Glass – Perfect8 Transparent Cabinet
November 29, 2025 Comments Off on Glass – Perfect8 Transparent Cabinet
Dynaudio Contour 20 Black Edition loudspeaker $8000 Review
November 28, 2025 Comments Off on Dynaudio Contour 20 Black Edition loudspeaker $8000 Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/dynaudio-contour-20-black-edition-loudspeaker
I started my critical listening by playing the diagnostic tracks I created for the various Stereophile Test CDs (footnote 2). The 1/3-octave warble tones were cleanly reproduced down to the 80Hz band. The 63Hz tone was slightly lower in level, the 50Hz and 40Hz tones slightly higher in level. The 32Hz tone was boosted by my room’s lowest-frequency mode. I couldn’t hear the 20Hz tone. The half-step–spaced tonebursts spoke cleanly and evenly from 4kHz down to 32Hz. The lower-frequency tonebursts and warble tones sounded clean, with no “doubling” (second-harmonic distortion), and there was no wind noise from the port. Listening with a stethoscope to the enclosure’s sidewalls while these test tones played, I could hear some resonances in the octave between 250Hz and 500Hz.
Topping D900 DAC Review
November 28, 2025 Comments Off on Topping D900 DAC Review
Such performance underscores how critical the DAC is in the signal chain. Regardless of how refined the amplification or loudspeakers may be, a compromised converter upstream will veil information and restrict dynamics. The D900 demonstrates the opposite effect: by keeping distortion and noise below audibility, it allows every subsequent stage to work at its best. Listeners may find familiar recordings yielding new levels of intimacy and realism, not because of any editorial “voicing,” but because the DAC is stepping out of the way and letting the source material speak for itself.
For those who still question whether digital playback has reached maturity, the D900 offers a persuasive answer. Topping has combined superb engineering discipline with innovative decoding technology, and the result is a converter that competes with units costing several times as much. The D900’s fine detail retrieval is spectacular, its noise performance exemplary, and its overall contribution to system fidelity impossible to overstate. As the essential bridge between digital media and the analog world, we hear, the DAC deserves as much attention as any amplifier or transducer. With the D900, Topping has proven that this attention can pay extraordinary dividends.
How I FLATTEN warped vinyl records at home
November 28, 2025 Comments Off on How I FLATTEN warped vinyl records at home
World Premiere Review!Margules Audio U-280SC Amplifier Review
November 26, 2025 Comments Off on World Premiere Review!Margules Audio U-280SC Amplifier Review
The Margules amplifier sounded neither audibly tube-like nor solid-state-like. What I heard coming from this amp was music. This amplifier gave me the feeling that I was hearing a very accurate version of the recording, but without any of the amp’s own sonic signature that would compel me not to think, “What a great sounding amplifier,” but rather, “What a great piece of music!”
With the Vermouth Audio Studio Monitors in the system, this is when the sonic magic really happened. The Vermouth Audio speakers were closer to what the average Margules customer might have as part of their audio system. The Margules amp proved itself to be an incredible-sounding power amplifier when listening through these speakers.
RBH S-12HPS Micro Subwoofer Review
November 26, 2025 Comments Off on RBH S-12HPS Micro Subwoofer Review
This is a subwoofer that can grow over time with the unusual in-its-class ability to daisy-chain multiple units. It’s powerful yet agile. It is petite yet plays big. It makes music better and cinema more watchable. It can be hidden behind a sofa or in a corner, hardly being noticed in the arena of Domestic Acceptance Factor.
Who is its intended audience? While the first audience will likely be at an RBH dealer with some of the company’s bookshelf speakers, it would be a mistake to limit the audience to just that demographic. Anyone who has speakers that need help delivering bass to near 20 Hz and doesn’t want a large box spoiling one’s décor would find a friend in the RBH S-12HPS. It’s well engineered with a build quality that promises a music and movie enhancer with a shelf life measured in decades, not years. The RBH S-12HPS should be on the short list for anyone looking for a compact, powerful, and musical subwoofer.
Acora Acoustics MRC-2 Loudspeaker $12,990 Review
November 25, 2025 Comments Off on Acora Acoustics MRC-2 Loudspeaker $12,990 Review
https://www.soundstageultra.com/index.php/equipment-menu/1284-acora-acoustics-mrc-2-loudspeaker
won’t go through all 28 tracks in my new playlist, which includes “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from John Wilson’s new recording of Carousel; “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Street Fighting Man” from the Rolling Stones’ Beggars Banquet; “Diamonds & Rust” by Joan Baez; “Something” and “Because” from the Beatles’ Abbey Road; the second movement, Scherzo, from Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9; and a violin concerto by J. S. Bach, a Haydn symphony, and a Shostakovich string quartet. On every one of these tracks, the YGs held a slight edge, but the price difference was out of all proportion to the sonic gains.
The Haileys threw a wider and deeper image, had greater definition in the bass, displayed increased resolution, and were cleaner on difficult percussion sounds. The differences were greater with bass-heavy material, where the YGs sounded cleaner and more tuneful, and on percussion-heavy jazz. But the YGs and Acoras sounded far more alike than different. You might well think they came from the same manufacturer if you were blindfolded. I would recommend the YG if cost were no object. But it almost always is, and I consider the MRC‑2 sensational value for money.
Wilson Audio WAMM x Quintessence Audio
November 25, 2025 Comments Off on Wilson Audio WAMM x Quintessence Audio
Just as master wood carvers, carpenters, architects, granite installers and landscapers came together to create a home of unmatched quality, the Wilson Audio WAMM brings together material experts combined with skilled, experienced acoustical engineers to craft loudspeakers of unmatched artistry and sound.
Air Tight ATM-2Plus amplifier
November 23, 2025 Comments Off on Air Tight ATM-2Plus amplifier
I have to admit that I’ve had decidedly mixed experiences with MoFi’s vinyl (and not because of the fuss around the “digital step”). While all of it sounds some variety of terrific, I’ve been less convinced by some releases’ ideas about the music. Take 2019’s double-disc reissue of Miles Smiles. The glossy, high-resolution mastering somehow allows the music’s rhythmic structure to drift. When I compared it to the 1967 Columbia original, I heard the playing of Miles Davis’s quintet as notably less incisive and communicative.So I slid the new Hejira out of its heavy sleeve and turned the Garrard’s speed dial to 45 with a bit of trepidation. When I sat down to listen, the music that came out of the speakers dazzled me. The MoFi team has somehow excavated a whole new layer of musically relevant information: not only more distinct notes from the guitar and bass and a closer, less murky acoustic but also tons of ambient sounds I’d never heard. And far more body, making Mitchell and the band present in a way I hadn’t experienced.
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