Belfast Audio Show 2024: join MBL and Kantata Audio this November to mark the launch of MBL in Ireland

German high-end audio brand MBL and Northern Ireland-based exclusive hi-fi retailer Kantata Audio are delighted to announce the launch of a new retail agreement that will bring MBL’s pioneering and unique omnidirectional Radialstrahler loudspeakers and award-winning electronics to customers throughout Ireland. The launch will be marked as part of a brand new audio show to be held in Belfast in early November.

The Belfast Audio Show 2024

Hi-fi press, audiophiles and music lovers are cordially invited to join Kantata Audio’s John Stirling and MBL’s Antoine Furbur at the inaugural Belfast Audio Show 2024, to celebrate the launch of the MBL brand in Ireland.

The Belfast Audio Show 2024, created in association with Kantata Audio, is a brand new audio event designed to showcase the best of high-end hi-fi available across Ireland.

This inaugural Show will feature a total of nine audio exhibition suites / listening rooms, showcasing live demonstrations of the incredible sounds of MBL as well as Amphion, AudioQuest, Exposure Electronics, Graham Audio, Hegel, Innuos, Moor Amps, Ophidian, Stratton Acoustics and Vertere Acoustics.

Additionally, there will be displays from Audite Acoustics and Custom Design.

Visitors to the Show can relax in a prime venue, conveniently located just 10 minutes from Belfast city centre and 10 minutes from George Best Belfast City Airport. Come along and enjoy a ‘home from home’ listening experience that reflects Kantata Audio’s highly personal approach to experiencing and buying hi-fi – with the addition of a select gathering of audio experts, designers and advisers from some of your favourite world-leading brands.

Visitors will also have the opportunity to enter an exclusive prize draw with the chance to win some high quality vinyl goodies from the Vertere record rabel, all remastered by Myles Showell of Abbey Road Studios.

A warm welcome to Ireland for MBL

German brand MBL is justifiably famous for its pioneering ‘Radialstrahler’ omnidirectional loudspeakers, originally created in 1979 by company founders Meletzky, Bieneke and Lehnart and subsequently perfected and advanced by current chief engineer Jürgen Reis. Meanwhile, the brand’s growing range of stunningly crafted, masterfully performing electronics has equally amassed an impressive complement of international awards across its three series: the top-of-range Reference Line, the innovative Noble Line and the elegantly compact Cadenza Line.

The Belfast Audio Show will celebrate the launch of MBL in Ireland, thanks to a new retail agreement with Kantata Audio. Three audio exhibition suites / listening rooms will feature MBL’s superb, multi award-winning Radialstrahler omnidirectional loudspeakers and electronics, including:

• A dedicated MBL room, hosted by the company’s Sales Director Antoine Furbur, which will showcase an all MBL system comprising: the new Cadenza Line C41 network player partnered with the C21 stereo power amplifier, and the revolutionary Radialstrahler 126 compact standmount loudspeakers (recent winner of The Absolute Sound’s Golden Ear Award 2024).
• The Audioquest / Stratton Acoustics room, which will feature MBL’s N31 CD player & DAC and N51 integrated amplifier, here wired with Audioquest’s exceptional cables and driving Stratton Acoustics’ unmistakeable, hand-built loudspeakers.
• The Vertere Acoustic room, featuring MBL’s N11 preamplifier alongside a pair of N15 mono amplifiers driving the incredible MBL Radialstrahler 101E MkII loudspeakers (one of The Absolute Sound’s ’15 Most Significant Loudspeakers of All Time’).

Your hosts, Kantata Audio

Kantata Audio is Ireland’s ‘alternative’ hi-fi retailer. Founded in 2017 by John Stirling, it offers customers a highly personal approach to experiencing and buying hi-fi. All products are hand-selected by John himself, to create high-quality audio systems for his customers to enjoy in a relaxed and comfortable setting. Kantata Audio is the exclusive retailer of multiple premium audio brands, offering systems and separates for many tastes and budgets. John invites customers book an appointment, bring along some of their favourite tracks and rediscover their music collection – as it should sound.

John says, “When MBL was first described to me as offering ‘value for money’, I was sceptical, since theirs are clearly very high-end products. Then I heard an MBL system and was instantly convinced. The build quality and sonic performance of an MBL system puts it head and shoulders above comparable competitors. MBL should be at the top of everyone’s audition list.”

“Creating the 2024 Belfast Audio Show around the launch of MBL in Ireland has been exciting, and I guarantee that our visitors will be treated to some exceptional, class-leading hi-fi in a relaxed and fun environment.”