AV-NU, Utrecht Sonneteer and Penaudio with Riverside Audio on show
Sonneteer with Riverside Audio of the Netherlands are currently on show at the AV-NU 2010 exhibition in Utrecht. With their long term showing partners Penaudio loudspeakers of Finland, high brow British luxury brand Sonneteer have their full contingent of Classic and luxury lifestyle products in residence for the full duration of this Audio Visual extravaganza. Remo Casadei of Sonneteer and Erik Ubels of Riverside are on hand to deliver knowledge and advice derived from their extreme wealth of expertise in design, ergonomics and electronics.
The first two days of the show have been exceptionally well attended and dedicated to both trade visitors and public.
If you are interested in the machinations of a phase locked loop of would simply like to find out how a Sonneteer Morpheus Music Centre would look hanging on your wall or on the sideboard in your living room. Then Remo and Erik will be on hand to help.
For the first time in the Netherlands the full colour range now on offer from Sonnteer are on show. These are available to order on any of the Sonneteer range of products be it the Morpheus Music Centre, Server or Classic Amplifier, phono stage or CD player.
Also on show is the New Morpheus Server and CD Ripper from Sonneteer. Remo, the chief designer on this particular products is on hand to proudly boast about his engineering tricks that rendered this, three Terra byte storage Behemoth, silent in operation and beautiful to see. It also rips a CD and stores in the time it takes to make a cup of tea.
Riverside Audio have represented Sonneteer in the Netherlands since the launch of the Morpheus Music Centre. Riverside are Picking up the baton from the previous safe keepers as Sonneteer have been ever present and popular in the Netherlands since the mid 1990s. Sonneteer’s fame was established with the Campion and Alabaster purist British, solid state amplifiers of which Erik became the proud owner of a few. You could say, he liked it so much he wanted to represent the company.
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HiFi Review of Hong Kong love faithful Morpheus.
“The Morpheus Music Centre [from Sonneteer] will move you from the very first instant. This is not just a high technology laden piece of equipment, but clearly one created to bring music to life.” As translated by our in house Chinese speaking gentleman, Remo Casadei and as published in issue 290 of HiFi Review from Hong Kong. They went on to say, ” If you like delicate detail, faithfully reproduced combined with ideal musicality then I can say the British made Sonneteer Morpheus will not disappoint one bit. In fact it will bring you unexpected joy”.
From these snippets and many others like this that proclaim the Sonneteer’s “high end hi-fi level of performance” and “Premium sound quality” we can safely say that the reviewer, Winson Ng, was taken with the it. We wish to thank our partners, East Group in Hong Kong for arranging and forwarding the review.
Living on the wall at Harrods.
The Sonneteer Morpheus music Centre has recently taken up a new residency at Harrods in Londons knightsbridge. This time it’s wall mounted to welcome all visitors to the AV lounge. It seems the new, Qatari, landlords favour this option to show off the luxury unit in its best light.
The Morpheus, of course, can also be mounted upright or laid, back down on a side board or table as well as on a standard, Vesa 100, wall bracket as shown.
Days:2,3 & 4, High End Show Munich 2010
Our roving reporter has just managed to send this in as the city of Munich seems to have been far too hospitable and the famous Bavarian beer seemingly living up to its reputation.
Days 2, 3 and 4 were open to the public and were definitely a great deal more lively than the first trade day. Although mostly locals show goers were seen to come from all over the globe to what has become the de facto audiophile show in Europe. Trade visitors were also a plenty on these days and in this respect the High End Munich is akin to CES Las Vegas, the worlds largest Consumer electronics, trade only show, where high end Audio people gather to see and be seen every January.
The Sonneteer booth was one of the busiest on the show floor with the array of colour handsets and the beautifully designed Morpheus Music Centre seducing many an eye.
High End Munich:Day 1 Sonneteer colours up the trade.
Sonneteer, our very own Luxury music systems maker has been showing off the Morpheus Music Centre and Server at the High End Society Show in Munich, Germany.
Day one was for the trade delegates in the peace and quiet away from the masses. Cognac and Cigars were far from present, however, and pleasure noises were a plenty afore the Sonneteer stand where Haider Bahrani was there to sing the Surrey based luxury brands’ song.
As mentioned, the Morpheus Server, in hand engraved and red anodised aluminium, is on show to join its sibling the Morpheus Music centre.
We also understand that there is a sneak preview of the Bard Generation 4. We will bring you confirmation of that as and when we get it. Word is, however, that it was shown tied to a wi-fi router antenna and was still demonstrated to work perfectly as was the wi-fi router itself. Spectacular news indeed, if true.
Sonneteer meets with High End Society in Munich
May 6th to 10th 2010 Sonneteer will be in attendance at the MOC Munich for the High End Society of Germany’s Show.
Alongside their Distribution partners in Germany, Audium, Sonneteer will have their Award winning Morpheus Music Centre and Server both on display along side an array of colour handsets showing off their Bespoke offerings.
