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Billy Vee Sound Systems Who is Billy Vee? BILLY VEE SOUND SYSTEMS Welcome to Billy Vee Sound Systems the site for sound ear All music lovers and all down to earth honest people.

Billy Vee Sound Systems is a HiFi shop like no other....run by music and audio enthusiasts. We sell, demonstrate and install the best sounding Hi-Fi available from British Companies Like Linn Products in Glasgow, Naim Audio in Salisbury, Arcam in Cambridge and Bowers and Wilkins in Worthing amongst others. The shop is owned by Ian Anderson a truly inspirational leader and is manned by Ian Ridge, P

aul Cruttenden and Mike Olrod. We won't baffle you with useless jargon only give you the best sound advice available. Our top of the range of High Quality home entertainment and stereo components comprising of Basic to High end Hi-Fi, Audio Visual, Multimedia, Multi-room and Multi-Platform systems for sale. To compliment our product sales we offer a range of services designed to get the best from our products and make life a lot easier for you like service and repairs, upgrades, advice on cabling and general tweaking. We can help solve your audio needs and supply you with excellent sound quality.

EKSTATIKAll-new, flagship moving coil cartridgeIn order to make our best cartridge ever, we needed to look further afiel...
19/07/2022

EKSTATIK

All-new, flagship moving coil cartridge

In order to make our best cartridge ever, we needed to look further afield, and at more varied materials. We conducted extensive experiments; auditioning different materials and configurations for the body, inserts, cantilever, suspension, windings and leads. The result is Ekstatik – the new jewel in the crown of the Linn cartridge range.

Our all-new, flagship cartridge, Ekstatik, sets a new bar for arm/cartridge synergy; its unique construction forges an harmonious synergy with Ekos SE; wicking away more unwanted resonances along the arm, and out through the sub-chassis.

In our search for ever better materials, our experiments led us to the implementation of aluminium-bronze inserts. Now a feature of Ekstatik, these inserts allow us to reap the sonic benefits we found this alloy to possess.

With a bespoke, honeycomb cut into the cartridge body, we have skeletonised Ekstatik so that overall mass is reduced to our preferred sweet spot of close to 7g.

A micro-ridge stylus on a sapphire cantilever makes for an extraordinarily responsive cartridge. The sapphire cantilever is far stiffer than boron or aluminium, resulting in less loss between the stylus and the generator.

The overall result is an agile, responsive cartridge with the added performance yielded from specifying these materials; masterfully matched in unique configurations.
Technical Specifications
All-new flagship moving coil cartridge

Stylus Type Micro-ridge
Cantilever Sapphire
Pin Connection Type Flying wire with termination clips - 1.2mm, gold
Mounting Points 3
Coil Wire Copper 4N
Output Voltage 0.45mV @ 3.54cm/s
Load Resistance 100 Ω
Load Capacitance 1nF
Tracking Force 2.0 g
Cartridge Mass 7 g

From £5,500

Contact Ian Ridge on 208 3185755 for info and to book a demonstration.

KENDOLINN PRODUCTS NEW MC CARTRIDGE The eager apprentice; Kendo translates from the Japanese as "way of the sword'. At L...
19/07/2022

KENDO

LINN PRODUCTS NEW MC CARTRIDGE

The eager apprentice; Kendo translates from the Japanese as "way of the sword'. At Linn however, the word has unique connotations…

Kendo is a modern martial art form; translated from the Japanese it means “way of the sword”. At Linn however, the word has unique connotations. Our sword is forged of boron, with a super-fine-line diamond tip. Our armour is nickel-coated, 7075-grade aluminium. Kendo is the eager apprentice to its master, Ekstatik; sharing the same values, and picking up many of its traits along the way.

Kendo is the outcome of the Linn engineers’ efforts to capitalise on the elements of Ekstatik which work so well; using our tried-and-true, trickle-down development methodology to produce a more affordable, high-performance cartridge which retains the same core design principles and acoustic fingerprint.

Kendo possesses a rigid, nickel-coated 7075-grade aluminium body. This specific grade of aluminium matches that of our Arko tonearm, for which Kendo was designed to be the perfect partner. This facilitates superb material synergy throughout the tonearm system, and effectively banishes unwanted resonances away from the delicate generator, along the arm, and out through the sub-chassis.

Technical Specifications
High-performance moving coil cartridge

Stylus Type Super Fine Line
Cantilever Boron
Coil Wire Copper 4N
Pin Connection Type 1.2mm gold pin
Mounting Points 3
Output Voltage 0.45mV @3.54cm/s
Channel Balance at 1 kHz < 1dB
Channel Separation at 1kHz > 28dB
Load Resistance 100Ω
Load Capacitance` 1nF
Tracking Force 2.0g
Cartridge Mass 7.6 g

From £2,800

Call 208 3185755 for more info and to book a listen.

