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La boutique idéale de Boring Vic. Le meilleur de l'audio Studio & Hi-Fi sélectionné avec soin.

05/09/2026

New in the catalogue: the Noble Audio FoKus Artemis.

Three driver types in one wireless over-ear — dynamic, balanced armature and planar magnetic. ANC, LDAC, USB audio, up to 50 hours of playtime, and a battery you can swap yourself.

Box just landed. Available on coolkidsaudio.com.

04/09/2026

Before you get back to work, spend twenty minutes on this. It's worth more than a new plugin.

1. Equilateral triangle. The distance between your speakers should match the distance from each speaker to your head. Get this wrong and the stereo image collapses or smears — no amount of correction fixes it.

2. Tweeters at ear height. Not close. At ear height, when you're sitting the way you actually sit. Vertical off-axis response falls apart faster than horizontal on most monitors.

3. Distance from the rear wall. Anything between roughly 20 cm and 1 m is the worst case: the reflection comes back late enough to cancel part of your low end. Either go close to the wall, or well away from it.

4. Match your levels. A 1 dB imbalance between channels pulls the whole image sideways and you will mix against it all day without noticing.

None of this costs anything. And if you're deciding where to spend next: stands and acoustic treatment will change more than swapping electronics. That's not what a shop is supposed to say, but it's true.

Drawing by U-Turn Audio

02/09/2026

Your NOVA can do 7.1.4 now. Same box. 🎚️

has just released software 2.1.3 for the NOVA, and it's the biggest thing to happen to the platform since launch: a new Immersive mode that optimises up to twelve discrete channels — a full 7.1.4 layout — fed over Dante at 48 kHz, with one speaker set at a time.

Worth being clear about: the NOVA doesn't decode Atmos. It takes the discrete channels out of your renderer or DAW and puts the Optimizer on them. That's exactly how a monitoring tool should behave.

And what you pay for is channels, not the mode. Optimizer licences work the way they always have — but a unit with eight licensed channels automatically unlocks up to twelve in Immersive mode, so the fourth licence throws in the next four. In practice, an installed NOVA 6 needs one more 2-channel Optimizer licence (€720 incl. VAT) to land in 7.1.4. No hardware swap, no trade-in, and it applies to units already in the field.

2.1.3 also pushes standard monitoring from six to eight optimised channels, adds calibration graphs in the setup wizard, automatic bass management recompute, target curves editable in 0.1 dB steps, and reboot straight from the interface.

NOVA from €3,588 incl. VAT. Available on coolkidsaudio.com

02/09/2026

A hand-built tube microphone, in a limited silver run.

The 017 TUBE-S is what happens when a small workshop decides not to compromise on the parts nobody sees. A single-ended tube circuit, an in-house output transformer, hand-wound. That transformer is most of what people are hearing when they say a mic "has character" — it is not a marketing flourish, it is where the sound is made.

Where it shines: voice, brass, acoustic instruments recorded close. It flatters the midrange without smearing it, and it holds together on loud sources far better than its size suggests.

Where it doesn't: if you want a neutral, invisible capture, this is the wrong tool. The 017 has a point of view. That's the reason to buy it and the reason to skip it.

The Silver 17 is a limited finish. When it's gone, it's the standard version or nothing.

Available at coolkidsaudio.com

23/08/2026

Room modes are the one bass problem no amount of foam ever really solved. just made its answer to them a lot easier to get.

Announced on 18 August ahead of CEDIA Expo 2026, a major WaveForming evolution is coming to the entire Altitude range — as a free software update, rolling out by the close of the show.

Two things matter here. First, Trinnov is lowering the entry bar: WaveForming has so far required an Altitude processor and a minimum of four discretely amplified subwoofers placed to spec. The company now says it is unlocking the technology "for a much wider audience" — the exact new requirements haven't been published yet, so we're waiting on the official detail before quoting numbers.

Second, existing systems get better without being recalibrated. No new measurement session, no integrator visit to redo the whole map.

For context on what WaveForming actually does: 3D acoustic field measurement across 9 to 25 points, decay-targeted acoustic reshaping, 3D wavefront synthesis, and the MSMC algorithm driving every sub individually. Trinnov quotes seat-to-seat consistency down to ±0.5 dB up to 100 Hz, and decay times pulled from 0.35–0.6 s to roughly 0.1–0.2 s.

Also on the CEDIA agenda: live demos of playback tuned by plain-language voice commands (heard on noise-cancelling headphones, because trade show floors are loud), and a new optional Extended Care Program taking factory coverage to ten years.

Note this applies to Altitude series processors only — not the NOVA.

Available on coolkidsaudio.com

21/08/2026

Careful — there are two DMP-A8 Gen 2 models.

The standard and the Master. Near-identical chassis, same DAC, same screen, same interface — and €500 between them. launched its second generation in two versions with almost the same name, and the difference comes down to two things you cannot add after you buy.

The first one you spot immediately: a top-loading CD player. The disc sits flat on a platter on top of the unit, under a tinted glass lid held down by a magnetic puck. No motorised tray, so none of the usual wear part.

