Let's see....lots of new goodies here.
Top of the heap are the JMREYNAUD speakers, from France.  Love them, adore them, I could do cartwheels over them if I could indeed cartwheel.  So instead I'll raise my bowl of Ben & Jerry's and salute.  Also there is a new dac, the WEISS 501.  One of those half sized chassis jobs, from Switzerland, it is what I have been waiting for in a dac.  Easy to use, absolutely excellent build, lots of highly technical engineered features for those of you who like to play with your gear- I am solely in the listening camp here, yet you fiddle about all you want.  It's the first piece of digital gear I cannot wait to listen to each day. I do still sell the Chord dacs, which are also very very good, and some might prefer, like Callas over Tebaldi (yes, I've been listening to lots of opera during covid), the precision of the Chord dacs.  As I keep saying, sometimes it's a matter of taste, or systems. 
And then there is a new cable line....cable line, you say?? What! more bloody cables!! and I say, why yes, there is this marvelous Scottish cable line, ATLAS, which after first hearing my samples this fall I told my lil group, guess what, I'm signing up with another cable company. Of course there was the expected laughs and boos and name calling, at me, not the cable line I've signed up with. I get my first batch very soon.  And yes, I'm excited.  They do have several levels, and at present I'm going with the Mavros.  The speaker cable will be the first on the floor.  All I can say is I found it extremely musical, extremely easy on the ear. And they have this earthing system called Grun, so in my test sample I ran the speaker cable as is, and then after a good break in period I added the earthing cables.  A quite dramatic drop in the noise floor, which I gather is what a good grounding system does. I was sold instantly. No voodoo or snake oil.  There is a grounding system offered by PURITAN, another new product, from England. I have their 6 outlet power conditioner. Quite good. So then this grounding system has rods for outside that get pounded in-ground and get attached back to the power conditioner via a junction box.  Can't wait to try that now that I heard what the Grun can do.  That won't happen until the flowers are blooming again,  however.
There's also a new entry from DYNAVECTOR, the low output version of the venerable 10X5, making it a, yes, you guessed it, moving coil low output version of the traditional high output 10X5.  A bit redundant there but making sure everyone was paying attention.  It is a super fun cartridge. Like all Dynavectors, it soars thru those grooves with ease- a great tracker. And not just a pretty cartridge like many in its price range. This one has the goods.  
Soon there will be a new record cleaning machine here, the Nessie from Hannl. 
And soon, another phono stage company, the Whest.  
I've been working on one more, details later on that.  
​Stay tuned..... 

Okay, ready or not, here I am again.  Admittedly it's been awhile since I've been on here. I am on Instagram some,  stereo_haven.  But mostly I talk the hifi talk these days on the phone, in email, or in my head most of the day, so by the time I drag myself upstairs where my iMac is I'm pooped out or numb.  The iPhone app for weebly doesn't work well for me. So if I've been idle on the website it's not for lack of interest.  Most dealers, myself included, have been super busy once the initial covid alert of last February wained a bit.  It took probably til the middle of summer for people to start shopping again, all online or by phone.  I did not take appointments until much later into the fall. and that's been going fine.  Still, it's all masked up all the time, one person visits at a time, tons of spraying down both before and after an appointment.  
  So the upside has been many people at home, playing their hifi more and giving it more attention or being struck with upgraditis.  The downside is the waiting.  Waiting for product.  The way it's mostly been going is you order and pay, I order and pay, and then we wait.  Sometimes not an eternity, sometimes it is an eternity.  There are the parts shortages, the factory lockdowns, and the shipping jam ups to blame, and also long long waits at customs. I've been a happy yet nervous wreck for months.  You see, I'm like you, I like to get my stuff in a timely fashion.  Oh, I say I can wait, you say you can wait, yet when we wait wait wait, it gets to be a little much.  I've tried the meditation path, I've tried to be like the Buddha, yet when you hear the sea freight that was promised next month will now be the following month will now be sometime in the future whenever the boats can dock or whatever else you might get told- well, it gets one nervous. Almost all of you have been saints.  Truly.  I laugh on the phone and empathize and try to act calm, yet I'm a wreck.  You are taking it in stride much better.  Well, all but one of you.  Stiffed me and left me with a paid product, which, unbeknownst to you, is a hot product, and will sell as soon as it comes in. So even you are forgiven.  Maybe my meditating has paid off slightly.  
  Of course some companies have been quite good with filling orders. So you never know. 
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