of course, but overall,not to put too fine a point on it, you have to hear this to believe it. And with larger speakers that already have something like full bass extension, there is, even so, much improvement in precision and consequent realism. The musical effect of what the SAM system does is very striking and very satisfying, as well. the SAM system is something new, and truly remarkable (Review forthcoming).”

Robert E. Greene

The Absolute Sound. 2019 Golden Ear Awards.