Sonneteer have invited all who attend to come and say hello. Haider Bahrani will be there, Halle 3, Stand E07-F06 at the MOC, to take questions during the day and sample the local beer so he can review them for his blog!
Sonneteer make modern and traditional luxury music systems for people who love listening to music. Hand made in Britain since 1994.
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What it does: Music has now found its home on computer hard drives, personal digital music players (mp3 or iPod), memory sticks, mobile telephones and the internet. The Morpheus brings it all into the living room and plays it back with all the musical quality for which Sonneteerproducts are renowned. Top that off with 16000+ internet radio stations and 23000+ on-demand programs and the Morpheus truly has and does it all.
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About Sonneteer: Since 1994, Sonneteer have epitomised the best in high quality, high technology hi-fi. Their in-house design and development team have attracted global praise for their products recently including 4 technology awards from Japan – the hotbed of high-tech. Sonneteer are also known for pioneering the adoption of new technologies into the luxury audio market. The Bronte digital amplifier in 1999 and the Bard audio wireless solutions in the early 2000s, to name but two examples, blazed the trails that many would follow.
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H2 Remote: Sonneteer goes even greener with generation 2 Morpheus remote.
Not happy with the original Morpheus remote with Lithium-Polymer battery that only requires topping up once a year, the brainiacs at Sonneteer have now gone even further with their generation 2 remote, which requires topping up, as an average, 4 times a year… Hmmm… but isn’t that 4 times more energy required? Well if you look at the picture of the prototype carefully you will notice that Sonneteer have taken the true meaning of “topping up” as the generation 2 remote only requires topping up with water… hence the name H2 Remote.
Unlike some previous attempts of using water to power electronics by means of electrolysis, the new Sonneteer Morpheus remote uses a nano hydrogen fuel cell made only possible in colaboration with Precision Micro Limited, UK’s leading electro-chemical etching specialist in fuel cell hardware. The new fuel cell mesh is now at molecular level producing previously unattainable efficiency from only 1ml of water.
Although only in prototype form, enginneers at Sonneteer believes the remote will hopefully be in production just before summer, in time for the water hose ban UK suffers regularly between July and September. Even if you are out of water, the remote can be powered with other forms of liquid such as sweat or tears, so play that emotional love song and get recharged!
Retail prices are not yet confirmed but from early indication the remote will be avaiable as an option at £1350- including a 99ml bottle of de-ionised water (enough to refill the remote for about 25 years) and just small enough to carry onboard a plane under the current aviation laws.
For hotter countries a slighty longer version will be available with extra water carrying capacity, code named the “Camote”.
As ever, S-News the first for all Sonneteer news.
Montreal heat wave as Sonneteer comes to town
Sonneteer will be showing at the Son & Image show in Montreal March 25th to 28th. BA strikes allowing Sonneteer’s Haider Bahrani will be on hand to talk about the Sonneteer Morpheus system which now comprises of the Music Centre and the Server which was previewed at the CES show in Las Vegas in January.
The production model will have its full début at the Canadian show at which Sonneteer will be hosted by their Canadian representatives Liberty Trading and their glorious leader, Nabil Akhrass.
For the second time this month Sonneteer will be on show with Penaudio loudspeakers. Penaudio will be introducing their Series 2 Ambient lineto Canada as well as the New Sara which, in the words of Sami Penttila, is a ‘baby Serenade’. Oh and we love the Serenade. We have already heard great things about this speaker from Riverside Audio in the Netherlands. More on the Netherlands show soon.
The Sonneteer Morpheus Server is shipping now and is available in a range of colours. The word from the Sonneteer stables is that Ruby Red is slowly becoming a favourite as the orders pile up and also that at least one has been ordered in the colours of a local London football team! As you can see from the sneak peek photo we got our hands on, the Server logo and markings are hand engraved onto the aluminium before bright colour anodised.
The Sonneteer Classics will also be on show with the Sedley USB headlining on the second main performance stage at this festival of sound.
We promise you more as the show progresses
Shows and buses
We wait for shows all year and suddenly they are happening everywhere. Sonneteer have as good as been on a world tour in the last couple of weeks and it looks to be going on through the spring.
The Audio Festa in Nagoya, Japan hosted Sonneteer represented by Allegro and their head man Kyoji Arai. He had the Sonneteer Morpheus Music Centre and Server on show as well as the Sedley phono stage both of which have had recent award success in the land of the rising Sun.
Sonneteer have also recently been exposed or shown off, should we say, at Axpona in Jacksonville Florida. May Audio Marketing of New York state with Nizar Akhrass at its helm have been faithfully preaching the virtues of hi-fi utopia to the masses for more than 30 years now. The Sonneteer gospel has been a strong component of their sermons for many a year now. They too see the Sonneteer Morpheus Music centre and Server as the guiding light on the path to aural paradise for all music lovers.
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