It is High End Munich 2024 this weekend with 550 exhibitors, over 1,000 Brands on show, and 500 of the industry’s finest journalists!

There are product launches everywhere, here are a few standout pieces of news.

Vertere CALON high-end phono preamplifier

Vertere Acoustics

Vertere has announced the launch of a premium Phono preamplifier, called Calon.  It is retailing at £15,500 and is designed to take advantage of the progress of their extensively upgraded cartridge, tone arm and turntable ranges.  Full details are here.

Kudos Audio

SIGAO DRIVE

Kudos has finally announced the global launch of the SIGAO DRIVE external crossover, first seen at Bristol.  It was a stunning presentation

Fyne Audio

Fyne Audio has launched a new tweeter, called Supertrax, that it claims is;

a revolutionary super tweeter that eliminates traditional super tweeters’ narrowly focused beam directionality with 360-degree omnidirectional dispersion

To coincide with the new tweeter Fyne is launching a new cable too, called SuperTrax SC1.

Q Acoustics 3000c loudspeaker series

Full details are here.

Q Acoustics

Q Acoustics has launched a new range of loudspeakers, called 3000c. We will see if we can hear them here at HF&MS, the Concept 500s went down very well a few years back.

Read more about the range here.

WiiM Ultra launch

DALI announce the RUBIKORE loudspeaker series

WiiM, knocking it out of the park at the moment, has launched two new models to build on the WiiM Pro Plus.  Full details of the WiiM Ultra are here.

DALI

DALI has announced at Munich their Rubikore loudspeaker series, there are 5 models, including two floorstanders; prices begin at £1299.  Full details are here.

ARCAM

ARCAM has launched two new Class G all-in-one streaming systems, the ARCAM SA35 and ARCAM SA45,  as part of its Radia Series.  There is also a flagship digital audio player joining the now eight-strong ARCAM Radia Series.  Prices start from £1,499, availability from September, details here.

Computer Audio Design (CAD)

CAD has announced a new MkIII edition of its 1543 DAC.  It is coming in at £16,950 in the UK.  And boy does it look good, full details are here.

CAD 1543 MkIII DAC