YAR AUDIO BESPOKE LOUDSPEAKER €250,000
June 22, 2016 Comments Off on YAR AUDIO BESPOKE LOUDSPEAKER €250,000
” YAR Audio’s system is an ambitious amplifier/loudspeaker project, designed to be more than just an elegant piece of audiophile art. The three-way, five driver tall loudspeakers are a semi-open baffle design, featuring large planar magnetic panels for the midrange and treble set in a carbon fibre shell with wooden surrounds, all suspended from an aluminium exoskeleton frame-base. These are matched with a hybrid 700W valve/Class D amplifier in a unique carbon-fibre chassis, and a series of sophisticated sandwich isolation platforms for source components used with the system. Although the individual components have names in their own right (Feeld platforms, B-yond amp, Y-der loudspeakers), the whole system is designed to be supplied as a whole, and owners of a YAR system will be visited by a two-man set-up team to install and fine-tune the system wherever they are in the world. There will never be more than 99 YAR Audio systems manufactured, and the price of admission to the exclusive YAR Audio club is a healthy €250,000.”
Baetis Audio Revolution III Media Server Review
June 21, 2016 Comments Off on Baetis Audio Revolution III Media Server Review
” The Baetis Revolution III doesn’t have much of a sound of its own, if any. While it has fans I only heard them when ripping, and it pretty much sat there on my rack silently, going about its music streaming business. The provided WD drive came with a bunch of music for review purposes but I preferred to mostly listen to mine, served from my NAS. Here’s what I found: the Revolution’s performance varied some depending on the DAC.”
Audio Research vacuum tube planet – Video
June 21, 2016 Comments Off on Audio Research vacuum tube planet – Video
Cayin iDAC-6 and iHA-6 Review
June 21, 2016 Comments Off on Cayin iDAC-6 and iHA-6 Review
” Actual D/A conversion itself is handled by a pair of 32-bit AKM AK4490 “Verita” chips operating in dual-mono mode. AKM’s flagship AK4490 is a fairly recent design, having just been launched within the past couple of years, and has turned up in some rather interesting gear—upscale kit such as Lindemann’s Musicbook 15, the top dog AK380 DAP from Astell&Kern, and the new Esoteric N-05 DAC/streamer. It also appears in the less extreme Teac UD-503 which is priced identically to the Cayin offering.”
DENON AH-MM400 HEADPHONES REVIEW
June 21, 2016 Comments Off on DENON AH-MM400 HEADPHONES REVIEW
” There was an odd problem, though. The headphones have a removable 3.5 mm cable, which plugs into the source on one end and the left earphone on the other. Sometimes after plugging it in, sound would only come out of one headphone until the cord was pulled out slightly. It usually cured itself, and was impossible to replicate. Checking some online comments revealed I wasn’t the only one to experience this problem. There are two cords in the box, and one has a plastic inline remote that sadly feels cheap in comparison to the headphones. In an unrelated issue, I also found the headphones uncomfortable to wear with glasses, forcing me to put the arms above the earphones.”
PEAR AUDIO BLUE KID THOMAS TURNTABLE REVIEW
June 21, 2016 Comments Off on PEAR AUDIO BLUE KID THOMAS TURNTABLE REVIEW
” Regardless of which cartridge was mounted on the tonearm, music never ventured into aggression, never lost drive, and never lost macro-dynamic impact. The soundstage was always wide and deep with the degree of saturation dependent of the cartridge installed at the time. The noise floor remained subjectively low—a trait not often found to this degree on sub-$10,000 ’tables. With either cartridge, it didn’t matter if the music played was jazz, classic rock, heavy metal, hip-hop, folk, blues, or classical. Whether solo piano or orchestral crescendos, the ’table performed with the same fundamental sonic character.”
Acoustical Systems Turntable, $300,000+ each! High End Munich
June 20, 2016 Comments Off on Acoustical Systems Turntable, $300,000+ each! High End Munich
Dynaudio Emit M10 REVIEW
June 20, 2016 Comments Off on Dynaudio Emit M10 REVIEW
“The Emit M10s unfurled a wall-to-wall soundstage with great depth as I played Brian Eno’s new album, “The Ship.” The first track is a rambling, ambient trip, with a churning low bass foundation that I could hardly believe was coming from speakers as small as these. I was so totally sucked into Eno’s slow-motion vortex of sound and texture that I forgot that I was listening to the Emit M10s; I was lost in the music.”
YAMAHA A-S801 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER AND YBA-11 BLUETOOTH WIRELESS ADAPTER
June 20, 2016 Comments Off on YAMAHA A-S801 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER AND YBA-11 BLUETOOTH WIRELESS ADAPTER
” Finally, I challenged the A-S801 with full orchestra, playing Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s recording of a favorite piece: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 [Reference Recordings/NativeDSD]. (If you’re unfamiliar with NativeDSD.com, its rapidly growing catalog specializes in downloads of high-resolution music recorded in DSD and DXD formats, including DSD256.) The opening bars nearly blew me off the couch, since I had forgotten to reduce the listening level after playing Just a Little Lovin’. But even at that level, there was no strain to the sound. The DSD128 indicator light on the A-S801’s front panel came on verifying that the A-S801’s DAC was indeed playing that extra-high-resolution format, and the orchestral sound was gloriously natural—tons of detail, harmonically rich, with distinct but continuous dynamic levels.”
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