BURMESTER PHASE 3 SYSTEM £23,800
June 26, 2016 Comments Off on BURMESTER PHASE 3 SYSTEM £23,800
” They need not apply because Phase 3’s only real weakness is a lack of upgradability. This system does not lend itself toward adding separate preamplifiers or power amplifiers, and neither is the amplifier open-ended enough to form the basis of an upgradable system. Whether this is a problem or not comes down to the listener. If you view an audio system in terms of future audio systems, Phase 3 is not for you. If you are done with all of that, and simply want a good sounding system with no eye toward future changes, then Phase 3 is ideal. Personally, I think Phase 3 represents a significant part of audio’s future, as people move away from multiple boxes and toward simpler, uncompromised solutions.”
Legacy Audio Studio HD Review – Video
June 25, 2016 Comments Off on Legacy Audio Studio HD Review – Video
Vivid Audio Oval B1 Decade Loudspeakers Review
June 24, 2016 Comments Off on Vivid Audio Oval B1 Decade Loudspeakers Review
” Although Vivid Audio’s Oval B1 received a Reviewers’ Choice award when it was reviewed, it was never recognized as a Recommended Reference Component, mostly because of its bass deficiencies. Had Laurence Dickie addressed only those problems and called the result the Oval B1 Decade, that alone would have been enough to qualify the new version as a Recommended Reference Component. But his complete revision of the B1 has made the Oval B1 Decade a considerably better speaker than its forebear in many aspects of its sound — a speaker that not only deserves being included in our list of Recommended Reference Components, but that can also be called one of the best speakers available at any price.”
Audioengine HD6 Premium Powered Speakers Review
June 24, 2016 Comments Off on Audioengine HD6 Premium Powered Speakers Review
” I tested my bass theory with the bass drum ff solo beat with two tubas providing the pitch about five minutes in on The Adoration of the Earth from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with Esa Pekka Salonen and the LA Phil on DGG. This recording is one of the best sounds you’ll ever hear in the glorious acoustic of Disney Hall. The HD6s were magnificent in replicating the energy, volume and timbre, if not the last ounce of low pitch resonance. But damn effective.”
YAR AUDIO BESPOKE LOUDSPEAKER €250,000
June 22, 2016 Comments Off on YAR AUDIO BESPOKE LOUDSPEAKER €250,000
” YAR Audio’s system is an ambitious amplifier/loudspeaker project, designed to be more than just an elegant piece of audiophile art. The three-way, five driver tall loudspeakers are a semi-open baffle design, featuring large planar magnetic panels for the midrange and treble set in a carbon fibre shell with wooden surrounds, all suspended from an aluminium exoskeleton frame-base. These are matched with a hybrid 700W valve/Class D amplifier in a unique carbon-fibre chassis, and a series of sophisticated sandwich isolation platforms for source components used with the system. Although the individual components have names in their own right (Feeld platforms, B-yond amp, Y-der loudspeakers), the whole system is designed to be supplied as a whole, and owners of a YAR system will be visited by a two-man set-up team to install and fine-tune the system wherever they are in the world. There will never be more than 99 YAR Audio systems manufactured, and the price of admission to the exclusive YAR Audio club is a healthy €250,000.”
Dynaudio Emit M10 REVIEW
June 20, 2016 Comments Off on Dynaudio Emit M10 REVIEW
“The Emit M10s unfurled a wall-to-wall soundstage with great depth as I played Brian Eno’s new album, “The Ship.” The first track is a rambling, ambient trip, with a churning low bass foundation that I could hardly believe was coming from speakers as small as these. I was so totally sucked into Eno’s slow-motion vortex of sound and texture that I forgot that I was listening to the Emit M10s; I was lost in the music.”
Ryan Speakers New Record Day Interview – Video
June 17, 2016 Comments Off on Ryan Speakers New Record Day Interview – Video
Gryphon Pantheon Loudspeakers Review
June 16, 2016 Comments Off on Gryphon Pantheon Loudspeakers Review
“After getting the lay of the Gryphon land to spin more complex fare, the next quality which arose were dynamics. Here I’m emphatically not discussing macrodynamic excesses. With this level of clarity and projection power, there’s no need to caveman it on the throttle. There’s no need to overcome “intelligibility drag” until the curtains finally raise. They’re up already at subdued levels. I’m instead referring to the rippling of amplitude in the realm of melodic emphasis, of small accents in a beat’s delivery. Rather than a solid albeit congealed mass of loudness, such keen microdynamics are twitchier. There’s more flickering. By being dynamically interesting at standard volumes, the urge to crank it dissolves. It feels not merely primitive but a sign of compensation that attempts to remedy a lack of distinctiveness and involvement elsewhere. Perhaps it’s most sensible and meaningful to call this conjunction of qualities—microdynamic astuteness, focus and energetic projection for in-room presence—the ability to communicate. Unlike with poorly recorded dialogue during a television show that requires constant effort to not miss words, hence meaning and subtext, getting the complete message is easy. This must be down to Gryphon’s obsession with the time domain based on the complex filter math of their mentor ”
Sonus Faber Venere S Loudspeakers Review
June 13, 2016 Comments Off on Sonus Faber Venere S Loudspeakers Review
“The Venere Signature sounded different. When I put on “Brothers in Arms,” one of the standout tracks from Junkie XL’s (aka Tom Holkenborg) sublime original score for Mad Max: Fury Road (16/44.1 FLAC, WaterTower Music), I was blown away by the dynamics I heard from these shapely towers: they rocked, and rocked hard. As the phalanx of massive drums that provide this track’s foundation unleashed volley after volley, I was not only struck by the Veneres’ tight-fisted bass control — it never overpowered my room — but also by the quality of the drumstrokes. There was texture aplenty, with authentic-sounding impact and slam instead of a weightier, punchier, but ultimately falser facsimile.”
HECO Music Style 200 Loudspeakers Review
June 13, 2016 Comments Off on HECO Music Style 200 Loudspeakers Review
” The Music Style 200s put up an impressive performance. They have exemplary midrange (especially the upper mid) and treble performance, viewed in their entry level context. The smoothness and control they displayed in these regions would allow many hours of fatigue free music enjoyment. They sounded very open. They portrayed dynamic contrast very well. Furthermore. fast and rhythmic music did not trip them up (try some jazz), so musical proceedings did not get draggy or boring at all. All these were no mean feat from these small loudspeakers really.”
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