Australian Hi-Fi & AV Show 2018
The Australian Hi-Fi & AV Show, which returned to Melbourne in 2018 after being held in Sydney in 2017, had quite a few surprises in store—the biggest being that it took place just four days after the Melbourne International Hi-Fi Show.
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The new Cambridge Edge A integrated amplifier made its appearance for the first time in Australia at the show, and it’s not your average integrated amplifier. For a start, it has opposing symmetrical twin toroidal transformers, not only to provide purer power to each channel, but also to cancel electromagnetic interference. Cambridge’s UK engineers have also eschewed Class-D designs and stuck with traditional Class-AB, but with very high-bias, so the amplifier operates in Class-A to higher-than-usual power output levels. As well as all the conventional analogue inputs and,’ said Philip Sawyer, of Synergy AV. ‘.’ It retails for A$8,500 (RRP).
