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Welcome to Vacuum State

This High End Hi-Fi company was founded in Australia in 1982 by its present managing director Allen Wright.
Since 2005 Vacuum State is located in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

We hand build ultra quality tube amplifiers, preamplifiers, phono stages, silver interconnect cables and speaker cables for the true music lover, and perform award winning modification of SACD and CD players.

Terra Firma: Our latest development in SACD Upgrades

Our February 2009 Newsletter presents you two big, new, and long awaited items:
The Terra Firma "ÜberClock" and the Terra Firma "Lite". Download here (PDF 600k) .

A first enthusiastic Review on it: www.audioasylum.com/audio/digital/messages/14/142994.html

Another enthusiastic review, written by Mark Höpfl under www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=hirez&m=252126

Now Karl Lozier writes in www.positive-feedback.com/Issue44/uberclock.htm: "The difference in many recordings is the greatest difference ever in my memory for an upgrade or modification of any component. ... I must give Allen Wright's newly developed Uber Clock my absolutely highest recommendation as easily the finest, most natural sounding upgrade or modification to any audio component in my audio listening experience ..."

D.S. from Maryland discusses his personal experience with player upgrades and, reporting on his upgrade to Terra Firma Lite, comes to the conclusion "... jaw dropping would be an understatement ..." Read his full story (PDF 600k)

Geoff Metralla has visited us twice and listened to our system, incl. the Terra Firma upgrades (Lite and ÜberClock). After his first visit he happily states "... it was a humbling experience ... So while I understand the reservations regarding "sales talk", some also walk the walk". After his second visit he is keenly giving a detailed report on his experience on the Hi-Rez Highway. Please read his full writeup (PDF 600k).

Vacuum State Newsletter 2008

Download our September 2008 Newsletter:
Newsletter2008web.pdf

Our DPA-300B Poweramps

Equipment Review by Roy Gregory


"... this is no ordinary amplifier ... an almost spookily realistic presentation ... no sense of anything between you and the performers ... the most natural and easily audible reproduction of jazz bass I've ever heard ..."

These are just a few of Roy Gregory's enthusiastic statements on our DPA-300B monobloc power amps in his detailed equipment review in HiFi Plus, Issue 66.

Download his complete review (PDF 700k) here.

Further recent Reviews:

On our audio cables


This is Adam Goldfine's conclusion in his review about our interconnect and speaker cables in Issue 40 of Positive Feedback Online. He states:

"I can safely say that I have a good sense of the difference cables make in general and what one can expect going from a modest cable to a mid level cable to a top flight cable ... The magnitude of difference the VSE cables made in my system was on the order of what one should expect from the best cables available."


Read his complete review

On our SVP-2 and our audio cables


The September issue of HiFi plus magazine contains a great review of our SVP-2 preamp by the very well renowned Roy Gregory.
He writes: "... Looking for shortcomings you'll need to compare the SVP-2 to the very best (and most expensive units) out there..."

Download his whole review (PDF 600k) to read more

In the same issue Roy Gregory also writes about our Silver Wire interconnect and Copper Foil speaker cables:
"... No matter what system I used them with, these cables came as a breath of fresh air. Clean, quick, open, detailed and dynamic, as soon as the music started you found yourself relaxing and forgetting about their performance, focusing instead on THE performance. ..."

Download his full review (PDF 600k) to read more

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