Microphase Audio Design introdution at the Salon de la Haute Fidélité - Paris November 2016
Point Musiques
Point Musiques
2016 and beyond
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What is our secret? Experience and a lifelong love of and exposure to music...
From a very young age, Jean-Marie LIERE, the designer of these speakers, has been exposed to live music, as his maternal grandmother and mum both used to play the piano, then later on at jazz clubs in Paris (Memphis Slim at Les Trois Mailletz comes to mind...), various concert halls in Europe (Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Musikverein in Vienna...) and the Sydney Opera House bien súr! In 1970, Jean-Marie started to learn electronics at Uni and attending hifi shows and visiting top dealers in Paris like Télé Radio Commercial near the Saint-Lazare station. Interestingly enough, all the music instruments dealers were and still are in that street. Jean-Marie was lucky enough to meet such luminaries as Joseph Léon (Elipson), André Charlin, Pierre Clément, Georges Cabasse, Jacques Mahul of Focal fame, just to name a few. As his first project, Jean-Marie designed and built a transistorised preamp and a kit valve amplifier from Cibot Radio, and built his first full range speakers out of two 17cm SIARE drivers, the filling of the rather crude cabinets was some old blankets from his mum! The rest, as they say, is history... Read about Jean-Marie's journey on his blog www.frenchvintagehifi.com We have just introduced a central active subwoofer - CWS-A - to pair with the SAT MK1 and have now introduced two separate passive subs - SWS MK2 - which will act as stands for the SAT MK2s. We have also released a central channel - CMC - which can be paired with either SAT MK1 or SAT MK2 as front and/or rear speakers, if you are keen to expand your system to a high quality home theatre surround system. We have demonstrated some of these products at the StereoNet show in Melbourne, Australia in October 2019 and will exhibit in Sydney in April 2020. with our full range of products. What's next? These new monitors will be a limited series of a 100 pairs sold online worldwide. We are setting up a number of listening rooms around the World, the first one, if you live in Europe, is chez Point Musiques in the northern countryside of Paris, near Beauvais. Give Jean-Jacques Capello a call for a listening session, it is free! If you are downtown Paris, then contact Jacques Bessières at Connectica Musica, nearby Le Bon Marché in St Germain des Près. If you are in Australia or New Zealand, contact us and we will organise a listen in Sydney. We are looking for a listening room in Melbourne and hopefully this will be up and running soon. Next places will be Japan, then the US of A. Stay tuned! See our "Contact" page for details. |
2016 Renaissance of Microphase as Microphase Audio Design
Introduction of the SAT MK2 at the Paris Hifi Show
2016: Our first new product: THE SAT MK2
Then, reintroducing our stand as subwoofers AS SWS MK2
2019: Introducing our new stereo subwoofers SWS MK2
Our bespoke stands have been designed with four different heads to accomodate the SAT MK1 and SAT MK2 either mounted vertically or horizontally as shown here with the SAT MK2. The base is similar in style and provide stability together with the solid steel powder coated legs. The back legs are fitted with a simple but effective cable management system for visual tidiness.
2019 SAT MK1 | A replica of our first speaker from 1984
2019: The new SAT MK1 are an exact replica of our original SATs
April 2020 - Introducing the Tower One monoliths at Hifi 2020
The elegant floor standers Tower One
April 2020 - Introducing our centre channel at Hifi 2020 Sydney
April 2020 | Our new central channel CMC
April 2020 - Introducing our active subwoofer at Hifi 2020 Sydney
2023 SAT MK3 | 2024 SAT MK3.3
SAT MK3 now in its MK3.3 final version
2024 | TOWERS 3 & 4
1984 | A bit of history and background
A bit of history
Microphase introduced minuscule monitors (SAT) in the mid 80s and had quite a following in France, Belgium, Germany and Scandinavia. Later on, passive stereo subwoofers, triphonic systems and all active versions of these speakers were introduced to further acclaim. They were designed to be not only very high quality speakers, but also to capture the interest of interior designers and female clients. They were objects of beauty as well as a melomane dream come true in a tiny package (200x200x150mm).
30 years later, Microphase Audio Design introduces a modernised version of these monitors, aptly named SAT MK1 and MK2, with vastly improved performance, but still retaining the spirit and the look of the original concept, beautiful objects reproducing music in all its splendor.
These speakers are designed for the melomane and the aestetician who don't want their hifi system to dominate their living room.
They will also appeal to the pro market as perfect recording studio monitors, as they are very revealing of all the details and nuances of the music.
Recent additions to the range will also satisfy the needs of the Home Theatre enthusiast.
Microphase introduced minuscule monitors (SAT) in the mid 80s and had quite a following in France, Belgium, Germany and Scandinavia. Later on, passive stereo subwoofers, triphonic systems and all active versions of these speakers were introduced to further acclaim. They were designed to be not only very high quality speakers, but also to capture the interest of interior designers and female clients. They were objects of beauty as well as a melomane dream come true in a tiny package (200x200x150mm).
30 years later, Microphase Audio Design introduces a modernised version of these monitors, aptly named SAT MK1 and MK2, with vastly improved performance, but still retaining the spirit and the look of the original concept, beautiful objects reproducing music in all its splendor.
These speakers are designed for the melomane and the aestetician who don't want their hifi system to dominate their living room.
They will also appeal to the pro market as perfect recording studio monitors, as they are very revealing of all the details and nuances of the music.
Recent additions to the range will also satisfy the needs of the Home Theatre enthusiast.
1984 Microphase original SATs, stands and active subwoofer CSW
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