And it does more than play. It rips discs to WAV or FLAC onto the internal SSD or to network storage, pulls metadata and cover art automatically, and detects duplicates. A whole CD collection digitised without ever touching a computer.

The second difference is less visible. Where the standard model relies on dual femtosecond clocks, the Master carries an oven-controlled OCXO with PLL — jitter under 50 femtoseconds — and, above all, a 10 MHz external clock input the standard simply does not have.

Otherwise the two are twins: AKM AK4191 + AK4499 DAC, analogue R-2R volume, in-house AuralEngine processor, 8.6-inch touchscreen, M.2 bay up to 8 TB and Room Correction Pro.

€2,490 against €1,990 for the standard — Available on coolkidsaudio.com

21/08/2026

Two DACs, two power supplies, two channels that never meet.

The DAC-Z10 from isn't a network player. No streaming, no internal storage, no browsing screen — it's a converter, plus a balanced preamp and a headphone amp. You put it behind whatever source you already run (a transport, a server, a computer, a TV) and it takes care of everything downstream.

The whole design rests on one idea: separate. 🔀 Each channel gets its own AK4191 + AK4499 pairing from AKM, its own linear power supply and its own toroidal transformer, with a third supply dedicated to the system section. On the measurement sheet that works out to 0.00008% THD+N and 130 dB of dynamic range.

Clocking follows the same logic: an oven-controlled crystal oscillator, a phase-locked loop, and FPGA reconstruction before the data reaches the conversion stage. Two external clock inputs (50 and 75 Ω, 10 and 25 MHz) let you sync several digital components together — a studio habit slowly making its way into domestic systems.

Volume stays in the analogue domain: an R-2R ladder, one module per channel. Nothing gets truncated when you turn it down.

Connectivity runs deep — isolated USB audio, 2 coaxial, 2 optical, IIS with 8 pinout modes, AES/EBU, and an HDMI ARC/eARC input that lets the Z10 handle film and game audio straight from the TV. The 6.35 mm headphone output detects impedance automatically and puts out 1 W into both 16 and 32 Ω. Everything is driven from an 8.8-inch shielded IPS touchscreen. 🎛️

€1,990. Available on coolkidsaudio.com

21/08/2026

One left. Then that’s it.

The LCD-5 is the headphone that pushed Audeze’s planar magnetic platform to its limit, and it’s still one of the most resolving open-backs ever built. 90 mm Parallel Uniforce™ diaphragms, Fluxor™ magnet arrays, low-profile Fazor™ waveguides — the entire acoustic chamber was redesigned to kill reflections and internal resonances. What you get is a soundstage that’s genuinely wide open without ever going vague, and a level of detail retrieval that makes a lot of so-called reference headphones sound approximate.

420 grams of magnesium, aluminium, acetate and carbon fibre, hand-assembled in California. The sculpted pads reduce contact surface to cut fatigue while still sealing properly — which you feel around hour six of a mastering session.

Worth knowing before you order: 14 ohms and 90 dB/1mW means it’s a low-impedance load that still wants a serious amp. Audeze recommends 500 mW and up, and the LCD-5 rewards every watt you give it.

Audeze has since moved on to the LCD-5s, launched at €4,500 excl. taxes. Our last brand-new LCD-5 is €3,100.

We only sell what we’ve listened to. This one, we listened to a lot.

Available on coolkidsaudio.com

19/08/2026

Two DACs in one box. One per channel.

The new DAC-Z10 from@eversoloaudio goes against the grain of the brand's all-in-one network players: no streaming, no internal storage. Just a converter, a balanced preamp and a headphone amp — but taken a long way.

The guiding idea is one word: separate. Each channel gets its own AKM AK4191 + AK4499 pairing, its own R-2R volume ladder, and its own linear power supply with a toroidal transformer. A third supply handles the system section. Left and right never cross paths, from input through to conversion.

What that gives on the measurement sheet: 0.00008% THD+N and 130 dB of dynamic range. Native DSD512 and PCM up to 768 kHz/32-bit.

On timing, Eversolo stacks an oven-controlled OCXO, a phase-locked loop and FPGA clock reconstruction. And for those who go that far: two external clock inputs, 10 and 25 MHz, at 50 and 75 Ω.

The rest follows. HDMI ARC/eARC to hook up the TV, isolated USB, IIS with eight wiring modes, AES/EBU, two coax, two optical. A 6.35 mm headphone output with automatic impedance detection and 1 W into 16 as well as 32 Ω. An 8.8-inch shielded IPS touchscreen, with VU meters in vintage or modern styling.

€1,990 — Available on coolkidsaudio.com

17/08/2026

9.3/10. That's what Best of High End gave the T10.

The T10 is a streaming transport — no DAC, no amplification. Its only job is to deliver a clean digital signal to whatever you already own.

What justifies the score: an OCXO clock, an unusually generous set of outputs, and a presentation that gets out of the way. The reviewer's point is that you don't really hear the T10 — you hear the rest of your chain, more clearly.

That's exactly what a transport is supposed to do, and exactly what most of them fail at.

Available on coolkidsaudio.com

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