The Audio Consultants are returning to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Reading East at Winnersh Triangle for their Musical Event No 8. This will be held on the Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 July 2024 in the Sandhurst Suite between 10am and 5pm. We are very familiar with his quality venue which allows for a more comfortable and controlled listening experience for our visitors. The Suite is well proportioned and allows for a good acoustic. The two sources will be the Origin Live Calypso turntable with their Illustrious tone arm and fitted with a Hana Umami Blue cartridge , and the new CD player from Hegel called The Viking . The amplification duties will be split between the Soulnote A2 integrated amplifier and the Exposure 5010 pre-amplifier and 5010 dual-mono power amplifiers . The Soulnote A2 amplifier an above average proportion of Class A from a Class A/AB principle.

We are collaborating once more with HiFi + magazine and offering a PRO X vinyl cleaner as first prize in their competition. This is the current version of the original ultrasonic vinyl cleaner whereby the sonic improvements are much more than just removing dirt from the LP grooves. The sound quality dramatically changes, not only because of a lower noise floor, but that the stylus is extracting more detail from a pristine vinyl surface.