tl audio in usa

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hey i was looking at the tl audio 5051 and a couple of other products from the company, but i couldn't find where to get them in the usa. is there somewhere i can go, or do a special order? thanks
 
Doesn't HHB rebrand all of the tl audio stuff in the US (and paint it purple)?
 
some review magazine...you can find it on the net if you search
actually found a difference between the HHB and Ivory 2 series...with the Ivory 2 series being a notch above the HHB...i don't know if this is true...but it's what they said, while i was always under the impression that they were the same, just one was the europe version, one the american
 
Here's from my recent review of the TL Audio 5051 Ivory 2

When I heard that Tony Larking Audio was introducing a new Ivory 2 line of valve processors, I thought it was just in the nick of time. The previous Ivory series, also branded in the US as the Radius series by HHB Communications, had been excellent and very popular processors. I particularly recommended the HHB Radius 40 as an excellent channel strip in the $600 price range. Recently several companies began introducing new products that were really raising the bar on price vs. performance, and the Radius 40 began slipping in the ranks. The updated version of the Ivory 2 makes enough changes to put these units back on top as great performers.

Tony Larking Audio products were available in the US until 1998, at which point the line was rebranded and sold in the US as HHB. Any of the Classic, Radius and other series of HHB were all, in fact, TL Audio under the hood. I've been a long-time user of TL Audio, having lived in Europe for most of the nineties, I first bought a TL Audio C-1 Dual Valve Compressor — an industry classic. I later bought an EQ-2, and when I began building systems for projects studios for other people, TL Audio was often on the list for front-end gear. Tony Larking began manufacturing valve equipment under his own name in 1993 along with former Neve designer David Kempson. And prior to that Larking had a long history of retrofitting vintage gear and also had a healthy used gear business. Giving credit where credit is due, Tony Larking was designing valve gear long before the current wave of manufacturers jumped on the "it's gotta have tubes" bandwagon. Larking was also one of the first to introduce a hybrid design of solid state and valve that improved on some of the shortcomings of previous all-valve designs — notably noise floor and reliability.

Recently, the HHB versions of TL Audio equipment have been discontinued and the TL Audio brand is again available in the US. Distribution of TL Audio is still being handled by HHB.
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Dan Richards
Digital Pro Sound
The Listening Sessions
 
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