Roksan is back... in Blak

Roksan was renowned in the late 1980s and 1990s for a series of fine turntables and related equipment named after historical Persian people and places — the Xerxes, Artaxerxes, Artemis, and also the Darius loudspeakers, notable for being the first to spring-isolate the tweeters from the bass units. Following the brand’s purchase by Monitor Audio in 2016, Roksan is revived and back in Australia through Interdyn, starting with the pictured flagship ‘Blak’ electronics and also the lower-level K3 component range.

The Blak CD player ($5999) and integrated amplifier ($6999) combine substantial build with styling that includes the orange LED display and, on the amplifier, the orange-ringed volume indicator (plus a similarly solid and orange-labelled remote control). Connection between the two will be made using balanced or unbalanced

analogue cables; the CD player does offer three digital output options, on XLR, optical and coaxial RCA, but the Blak amplifier has none of those as inputs, being provisioned with three line-level RCA analogue inputs, one XLR balanced input and a moving-magnet phono stage, while for digital inputs there is Bluetooth streaming (including the aptX codec if your sending device supports it) plus a USB-B socket for playing back from a connected computer, with the Texas Instruments-based DAC section able to play PCM to 192kHz and DSD to DSD128. No outputs other than the speaker terminals are provided; power is rated at 2 × 150W into 8 ohms.

The K3 range includes the $3299 K3 amplifier and $2999 K3 CD Di player; the latter does feature both optical and coaxial digital inputs.

For more information: www.interdyn.com.au