VAC and Von Schweikert Audio $1,000,000 System at Capital Audiofest 2017
November 8, 2017 Comments Off on VAC and Von Schweikert Audio $1,000,000 System at Capital Audiofest 2017
Naim Audio Uniti Atom All-In-One System Review
November 5, 2017 Comments Off on Naim Audio Uniti Atom All-In-One System Review
“Did it better my 25K amplification/digital setup? Nope. Attached to the truly special 10K Raidho Acoustic XT-1 Loudspeakers, my Jeff Rowland/Bel Canto/Antipodes Audio setup has killer synergy, definition, and superlative inner detail with accurate bass. And at 35K compared to a 5K setup, it damn well should be better. But I was so impressed with the Atom, I’m going to request the top of the line Naim Uniti Nova ($6,995) doubling the power and upping the internal component quality. That should be a hell of a shootout, and I will be happy to report back to you. ”
MCINTOSH MA8900 STEREO INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER $7,500 REVIEW
November 2, 2017 Comments Off on MCINTOSH MA8900 STEREO INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER $7,500 REVIEW
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Audio purists will immediately blanch at the idea of modifying the source signal in any way. But if a recording is substandard, sometimes a touch of equalization (“five-band tone control” in McIntosh-speak) can improve it significantly, allowing you to listen to a favorite performance despite its poor recording quality. If your room is asymmetrical, sometimes a touch on the balance control can restore the desired imaging. And if your speakers happen to be less than totally linear (this applies to almost EVERY speaker on the market, including YOURS), then you can flatten the response, again with a minor touch-up from the equalizer.”
B.M.C. AUDIO CS3 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW
October 25, 2017 Comments Off on B.M.C. AUDIO CS3 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW
“What held for the CS2, and still holds for the CD and DAC, holds just as much with the B.M.C. Audio CS3. This is the intelligent choice in high‑end audio right now. Aside from the CI monoblock option, you have to spend more – vastly more, an order of magnitude more in fact – to achieve any significant uptick in performance in every aspect apart from possibly its portrayal of musical timing, and even that’s questionable. There are many who say there’s no such thing as a law of diminishing returns in high-end audio, but I’d disagree. For me, it starts where B.M.C. Audio stops.”
Ansuz Acoustics Listening Session! – Video
October 24, 2017 Comments Off on Ansuz Acoustics Listening Session! – Video
Pass Labs XA60.8 Mono Amplifiers Review
October 23, 2017 Comments Off on Pass Labs XA60.8 Mono Amplifiers Review
“Like all reviews, I hope that this one nails down one important point that bears repeating again and again: no audio system or component is perfect, even within the limited realm of home audio reproduction. It’s all about component matching to best meet each listener’s perception of perfection, whatever that may be. It’s all about trade-offs, and which ones are most acceptable to you, the listener.”
NAD C 338 Hybrid Digital Wireless Streaming DAC-Integrated Amplifier $649 Review
October 22, 2017 Comments Off on NAD C 338 Hybrid Digital Wireless Streaming DAC-Integrated Amplifier $649 Review
“I found myself making much more use of my Google Play Music subscription than ever — the C 338 made it so easy and satisfying. I heard Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, and recognized in her recording of concertos by Albinoni, Haydn, Hummel, and Neruda (256kbps MP3, Simax Classics/Google Play Music) her light touch, with just enough air to fill the hall without ever seeming forced, that I’d heard from her in concert at the 2015 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. The C 338 communicated the essence of her style in the Haydn with graceful interplay between the soloist and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra (in this concerto led by Terje Tønnesen). In the first-movement cadenza, it reproduced Helseth’s wide dynamic range and clarity of tone. Of course, only so much can be done with compressed streaming services, but the C 338 provided as good an experience as I’ve enjoyed with high-bitrate MP3s.”
PS AUDIO BHK SIGNATURE 300 MONO AMPLIFIERS $14,998 Review
October 22, 2017 Comments Off on PS AUDIO BHK SIGNATURE 300 MONO AMPLIFIERS $14,998 Review
As for power conditioning, PS Audio naturally recommend a P10 conditioner just for the amps. Worse, they tell me that one P10 per mono is optimal. Yikes! I use a P5 for my front end and find it an important contributor to my rig’s sound. I never power my amps from it since I found it whitewashed the bass out of my Spectrons and anyway, PS Audio suggest the P5 would not quite cut it powering these monos. I do routinely use a two socket Audience Adept Response for my mono amps, and it has proved excellent with every amp I’ve tried. However, I am hard pushed to tell if it has any real benefits with the BHK 300s which seem to sound very similar plugged into it or not, particularly with the Wireworlds. What this tells you about the reaction of these amps to other conditioners, I can’t say, but it does suggest the PS Audio BHK 300s are able to deal with the vagaries of typical house wiring quite well”
PS Audio Stellar S300 Stereo Power Amplifier Review
October 15, 2017 Comments Off on PS Audio Stellar S300 Stereo Power Amplifier Review
“he Stellar S300 amplifier has numerous strengths, but the most obvious is the purity of the entire treble range. Here we enjoy a freedom from harshness, a continuousness, a depth of tone that is similar to that found in the Cary single-ended tube amp. The tube amp digs a bit deeper into the lowest levels of resolution, but the easy on the ears treble range of the PS Audio amp is a pleasure to hear. (I wonder if raising the amplifier’s cut off frequency from 50 kHz to 100 kHz might provide another small fraction of a degree of higher resolution in the upper treble.) ”
GTT Audio Audionet Heisenberg and Stern ultimate amplifiers, & listening session – Video
October 14, 2017 Comments Off on GTT Audio Audionet Heisenberg and Stern ultimate amplifiers, & listening session – Video
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