Our éloquence 250i integrated amplifier has been recently reviewed in Taiwan by hi fi magazine Audio Art.

Read Lin Yihong's review of the éloquence 250i as it appeared in Audio Art, or read the review in English courtesy of Google Translate.

Thank you to our distributor in Taiwan, Sheng-Kai, for providing the review sample.

Chinese hi fi magazine HiFi Asia recently reviewed our éloquence 250i integrated amplifier and was featured in the Recommended section of the magazine.

The reviewer thoroughly enjoyed their time with the 250i. Unfortunately we do not have a copy of the review translated into English, but feel free to read the review in Chinese.

Many thanks to our distributor in China, Kinetic Audio, for supplying the review sample.

Malaysia's premier audio visual show, The KL International AV Show, takes place on 29-31 July 2011 at The JW Marriot Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

Our Audiant 80i & éloquence 150i integrated amplifiers, as well as our Silhouette SXH2 headphone amp and SXV2 phono preamplifier, will be available for demonstration throughout the show courtesy of Electrades Audio, the exclusive Perreaux distributor for Malaysia.

The Audiant 80i and éloquence 150i amplifiers will be demonstrated with various loudspeakers from UK company Spendor.

Head along to room 7037 and say 'Hi' to Shashi from Electrades Audio.  He'll be more than happy to demonstrate the capabilities of the Audiant 80i and éloquence 150i and their on-board DACs and phono stages.

Unfortunately we're not able to attend the show, but we'd love to hear from anybody who does attend and their impressions of it.

In association with Harvey Norman, we're holding Dunedin’s biggest ever audio event. We will be in-store this weekend (Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th May) from 9am to 5:30pm with demonstrations available on our Silhouette, éloquence, Prisma and Audiant lines.

We'll be available to answer any questions you may have and to show you through our range – from the new Audiant 80i integrated amplifier to the mighty Prisma SM6 MkII preamp & 350 power amp combo.

Christchurch based loudspeaker manufacturer Theophany will also be demonstrating their exquisite loudspeaker range over the weekend. Garth will be doing his legendary home theatre demonstration – this is one demo you do not want to miss.

So drop by over the weekend, say g'day and experience world-class audio systems designed and built right here in New Zealand.

The Consumer Electronics & Photo Expo was recently held in Moscow.  It is Russia's equivalent of CES and covers premium hi-fi as well as mobile & digital, photography, digital TV and audio/video.

Audiomania was in attendance representing Perreaux alongside some of their other lines, such as Waterfall and Penaudio loudspeakers, Nordost cables and Cold Ray vibration control.

On display was our Silhouette SXCD CD player, éloquence CDt transport with 250i integrated amplifier and Prisma 350 power amp.  The setup was mostly static with a lot of the gear not available for demonstration – in any case, it's still excellent exposure in Russia for the brands Audiomania represented at the show.

Audiomania have posted photos of Consumer Electronics & Photo Expo 2011 on Facebook, where you can see photos of their stand as well as coverage of other aspects of the show.

Congratulations Audiomania on what looked like a popular stand at a busy show.

The April issue of French hi-fi audio magazine Haute Fidélité features a review of our éloquence 250i integrated amplifier.

Reviewer Laurent Thorin was so enamoured with the 250i he was compelled to rate it 5-stars across the board. I can't recall any time where we've scored full marks for every category. We've come close on a number of occasions, but never 100%. Understandably, we were very excited about his findings.

"The Eloquence Perreaux 250i appropriates personality perfectly" comments Laurent regarding the timbre of the 250i, "the adjective "realistic" fits like a glove", he continues.

With respect to soundstage, Laurent found "The listener is immersed in music, but it extends to the back of the room, offering a perspective that is a pleasure to enjoy, even when the song becomes more complex".

"Precise in the way he has to bring out micro-data with a perfect "appropriateness". Exhaustive as to the amount of items it manages to highlight" is what he discovered when appraising transparency.

We're very pleased that Laurent enjoyed his time with the éloquence 250i and would like to thank him for taking the time to review it. We would also like to thank Haute Fidélité magazine and our distributor in France, DEA International, for supplying the review sample.

For those who can read French, please feel free to read Laurent's review of the éloquence 250i integrated amplifier.

It looked nice and well set up, carefully arranged and sounding good.  After the carrying, plugging, unplugging and pointing had given way to smiles, closed eyes and head nodding, it was obvious all the hard work had been well worth it.

At 5.30pm on Monday 13th of December at the Wellesley Boutique Hotel in Wellington, Hugo Van Son, Audio Visual Manager of Harvey Norman Tory Street, and I, were looking at each other wondering if an evening of hi-fi demos in 2010 was actually a good idea.  Was hi-fi still a thing that could capture the public’s attention?  Or were we living in the past, some of the last men on the ramparts championing good sound over convenience?

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Taiwanese magazine Audio Art recently featured a review of our éloquence 150i integrated amplifier.

Many thanks to our distributor Jeff Lin of Sheng-Kai Co., Ltd. for arranging the review.

Read the review in it's entirety, although you better sharpen up on your Chinese.

Reviewed by: Deon Schoeman, South Africa

Command performance

I'd never heard of New Zealand high-end audio company Perreaux until Mike Blake of The Listening Room added the marque to his portfolio of imports, and the two components under review here arrived on the AVSA doorstep. In fact, Perreaux sounds more French, and certainly Continental, so to find out that the brand harks from Dunedin in New Zealand came as something of a surprise. The only reference to Dunedin I have is that they play some pretty fine rugby at Dunedin's Carisbrook stadium, also known as 'The House Of Pain' - as our Springboks have found out on various occasions...

Read the full review here: Review - 250i / CDt - Deon Schoeman - South Africa (PDF 884 KB)

Review by: Mr. Mikkel Gige of HIFI4ALL online magazine, Denmark www.hifi4all.dk
Original review: http://www.hifi4all.dk/content/templates/anmeldelser.asp?articleid=2377&zoneid=3
Translated by: Mr. Soren Vittrup, Audiocompagniet, Denmark

Introduction

With price and power in mind, the Perreaux éloquence Series 250i is a very compact amplifier that does not make much fuss, and it will fit on most shelves. Depth is barely 35 cm, but still there was space for a 1000VA toroidal transformer and eight power supply filter capacitors with a total capacity of 44000μF (100V). You will also find separate printed circuit boards for the output stage and one for the preamp section which has its own transformer of 35VA. There is not much space left in the compact cabinet. The parts are of very good quality – with the exception of the RCA jacks, which was also one of my complaints, when big brother R200i was reviewed.

The cabinet is constructed of two steel frames that hold sides, top and bottom, and front and rear together. Top, back panel and bottom are made of 2mm aluminium plate, the sides are two powerful cooling profiles, while the front plate is made of an almost 2 cm thick aluminium plate! Indeed, a good solid and well-built cabinet. Design of the front is perhaps a little straightforward compared with other products from Perreaux.

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