Goldmund Telos Amplier/DAC $10,400 Review
December 26, 2015 Comments Off on Goldmund Telos Amplier/DAC $10,400 Review
” The Hifiman HE1000 soundstage is large and precise. The Telos and HE1000 were synergistic and a excellent match. The Telos was able to get the best out of the HE1000 and brought out everything the headphone had to offer. Art Pepper’s saxophone came alive on “Move” from “+11’’, Art was located in the center and each musician was in their own defined space with excellent separation. Each instrument had sufficient air and created a 3D image within the soundstage. Closing my eyes I could identify every musician in the stage easily.The Telos involvement with the music was as good as I have heard in any combination. The listening sessions sometimes went over a 10 hour period and never did I feel any distractions while listening. The music was involving and non fatiguing. ”
Questyle QP1R DAP Review
December 26, 2015 Comments Off on Questyle QP1R DAP Review
” The new 100 ohm Audeze LCD-4 turned over plenty of volume from the device, as did the hard-to-drive 300-ohm Sennheiser HD650. Listening to Jason Mraz track 93 Million Miles it was easy to pick out texture separation from Jason’s voice and the rest of the audio spectrum. The depth and dimensionality of his voice at 24/96 during the lighthearted entry verse seemed 93 million miles away from the crackle of a iPod headphone playing crinkled low resolution MP3’s”
NOBLE AUDIO WIZARD SAVANT IEM REVIEW
December 26, 2015 Comments Off on NOBLE AUDIO WIZARD SAVANT IEM REVIEW
‘ Sub bass on the Wizard Savant is good but not dominating with a slight roll off right at the bottom, the main punch comes from that 50-100hz area so EDM and hard rock will benefit most from the Savants richer bass line and orchestral sub bass drum work might lose out. It is horses for courses really between the two and as before I felt the Classic 4 couldn’t deliver the bass vibe and feel of modern rock and pop the Savant really can.”
FiiO X7
December 25, 2015 Comments Off on FiiO X7
” The X7 can be fed music files from its internal 32Gb, a microSD card inserted into its side, over the local network using DLNA or from cloud storage services like Dropbox*. Outputs include a 3.5mm headphone socket at one end and a 3.5mm line level output at the other. The latter doubles as an optical digital output for feeding an external decoder/amp. One can do likewise with an OTG cable attached to the X7’s USB socket that is otherwise used to charge the device. FiiO promise 9 – 10 hours’ use from a fully charge battery (3500mAh). Oh, the X7 can also transmit digital audio via Bluetooth.”
Technics Premium Class SB-C700 loudspeaker Review
December 25, 2015 Comments Off on Technics Premium Class SB-C700 loudspeaker Review
” Whenever audiophiles claim they can’t live with colorations, and that they require accurate or neutral reproduction, I laugh, choke up, and expectorate. I don’t believe anybody when they say this. All that any audiophile or reviewer—myself included—really wants is his or her favorite colorations. We want recordings to sound like we want them to sound. If you think I’m full of it, I dare you to audition these beautiful, well-engineered speakers. Technics’ new Premium Class SB-C700 is not only accurate, transparent, and neutral, it’s an excellent value. Highly recommended.
Naim Mu-so Music System $1,500 Review
December 25, 2015 Comments Off on Naim Mu-so Music System $1,500 Review
“The Naim Mu-so has a built-in Internet radio receiver. It can access the Internet via the wireless network or, if you’re close enough, hardwired via its Ethernet connection in the base. You’ll want to download the Naim app first, and once you’ve selected your specific Mu-so, you can peruse the world with your fingertips. The app’s display tells you both the sampling rate and the bitstream rate of the selected station. Most stations offer abysmal audio—128 kilobits per second is the lowest I’ll listen to—but Naim also includes two presets that get you to some 320-kbps stations that sounded very natural to me. Strangely, you can’t control the volume of Internet radio from the same buttons on your phone you use to control streaming music, but you get a volume bar along the bottom of the app that you can use to adjust the volume.”
PSB Imagine T3 Loudspeakers Review
December 25, 2015 Comments Off on PSB Imagine T3 Loudspeakers Review
“The Imagine T3 effectively replaces PSB’s Synchrony One ($6000/pair when available), which I reviewed in 2008 and used in my room for a while thereafter. The Synchrony One was a fantastic speaker that won our Reviewers’ Choice and Product of the Year awards.”
Sennheiser HD 800 S headphones NEW
December 23, 2015 Comments Off on Sennheiser HD 800 S headphones NEW
” The new £1,200 HD 800 S is precision-built in Germany and features a striking industrial design. Its transducer is encased by stainless steel, while the headband and headphone mounting utilises advanced materials developed for the aerospace industry, giving high strength with minimal weight. Its layered-metal headband construction attenuates vibrations to the ear-cups, while the hand-made Microfiber ear-pads offer exceptional comfort, even over extended listening periods.
Arcam FMJ A49 Stereo Integrated AmplifierReview
December 23, 2015 Comments Off on Arcam FMJ A49 Stereo Integrated AmplifierReview
” I’ve been listening to Arcam products for around 30 years, and there’s absolutely no avoiding the fact that this one came as a bit of a surprise, as it sounded rather good right from the start. When cold it can sound slightly brash, but it warms up quite quickly and this all but disappears. Although I feel that there’s a hint of a lower treble hardness, and some emphasis in the sibilant region of voices, this only shows up when the material played has a tendency to excite this area too. ”
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