ARKO.QUALITY AND ELEGANCE COMBINE.The new ARKO High-precision gimballed tonearm from Linn Products.With Arko, Linn have ...
19/07/2022

ARKO.

QUALITY AND ELEGANCE COMBINE.

The new ARKO High-precision gimballed tonearm from Linn Products.

With Arko, Linn have returned to fundamentals, by removing all bar the mission-critical elements of tonearm design, boiling these down to their essence, and then honing what was left to superlative standards. Perfectly poised and rigorously refined, Arko is effortful simplicity.

This tonearm features an ultra-stable gimbal platform which facilitates superb bearing concentricity and alignment. Its arm wand travels in space with minimum hindrance; the affixed cartridge bobs and moves with the warps and grooves of the record, with finesse and fluidity.

Special care and effort was taken to ensure that 7075-grade aluminium would be used exclusively throughout the arm wand assembly – from headshell to gimbal – with the resultant material synergy and coupling effectively banishing undesirable resonances away from the delicate generator, and out through the sub-chassis.

Marry Arko to its perfect partner, our aluminium-bodied Kendo moving coil cartridge, and this energy transfer is improved yet further.

KEY FEATURES

7075-grade aluminium used throughout arm wand, to produce superb resonant behaviour

Machined headshell with weight reduction pockets for increased agility

Cold-drawn 7075 aluminium arm tube produced to exceedingly high tolerances and accuracy

Gimballed design results in improved depth, impact, and emotion conveyed

Machined stainless-steel counterweight decreases arm wand inertia

Single piece, polished stainless-steel through-spindle for improved alignment and stability

Contact us on 02083185755 for more information and to book a demonstration.

FOCAL UTOPIA ABSOLUTE ACOUSTIC PURITYOPEN-BACKED CIRCUM AURAL HEADPHONESUtopia have already become the world reference h...
18/07/2022

FOCAL UTOPIA

ABSOLUTE ACOUSTIC PURITY
OPEN-BACKED CIRCUM AURAL HEADPHONES

Utopia have already become the world reference high-fidelity headphones manufactured in France by Focal. They are the result of 35 years of innovation, development and manufacturing of high-end speaker drivers and loudspeakers. Equipped with exclusive technology, they offer striking realism, neutrality, dynamics and clarity, for sound with unrivalled purity. Utopia are unique: they are the world’s first audiophile headphones featured totally open-backed full-range speaker drivers with pure Beryllium ’M’-shaped domes. The acoustic quality of this exclusive solution allowed Focal to avoid the use of any crossover or passive filtering process to achieve a frequency response from 5Hz to 50kHz! The equivalent of two tiny authentic loudspeakers over your ears… They meet all the requirements expected of high-end headphones due to their sophisticated and elegant design and to purposeful materiality, such as the carbon fibre yoke and true lambskin leather ear cushions.

The listening experience is outstanding in terms of realism, natural sound reproduction, dynamics and clarity. When listening to them, the headphones virtually disappear and the audio signal is revealed with a level of precision never achieved until Utopia.
Design is also a key point, be it in regards to the way of using the headphones, comfort, as well as the aesthetic. Another achievement with Utopia is the removal from the conventional rotation included on the yoke and its integration into the headband to ensure a total purity of the design. The true lambskin leather, used on the cushions, reinforces the character of classically elegant lines, as well as the expression of comfort and overall performances. These headphones have immediately been applauded by the press as well as music lovers after launching.

Probably the best headphone in the world?

Book a demonstration on 02083185755

PRICE £3699.00

NEW ELICIT MK5 integrated amplifier The heart of the musicThe all-new Elicit MK5 stereo integrated amplifier is designed...
14/05/2022

NEW ELICIT MK5 integrated amplifier

The heart of the music

The all-new Elicit MK5 stereo integrated amplifier is designed and built to the highest standard. Housed in our latest custom case to match the rest of the Rega range, the new MK5 builds on previous Rega designs by using our multi-award-winning Class A/B power amplifier circuit to deliver a powerful 105 W per channel into 8 Ω loads (127 W into 6 Ω). Our engineers have taken great care to incorporate a high-quality MM phono stage, the headphone input socket has been integrated such that the speaker switching is performed by the output mute relay so as not to obstruct the signal path. Our engineers have incorporated a new design Rega DAC offering digital connectivity and greater flexibility with a variety of other products.

The Elicit MK5 now shares other design features taken directly from the highly acclaimed Aethos amplifier. You will find the same discrete FET based pre-amplifier circuit, plus an Alps volume potentiometer has been introduced to further improve sonic and technical performance. As you would expect, special attention has been paid to the selection of key audio components. Discrete circuitry, high-quality relays, polypropylene capacitors, and Sanken output transistors are used throughout the design.

Call our team on 02083185755 for a demonstration.

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Monday 10:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 18:00
Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Saturday 10:00 - 18:00

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