Audio systems
Audiophile installations of Hi-Fi and High-End equipment
Ready-made systems, already installed and configured by lovers of good sound - a visual guide to the selection of audio equipment and acoustic systems. In addition to Hi-Fi and High-End audio installations, you will find in this section examples of a selection of the most optimal components for various requirements (such as vinyl optimized systems, systems of the month, etc.). Each of the systems contains many photos, as well as a list of equipment with detailed characteristics and descriptions in our database.
Zellaton STAGE Ultra High-End!
10 components
Zellaton STAGE floorstanders, from the Munich maker's Klassik series, are powered here by the Gryphon Mephisto Stereo, a Danish class A amplifier with large current reserves. Around them sits a two-source chain, with CH Precision L1 and P1 electronics, a TechDAS Air Force III Premium S carrying a Kuzma 4Point and an Air Tight Opus-1, and an Aurender N30SA streaming into a LampizatOr Golden Gate 2.
Grandinote MACH 8 XL Rule
10 components
Grandinote MACH 8 XL towers run from two Aries Cerat Concero 25 single-ended monoblocks, an Italian crossover-free speaker matched with Cypriot 845 valve amplification. Around them sits a heavy analogue rig - CH Precision L1 and P1, a TechDAS Air Force III Premium S with Kuzma 4Point arm and Air Tight Opus-1 - plus an Aurender N30SA feeding a LampizatOr Golden Gate 2.
Ultra High-End is on the march!
5 components
Custom-made loudspeakers carry the music in this five-component chain, and every piece of electronics driving them belongs to CH Precision's 10 Series. An M10 Stereo power amplifier takes the signal from an L10 preamplifier, a C10 converter covers files and discs, and a P10 phono stage serves a TechDAS Air Force One Premium turntable. The idea of the build is a single-family Swiss electronics stack with a Japanese air-bearing record player in front.
Wilson Audion, CH Precision and TechDAS
6 components
Four-module Wilson Audio Alexx V floorstanders are powered here by a CH Precision M1.1 stereo amplifier, with the rest of the electronics also coming from the Swiss maker. An L1 line stage sits between sources and amplifier, a C10 converter handles digital, and a P10 phono stage takes the signal from a TechDAS Air Force V Premium air-bearing turntable. The core of this six-box chain is a Swiss class A design set against a large, low-impedance Utah loudspeaker.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Tune Audio Anima
1 component
Tune Audio Anima horns from Athens are the single listed component of their stand at the 2025 High End show in Munich, a fully horn-loaded three-way floorstander that asks for no more than a few watts. The system page names no electronics, so the speaker itself defines the pairing logic, and the maker points owners toward low to mid powered tube single-ended triode amplifiers or solid-state designs with little or no feedback.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Davis Acoustics THE STAGE
1 component
A single French two-way floorstander, THE STAGE from Davis Acoustics, makes up the whole system in this listening space at High End Munich 2025, and it leaves the amplification open, since the page lists the speaker alone. The front baffle carries no logo, and the DAVIS Acoustics name appears only on the rear plate, because the maker designs the cabinet to read as a piece of furniture in a living room before it reads as a loudspeaker.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Brinkmann Audio Balance analg paradise
1 component
The idea of this Munich 2025 system is a single turntable, the Brinkmann Audio Balance 33rd Anniversary Edition, a limited run of the German belt-drive design that Helmut Brinkmann has built since May 1985. It carries two arm positions, a Brinkmann 12.1 arm and a valve power supply, and it sits on a bespoke HRS isolation base, so the source, its drive and its support come as one matched package from a single maker.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Gershman Acoustics 30th Anniversary Black Swan!
