In the ascendency in Asia
The groundbreaking Cardinal takes “Prestige Award for Best Floor Standing Loudspeaker” in Super AV Magazine China, 2013.

Marking what has been a vintage year in China and Asia, Wilson Benesch are thrilled to have been presented with this Award from Audio Visual Magazine. The ‘Prestige’ Award highlights the incredible amount of hard work and dedication in the persuit of the perfect sound that Wilson Benesch has embarked upon for its entire 25-year tenure in the High End Audio market. But further it underlines the excellent work and dedication to our brand and its products by our distribution partners, Forthwise. We would like to make a personal thanks to Robert Wan, Kim Siu and our good friends and colleagues in Hong Kong, China and Macau who have worked tirelessly to bring premium quality, British made products such as the Cardinal to the High End fraternity in these markets.

“In what is without doubt one of the most and if not the most important market in the world such an award comes as a wonderful end to an eventful and exciting year” – Christina Milnes, Managing Director.

The Cardinal is a remarkable and very worthy flagship that is setting the agenda in Asia in much the same way that it has in Europe. The first new product to see Cardinal technology is the Square Five which will make its UK debut at the Bristol Sound & Vision Show in the large prestigious venue of the Conservatory. We look forward to celebrating this award and the company’s 25th Anniversary Year with you.

A slideshow of the final show of 2013, the Guangzhou High End 2013 – featuring the Square Five and the Cardinal Loudspeakers.

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Wilson Benesch Celebrate 25th ‘Silver’ Anniversary at the Bristol Sound and Vision

25-years ago Wilson Benesch emerged as a fledgling British HIFI company with our first product, the original Wilson Benesch Turntable. Today, Wilson Benesch represent the State-of-the-Art in British High End Audio Design.

25-Years of Innovation in acoustics, materials sciences and manufacturing from the preeminent British High End Audio company. The company has been bestowed countless Awards from a global audience, endorsing Wilson Benesch’s place in the annals of audio history, recognised today as the “British Ambassadors of High tech”, after Sircom.

Silver Anniversary
A special year demands a special event, so Wilson Benesch will be executing its most ambitious demonstration yet showcasing a new 25th Anniversary ‘Circle 25’ Turntable, the new Square Series II flagship, the Square Five, plus a ‘Wilson Benesch Legacy Walk’ through the annals of Wilson Benesch’s legacy products in the flesh to include the original Wilson Benesch Turntable and the A.C.T. One Loudspeaker.

Collaborating with the Best
Continuing our collaboration with the finest front-end designers from across the globe, this year Wilson Benesch will showcase the highly innovative digital electronics from Swiss Audio designers CH Precision. There is no preamplifier in this digital solution, the build quality and clarity of purpose is evident in each and every element. It is for this reason that Wilson Benesch has installed a full CH Precision system as a research tool within its purpose built Research and Development facility located in the Technology Centre on Europe’s largest Advanced Manufacturing Park in Sheffield.

Driving the Square Five Loudspeakers and the Circle 25 will be long standing German partners Audionet. In the AMP1 V2, Pre G3 and the PAM Phono Stage, the Audionet collection represents serious high value for money. The PAM is regarded as one of the finest examples of any such product.

All cables will be supplied by leading British Cable Designers Clearer Audio with ‘Silver-Line Optimus Reference’ cables throughout.

So join us in the Conservatory for a special Silver Anniversary celebration.

Date: Friday 21st – Sunday 23rd February 2014
Location: Bristol Marriott City Centre Hotel, Lower Castle Street, Bristol

Forthwise continue the rapid growth of the Wilson Benesch brand in Mainland China and Hong Kong with the third successive show since the announcement of the new partnership in the summer. The Cardinal will appear at the Guangzhou International audio recordings show, Ling Zhi hall of the Oriental Hotel, 8th Floor, Building 2, East Hall, 6th – 8th December 2013.

