HiFiMan HE-400i headphones – Video
February 12, 2015 Comments Off on HiFiMan HE-400i headphones – Video
Sony HAP-S1Review
February 12, 2015 Comments Off on Sony HAP-S1Review
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“Five years or so ago, the brave new world of computer audio grew up into hi-fi separates with hard-disk drives inside. Products from companies like Brennan, Cambridge Audio and Yamaha offered instant playback of computer files from standalone boxes. Then streamers appeared, and the whole industry began to rally around this model. Sony’s HAP-S1 (and its bigger HAP-Z1ES brother) are the first to elegantly combine the two technologies, giving the best of both worlds. It works rather like a 21st century CD jukebox, offering instant music, and plenty of it – but it seamlessly integrates with your computer and its music library via your home network. In my view, this is a brilliant solution.”
EARSONICS THE VELVET IEM Review
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“What is interesting about EarSonics is that it has a clear house brand and their product line-up all fit within a certain image as well as having a particular house sound. This shows that a lot a thought is put into each product and EarSonics have certainly developed a cohesive range of unique IEMs for their customers”
Meridian Explorer 2
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” Explorer 2 includes a powerful decoder and audio renderer for Meridian’s exclusive ‘Master Quality Authenticated’ system. This ensures that MQA-encoded lossless audio files and streams sound exactly like the source. The 1 x LED glows green to indicate that the unit is decoding and playing an MQA stream or file, and that the sound is identical to that of the source material. ”
Antipodes Audio expands music server
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” Jenkins builds his music servers to keep electrical noise as low as possible. Not only does he use the highly regarded SOtM cards for USB output but they are juiced with an in-house designed power supply board. Then there’s the Western Digital hard drives that run bespoke firmware and the additional scripting applied to the operating system to ensures the digital signal is babied every step of the way. Think you can do that at home? You’ve got two hopes: Bob Hope and no hope”
Sony’s Walkman ZX2
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” The new ZX2 “High Resolution Walkman” is supposed to hit at around $1,200 for what is, essentially, a digital audio player. As in, it’s an iPod. Without most of the non-audio flexibility that the iPod actually has. Hmm.”
INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR MQA IS GROWING
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“Meridian developed the first audiophile CD player, the world’s first consumer digital surround controller and the world’s first digital loudspeaker. Bob Stuart architected MLP, the lossless coding used in DVD-Audio and Blu-ray. The company’s optical disc players, DSP loudspeakers, video projectors and processors are unique in the industry, maintaining a super-quality digital signal throughout the path from the studio to the home, using advanced digital signal processing to deliver both a sweet, natural sound and smooth, crystal-sharp images with true cinematic realism.”
A Tale of Two Speakers
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” Before I discuss my auditioning of these two speakers, fig.1 compares their anechoic responses on the tweeter axis at 50″, averaged across a 30° horizontal window and with the complex sum of the woofer and port nearfield responses plotted below 300Hz. (I used DRA Labs’ MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone.) The blue trace is the KEF, the red trace the Revel. ”
Job 225 Mono Amplifier Review
February 11, 2015 Comments Off on Job 225 Mono Amplifier Review
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Let’s face it, channel exclusivity of power supplies can be built into a stereo chassis. But because reality bites, there’ll be practical constraints on size, weight and heat dissipation. Size and weight don’t just inform the consumer side about what’s manageable. It affects manufacturing and shipping too. With class A bias throwing off 90% of generated power as heat; and transformers getting bigger and heavier as power ratings escalate; what’s doable in a stereo chassis does eventual hit limits of plain common sense.”
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