Sonneteer at the UK Pavilion, Amsterdam 2011

Turning heads and pleasing ears, Sonneteer return home after three days of integrating at Europe's top show for the ilk. The long drives there and home were certainly well worth the experience as Remo and Haider tested their vocal mechanics to their limits. Visitors were many and mostly a rewarding experience.

The three days of the show brought Sonneteer to the eyes of a crowd beyond the usual hi-fi massive as home system integrators, architects and installers hoofed en mass to the Sonneteer stall.

Dominant themes were, home networking of home entertainment and control. As technology makes life simpler in principle everyone seems to be hopping about looking for the latest solutions. That said, traditional hi-fi and bespoke solutions were all the rage as resellers look for the edge to bring the reluctant consumer back to the spender's fold. who would know that customer satisfaction would be back on the agenda!? Hand crafted and in a  multi-colourful choice Sonneteer were on hand to show off their bespoke solutions too.

One of their big posters read; "sound technology delivery systems, made simple". A clear statement of intent.

More soon.

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ISE 2011, RAI Amsterdam. Listen, touch, play.

1F100 the stand at which you will find Sonneteer this year at the ISE at the RAI Amsterdam, February 1st to 3rd. British flags will be fluttering as the show's highlight will be part of the UK pavilion, which despite the heavy cuts that were so clearly evident of the UKTi at CES, this one sneaked through the funding blockade.

As such, Sonneteer will be proudly showing off the best of British design and handy work (yes they are still made in the UK) with the Morpheus to be perched on its beautifully crafted stand feeding off the server and the internet in multicolour.

We hope to bring you reports on events back from the show.
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Days 3 & 4 CES 2011

As we got into the swing of things it became obviously wise to start the long days at CES with a hearty breakfast as the Sonneteer room was often overrun with folk and none more so than at lunch time.

On the Saturday the madness continued with notably a large number of end users trawling the floors of the show. As a trade show this is, of course, not strictly expected, but we were more than happy to oblige future customers.
The final day of the show is traditionally when the exhibitors get a chance to walk around for themselves and becomes more of an industry love in, so to speak. Most of the show visitors are at the airport or driving home across the desert ready to sip their black coffee on a Monday morning.
The show next year, we are advised, will be an all mid week affair.

CES REPORT: Days 1 & 2 Sonneteer Serving the News waves

As the rest of the electronics industry pops its tablets and shades off its 3D hang over, some small corners of the CES show were quietly revolutionising the way people live. No exception to this are Sonneteer who were on hand with their Music Centre now fully bluetoothed, Ipodded and Androided and sitting on a beautiful stand and potentially hanging out on walls. Days 1 and 2 were briskly attended by the trade and press alike and through these pages we will be linking you through to numerous blogs and news items posted.

As well as Bluetooth and a brand new stand, Sonneteer were showing off an iPod Touch controlling the two systems on display. The New Reciva Remote, developed in conjunction with Sonneteer's partners in streaming, Reciva of Cambridge and which boasts the same software engine of the Morpheus can, by definition, control every function on the unit including the tens of thousands of radio stations and allows you to assign presets as well as showing off

Album art and creating play lists. No matter how many Sonneteer Morpheus you have in your home or how many servers, the remote will access and control them all from the palm of your hand. Traditionalists can, of course, use the solid aluminium remote control that comes with the Morpheus as standard.

Sonneteer showing, Streaming and NET-working at CES Las Vegas 2011

CES 2011: Expect an iPod, an Android and the God of dreams. Sonneteer are back in the limelight.

The Sonneteer Morpheus Music Centre has come of age and acquired a family. It has its own stand, a Server which rips and stores music and, courtesy of Reciva the internet radio people, an App that will remotely control all functions on all the Morpheus units you may have in your home.

All of these will be on show alongside a selection of beautifully crafted loudspeakers from Sonneteer's brothers in arms, Penaudio.

The Morpheus Server will be showing off its skilled silence as well as its ability to look beautiful in its hand crafted, engraved aluminium coat. The Music centre as well as a new stand will be going blue in the form of a Blue tooth option so iPhones, iPods, iPads and just about any other mobile phone or device with bluetooth built in can send music to it.

Talking of colours the full range of 12 will be on show; options now available on all Sonneteer products.

Where will they be? Venetian Tower Suite 29-310, January 6 to 9, 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas.

AV-NU, Utrecht Sonneteer and Penaudio with Riverside Audio on show

Sonneteer with Riverside Audio of the Netherlands are currently on show at the AV-NU 2010 exhibition in Utrecht. With their long term showing partners Penaudio loudspeakers of Finland, high brow British luxury brand Sonneteer have their full contingent of Classic and luxury lifestyle products in residence for the full duration of this Audio Visual extravaganza. Remo Casadei of Sonneteer and Erik Ubels of Riverside are on hand to deliver knowledge and advice derived from their extreme wealth of expertise in design, ergonomics and electronics.

The first two days of the show have been exceptionally well attended and dedicated to both trade visitors and public.If you are interested in the machinations of a phase locked loop of would simply like to find out how a Sonneteer Morpheus Music Centre would look hanging on your wall or on the sideboard in your living room. Then Remo and Erik will be on hand to help.

For the first time in the Netherlands the full colour range now on offer from Sonnteer are on show. These are available to order on any of the Sonneteer range of products be it the Morpheus Music Centre, Server or Classic Amplifier, phono stage or CD player.
Also on show is the New Morpheus Server and CD Ripper from Sonneteer. Remo, the chief designer on this particular products is on hand to proudly boast about his engineering tricks that rendered this,  three Terra byte storage Behemoth, silent in operation and beautiful to see. It also rips a CD and stores in the time it takes to make a cup of tea.

Riverside Audio have represented Sonneteer in the Netherlands since the launch of the Morpheus Music Centre. Riverside are Picking up the baton from the previous safe keepers as Sonneteer have been ever present and popular in the Netherlands since the mid 1990s. Sonneteer's fame was established with the Campion and Alabaster purist British, solid state amplifiers of which Erik became the proud owner of a few. You could say, he liked it so much he wanted to represent the company.

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HiFi Review of Hong Kong love faithful Morpheus.

"The Morpheus Music Centre [from Sonneteer] will move you from the very first instant. This is not just a high technology laden piece of equipment, but clearly one created to bring music to life." As translated by our in house Chinese speaking gentleman, Remo Casadei and as published in issue 290 of HiFi Review from Hong Kong. They went on to say, " If you like delicate detail, faithfully reproduced combined with ideal musicality then I can say the British made Sonneteer Morpheus will not disappoint one bit. In fact it will bring you unexpected joy".

From these snippets and many others like this that proclaim the Sonneteer's "high end hi-fi level of performance" and "Premium sound quality" we can safely say that the reviewer, Winson Ng, was taken with the it. We wish to thank our partners, East Group in Hong Kong for arranging and forwarding the review.