Fluance Signature Series 3-Way Floorstanding Speakers $699 Review
January 13, 2017 Comments Off on Fluance Signature Series 3-Way Floorstanding Speakers $699 Review
“The cabinet build quality is not bad considering the price. The enclosure is MDF, of course, and Fluance calls it “audio grade MDF” (first time I have heard of that grade of MDF). The side and rear panels are 0.7” thick, and the front baffle is a more impressive 1.4” thick. Window bracing is used in the cabinet, and one nice touch is that the drivers have separate internal enclosures. The mid-woofer and tweeter occupy their own sealed compartments in an effort to keep other driver’s back waves from interfering with their smooth operation. The speaker is bi-ampable for those who want to amplify the bass section separately from the midrange and tweeter section. This may help to reduce distortion slightly. The cabinet is chock full of polyfill for damping internal waves”
JL Audio Dominion d108 Subwoofer Review
January 13, 2017 Comments Off on JL Audio Dominion d108 Subwoofer Review
” Listening to a variety of music, I did not specifically seek out bass-heavy stuff, but definitely material with high quality bass content. I called on one of my very favorite albums, System, by Seal. The near perfect blend of acoustic guitar, electronica, and moody grooves was great for helping dial in the Dominions. Stellar tracks like “Dumb”, “Amazing”, and the title track allowed me to hear the nice shimmering top end and mellow midrange with the Dominion’s low end reinforcement.”
CES 2017 LOUDSPEAKERS $20K AND UP
January 12, 2017 Comments Off on CES 2017 LOUDSPEAKERS $20K AND UP
“I have some good news and some bad news about CES 2017. The good news—and it is good news—is that the sound at this year’s rendition of Viva Las Vegas was considerably better than it’s been in years past. The bad news—and it is very bad—is that there were some 40 fewer exhibitors at the 2017 show. Folks, that amounts to an entire floor of the Venetian hotel that in previous decades would’ve been crowded with visitors and filled with the sound of music.”
Simaudio’s $120k Moon 888 mono amplifiers: First take at CES 2017 – Video
January 12, 2017 Comments Off on Simaudio’s $120k Moon 888 mono amplifiers: First take at CES 2017 – Video
HiFiMAN Shangri La – CES 2017 Video
January 11, 2017 Comments Off on HiFiMAN Shangri La – CES 2017 Video
MartinLogan Masterpiece Renaissance ESL 15A loudspeaker Review
January 11, 2017 Comments Off on MartinLogan Masterpiece Renaissance ESL 15A loudspeaker Review
” MartinLogan’s claim to fame was to figure out how to keep the two highly charged metal stators insulated as they tensioned the virtually massless sheet of Mylar sandwiched between them, also highly charged, into a smoothly curved surface—and keep it all that way. Sanders eventually came up with the solution, then collaborated with electronics engineer Ron Sutherland (now of Sutherland Engineering), who built the power supply to get the thing making noise. The name MartinLogan combines the middle names of Sanders and Sutherland.
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Technics’ SL-1200GR turntable cuts back to cut the price in half
January 11, 2017 Comments Off on Technics’ SL-1200GR turntable cuts back to cut the price in half
MBL Introduces Noble Line with N11 preamp, N15 Amp, N31 DAC/CD Best of CES – Video
January 11, 2017 Comments Off on MBL Introduces Noble Line with N11 preamp, N15 Amp, N31 DAC/CD Best of CES – Video
Elac AS 61GB Adante
January 10, 2017 Comments Off on Elac AS 61GB Adante
” There’s a rumor that Andrew Jones, first with TAD and now with Elac, is incapable of designing a mediocre-sounding speaker. This rumor was confirmed with Jones’s latest speaker, the Elac AS 61GB Adante, demonstrated at CES 2017. At $2500 per pair, this speaker is less expensive than the ones that Jones—seen in the photo above—designed for TAD, but more expensive than the bargain-priced offerings that were the first speakers he designed for Elac. Jones asserts that the Adante is still a work in progress; he’s still tweaking aspects of the design. Listening to a pair of Adantes, in a system with Audio Alchemy electronics, I was impressed with their clear, lively quality. To me, the speaker sounded ready for prime time!”
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