FYNE AUDIO : MUNICH HIGH END 2024 MAKING SENSE OF SOUND

Munich High End, 2024: FYNE AUDIO officially launches SuperTrax super tweeter globally, adds a contemporary black cosmetic and introduces the high-end SuperTrax SC1 cable. The UK brand will also preview 'Special Production' versions of its popular Vintage Classic Series… Vintage Classic Gold SP.

 Fyne Audio demonstrates its most ambitious patented loudspeaker technology to date in SuperTrax, a revolutionary super tweeter with a unique Thin-Ply Carbon Diaphragm (TPCD) super-HF driver and tractrix profile diffuser. 

High End, Munich 2024: UK’s Fyne Audio launches SuperTrax, a revolutionary super tweeter that eliminates traditional super tweeters' narrowly focused beam directionality with 360-degree omnidirectional dispersion. Previewed at the UK's Bristol Hi-Fi Show in February, Munich High End marks the official global launch. Models are available now in both traditional walnut veneers with gold anodised metalwork to complement the Vintage and Vintage Classic Series, as well as a contemporary gloss black and satin silver version to match Fyne's F700 Series and popular black-finish loudspeakers from other manufacturers.

Munich also sees the launch of Fyne Audio’s new SuperTrax SC1 cable. Built in Glasgow, UK, alongside Fyne premium loudspeakers and SuperTrax super tweeters, the SC1 has been designed and engineered by Dr Paul Mills to elicit the very best performance from SuperTrax. The design uses high-purity OFC copper ribbon conductors to reduce magnetic eddy currents, improving ultra-HF performance and transient behaviour. 

Optimised spacing using LPDE dielectric delivers exceptionally low capacitance and improved vibration damping. The SC1 incorporates a ground wire to reduce potential RFI in the signal is then Deep Cryogenically Treated in Fyne's in-house DCT facility. This innovative process, used extensively for Fyne's UK-made crossovers, reduces internal stresses and refines the crystal boundaries of the copper and solder joints, further improving performance. The cable is protected with a braided nylon sheath and supplied with high-quality, gold-plated Spade and Banana terminals in a presentation box. 

Previewing at this year's High-End show, the Vintage Classic Gold SP Series is a genre-defining design, encompassing Dr Paul Mills ambition to build the finest sounding loudspeaker in a cabinet style from the Hi-Fi hey-days of his formative years. The result is an immaculately finished, retro-styled loudspeaker with cutting-edge audio performance. It is Dr Mill's Signature design, distilling his heart, music soul and decades of expertise into a loudspeaker Series that carries his signature on every cabinet.

Vintage Classic Gold SP bridges the gap between the simplified retro styling of the Vintage Classic Series loudspeakers and the High-End engineering and design concepts from the Vintage Series. Retaining the Classic rectangular cabinet shape, Gold SP (Special Production) brings high-density birch ply cabinet construction, IsoFlare drivers with improved neodymium tweeter and further revisions to the BassTrax 360degree porting system for an even more refined and articulate bass.

The Gold SP Series will launch in Autumn 2024 in 8, 10, and 15 IsoFlare driver versions, with performance further enhanced through upgraded electronics. These will include fully Deep Cryogenically Treated (DCT) crossovers, upgraded internal wiring, and gold-plated ETI terminals, delivering state-of-the-art sound engineering in a design that pays tribute to the golden age of HiFi.

About SuperTrax

Moving beyond conventional forward-firing super tweeter design, the patented SuperTrax uses a groundbreaking thin-ply carbon diaphragm (TPCD) ultra-HF driver firing vertically onto a precision-engineered tractrix profile diffuser cone. The cone transforms the driver's beam-like HF output into a radial 360-degree dispersion, delivering super high-frequency sound that preserves the harmonics and phase response of the point source IsoFlare driver.

The result is a truly immersive experience with a tangible reality to the sound that better connects with the soul and passion of the replayed music. This new technology better aligns the loudspeaker's performance to the instruments that it is required to reproduce, ensuring SuperTrax delivers sound closer than ever to how the artist intended.

Eliminating the break-up modes of metal dome tweeters, the TPCD driver technology with dome structure unique to Fyne Audio pushes the boundaries of material science in acoustic transducers, enabling extremely extended and highly linear upper-frequency response with extremely low distortion. The 25mm (1") driver in SuperTrax has a typical in-room response (+/-6dB) from 16kHz – 60kHz and is suitable to pair with speakers up to 98dB/W sensitivity with a +/-3dB control for balancing with the main speaker.

The 360-degree dispersion cone with tractrix profile draws from Fyne's expertise with its patented BassTrax technology, the 360-degree LF speaker porting system found in all premium Fyne loudspeakers. The SuperTrax design concept achieved a patent in January 2024, adding to Fyne's growing list of patented technologies.

SuperTrax transcends the traditional audio experience, extending the frequency range of your loudspeakers several octaves above the usual limit of human hearing. This extension enriches your music with increased tonal accuracy, a more pronounced transient response, and a greater sense of air and space, enhancing even the lowest frequencies.

The Vintage SuperTrax model has been tastefully crafted to echo the real wood veneers, metalwork and sumptuous grain of retro-styled loudspeakers, SuperTrax has been developed with Fyne's Vintage and Vintage Classic Series in mind as perfect partners. The piano gloss black version with aluminium metalwork has been designed cosmetically to partner with Fyne's F700 and F700SP Series IsoFlare-based loudspeakers but is equally suitable for use with any third-party loudspeaker with a flat top section for SuperTrax placement.

Adds Dr Paul Mills, "We understand how subwoofers extend the low-frequency response and improve the whole sound stage; extending high frequencies also has several benefits, such as bringing realism, air, and life to the music across all frequencies. Combining our IsoFlare driver with the new Fyne Audio SuperTrax delivers a 360-degree immersive stereo listening experience audio like no other." 

Launch dates & pricing

Manufactured, tested and hand-finished in Fyne's Glasgow, UK factory, SuperTrax and the SC1 cable are available now, Vintage Classic Gold SP will launch in Autumn 2024

SuperTrax Walnut

Price: GPB 3,499,99 / EURO 3,999,99 / US$ 4,599,99 - per pair

SuperTrax Gloss Black

Price: GPB 2,999,99 / EURO 3,499,99 / US$ 3,999,99 - per pair

SC1 Cable

Price: GPB 349,99 / EURO 399,99 / US$ 449,99 - per pair

Vintage Classic Gold SP Series

Prices: TBC (Autumn 2024 - c. between Vintage Classic and Vintage pricing)

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Editors notes

Founded in 2017, Fyne Audio is the brainchild of six audio-industry professionals with a mission to deliver groundbreaking loudspeakers, designed and manufactured in Scotland. With roots tracing back over 30 years across a number of Tier1 audiophile brands, the Fyne Audio team has created a dynamic, independent company energised with new ideas. With a strong Scottish heritage, international backing and high ethical values, Fyne Audio is the UK’s fastest growing audiophile brand.