#heed audio

Hi All,

Have to say that I am delighted to now be able to add Heed Audio back to our range of brands we can offer as I have always been a big fan, not sure if anyone can remember but Heed where one of our first brands at HFL and we sold a fair bit of it with everyone loving it's very natural and unforced presentation, very valve like to be honest thanks to the output stage that Heed use for their amplifiers, but distribution changed hands and Heed kind of disappeared from UK shores for a few years but I am really pleased to say that they now have a new UK distributor so once I found this out I didn't hesitate in bringing them back into the fold.

So for now on demo we have the £1650 Heed Abacus DAC, which you can add a streaming card to for £450 to make it a fantastic streaming/dac solution for £2100, we also have the matching half size Elixir Integrated amplifier at £1500 and its brand new bigger brother, the Lagrange which has just been upgraded to the Lagrange S priced at £5000 and finally the awesome little Canamp II headphone amp which at £475 is unbeatable if you want a brilliant and small great sounding analogue only headphone amp.

Transcap Amplifier Design Explained

Heed use a very different design for their amplifiers which really does makes them sound very natural and lifelike, please find more info below stolen from their website -

'When you own a Heed amplifier you meet technology that you most probably have never seen in action before. Like the almost forgotten (and then reincarnated) valve technology, the output capacitor transistor amplifiers can normally only be found in the deepest recesses of engineers drawers. The technical difficulties of RC-Coupling means almost 100% of todays manufacturers opt for the easier direct-coupled solutions instead. With great effort and countless development hours there is a way to employ an up to date and sonically better sounding RC-Coupled amplifier. We have chosen this way.

This power transforming system needs to be perfectly balanced. The heart of our Transcap technology lies in the precise adjustment of all the charge transmitting and current delivery channels. This propels all the common amplifier components; mains transformer, power supply, voltage and power amplifier stages, into something radically different. You may see now, this is no ordinary amp and it cannot be measured by common standards. Using our methods the sound becomes thick, warm, yet clear and life-like, as it properly translates the electronic signal into the acoustic world.'

Please find a link to the Heed products we have on demo below and if you would like a listen anytime please feel free to get in touch to book an appointment -

Cheers,

Paul.

Heed Elixir Integrated Amplifier and Abacus DAC / Streamer

Heed Lagrange S Integrated Amplifier

Hi Everyone,

Well we survived our first HiFi Show as exhibitors and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who supported us and came along to say hi, it was great to see so many of our customers and friends along with meeting so many new people interested in HiFi, all in all it seemed like a great show, although I only got to see 2 corridors, a lift and 4 walls for 3 days there seemed to be a really good turnout with our room being packed many times with standing room only on both the Saturday and Sunday.

Yes it was a lot of work but more importantly it was great fun, there really is nothing better than playing music all day and talking HiFi :-)

A hotel really is quite a harsh environment in which to make a HiFi sing but I think we did a pretty reasonable job, not perfect, but we got many comments from people saying that it was one of the best sounding rooms at the show, which is all you can ask for really, saying that with PMC, Heed and Bryston it shouldn't be too difficult really to make a great sound.

Now all that is left is to un-box everything and make the shop look like it used to rather than a store room, so once again, thanks to PMC and Heed for all their help and support and everyone who popped in to our room, hope to see you again there next year.

Here are a couple of pics of the room in action -

Now the painful bit, time to pack it all down, thanks to Ross & Wendy's Dad for helping, it actually ended up not taking that long.

Next year we are just taking a portable radio to demo :-)

Cheers,

Hi All,

Well it has certainly been a long, tiring but very rewarding and exciting few days as we have been getting ready and setting up for our first HiFi show as exhibitors. There have been a couple of small issues to contend with throughout  today as we have been setting up, but nothing that couldn't be overcome and now I feel confident that we have done all we can to present at the National Audio Show with a room that sounds pretty damn good. Initially the Heed and PMC twenty.23 system worked out the box and sounded really lovely but the PMC Fact.12 and Bryston rig needed a bit more work, eventually though after playing around with positioning and moving some sound panels around they are really singing now :-)

The biggest shock of the day was opening the door to the Vale Suit where we are situated for the next couple of days and realising how big our room was and then deciding which way to fire the kit, in the end I think we chose right, we also set up our headphone rig but I fear that may interfere too much with our main system with noise leakage from the cans so that may have to become a static display.

Anyway here are a few pictures of the last day, I can't wait till tomorrow when everyone starts arriving, I guess I'd better start thinking about what to play, I tried some Rammstein before leaving and that really rocked, although that may empty the room rather than fill it, need to sort out something a little more pleasing for everyone, but if you do want to hear some Rammstein then please do ask :-)

Hope to see some of you tomorrow :-)

Anyone see where our HiFi went?

Ah there it is.

It was looking like we were going to need a bigger van.

Now that is a big room, fantastic.

Time to get busy.

The start of a system.

Then a couple of hours of chaos.

Now we are getting somewhere.

Outside our room.

All ready for action :-)

Cheers,

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick update, Really busy at the moment planning next weekends HiFi Lounge showing at the National Audio Show in association with PMC speakers, Heed Audio and Bryston, in a moment of madness we have decided to now take on a room that is 4 times bigger than what we originally planned, which is slightly scary, but equally exciting, especially as it will really give the 2 systems that we are planning on running a real chance to sing.

We will now be situated in the Vale Suite on the first floor showcasing the awesome new PMC Fact.12's driven by a full Bryston rig with 600 watts per channel and the more modest Heed si amp with x2 power supply and PMC 23's which will sound equally as impressive considering the more modest price.

So next week looks like a busy one, what with van rentals to organise + pulling the HiFi Lounge demo rooms to pieces to move a lot of our demo stock over the Whittlebury hall for the show.

Being HiFi Lounge's first show I am equally as nervous as I am excited so hope to see some of you guys there for what promises to be a lot of fun :-)

Oh yeah, don't forget that we are also offering 10% off any PMC speakers, Heed Audio or Bryston Kit purchased at the show or until the end of the month if you come and say hi and what with PMC Golden ticket promotion meaning you could actually get a pair of PMC Twenty speakers for free if bought before the end of October, so it really is a great time to come and have a listen.

Anyway see you at the National Audio Show :-)