1 component
Gershman Acoustics 30th Anniversary Black Swan floorstanders are the whole subject of this High End Munich 2025 entry, so the question of what drives them stays open and the speaker itself sets the terms. The Canadian design marks three decades of the Black Swan line and splits each cabinet into two separate enclosures, a bass box below and an A-shaped mid and treble box above, which share no common wall.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - agian WADAX Studio • Player and Audio Research
1 component
A Wadax Studio Player feeding Audio Research valve electronics is the core of a system shown at High End Munich 2025. The system page lists only the Spanish one-box source, while the American amplification and the loudspeakers it drove are not itemised, so the description centres on what the Studio Player brings to a tube chain. It plays CD, SACD and streams, converts and controls volume in one chassis, which leaves the rest of the rack to the amplifier.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Magico S2 full potential with Vitus and WADAX
2 components
Magico S2 towers, the most compact three-way floorstander in the S Series, are driven here by Vitus Audio electronics from Denmark and fed by a Wadax Studio Player. This pairing played at High End Munich 2025, and the page lists two components, the speaker and the one-box digital source, with the Vitus amplification present in the room but not itemised. The core idea is a small aluminium tower given a reference-level source and serious amplification.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Pathos InPoL Legacy 140 kg monster amp
1 component
At the centre of this Munich room stood the Pathos InPoL Legacy, a 140 kg Italian integrated amplifier shown at High End Munich 2025 and listed on the system page as the only component, so the speakers it drove are not part of the record. Pathos built it as a tribute to co-founder and owner Gaetano Zanini and set out to match or exceed its own InPower and Adrenalin monoblocs in a single chassis.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Audiovector R 10 ARRETÉ meets CH Precision M10
2 components
Audiovector's R 10 Arreté floorstanders run here from a single CH Precision M10 stereo power amplifier, a two-box pairing heard at High End Munich 2025, where the Danish company gave the R 10 Arreté its public debut. The chain is deliberately short, so the result rests on how a 13-driver five-way loudspeaker and a Swiss dual-chassis class AB amplifier meet at the terminals.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Marten Design Coltrane Quintet Extreme!
1 component
Marten Coltrane Quintet Extreme floorstanders were the centrepiece of the Swedish maker's own room F119 at High End Munich 2025, where the model had its premiere with a full demonstration system beside a static display of the larger Coltrane Supreme Extreme. Hand-built in Sweden and limited to ten pairs worldwide, it carries the driver set of that larger model into a single cabinet, and the electronics around it came from partner companies supporting the room.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - TOTALDAC d120 acoustics
1 component
Every box in this Munich 2025 room, from network switch and streamer to DAC, amplification and cabling, came from one small French workshop near Rennes, with Totaldac d120 columns driven by Totaldac Amp-1 amplifiers. Vincent Brient designs the whole chain as a single product, and the d120 was the loudspeaker that tied it together, a horn-loaded column built from solid French wood down to the driver frame.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - EgglestonWorks Andra III SE and EMM Labs
1 component
EgglestonWorks Andra III SE floorstanders, driven by EMM Labs electronics, filled this High End Munich 2025 room. The Memphis-built three-way tower is the only item listed for the system, so the speaker carries the description, with its isobaric pair of Dynaudio 30W100 woofers setting the scale of what the Canadian digital front end and amplification have to drive.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Zellaton STAGE ULTRA!
1 component
Zellaton's STAGE ULTRA stands alone in this High End Munich 2025 entry, a passive three-way floorstander from the Munich maker whose sandwich cone goes back to a 1930 patent by Dr. Emil Podszus. No amplifier or source is documented for the room, so the speaker itself is the subject here, built around hand-made full-cone drivers that his grandson Manuel Podszus still produces from the original principles.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Wilson Benesch Horizon and Lumin
2 components
Wilson Benesch Horizon floorstanders were heard at High End Munich 2025 with a Lumin U2X network transport as the listed source, a two-box combination of a British 2.5-way speaker and a Hong Kong streaming front end. The amplification and the converter used in the room were not part of the published system, so the pairing here is about the speaker and a source that hands its digital stream to an outboard DAC.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Cessaro Horn Acoustics BEETHOVEN II horns!
1 component
Cessaro Horn Acoustics Beethoven II horns stood alone as the entry from High End Munich 2025, a five-way German horn tower whose bass carries its own amplifiers, so any external amplifier only has to feed the four horn-loaded upper sections. With a rated sensitivity of 107 dB and a mass of about 1,000 kg per unit, the speaker itself is the whole story here, and the electronics around it were not listed as part of the system.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - Gryphon Audio full system
4 components
Gryphon EOS 5 floorstanders driven by the new Antileon Revelation stereo amplifier made up an all-Gryphon room at High End Munich 2025, where the Danish company marked its 40th year and three decades of the Antileon line. The Commander preamplifier and the Ethos CD player and DAC complete a chain in which every box, from disc to loudspeaker, comes from the same design team in Denmark.
High End Munich 2025 Systems - new Kaiser Acoustics Minal and TechDAS Air Force One
2 components
Kaiser Acoustics paired its new Kawero! Minal floorstanders with a TechDAS Air Force One turntable for High End Munich 2025, a two-component showing that puts a heavily damped German loudspeaker next to a Japanese air-bearing record player. The room was about mechanical control at both ends of the chain, a cabinet built to keep its panels quiet on one side and a platter isolated from vibration by air on the other.