At home with Sonneteer Morpheus
Volume
Just think and speak volumes
Before the Sonneteer Campion came along demonstrating a hifi separates amplifier in a shop was quite simple. The dealer turns the volume control to about 11 o’clock on the dial and the amplifier performs to its optimum. The problem, once back home is that turn the volume knob too much past 12 o’clock and the [...]
News feature: Digital Party like it’s 1999
Memories of 1999 when the Sonneteer Bronte ‘digital’ amplifier first took shape, came rushing back when we took a call recently, here at Sonneteer mansions, from our friends at Doug Brady Hi-fi. They have on sale a rare specimen of said amp’. It’s a former demonstrator model of ours which has been in the hands of [...]
Under the cover
Welcome to the Sonneteer Sound Magazine. Thanks for popping in. We are about ready here. So please feel free to continue to check in with us as we are about to be fully up and running.
We plan to bring you stories, interviews, images, ideas, music and much more from the people who brought you Sonneteer British luxury [...]
The Sonneteer Sound Magazine features: The Evangelists
We all live or die in business by our reputation. Here at Sonneteer we are certainly no different. We are human and will always have the odd off day. We all know the day when sleep didn’t visit us much the night before and breakfast was left behind as the kids chased us out of [...]
The Ear and other body parts.
The human ear is exceptionally sensitive and so responds to tiniest change in pressure in the airwaves. To give you an idea in numbers, the human ear threshold of hearing is less than one billionth of atmospheric pressure 1. Added to that the huge dynamic range we have it’s difficult to understand when some people [...]
So what exactly is a phono stage?
In the hey day of vinyl records and hifi it was expected to find an input marked ‘Phono’ on the back of a hifi or music centre. This would usually be flanked by such inputs as Aux, Tape, Tuner and later on CD. If you had a record player then it could only be connected [...]
Plywood and other Finnish stories.
Our first experience with Penaudio a decade or so ago was at a small hifi show at a shop in the North of the Netherlands, Rinsma HiFi in Lippenhuizen, Friesland. A part of the world that is not to be missed if you like the countryside and and warm welcoming people. Saying that, we were [...]