“The Seismic Podiums become so fundamental to the listening experience that calling them mere accessories fails to give them enough credit.” Neil Gader – The Absolute Sound [ Full Review ]
“With lab results at, or very close to, the state of the art..” Martin Colloms, Editor of HiFiCritic Magazine auditions the new Townshend Allegri Reference Preamplifier. [ Full Review ]
Professional musician and audiophile Rafael Todes “recommends without question” Max Townshend’s new Allegri Reference. “I never tired of this preamp’s ‘revelatory’ quality; everything you play somehow sounds different to before… …gives preamplifiers at any price and of any type, an almost impossibly hard time in terms of sound.” [ Full Review ]
“Townshend Audio has long been the company that never does it the way you expected, but always does it right. There’s a deliciously left-field approach to Townshend Audio’s design criteria that sweeps aside convention and makes something at once different and brilliant. So it is with F1 Fractal, the latest in a long line of […]
“The Allegri+ is one of the most effortless and honest sounds you will ever hear, with a top end that is as crystal clear as fine cut diamonds and has a bandwidth that stretches on for days. Play any of your favourite music and try and work out where all the added bass comes […]
ALPHA HIGH END, Brasschaat BE, invited all hifi lovers to attend a series of Townshend talks. Introduced over the weekend, a number of award-winning components and techniques that Max Townshend has found to be indispensable, when aiming to enhance the reproduction quality of any high-end system. an A-B listening test with/without Townshend Isolation and […]
Townshend Audio is pleased to invite all hifi lovers to attend the workshop and to enjoy some great music at ALPHA HIGH END Brasschaat in Belgium from 10:00 to 18:00, on Saturday and Sunday, April 21st & 22nd. http://www.alphahighend.be/ Townshend Audio will be giving talks during the weekend to introduce a number of award-winning components […]
The thoughts of one of the many reviewers who enjoyed the Townshend F1 Fractal Interconnect. “On the heels of the ridiculously superb (passive) Allegri+ preamplifier (HERE), with its secret sauce…fractal wire…comes the introduction to America of Townshend F1 Fractal Interconnects. (There are speaker cables also, but I did not have them for review.) The interconnects are extremely […]
“The Townshend Audio Allegri+ Preamplifier’s U.S.A. premier opens a whole new category for audiophile line stage owners: exceptionally high-quality Passive System Control. With the use of outstanding new wire technology, the Allegri+ Preamplifier is the world’s first honest-to-goodness high-end audiophile passive line stage. You have no power cord to choose, no tubes, and no […]
It’s not just about fine detail, F1 Fractal also produces bass that is more concrete and real than anything else I’ve encountered. Bass that gives the image a solidity and presence that creates a ‘being there’ sense of palpable reality, it really is in the premier league. That has always been a strength of […]