Blink High End and FinkTeam Borg: Frank Doris report on the NY Audio Show 2019
“Music was reproduced with a sense of purity I’ve heard from very few systems, and I’ve heard hundreds.”
The Blink High End Audio room had a vast array of gear on exhibit including Technics turntables, Fink Team loudspeakers, Aavik Acoustics amplifiers, Linn gear, Illusonic digital components and processors, Kroma loudspeakers, HiDiamond cable and more.
The Fink Team Borg loudspeakers (and they looked like something out of Star Trek; $30,900/pair), featured Air Motion Transformer (AMT) tweeters and other high-tech drivers and delivered remarkably clear sound with no distortion that I could hear, even at volumes which literally rattled the walls and had the exhibitors in the adjoining room barging in and pleading with the Blinkians to please turn it down. (To be fair, this was partly because of an odd resonance effect that amplified the bass in the other room.) Music was reproduced with a sense of purity I’ve heard from very few systems, and I’ve heard hundreds. No surprise that Blink’s Tim Lukas told me the Borgs are being adopted in professional recording studios.
Introducing FinkTeam, Kroma Audio, Illusonic and HiDiamond at the NY Audio Show 2019
INTRODUCING A FINE NEW SOUND TO AMERICAVisit us at Room 703Surprise your Senses |
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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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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!”
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