BOWERS & WILKINS 607 S3 BOOKSHELF LOUDSPEAKER $1200 A VIDEO REVIEW
January 9, 2024 Comments Off on BOWERS & WILKINS 607 S3 BOOKSHELF LOUDSPEAKER $1200 A VIDEO REVIEW
My favorite pair of speakers is the mighty B&W 685 S1. I bought a floor model pair from a store in Toronto. Since then, B&W has iterated the 600 series with newer models, and I have been super curious to see what they sounded like. When this most recent release of the 600 Series was released, I requested a pair. I was able to get my paws on the smaller sibling, the 607 S3. It is a beautiful small bookshelf/ stand mount and looks to be a more refined and far better-built speaker. But how does it sound?
Bryston BHA-1 Headphone Amplifier Review
January 8, 2024 Comments Off on Bryston BHA-1 Headphone Amplifier Review
The Bryston will never be confused with a tube amplifier, but texture and tone through the HD800?
Hell hath frozen over.
The Bryston BHA-1 blurs that line rather significantly offering up a cleaner sounding and more detailed presentation than any of the tube amplifiers in my collection, but with a warmer tonal balance than I would have expected.
Dan Clark Audio E3 Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones $2000 Review
January 8, 2024 Comments Off on Dan Clark Audio E3 Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphones $2000 Review
I may have understated in this review the musicality of the Dan Clark Audio E3 Closed-Back Planar Magnetic Headphone, so let’s be clear, that is the E3’s strongest suit. I won’t say that it is exactly forgiving, that is not the type of musicality we are looking at here, believe me, if there are flaws in the recording, the E3 will not cover them up, but they make the experience so pleasurable that you won’t care about them. Like its predecessors the ETHER C Flow and the STEALTH, the E3 has an extremely neutral tonal balance, with deep well-controlled sub-bass. There might be a slight depression in the upper midrange, and a slight peak in the mid-treble, but this could just as easily be the speed of the E3 revealing information you didn’t notice before and not creating distortions you did.
It is hard to say, I can say that going from the E3 to the ETHER C Flow, the ETHER C Flow feels shouty, but going the other way, you don’t feel like you are missing anything with the E3. The bass appears to be stronger without being boomy as with open-back headphones, which may be an attribute of the increased dynamic range and bass control, in fact, increased speed, dynamic range, and bass control with lower distortion can account for pretty much everything I hear in the E3.
Questyle NHB12 In-Ear Wired Earbuds for iPhone: Review
January 7, 2024 Comments Off on Questyle NHB12 In-Ear Wired Earbuds for iPhone: Review
It is the largest of the modules visible through the window and is still small enough that four of the SIPs would fit on a dime. The whole process uses 3mA @ 2 Volts making for an extraordinarily low battery draw.
Add to that an impressively low THD+N of 0.0002% and you have a master class in miniaturization of audio components.
Needless to say, this is not a setup that is going to be usable for anything but highly efficient IEMs which may explain Questyle’s hesitancy to divulge too much information about the drivers as it might give away some proprietary trade secrets.
A single LED is illuminated for AAC or CD quality input, whilst a second LED indicates the decoding of a 24-bit/192kHz file. Testing with Qobuz confirmed this to be the case.
FiiO Q15 Desktop / Portable Hi-Res Music DAC And Headphone Amplifier $399 Review
January 7, 2024 Comments Off on FiiO Q15 Desktop / Portable Hi-Res Music DAC And Headphone Amplifier $399 Review
Using the FiiO Q15 with my Sony Walkman instead of the Sony Walkman without the Q15 wasn’t like night and day. An audiophile description I first used nearly 30 years ago was “a small but significant improvement in sound quality.” This perfectly describes the experience of using the Q15 with my Sony Walkman. Sound quality improvement was much more noticeable when listening to high-resolution files, especially DSD. There was an improvement in sound quality across the board, including the size and scale of the sound field, its apparent frequency response, micro- and macro-dynamics, and, most importantly, the perceived realism of acoustic instruments and voices.
Of course, the level of improvement the FiiO Q15 rendered depended on the recording quality and headphones used. Connecting the Q15 to the USB output of my music server was not to embarrass it when compared to my usual DAC in the main system in my dedicated listening room, the mighty EMM Labs DA2. Yet I was very impressed with this FiiO DAC, as it displayed the audiophile traits I listed above when used with my Sony portable player. A more modest desktop system would appreciate the FiiO Q15 much more than my high-end system.
Lejonklou Boazu Stereo Integrated Amplifier $4195 Review
January 6, 2024 Comments Off on Lejonklou Boazu Stereo Integrated Amplifier $4195 Review
We’d like to thank Jules Coleman and Enjoy the Music.com for the lovely review of the Lejonklou Boazu integrated amplifier. It is always great when people really get what we are all about – the reproduction of music without editorializing but leaving it up to the musicians, engineers, and producers to convey their vision to you. We fully agree on the importance of music in our lives and allowing you to be as fully engaged with it as possible, by getting the electronics out of the way so the music can flow through, is our primary goal.
Another goal is to make the equipment as affordable as possible so the largest number of music lovers can enjoy it. As noted in the review the products are well-built but relatively plain-looking. This is by design as money only goes into making each unit as musical as possible. There isn’t much in the way of bling, thick and curvaceous front panels, big knobs, or meters as we want you to thoroughly enjoy listening to them and that is where all the money goes. That the Boazu is being mentioned in such august company in this review (and it’s not the first time) is a good indication that we have achieved our goals.
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