CHORD ELECTRONICS QUTEST REVIEW
July 13, 2018 Comments Off on CHORD ELECTRONICS QUTEST REVIEW
“As I mentioned a few paragraphs earlier, I like to colour the sound after the d/a conversion step with my amplifiers. I like to bring a clear sound to my tube amplifiers. That is why the Qutest has been used mainly with the white filter, which is the pure reference filter. With this one in use there is a massive amount of details going through the RCA outputs.
Where the Qutest shines the most to me is the placement and separation of instruments. It paints a clean and clear, high resolution picture with impeccable imaging. The sound stage is both deep and wide as well as nicely airy. This comes especially to life when listening to live recordings, where you can really feel the you are in the room with the performer.”
PRO-JECT 175TH ANNIVERSARY VIENNA PHILHARMONIC TURNTABLE REVIEW
July 12, 2018 Comments Off on PRO-JECT 175TH ANNIVERSARY VIENNA PHILHARMONIC TURNTABLE REVIEW
“Ballerina has the same musical insistence as does Ravel’s zany Bolero. The 175 preserved this with a subtle but enjoyable sense of timing, the music rising and dissipating, as the music demands it should.As for rendition of female vocal, a must-do/must-have quality before I buy any component, the 175 does rather nicely as it did with Joni Mitchell’s timeless song, A Case Of You from her album called Blue.”
Dunu Falcon-C Review
July 12, 2018 Comments Off on Dunu Falcon-C Review
“The Falcon-C is a modestly V-shaped earphone that impresses through its nicely even midrange and clean low-end. It’s a bright earphone up top though neutral in tone elsewhere. In addition, as the Falcon-C’s background and midrange aren’t overly bright, it doesn’t sound unnatural. Its sound ultimately demonstrates maturity and a more realistic timbre than most competitors while remaining engaging and open in its expression.”
Roon brings music to more masses with Chromecast support
July 12, 2018 Comments Off on Roon brings music to more masses with Chromecast support
“For those not in the know, Chromecast is a Google-developed digital media player. It looks like a small-round puck with an HDMI dongle and allows mobile phones, computers, tablets, etc. to stream audio and visual HD content to HDMI-compatible televisions or other devices via its Micro-USB output, like to say, any compatible DAC with a likewise savoury digital-in as a Roon endpoint”
FINAL D8000 PLANAR MAGNETIC HEADPHONE
July 11, 2018 Comments Off on FINAL D8000 PLANAR MAGNETIC HEADPHONE
“Straight out of the box, the D8000 offered astonishingly fine bass and midrange performance, but with upper mids and highs that, though very clear, also seemed a bit reticent or subdued. However, after several hours of run-in time using a ‘Cascade Noise Burn-In Sounds’ track from Tara Labs, the D8000’s mids, upper-mids, and highs opened up in a magnificent way, so that the headphone’s tonal balance became pleasingly neutral while its overall resolution, transient speed, and focus took quite dramatic steps forward. The resulting sound was, I must say, simply breathtakingly good, though in an effortless and almost self-effacing way (the D8000 offers listener’s huge helpings of sonic excellence, but never sounds as if it is working hard to do so).”
Vinnie Rossi LIO DAC 2.0 Review
July 11, 2018 Comments Off on Vinnie Rossi LIO DAC 2.0 Review
“And yet I knew this from the get-go. A first listen to the DAC 2.0 had me, quite literally laugh out loud at my hifi system, so pronounced was the upgrade’s magnitude. But a first impression isn’t a review. I took my time and I took to headphones; over a number of weeks, the Sennheiser HD800S confirmed my initial thoughts. The passive KEF LS50 set them in concrete.”
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STAX SR-L700 LAMBDA EARSPEAKERS/SRM-006TS REVIEW
July 10, 2018 § 1 Comment
“Eventually, when you get past being enthralled by the sound of the system, you can begin to point to its strengths. The most obvious is the speed of delivery, and it’s that speed that makes you so enthralled with music. Listening to Richard Thompson’s guitar playing requires a system that can translate his dexterity, or potentially ruin the performance. Here, the Stax pair shine, and it’s like the man is playing live in your listening room. That speed doesn’t just apply to fast folk guitarists, it is needed universally; when you experience it, it’s hard to break away from its thrall. Other systems – even supposedly fast ones – sound sluggish by comparison.”
LG’s FLOATING Bluetooth Speaker – LG PJ9 REVIEW – Video
July 10, 2018 Comments Off on LG’s FLOATING Bluetooth Speaker – LG PJ9 REVIEW – Video
Nordost QKore Grounding System
July 9, 2018 Comments Off on Nordost QKore Grounding System
“Even bass was improved by the QKore. Bass, let’s face it, is probably the most difficult sonic region to produce faithfully. One of the most treacherous aspects, I think, is pitch stability in the nether areas. It’s easy to hear when a loudspeaker begins to compress or wobble on lower-octave notes. On some of my favorite Maurice André recordings on Erato of trumpet and organ, for instance, you simply hear greater air around the deep organ notes and more focused pitches. On Leonard Cohen’s final album You Want It Darker, the depth and refulgence and sonority of the bass adds immense dimensionality to the proceedings.”
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