A newcomer to the British market, March is an Australian brand that only sells direct to customers - no distributors, no retailers. Bristol was their first show in the UK.
Their products are very heavily invested in Purifi technology - such as the power amplifier modules and the mid / bass drivers in the loudspeakers. Their newest loudspeaker - the Kuoro launched here and seen in white below - also features a tweeter from Purifi - a first driver of its type from that company.
From a digital source perspective we have a very low cost front end, in hifi terms. Roon running on a NUC computer (tiny box, bottom left), an SMSL DAC (circa 700 GBP) fed the March Pre-1 pre-amp (launched here at Bristol) and mono class D P481 power amps (1100 GBP each). In the morning the Ukkonen (5700 GBP) speakers were playing - in a very impressive red metallic finish - and in the afternoon the Kuoro (estimated at 4500 GBP) was playing - here presented in an equally impressive put more restrained metallic white.
This was an impressive debut from March with both speakers playing musically and noT displaying any signs of class D greyness. With the larger Ukkonen playing, there was a little too much bass energy in the room, but the rest of the frequency range was well portrayed and enjoyable to listen to. In the afternoon the Kuoro was better matched to the characteristics of the room and didn't suffer from the same level of bass bloom. I found the new Purifi tweeter a little over emphasised and preferred the less upfront presentation of the Ukkonen.
An impressive debut.
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