The lineup is as follows:

1: Swiss darTZeel up to heaven NHB-458 Mono stage (priced 1.5 million domestic first open sound).
2: Japan TechTAS Air Force One flotation turntables (pricing 800000, China starting out loud)
3: British wilson benesch Kim Chi The Cardinal (Cardinal) flagship speaker (pricing 1,000,000, the domestic first open sound)
4: The world’s best hot Swiss CH precision D1 level turntable, C1 decoding plus one-third body system X1 power

The Cardinal high end carbon fiber loudspeaker has been hugely popular with the discerning high tech audiophiles of Hong Kong. In this short film by Chinese Luxury Men’s Magazine GAfencu the Cardinal can be seen presented in the luxurious demonstration rooms of Forthwise in Hong Kong, along with DarTZeel Electronics.

Date: Friday 6th – Sunday 8th December 2013
Location: Guangzhou High End Audio Show 2013, China

Read Roy Gregory’s impressive Cardinal review for HIFI+ here.

To arrange a demonstration please contact Forthwise Ltd.

Forthwise Ltd
6 / F, 1 Duddell Street
Central
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2868 9993
Fax: +852 2525 2380
e: forthwise@netvigator.com
w: www.forthwise.com

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Wilson Benesch continues to gather pace in Italy with the third successive HIFI Show in as many months. Once again the Wilson Benesch loudspeakers will be paired with the Devialet electronics, following the Vertex and the C60 presentations in Lanciano and Milan respectively. Guests of this years Grand Gala di Padova will be treated to the Wilson Benesch Square One from the updated Square Series II, along with the Devialet 170.

The Gran Gala dell’ Alta Fedelta has been a mainstay of the Italian High End Audio scene for many years now and the Padova Show this year will be the 5th successive show. Taking place Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November. The show is free to all.

The Wilson Benesch Square One is a beautiful speaker, with a perfect finish and
very rewarding. Ideal for urban dwellers, where these beautiful English speakers
will provide many years of intense musical pleasure to their happy owner

Patrice Philippe, Haute Fidelite, France, 2012

Date:
Saturday 23rd November, 9.30 – 19.00
Sunday 24th November, 9.30 – 18.00
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Padova, Italy

For further information about the show or to arrange a demonstration of the Square One with ‘Mad For Music SAS’ please use the following links.

Mad For Music SAS
Via Marco Ulpio Traiano 53
20149 Milano (MI)
Italy
Tel: +39 02 327 2080
Fax: +39 3481883216
e: info@madformusic.it
w: www.madformusic.it

Gran Gala di Padova Show website

Wilson Benesch: Built For You

Writing this show report from 36,000ft somewhere over Siberia makes for an exciting end to what has been a phenomenally successful journey to Asia. Set in the impressive Tokyo International Forum, designed by Raphael Vinoly, the Tokyo International Audio Show was more than a match for the stunning architecture as hundreds upon hundreds of high end audio enthusiasts flocked to the exhibition center.

Wilson Benesch recently announced the return to the Japanese market with Stella Inc. and in Tokyo the Cardinal high end loudspeaker was in the company of a multitude of State-of-the-Art high end audio components. Fronted by the reference grade components of TechDAS, Constellation Audio, CH Precision and Devialet, the Wilson Benesch Cardinal received praise across the board.

Leading British and US reviewer Ken Kessler introduced the Cardinal for the main presentation, which included his fascinating lecture “Reviewing High End Audio Equipment”. This presentation was in combination with the Constellation Audio Hercules II 1000 watt per channel Monoblock power amplifiers and the Altair II Line Stage, with the TechDAS Air Force One Turntable and CH Precision D1 CD/SACD source.

The sound was superlative, the presentation by new distribution partner, Stella Inc. flawless and as a result the room was almost always completely full with more than 50 guests.

Further to the lightbox images below, which can be viewed by clicking on the image, there will be a number of short films appear on Wilson Benesch TV, to include Design Director Craig Milnes’ introduction of the Cardinal to Japan – now embed below these images.

Wilson Benesch: The Future is Carbon