Franc Audio Accessories We’re back to normal after the holiday season and we have a new vendor that you may have seen coming: Franc Audio Accessories. Franc is the parent company of Ultra Carbon (maker of our record clamp, platform, and isolation foot products) and manufactures some of the most beautiful racks and amp stands available on the market today.…
Ultra Carbon has recently developed and released two new products: machined aluminum isolation feet and beautifully made wood and carbon fiber component platforms. The feet will be familiar to those of you that are already dealers for UC’s turntable clamps, except that they’re made from precision-machined aluminum instead of stainless steel (those will come later). Each…
Alluxity has been very busy during the pandemic and has a new power amplifier that has just begun to ship. The Power Two is a compact, 200WPC stereo amp based loosely on the power output stage of the Int One integrated amp, with fully-discrete gain stages designed in-house by Alluxity, a chassis machined from a…
On September 1st, Positive Feedback published a review of the Chario Sonnets. On November 29, Monarch received word that the magazine had given the Sonnets one of two Writer’s Choice awards. For those of you unfamiliar with the Sonnets, they’re a stand-mounted monitor in the Academy Series, the top range in Chario’s product line. Their size…
Next up for new products is a line that you may be somewhat familiar with: Siltech. Siltech was founded in 1983 with a foundation in electrical engineering and metallurgy, using silver conductors and silver/gold alloys to increase the conductivity and wire durability for higher fidelity. Siltech has since added more affordable copper cables in their Explorer line…
About 4 months ago we began discussions to have a few custom accessories manufactured for Monarch that we could bring to market. The first is what you see here, the Ultra-Carbon RC-40, a 40mm tall, precision machined, stainless steel and carbon fiber record clamp. Ultra-Carbon is a European company that manufactures audio accessories (record clamps, footers)…