Pearl Audio

06/18/2026

Thank you to the Porsche Club of Oregon and Ron Tonkin Gran Turismo for the opportunity to be a part of a wonderful and successful event.

The 20-year relationship between Burmester and Porsche is built on high standards and is considered a benchmark for factory-integrated car hi-fi systems. So much so, the Burmester High-End Surround Sound System was the first car audio system ever to receive the "Image Hifi Award."

Experience the Pure Sound of Burmester in your home.

Pearl Audio is your reference retailer for Burmester Audiosysteme GmbH in the Pacific Northwest. With 20-plus years of retail experience, we understand the sales and design process. Schedule your personalized Burmester listening session at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

06/16/2026

Amati Supreme reveals itself in Violin Red - You don't just listen to music; you feel it.

On demonstration at Pearl Audio are Sonus faber's Amati Supreme loudspeakers.

The System: Sonus faber Amati Supreme loudspeaker, Burmester 216 Power Amplifiers, dCS Vivaldi stack, and Nordost Valhalla series cabling.

Pearl Audio is your reference retailer for Sonus faber. With 20-plus years of retail experience, we understand the sales and design process. Schedule your personalized Amati Supreme listening session at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

06/15/2026

The McIntosh MA2375 2-Channel Vacuum Tube Integrated Amplifier. A statement of uncompromising artistry.

Key Features
- 75 Watts x 2-Channels into 4, 8, or 16 Ohms
- Preamplifier: (1) 12AX7A and (1) 12AT7 tube per channel
- Power Amplifier: (2) 12AT7 and (2) KT88 tubes per channel
- 6 analog inputs: 3 unbalanced, 2 balanced, 1 universal phono

Now on demonstration at Pearl Audio, McIntosh Labs MA2375 2-Channel Vacuum Tube Integrated Amplifier.

Pearl Audio has been your Platinum McIntosh Laboratory Reference Dealer for 20-plus years. As the longest-serving McIntosh dealer in the Pacific Northwest, we have the largest in-stock McIntosh inventory. Schedule your personalized listening MA2375 experience today at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

06/13/2026

Saturday Sessions at the Shop - The Lina DAC X brings you closer to your music.

“The colours and textures of the instruments are all beautifully portrayed…utterly credible and highly communicative and enjoyable.” - hifi+

The Lina DAC X has been recognized by hifi+ as a 2026 winner.

The DAC X offers all the qualities listeners have come to expect from dCS – outstanding clarity and resolution, meticulous craftsmanship, and a flexible architecture that enables ongoing delivery of new features and benefits.

Designed to integrate seamlessly with existing audio equipment, it reflects dCS’s ambition to create timeless, versatile products that bring listeners closer to their music...

The System: Data Conversion Systems Lina DAC X, Magico A5 loudspeaker, Pass Laboratories 30.8 stereo amplifier, and Nordost Odin 2 speaker cables.

Pearl Audio is your reference retailer for dCS, Magico, Pass Labs, and Nordost in Oregon. With 20-plus years of high-end audio retail experience, we understand the sales and design process. Schedule your personalized listening session at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

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06/12/2026

Bound by passion for pure performance.

Inspired by Linn's flagship 360 loudspeaker, Linn's goal for the 150's was to create a fundamentally entertaining loudspeaker, one with refinement, sophistication, and neutrality, so that it would play any source material equally well – and equally enjoyably.

Pair 150 speakers with a Selekt DSM: Classic Hub, and you will have a future-proof, complete system which can be upgraded over time.

Pictured: Linn 150 Passive floorstanding loudspeakers, Pass Laboratories 30.8 Class A/B Stereo Power Amplifier, Linn Selekt DSM: Edition Hub with Dual Organik DAC, and Nordost TYR 2 speaker cables.

Pearl Audio is your reference retailer for Linn, Pass Labs, and Nordost in Oregon. With 20-plus years of high-end audio retail experience, we understand the sales and design process. Schedule your personalized listening session at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

06/11/2026

For nearly a half-century, Burmester has turned amplification into innovation.

Power amplification has always been one of Burmester's core competencies. A typical feature of Burmester power amplifiers is their extremely high damping factor. These monumental but stylish power amps easily handle even the most demanding loudspeakers. Its almost inexhaustible power reserves lead to impressive sovereignty in music reproduction, supported by outstanding spatial resolution and musical warmth.

Pictured: two Burmester 956 MK2 Power Amplifiers in silver, two 218 Power Amplifiers in silver, and one in black (noir).

