The making of an 800 Series Diamond speaker – Video
May 8, 2016 Comments Off on The making of an 800 Series Diamond speaker – Video
Klipsch Reference R-26F Black Floorstanding Speaker – R-26F – Video
May 7, 2016 Comments Off on Klipsch Reference R-26F Black Floorstanding Speaker – R-26F – Video
JOSEPH AUDIO PRISM $3699 REVIEW
May 7, 2016 Comments Off on JOSEPH AUDIO PRISM $3699 REVIEW
” Nowadays it’s hard to find a good loudspeaker that doesn’t image well, but some image better than others. The Prisms certainly displayed precise, well-defined images that didn’t suffer from cabinet diffraction. Even when used in the nearfield, the Prisms disappeared almost as completely as the Audience 1+1 loudspeakers, which are still my reigning nearfield imaging champions. On my own recordings, the Prisms placed each instrument exactly where it should have been. The principal difference between the Prism’s imaging and the Audience 1+1’s was that the Audience loudspeakers produced a slightly larger listening window, which allowed for more boogie-space in the nearfield.”
DALI EPICON 8 FLOORSTANDING LOUDSPEAKER REVIEW
May 6, 2016 Comments Off on DALI EPICON 8 FLOORSTANDING LOUDSPEAKER REVIEW
“Going back to the Townshend/Naim pairing, I also tried the CAD CAT transport and 1543 MkII DAC as a front end, which readers of issue 132 may recall is a pretty special digital source. It’s also a sound that perfectly matches the DALIs’ finesse and detail retrieval, so the system created a truly ‘reach out and touch’, super deluxe sound. A close miked piece by Sarabeth Tucek [Get Well Soon, Echo], where the recording level is clearly on the hot side, is nonetheless capable of raising the hairs on your neck when delivered with the degree of transparency presented by the Epicon 8. You can hear the effects that have been used in the studio, but there is nonetheless a ghostly presence to this performance that perhaps relates to the subject matter; the death of the artist’s father.”
Bowers & Wilkins factory: making the 800 D3 Series – Video
May 6, 2016 Comments Off on Bowers & Wilkins factory: making the 800 D3 Series – Video
Vandersteen Model Seven Mk.II loudspeaker $62,000 Review
May 5, 2016 Comments Off on Vandersteen Model Seven Mk.II loudspeaker $62,000 Review
“The Seven Mk.II’s excellent low-frequency extension could be appreciated not only with pipe-organ recordings—such as my as-yet-unreleased recording of Jonas Nordwall performing the Toccata of Widor’s Organ Symphony 5 in Portland’s First United Methodist Church (24/88.2 AIFF)—but also with the awesome synth bass line of “Royals,” from Lorde’s Pure Heroine (Republic/Tidal stream). Some years ago, I recorded erstwhile Stereophile staffer Ariel Bitran’s band; in the mixes of those songs, I tried to re-create the low-frequency magnificence of live rock. The Vandersteen system was sufficiently transparent in the bass that I could readily hear how the dCS Vivaldi kept the intentionally phat bass-guitar lines better differentiated from the kick drum than did the PS Audio DirectStream DAC, especially when the bassist drops an octave at the start of a phrase.”
ELAC Announce New Flagship Speaker 50K to 60K EUR
May 2, 2016 Comments Off on ELAC Announce New Flagship Speaker 50K to 60K EUR
” This year ELAC celebrates its 90th anniversary and, as well as the first European showing of their Uni-Fi speakers and Discovery and Debut electronics products, the company have two new and rather special products being launched.
First of all is the Concerto, the new ELAC flagship loudspeaker, launched to mark the 90th anniversary and cement ELACs position in the high end of audio.”
Tannoy Eclipse 3 Review
May 2, 2016 Comments Off on Tannoy Eclipse 3 Review
“There’s plenty of snap to the rhythm track, a good dose of attack and enough refinement at the top-end to prevent things turning overly harsh. Prince’s vocals are as quirky as ever with the Tannoy’s fluid and articulate midrange coming to the fore.”
VANDERSTEEN AUDIO TREO CT LOUDSPEAKER REVIEW
May 2, 2016 Comments Off on VANDERSTEEN AUDIO TREO CT LOUDSPEAKER REVIEW
” Throughout this evaluation there was one trait that, like an addiction, continually fueled my excitement for the Treo CT. It was the speaker’s of-a-piece coherence. This is not always a given in the high end. Many multiple-driver loudspeakers—primarily designs with three or more transducers—fail to speak with one voice. Instead, the listener can identify each driver as it jockeys for prominence up and down the front baffle. In contrast, the Treo CT was like a top-drawer two-way compact—a segment long celebrated for its ability to reveal three-dimensional space while remaining invisible as a sound source. Similarly, the Treo CT (far better proportioned across the frequency spectrum than a two-way) projected a vast image of the legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing the Beethoven Ninth. Its spread across the soundstage was replete with height cues that reached well above the speaker, and depth cues that drew my eye to the back wall of the hall each time the percussion section lit up and the vast chorus rose in intensity.”
Klipsch Reference R-26F Review – Video
May 1, 2016 Comments Off on Klipsch Reference R-26F Review – Video
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