Auris Audio Headonia 300B Review
October 15, 2025 Comments Off on Auris Audio Headonia 300B Review
If you fancy air shipping this crate, then you might be in for a nasty surprise at the price. I had mine sent via sea, and it took about 2.5 months to go around the Cape Point from the UK to Singapore, and then Manila, and then finally to our remote island.
If you think sea cargo is a risk for such an expensive item, then you should have no fears, as it arrived in perfect condition. Auris did an excellent job in packaging the amplifier and the tubes with multiple layers of foam inside the crate to protect glass and metal from bumping, cracking, moisture, and dust.
Accessories-wise, the Headonia 300B comes with the USB-C remote control, the tubes in their respective PSVANE boxes, the detachable glass tube protector panel, power cord, and a warranty card/manual.
PS Audio PMG Signature Preamplifier $8999 Review
October 15, 2025 Comments Off on PS Audio PMG Signature Preamplifier $8999 Review
https://www.audiophilia.com/reviews/2025/8/19/ps-audio-pmg-signature-preamplifier
If this is the beginning of the new PS Audio PGM series, then I think they have already hit a home run with the PS Audio PMG Signature Preamplifier at USD 8999. I sense it will compete favorably and even beat many higher-priced preamplifiers. It is impeccably clean and quiet, but it retains its unique personality to my ears, which to me makes it special, just as the BHK Preamplifier did, but now at a new and higher level. And just like the BHK, which I kept for almost 10 years, I do think this is a keeper. I gambled, and I feel I won. No more to say. Very highly recommended.
Schiit Lyr+ Fusion Architecture Headphone Amp & Preamp Review
October 12, 2025 Comments Off on Schiit Lyr+ Fusion Architecture Headphone Amp & Preamp Review
As a solid-state amplifier, the Schiit Lyr+ Fusion Architecture Headphone Amp & Preamp is easily competitive with anything in its price range, truth is, there just aren’t that many discrete amplifiers under a thousand dollars; they almost all implement some chip-based op-amp or other. On the other hand, once you stick a tube in it, the Lyr+ knocks it out of the park. While it is not the most powerful amplifier in my arsenal (my reference amplifier puts out 35Watts per channel), it appears to have enough go juice to drive most any headphone to levels that will satisfy most listeners.
For a tube amplifier, the Lyr+ has an epically low noise floor, which means it can deliver reference-level detail and soundstage, the only limit being the headphone you choose to listen with. For those who are hung up on push-pull amplifiers (“balanced”), again, the Lyr+ has plenty of power to do the job, and retains the sonic advantages of single-ended amplification (a bridge amp requires two perfectly matched amplifiers, and no such devices truly exist, which means low-level details are lost).
So in conclusion, though I miss the versatility of the modular design of the Lyr3, the improvements in sound quality more than make up for that, and I believe the Lyr+ could easily stand as the end-point choice for most headphone enthusiasts.
TRUTHEAR PURE $90 Review
October 12, 2025 Comments Off on TRUTHEAR PURE $90 Review
The low-end on the TRUTHEAR PURE takes on a more neutral and restrained approach, never aiming for heavy slam or physical rumble. It still provides a steady presence, adding foundation without pulling focus.
Control is its strength, staying consistent across tracks without spilling over or sounding bloated. Rather than chasing power, it focuses on accuracy and balance, keeping basslines clean.
Quality outweighs quantity here, with drums and subbass notes coming through with enough body to be convincing. They don’t push for weight but instead keep a steady grip that makes them sound precise.
Can these PSVANE Summit Tubes beat my best NOS models?
October 12, 2025 Comments Off on Can these PSVANE Summit Tubes beat my best NOS models?
Charisma Audio™ Caprisse Bookshelf Loudspeakers Review$6200 Review
October 9, 2025 Comments Off on Charisma Audio™ Caprisse Bookshelf Loudspeakers Review$6200 Review
So you’re trying to build a time machine out of a 1973 AMC Pacer. You want to time travel back to the mid-70s to hear the glorious midrange sound of an original pair of Quad ESL-57 loudspeakers. I hear ya. I get it. I have audiophile dreams like this too.
Then again, maybe you don’t need to risk life, limb, and a whole lot of 88 mile-per-hour speeding tickets to get that midrange sound quality? Today, in the summer of 2025, a current-production bookshelf monitor exists that sounds remarkably similar to a vintage pair of ESL-57s. With decent tube amps driving them, Charisma Audio’s Caprisse bookshelf speakers can deliver the same sonic quality and breathtaking midrange purity as Quad’s legendary electrostats.
Down through the last 40 years, I’ve owned two pairs of Quad ESL-57s and three pairs of ESL-63s. The Caprisse reminds me—fondly—of a vintage pair of ESL-57s. It has lightning-fast transients, lifelike PRaT, and magic in the midrange. The genius of the Caprisse is that it doesn’t need a large room to create the jaw-dropping sound quality of an old-school electrostatic floorstander.
If your listening room is small to mid-sized, do yourself a real favour and audition these speakers. It’s far easier than trying to get a vintage Delorean up to 88 miles an hour.
Unison Research Reference monoblock power amplifier $49,998 Review
October 9, 2025 Comments Off on Unison Research Reference monoblock power amplifier $49,998 Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/unison-research-reference-monoblock-power-amplifier
If an Italian sound exists, I gather it isn’t an engineering spec but a sensibility. Where most gear aims to get out of the way of the music, boutique hi-fi from Italy participates in it. It isn’t neutral in the strictest sense. For many, it’s more human.Sonically, the 845s occupy their own terrain. They don’t punch like KT150s or dazzle with immediacy. Instead, they bloom. They stretch space, thicken tone, and draw you in with an unhurried, dimensional ease. They flesh out the harmonic body of a note and let its decay hang in the air without collapsing the structure around it. The Unison Reference amplifiers make full use of that character.Are they worth the price? How attached are you to your second kidney?When everything settles and the mind calms, what’s left is music: vivid, beautiful, whole, and rendered with uncommon care. The Unison Reference amplifiers turn spending into savoring, and savor them I did.
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