Pearl Audio is your reference retailer for Burmester Audiosysteme GmbH in the Pacific Northwest. With 20-plus years of retail experience, we understand the sales and design process. Schedule your personalized listening session at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

06/10/2026

Coming Soon to Pearl Audio - Bowers & Wilkins 801 D5 in Light Walnut, as pictured.

It took 60 years to make loudspeakers this good. Bowers & Wilkins is proud to announce the launch of the new 800 Series Diamond D5, the latest generation of their flagship loudspeaker range.

Every generation of 800 Series begins with the same question: what stands in the way of the music? And every generation answers it: in new materials, in advanced engineering, and in the things you cannot see but will absolutely hear. True sound. Nothing added. Nothing taken away.

Sixty years in the making.

Pearl Audio is your reference retailer for Bowers & Wilkins. With 20-plus years of retail experience, we understand the sales and design process. Schedule your personalized B&W listening session at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

06/09/2026

Exceptional products, built to last.

dCS believes a great component should be timeless – able to deliver an outstanding experience for as long as someone chooses to listen – and this ethos is reflected across their design process, influencing everything from software and hardware engineering to industrial and mechanical design.

All this means dCS products often remain in use for decades, with many listeners still using components that are 10, 20, and even 30 years old.

Your dCS. Your Music. Always Getting Better. https://pearlaudio.com/blogs/news/your-dcs-your-music-always-getting-better

Pearl Audio is your reference retailer for Data Conversion Systems. With 20-plus years of retail experience, we understand the sales and design process. Schedule your personalized dCS listening session at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

Portland's dealer for Bowers & Wilkins 800 series, McIntosh Platinum, dCS, Dynaudio, Linn Klimax, Linn LP12, Audio Research Reference, Luxman Reference, Boulder, Sonus Faber, Magico, JL Audio,Aurender, Rega, Pro-ject.

06/08/2026

It's the start of summer, and of course, in Portland, it's raining cats and dogs. So, we ease our spirits with this lovely system.

The warmth of the tubes, the soundstage of the Serafinos. We can't help but stream some Nick Drake through the Lina DAC X. Yeah, it's that kind of Monday.

The System: Sonus faber Serafino G2 loudspeakers, Data Conversion Systems Lina DAC X, McIntosh Laboratory Inc. MA 12000 Integrated Amplifier, and AudioQuest Lone Ranger speaker cables.

Pearl Audio is your reference retailer for Sonus faber, dCS, McIntosh, and AudioQuest. With 20-plus years of retail experience, we understand the sales and design process. Schedule your personalized listening session at (503) 222-2599.

Music is our passion. High-end audio is our profession. Let us bring the music to life for you.

06/07/2026

Symphony Saturday — Danny Elfman’s Percussion Concerto

David Danzmyr, Conductor
Colin Currie, Percussion
Oregon Symphony

Steve Reich, Music for Pieces of Wood (1973)
Danny Elfman, Percussion Concerto (2022)
John Adams, The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra (1985)
Ottorino Respighi, Pines of Rome (1924)

Danny Elfman, who you may recall was the lead singer of Oingo Boingo, has composed over 100 film scores for movies like Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Before Christmas, and Batman. Elfman is an American musical institution.

Percussion Concerto, which Elfman specifically created for Scottish virtuoso Collin Currie, offers a prime display window into Elfman’s fluid inventiveness. The Concerto moves through themes and moments that harken back to Shostakovich’s themes and musical signature. Through the piece, Elfman gains ornamentation and elaboration and is subtly transformed by the lowering of Shostakovich’s third and fourth notes by a fifth.

It is clear that the Concerto is specific to Currie as he, dare I say, waltzed between an abundance of percussive instruments. There was an intimate exchange of timing between the music, Currie, and the symphony. It was magic.

Respighi’s “Pines of Rome” - If you’re trying to put the final touches on a magnificent orchestral season, you land the plane with Pines of Rome. This is a gigantic piece of music augmented by extra brass and organ for the finale. It is gorgeous and delicate, providing us, the audience, with the sweeping string melodies we all swoon for. There were passages that felt like Rome itself, beautiful, powerful, and just on the edge of all-consuming of all your senses, as if Augustus himself was standing before you in all his glory.

Thank you, Oregon Symphony, Oregon Symphony musicians, and David Danzmyr for a truly sensational season of music. Thank you for sharing your talent, your joy, and your music. You, my friends, are the best of us.

See you in September for Tchaikovsky’s 5th!

Musicians of the Oregon Symphony, Colin Currie