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JL Audio, the American audio brand acquired by smart technology giant Garmin in 2023, has taken the wraps off two premium active loudspeakers and a partnering control hub.

Topping the Primacy series, priced £86,000, is the three-way T6 floorstander [pictured], while a two-way standmount, the S3, sells for £34,000 plus £1599 for optional stands. The speakers integrate individual amplifiers for each driver ‘section’ – ie, a 600W-rated module powers the T6’s four 140mm aluminium bass drivers – allied to 192kHz/32-bit DSP governing crossover, delay, phase, etc.

Analogue inputs on both RCA and XLR are joined by RJ45 ports supporting the high-resolution Dante audio networking protocol. The latter is also found on JL Audio’s £14,500 Primacy CS control/streaming DAC unit, which includes automated ‘room optimisation’, a built-in MM/MC phono stage, and app interface.

And it’s sound per pound where the little P75 excels: this thing is a standout. It’s clear, but not clinical. Detailed, but nowhere near excruciatingly so. So quick, agile and able to move the music along with superb alacrity that it’s nearly addictive. Any slight glare or vague artificiality that occasionally pegged the old P75 as a reasonably affordable design is gone, baby, gone. Everything here is high resolution and cohesive, musical, taut, tonally colorful, texturally rich and largely neutral. This is darn good hifi. 

After spending over a decade running through progressively larger, more complex and expensive phono preamps in search of superb musicality coupled with utter silence, one of the littlest and most modestly priced finally delivers, for me, a near-ideal mix. Small in stature, but big where it counts, Dynavector’s DV75 Mk4.1 really comes through – at an equally unassuming price. Under $1,000 for all this? Yep, and at least according to my ears, well worth auditioning even if you’re considering spending twice as much. Highly recommended, and my new mid-priced reference. The only question left is, who among my friends should I pass my old P75 on to?

The wait is over. The PSI Audio AVAA C225 is now available. Discover the latest addition to the PSI Audio AVAA family, operating from 12 Hz to 130 Hz and absorbing up to 135 dB SPL of pressure. Mainly dedicated to home cinemas, clubs, and small venues.

WHEN THE ROOM GETS LOUDER, THE PROBLEM GETS BIGGER.

A powerful system deserves a room that lets you hear itLow-frequency resonances can linger, masking detail and blurring impact. AVAA C225 brings active bass absorption to the home cinema experience.

When called for by the track, the bass performs quite well. It does not bleed into the higher-frequency regions, keeping the overall sound very clean. The bass itself is tight and controlled and never goes overboard, even with genres such as hip-hop.

There is also a good level of detail, as it captures nuances and textures really well. It has a strong engagement factor, and during longer listening sessions, I never find the bass fatiguing.

If you prioritize a stronger fun factor and a heavier dose of low end, this bass will certainly get your feet tapping, but it may still fall a little short.

Considering how the tuning is intended to remain balanced across the entire frequency spectrum, the bass quantity is more than sufficient.

I would have liked slightly greater sub-bass depth and some extra mid-bass impact, but that would likely have pushed it closer to bass-head territory and eaten up the midrange or treble details.

If you want bass that truly gets your eardrums shaking, Noble’s own Van Gogh does that quite well.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/m%C3%A9tronome-dsas-streamer-server

You’ve surely used USB with a computer, for example, to connect to external storage. If you have, your experience has almost certainly been error free. It is natural to assume that the same holds true for USB Audio. However, in contrast to the USB protocols used for storage, the USB Audio protocol is not error-correcting. The protocol can detect and mute packets with errors, but there is no mechanism to request retransmission. What the protocol does include is flow control: two-way communication between the “host” (the DSAS) and the “device” (the DAC) to negotiate the transmission speed so that the buffer on the DAC side never empties or overflows. The net result of this and other factors, as many have found out through trial and error, is that high-quality USB cables really do make a difference in the sound such devices produce. This is true for any device that connects to a DAC using USB Audio.