Ken Kessler will have a heart attack!
The South Korean Electronics giant Samsung turn to valves (and Apple...) to spruce up their audio business. The new iPod/iPhone/iPad ghetto blaster uses a valve-based digital amplifier in this modern-retro combo, complete with integral sub and Apple Airplay!
They have not forgotten their own Android clients, as this product is also compatible with the Galaxy range.
C'est le monde a l'envers!

French Vintage Hi Fi is celebrating its first birthday today!
It has been quite an adventure (and a challenge at times...) to dig into memories of great products and recounting stories of past and more recents audiophile pleasures.
It has also been quite a success as we now command a steady flow of visitors from over 60 countries, some spending up to an hour to read my prose...
Even better is the fact that we now rank on www.alexa.com, the worlwide reference in terms of one's identity on the Net.
Merci beaucoup to all of you.
I hope we will be able to give you even more information, more relevant to your passion and wider in scope.
To this effect, I am opening a new page to talk about the real reason which HiFi exists: to reproduce music!
I was going to call the new page "software" but instead I have settled on "Music".
This new page will also be on a blog format, so you easily find an artist, a composer, a particular ensemble or a record company. we will endeavour to review analogue and digital formats and will indicate this in the "categories" navigation pane.
Tell us what you would like us to talk about in the near future, or if you have a particular product you would like us to talk about.
We will also accept and publish your own reviews of such vintage products.
The main criteria to be published is to have a real ownership of and experience with such a product.
If you are a manufacturer, we would like to hear from you as well, as it is sometime difficult for us to access information on vintage products.
So, again thank a million for visiting and click here for our first "Music" instalment!