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New Sonos Playbar is here!
The Sonos Playbar is here at Pearl Audio Video in Portland Oregon! Combine a Sonos Play wireless speaker and a Soundbar into one unit, and you have a Playbar! For TV Sound, you mount it under your tv, and run your tv’s optical digital output… Read More »
McIntosh C2500 Tube Preamplifier Announced
The McIntosh C2500 – A Tube Preamplifier for the Digital Age! Today McIntosh announced their new C2500 preamplifier. The C2500 is a tube preamplifier which gives you all of the organic warmth and resolution tubes are known for. The C2500 replaces the C2300 tube preamplifier…. Read More »
McIntosh MC452 Review
Excellent new review of the 450 watt McIntosh MC452 on Enjoy The Music. It’s a pretty cool article because the reviewer also talks about his vintage McIntosh equipment, including an original edition McIntosh MC275 tube amplifier from the early 1960′s. He also has one of… Read More »
McIntosh D100 Digital Preamp Arrives
The new McIntosh D100 DAC/Digital Preamp has arrived here in Portland. The D100 is loaded with features including a new high end headphone output, both fixed and variable outputs, as well as five digital inputs. Of the inputs, one is an Asynchronous USB which allows… Read More »
Sonos Playbar Announced
The new Sonos Playbar was announced earlier today! Playbar is a combined soundbar and a wireless Sonos Play powered music speaker. This is great because theater and music-all-around are what we all want! For mounting, use it as a center and/or TV side speakers. The… Read More »
Pearl Audio Video Now Open 7 Days a Week
Good news everyone! We are now open 7 days per week. 10-5:30 Monday-Saturday. 12-4 on Sundays. I (John) am covering Sundays and Mondays. I’m generally here Wed, Sat, Friday with sporadic appearances Tues & Thurs before 2PM. Russ and/or Brett cover Tuesday-Saturday all day. Just… Read More »
McIntosh Video Short on CBS This Morning!
Great video short article on McIntosh Labs this morning. It’s great to see our friend Chuck Hinton, McIntosh’s tireless service+support chief, featured along with his band!
McIntosh MT-5 Precision Turntable Announced at CES 2013
Big News at CES 2013! McIntosh’s new MT-5 turntable! Upon arriving in the store this morning our turntable-meister Brett Bodayla (aka Master Bodayla) waited an ENTIRE 14 seconds before asking “McIntosh Turntable MT-5, will have one when, will Pearl Audio?” (Darth Vader Voice) Soon my… Read More »
Ayre’s VX-5 Amplifier Announced at CES 2013!
Ayre’s New VX-5 Stereo Amplifier A highlight of CES 2013 is the announcement of Ayre Acoustic’s new VX-5 amplifier. Here in Portland Oregon we love high end audio like no other town, so when a new amp comes from the likes of Ayre Acoustics, we’re… Read More »
The Return of the Rega RP3
Happy New Year and Happy Record Spinning to all! And yes, I did just watch Episode VI. After two long weeks without, a new Rega RP3′s arrived today! Below is our new floor model RP3 which is an Elys cartridge package model. This means you… Read More »
The Ambassador of Awesome Visits!
We had a great surprise visit from our from our friends Jon Derda and Tony Leckband from Peachtree Audio. I had been visiting with Jon at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest and was delighted he came by with the new Peachtree Nova 125 for us… Read More »