Florida International Audio Expo 2025 Show Report, Part 8: Soulines, Electrocompaniet and Triangle embody a marriage of Sound & Style

Hello and welcome to part 8 of my report by Florida International Audio Expo 2025, which is the final episode of this series. Here I can view a soul record player, an electrocompanietic phono preamplifier, triangular speaker and much more.

Soulines / Electrocompaniet

In room 419, Jason Tavares from New York's Hifi Loft noticed that the Florida show relaxed a funny War-more than most others. For this purpose, I enjoyed a relaxed visit to the demo room, where he was stationed together with the distributor Frank Gazzo from the Antal audi group, here Triangle, and Lasse Danielsen, sales and marketing director of Electrocompaniet.

Soulines – pronounced as two words are; Ie ,, Soul lines – is a small company based in Belgrade, Serbia. Your record players are handmade, summarized by a person, Tavares said to me. Perhaps the company is best known for its Kubrick DCX turntable, which was named after the space station in the classic Stanley Kubrick film from 1968. 2001: A Space Odyssey. The model shown in Flax was the newer top-of-the-line soulines TT42 Turnable ($ 14,500; flax show price: $ 13,000). The “42” on behalf of this belt-driven table is an allusion to the number, which in Douglas Adams 1979 Science-Fi classic, in 1979, was called ,, The trailer guideline for the galaxyas a significant number.

In this demo, the TT42 table was equipped with an acoustic signature TA-1000-neo-tonarm and a Luxman LMC-5 MC cartridge. The Small Footprint TT42 has two pods for two tonals (as above) and everything that is needed for two arms, including a variety of ARM board panels for different types of Waffen-SMU, Rega, Linn/Jelco/Ortofon, etc. are also available.

The second arm is located on part of a subplinth from the back. “It's a really brilliant design,” noted Tavares. It is intended to make the user easier. Soulines recently introduced her own tone that Tavares will have in Axpona in Schaumburg, Illinois next month.

Aluminum is the main material of the TT42 with a series of sub -plates with combined damping material, including rubber and cork, between each layer. The plate is a clear acrylic that takes up the color of the color vinyl for an appealing effect. (See it in action above.) The brushless DC motor is integrated and includes re -material. “The designer does not like to make outboard engines because he wants a table that is easy to furnish, easy to move and easy to move – because both have to be paved independently of one another,” said Tavares. The feet of the TT42 are also insulated. “It is really very well unloaded,” he continued. “I mean, I can change a CD on the shelf below and in the recording [that’s playing] Don't jump at all. ”

Next was an ECP 2 MK II -Phono preamplifier ($ 2,900; flax show price: $ 2,400) in the playback chain. The MK II update was released in 2020. The internal electronics are all balanced, pure class A. It was designed and manufactured in Norway, including the chassis, the circuit boards, electronics, etc. The internal software team from Electrocompaniet developed the control app.

The ECP 2 MK II has a single analog input couple and a few of XLR and RCA outputs. On the back there are also DIP switches with which the user can set settings for MM and MC cartridges together with gain. “It had the complete compliance with the RIAA standard, so it has built in a low-pass filter and all of these things,” said I told Electrocompaniet, the sales and marketing director. “It is very configurable and should therefore support almost every cartridge on the planet.” An exception are optical cartridges, added Danielsen, but this EQ technology is recorded across the board – although it cannot yet say when. “We will do this in the next product with which we come out,” said Danielsen. He also reported that talks with DS Audio are underway. In addition, Electrocompaniet provided other reinforcements and digital sources for the demo. The cabling came from northeast.

The demo system brought together components that all had slim designs. The Antal Audi group distributor Frank Gazzo showed two couples of the speakers of the French manufacturer-Ihr 40th anniversary Magellan Duetto book trade models ($ 7,000/PR; Flax Show Price: $ 5.800/PR) and the Active Capella Bluetooth speaker ($ 3000/PR; Flax award winner: $ 2,400/pr) -I-Cool-Looking, Motlal show Price: $ 2.400/pr) -in A Cool-Looking, Motlal Show Prize, Motlal Show Prize, Motlal Prize, Motlage Price, Motlal price.

And the sound? When I passed the room, the triangular magellans were ready to act. I took out this most popular all-analog Tony Allen album from me, 2017's The source 2LP set to Blue Note and had it turned “Ewajo” (LP2, page D, Track 2). Liquid continuity shone through the atypical rhythms and time signatures of this route. The dispersion and energy of stand speakers and energy corresponded to their size and filled the room with the brave brass tones of the players and the polyrhythmic energy. Treble sounded smooth on Saxony. In the meantime, Kraftwerk's “Computer World” (the title track for her 1981 Warner Bros. LP, which was reissued by Kling Klang/Parlophon in 2020) jumped to life with relentless, powerful synth beats, which were delivered with stability.

And this is officially a packaging on our flax 2025. Next month we have a more detailed coverage from the above Axpona in Schaumburg, Illinois, so stay tuned!

Author Bio: Julie Mullins, a lifelong music lover and audiophile of Osmosis, who grew up on her father's Hi-Fi equipment, is also a contributor and reviewer on our sister site, stereophile, for which she also writes the monthly Re-Tales column. As a former full -time employee at Cincinnatis for many years of weekly city of Citybeat, she organizes a weekly radio broadcast on Waif on the pulse.

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