RMAF 2014

Jasmine, better known for its phono preamp has recently developed a cartridge line.

Jim Hagerman was on hand at RMAF where he displayed his line of phono preamps as well as some of his burn-in products.

Pear Audio Analogue debuted at RMAF its new bottom of the line Robin Hood turntable priced at "around $3000 with Coronet 1 tonearm.

Designed by former Plinius designer Gary Morrison, the PureAudio VINYL phono preamplifier is a dual mono, pure Class "A" design suitable for low to medium output MC cartridges with user selectable loading from 47ohms to 47K Ohms in six steps.

Covering all the new analog gear at RMAF was more than enough to deal with but luckily in the hotel gym I began a conversation with Mike Johnson Director of Sales America/Canada for Pendalumic headphones and I promised to check them out in the CANJAM headphone area.

If you need more proof that vinyl is here to stay, consider this product from DS Audio a newly formed business group of the Digital Stream Corporation (DSC). DSC co-developed with Microsoft the optical mouse and for more than 25 years has provided industrial laser optics for medical testing systems and for laser-based medical optical instrumentation.