What’s New…for 2019-2020
At Innovative, we’re constantly evaluating new products. Our goal is to offer a curated selection of the world’s best, high-quality, high-performance, and high-value stereo, home-theater, and home-automation equipment. Here are some of our recent additions, so please stop by to audition these wonderful components for yourself!
Archive from 2019-2020
This is an archive of previous “What’s New” pages…
New for Fall 2020
Dan D’Agostino Master Audio System’s Progression Integrated Amplifier in Silver
D’Agostino Progression Integrated Amplifier
The Progression Integrated combines the elegance and detail retrieval of the Progression Preamplifier with the power and dynamic capability of the Progression amplifier topology, housed in a chassis the exudes the D’Agostino aesthetic. Built on a modular platform, the Progression Integrated fills every need of today’s music listener and audiophile, including optional Digital Module for built-in streaming, and optional Phono Stage for connecting your favorite turntable!
Come to Innovative to hear the Progression!
Dynaudio Confidence 30 loudspeakers in Blonde Wood
Dynaudio Confidence-Series
The classic passive speaker has evolved. The all-new Confidence takes Dynaudio’s most celebrated audio technologies to startling heights with new materials, techniques and technologies. We now have the Confidence 20 stand-mounted bookshelf speakers
Sit back in your chair and listen, secure in the certainty that every detail of the speakers in front of you is dedicated to revealing every detail of the music they’re playing. Close your eyes and be delighted.
Experience Dynaudio’s Confidence series, only at Innovative!
Wilson SabrinaX louspeakers in Ivory
Wilson SabrinaX
Good things come in small packages!
The SabrinaX distills Wilson’s latest technological innovations from the Chronosonic XVX and Sasha DAW loudspeakers into the imminently NYC-friendly form-factor of the much beloved Sabrina louspeaker. This new, vastly improved version preserves the original model's inherent affability, flexibility, and astonishing technical prowess while at the same time elevates its resolution, bass-transient speed, clarity, overall resolution, and transparency.
Dynaudio Contour 20i speakers in Walnut
Dynaudio Contour i-Series
Dynaudio’s engineers have taken apart, re-designed, refined, and reassembled their amazing Contour series speakers…and now present the new Contour i Series. Expect more openness, more punch, and more detail. Feel the goosebumps appear as you hear new dimensions in your favorite recordings. Transport yourself back to a time when all that mattered was the next track on the album. With a new tweeter, new woofers, new crossovers – and new thrills – Contour i takes all you've loved about the Contour family since 1986, adds 2020 knowhow, and brings your music back to life.
The Contour 20i is now available for demonstration, and the Contour 30i is expected imminently, only at Innovative!
New for Summer 2020
Linn Karousel bearing upgrade kit for LP12 turntables
Linn LP12 Karousel Upgrade
Sometimes it’s the little things that make all the difference!
Karousel, Linn’s new precision-engineered single-point bearing, offers smoother rotation and greater stability for even better sound from your Sondek LP12. This innovative development of Linn’s original bearing design was made possible by technological developments in material science, machining capabilities, and Linn’s mechanical engineering expertise gained from almost half a century of designing and manufacturing the world’s best turntable. The increased rigidity at the sub-chassis, stronger housing for the thrust pad, and smaller, stiffer form improves the critical areas that supports the platter rotation and mass, meaning your vinyl reproduction is more accurate and detailed than ever before.
Linn LP12 Personalization
Linn now offers two new personalization options for LP12s. You can now create a turntable that’s truly unique to you!
🎨 New Plinth Colors
High-gloss plinth finishes
Over 300 RAL color options
Metallic options also available
Can also match Linn speaker finishes
🖋 Monogram your Deck
Up to 4 characters
Available for Keel only
Contact us to discuss your custom LP12 options!
New for Winter 2020
Wilson Chronosonic XVX, the new X-series Flagship Loudspeaker, in our Showroom 3
Wilson Chronosonic XVX
Twenty five years after we showcased the first Wilson X-1, Innovative is delighted to offer the most advanced X-series speaker ever from Wilson Audio — the new Chronosonic XVX flagship loudspeaker. Built upon the solid foundations of decades of experience and hard won success at Wilson Audio, the new XVX is designed for listeners who prefer their music with no limitations. No limitations in the music you play. No limitations in the scale and dynamics of the music you enjoy. No shortages of dynamic expression. No limits to the harmonic beauty in your favorite recordings. No need to choose between delicacy and grandeur.
Linn Selekt DSM digital streaming player / integrated amplifier with Linn Akubarik loudspeaker
Linn Selekt DSM Katalyst
The amazing new Linn Selekt DSM is a very New York-friendly one-box solution with built-in music streaming, source selection, digital-to-analog conversion, and a variety of optional modules to allow you to customize the Selekt DSM to your needs. We are displaying the version with the upgraded Katalyst DAC architecture for exceptional digital performance and also the Integrated Amplifier module. With optional additional modules for HDMI switching or surround sound processing and amplification, one only needs to add speakers for a truly high-quality one-box experience.Come listen to the Linn Selekt DSM Katalyst Integrated Amplifier at Innovative!
Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Reference Series 3
Berkeley Alpha DAC Reference Series 3
The Alpha DAC Reference Series 3 contains breakthrough technology that redefines the potential of digital audio quality. Experienced industry listeners who have heard the Alpha DAC Reference 3 are unanimous in their praise:
“The Series 3 extends the Alpha DAC Reference’s status as the ne plus ultra in digital decoding, and will remain at the front end of my reference system....The Series 3’s deeper bass, wider dynamic expression, superior bottom-end articulation and textural resolution, and enhanced top-end openness are clearly major advances....With less accomplished DACs, it sounds as if a whole layer of very low-level information has gone missing.”
—Robert Harley, The Absolute Sound, October 2019
D'Agostino Momentum HD Pre-Amplifier
D’Agostino Momentum HD Preamplifier
Only the Momentum HD Preamplifier delivers the sound quality and drive necessary to maximize the performance possible from the Momentum M400 monoblock and Momentum S250 stereo amplifiers. The Momentum HD Preamplifier builds on the award-winning platform of the Momentum Preamplifier. The new HD status represents the high dynamic and high definition improvements that have been achieved in this substantial upgrade.Come listen to the D’Agostino Momentum HD Pre-Amplifier at Innovative!
New for Autumn 2019
Spectral DMA-300SV Reference Standard Amplifier
SPECTRAL DMA-300SV REFERENCE STANDARD AMPLIFIER
Audio components from Spectral have evolved for decades with a continuous research program that includes auditioning live music at recording sessions and careful listening trials though a variety of reference sound systems. The latest result of these efforts has resulted in the creation of an exceptionally fine new audio amplifier, the new Spectral DMA-300SV Reference Standard, which accurately conveys robust dynamics and transparency along with superlative detail and staging in a two-channel stereo chassis amplifier.
Come listen to the Spectral DMA-300SV Reference Standard Stereo Amplifier at Innovative!
Avalon Precision Monitor 2 loudspeaker in our Showroom #4
AVALON PRECISION MONITOR 2
We are delighted to premier the newest speaker from Avalon Acoustics. Their Precision Monitor 2 (aka PM2) is a full-range reference monitor designed specifically for superlative tonal and spatial accuracy, which creates a relaxed, but engaging sound with all of the traditional hallmarks of an Avalon speaker, with the addition of some important new attributes. The PM2 is a great deal easier to drive than older Avalon speakers, allowing you to use it successfully with a wide array of medium-power amps: both tubed and solid state. The PM2 is also more flexible in terms of placement than many older Avalon models.
Come listen to the modern Avalon PM2 at Innovative!
TechDAS AirForce 3 Premium turntable shown with dual tone-arms
TECHDAS AIRFORCE III + SAT LM-12 TONEARM
TechDAS of Japan makes some of the world’s most sophisticated, high-tech, and uncompromisingly high-performance turntables. Designed by Hideaki Nishikawa, each model is a testament to his precision engineering and fabrication, all for the sake of absolute vinyl playback performance. We currently display the TechDAS AirForce III turntable with SAT LM-12 tonearm with Lyra Atlas SL cartridge.
Come listen to the TechDAS AirForce III turntable with SAT LM-12 tonearm at Innovative!
New for Summer 2019
Wilson Sasha DAW meets its great-great-great-great grand-father, the Watt/Puppy
WILSON SASHA DAW LOUDSPEAKER
In our experience, the Sasha DAW is Wilson’s best medium sized speaker of all time. It is a fitting tribute to the late David A. Wilson, built by his colleagues, friends and family that are continuing to offer state of the art speakers. If you have an older Watt/Puppy or always wanted one, come in to hear how much more realistic music can be when played on the newest Wilson speaker.
Come listen to the Wilson Sasha DAW at Innovative!
Naim NAP 500 amplifier with NAC 552 Pre-amplifier and ND 555 Reference Digital Streaming Source
NAIM 500 SERIES ELECTRONICS
We have added to display the complete line up of Naim’s newest streaming players which combine Naim’s classic British musicality with class leading ease of use. Update your system to include vast libraries of music at your finger tips in great sound this year.
Come listen to the Naim 500-Series at Innovative!
Linn LP12 Klimax-configuration with Linn Krystal cartridge and Ekos-SE tonearm
LINN LP12 TURNTABLE UPGRADES
The Linn turntable has been called many things over the 45 years since it was first introduced to the market. Our favorite such compliment is “the original high end turntable.” Linn has continued to improve the table. Our staff LP12 experts can help you modernize your table to bring you even closer to the music hiding in your LPs at home or show you how well a brand new Linn stacks up to even the best modern competition.
Come listen to the Linn LP12 at Innovative!
Avalon Precision Monitor 1
AVALON PRECISION MONITOR 1
We are delighted to premier the newest speaker from Avalon Acoustics. Their Precision Monitor 1 (aka PM1) is a New York friendly sized speaker which creates a relaxed but engaging sound with the hallmarks of all of the larger Avalon speakers: natural tonality, superb sound staging, inner detail to bring music to life in a handsome real wood veneered cabinet with the classic Avalon appearance.
Come listen to the Avalon PM1 at Innovative!