RHA S500I REVIEW
December 27, 2015 Comments Off on RHA S500I REVIEW
” The cable itself is very well done and features a low microphonic upper cable housing made of rubber and the lower half after the cable splitter is a lightweight cord. This combination of materials meant that there was very little noise, if any, from the cable. The RHA S500i is of course the model that features an inline microphone and control set and during the course of the review it was found to offer excellent call quality. The earbud microphone and control is made of the same aluminium found on the earpieces, its rock solid”
Goldmund Telos Amplier/DAC $10,400 Review
December 26, 2015 Comments Off on Goldmund Telos Amplier/DAC $10,400 Review
” The Hifiman HE1000 soundstage is large and precise. The Telos and HE1000 were synergistic and a excellent match. The Telos was able to get the best out of the HE1000 and brought out everything the headphone had to offer. Art Pepper’s saxophone came alive on “Move” from “+11’’, Art was located in the center and each musician was in their own defined space with excellent separation. Each instrument had sufficient air and created a 3D image within the soundstage. Closing my eyes I could identify every musician in the stage easily.The Telos involvement with the music was as good as I have heard in any combination. The listening sessions sometimes went over a 10 hour period and never did I feel any distractions while listening. The music was involving and non fatiguing. ”
Questyle QP1R DAP Review
December 26, 2015 Comments Off on Questyle QP1R DAP Review
” The new 100 ohm Audeze LCD-4 turned over plenty of volume from the device, as did the hard-to-drive 300-ohm Sennheiser HD650. Listening to Jason Mraz track 93 Million Miles it was easy to pick out texture separation from Jason’s voice and the rest of the audio spectrum. The depth and dimensionality of his voice at 24/96 during the lighthearted entry verse seemed 93 million miles away from the crackle of a iPod headphone playing crinkled low resolution MP3’s”
NOBLE AUDIO WIZARD SAVANT IEM REVIEW
December 26, 2015 Comments Off on NOBLE AUDIO WIZARD SAVANT IEM REVIEW
‘ Sub bass on the Wizard Savant is good but not dominating with a slight roll off right at the bottom, the main punch comes from that 50-100hz area so EDM and hard rock will benefit most from the Savants richer bass line and orchestral sub bass drum work might lose out. It is horses for courses really between the two and as before I felt the Classic 4 couldn’t deliver the bass vibe and feel of modern rock and pop the Savant really can.”
Technics Premium Class SB-C700 loudspeaker Review
December 25, 2015 Comments Off on Technics Premium Class SB-C700 loudspeaker Review
” Whenever audiophiles claim they can’t live with colorations, and that they require accurate or neutral reproduction, I laugh, choke up, and expectorate. I don’t believe anybody when they say this. All that any audiophile or reviewer—myself included—really wants is his or her favorite colorations. We want recordings to sound like we want them to sound. If you think I’m full of it, I dare you to audition these beautiful, well-engineered speakers. Technics’ new Premium Class SB-C700 is not only accurate, transparent, and neutral, it’s an excellent value. Highly recommended.
Naim Mu-so Music System $1,500 Review
December 25, 2015 Comments Off on Naim Mu-so Music System $1,500 Review
“The Naim Mu-so has a built-in Internet radio receiver. It can access the Internet via the wireless network or, if you’re close enough, hardwired via its Ethernet connection in the base. You’ll want to download the Naim app first, and once you’ve selected your specific Mu-so, you can peruse the world with your fingertips. The app’s display tells you both the sampling rate and the bitstream rate of the selected station. Most stations offer abysmal audio—128 kilobits per second is the lowest I’ll listen to—but Naim also includes two presets that get you to some 320-kbps stations that sounded very natural to me. Strangely, you can’t control the volume of Internet radio from the same buttons on your phone you use to control streaming music, but you get a volume bar along the bottom of the app that you can use to adjust the volume.”
PSB Imagine T3 Loudspeakers Review
December 25, 2015 Comments Off on PSB Imagine T3 Loudspeakers Review
“The Imagine T3 effectively replaces PSB’s Synchrony One ($6000/pair when available), which I reviewed in 2008 and used in my room for a while thereafter. The Synchrony One was a fantastic speaker that won our Reviewers’ Choice and Product of the Year awards.”
Arcam FMJ A49 Stereo Integrated AmplifierReview
December 23, 2015 Comments Off on Arcam FMJ A49 Stereo Integrated AmplifierReview
” I’ve been listening to Arcam products for around 30 years, and there’s absolutely no avoiding the fact that this one came as a bit of a surprise, as it sounded rather good right from the start. When cold it can sound slightly brash, but it warms up quite quickly and this all but disappears. Although I feel that there’s a hint of a lower treble hardness, and some emphasis in the sibilant region of voices, this only shows up when the material played has a tendency to excite this area too. ”
Onkyo DAC-HA200 Review
December 23, 2015 Comments Off on Onkyo DAC-HA200 Review
” If you love music and care about the calibre of sound in your cans then the DAC-HA200 is definitely worth the investment. It’s a fabulous headphone amp and DAC, offering an engaging, insightful sound from any source, while the tough aluminium casing and generous socketry live up to the price tag. The only gripes are the faffing about required to play hi-res files from Android devices and the fiddly controls, but otherwise the DAC-HA200 is a terrific portable proposition.”
Mrspeakers ether REVIEW
December 22, 2015 Comments Off on Mrspeakers ether REVIEW
” The project was code-named Dreadnought after the Theta Dreadnought 5-channel home theatre amp I use to this day. It made for a nifty code name. Along the way we were doing research on driver behaviour in closed cups and I came across a knurled planar-driver patent by Bruce Thigpen. I called him to ask if he thought it’d apply for our use. He thought it might and suggested we try It helped but not enough to solve the problem we had. Bruce’s knurling technology basically creased the driver panel to reduce surface oscillations which can cause nonlinear response and distortions. We discovered that if we took the process a lot further by using a deeper form of knurling that permanently deforms and textures the driver surface, we reduced distortion, improved dynamics and extended response at both ends of the spectrum. ”
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