I've experienced some stunning audio/visual systems and a few disasters also.

I received a call from a friend the other day asking my advice on a home audio system for his new house. He had received a multi-room audio proposal from his local store and they felt he needed audio in every room of his house. The system was both extensive and expensive, but importantly there was far too much emphasis on quantity and convenience over quality.

Call me old fashioned, but I'm just not buying into all this convenience. When I'm in the bedroom, my prime focus is usually rest; and when I'm in the kitchen, thoughts of food take presedence. To me, this is the hoary old chestnut of less adding up to so much more. Rejecting everywhere convenience in favour of focusing on a few select prime areas of use and making them all they can be is definitely the way to go in my opinion.

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French audio magazine Stereo Prestige & Image likened the power delivery and impact of the éloquence 250i integrated amplifier to a "Tyson left in the chest":

“...le "déferlement" de puissance totalement sous contrôle, avec un impact physique dans le grave digne d’une gauche de Tyson en pleine poitrine.”

They also go on to say:

“La voix de la chanteuse Michelle Shocked ressort avec un timbre chaleureux, presque doux dans ce monde de brutes, avec un caractère expressif étonnant sans la moindre trace d'intermodulation. Les voix en background se détachent parfaitement sur deux plans différents derrière elle au lieu de se superposer, révélant un parfait maintien de la phase à des niveaux pareils qui assurent une réelle surpression sur les tympans : époustouflante tout simplement.”

Which loosely translates to (via Google Translate):

“The voice of singer Michelle Shocked projects with a warm timbre, almost sweet in this cruel world, with an astonishing expressiveness without the slightest trace of intermodulation. The voices in the background stand out perfectly on a plane behind instead of overlapping, revealing a perfect continuation of the phase at such levels that provide a real pressure on the eardrums: simply stunning.”

For those that can read French, check out the rest of the 250i review from Stereo Prestige & Image.

Issue 279 of Hong Kong hifi magazine HiFi Review features a review of our éloquence 250i Integrated Amplifier.

Many thanks to Raymond Cho, from our Hong Kong distributor Kinetic Audio, for arranging the review.

The review has kindly been translated into English by our Singaporean distributor Audio Basic. A huge "thank you" to Steven Cheah for his efforts.

Here are a couple of the comments reviewer River Chan made about the 250i integrated amplifier:

“Overall performance is so natural that it warms the heart and soothes the ear...”

“...we listened until we drowned in its emotions, shaking our heads in rhythm, swaying with the music, tapping our feet in line with the infectious melodies...”

Feel free to continue reading what other thoughts and emotions were stirred in reviewer River Chan. Alternatively, you can read the original review in Chinese.

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Online high end audiophile equipment review magazine Superior Audio recently reviewed our “effortless”, “seamless” and “cohesive” éloquence 250i integrated amplifier.

The sound of the éloquence 250i inspired the following words from reviewer Wong Kok Chieat:

“I could only praise how accurately the Perreaux éloquence 250i integrated amplifier reproduced precise size and weight of the instruments in relative to each other.”

“The Perreaux preserved faithfully the tones, textures and forms of instruments in a more lifelike manner.”

Read the éloquence 250i integrated amplifier review in its entirety to see why it deserves the highest recommendation, “with no reservation”.

Blow the cobwebs off your records one last time...

You've searched every CD bin in every music store known to man, scoured the darkest corners of the internet, and still can't find that elusive digital recording of your favourite LP.

Frustrated at not being able to take your record collection with you on your daily jog in the park? Besides having enough music to last 1000 jogs in the park, you'd look pretty daft dragging crate-loads of vinyl behind you.

Whether you're after a digital version of a favourite LP, mobilising your record collection with your iPod or other MP3 player, or simply would like to digitally preserve your entire library of vinyl for eternity; the digital to analogue converter (DAC) module for the éloquence 150i and éloquence 250i integrated amplifiers makes digitising your vinyl a painless process, while providing CD-quality recording.

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