MARK LEVINSON NO585 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW
December 22, 2015 Comments Off on MARK LEVINSON NO585 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW
The No585 uses an R-2R resistor ladder network for the volume control. This is widely regarded as the best volume control topology out there. Of course, Harman has made improvements to lower the resistance of this circuit and by using special analog switches with very low voltages in routing the currents through the circuit.”
Diapason Dynamis flagship speakers review
December 22, 2015 Comments Off on Diapason Dynamis flagship speakers review
” There are many unique takes with this speakers design. In my preview I’ll touch few with more elaborate description coming in later with the full blown review. Alessandro will visit me personally and bring the Dynamis speakers for in depth test and review. We’ll take time to explore everything behind the speakers creation, inspiration and unique design philosophy.
Audeze unveils EL-8 Titanium headphones
December 21, 2015 Comments Off on Audeze unveils EL-8 Titanium headphones
” Audeze has used an exclusive ‘cypher cable’ with an integrated amp, DSP and DAC, which supports 24-bit hi-res audio. The unit on the cable doubles up as a microphone and is Siri compatible, and a 3.5mm cable is available for use with non-Apple devices. Audeze also has balanced cables for Astell & Kern, Pono and Sony PHA-3 players.”
SIMAUDIO MOON NEO 430HA REVIEW
December 21, 2015 Comments Off on SIMAUDIO MOON NEO 430HA REVIEW
” As any good headphone amplifier will have, this has a gain switch, which when using with any high impedance (HD800) or planar magnetics (Audeze and ZMF) has been left on High (20dB) in opposed to low (14dB). It also has a crossfeed option, which like when I have come across before I prefer to leave off. It just seems to make things more distant, not so much open or bigger. Inside the amp itself Sim seem especially proud of the two transformers that make up the oversized power supply and the 8 stages of DC regulation that come with it. Considering there is a Moon range of power supplies it surely seems like they probably have good inkling on how to get power efficiently to a amp stage.”
Jeff Rowland Design Group • Model 825 Stereo Amplifier $32,000 – Review
December 20, 2015 Comments Off on Jeff Rowland Design Group • Model 825 Stereo Amplifier $32,000 – Review
” The Model 825’s sonic profile begins from a very deep well of musical detail that’s free of accompanying noise. It is a model of directness — of neutrality — presenting the music the way it is on the recording with uncommon resolution and purity, and resolving space with singular acuity. And just when you’ve come to appreciate all of this, you realize how liquid and non-electronic it sounds, offering up its gobs of detail with abundant naturalness that at first seems out of place. It is a true connoisseur’s product; beautiful and thoughtfully made, it does its proclaimed job, amplifying a signal, without even a minor issue. It hasn’t just single-handedly redeemed class D for me, but made me take it seriously again, something I would never have imagined without experiencing it for myself.”
Rega Elex-R review
December 20, 2015 Comments Off on Rega Elex-R review
” It’s a relatively quiet circuit, one that keeps all the good sonic points we noted in the line stages. There are four line-level inputs, one tape out and a single preamp output, should you need to add a bit more muscle”
PSB Speakers M4U 4 Headphone Review
December 20, 2015 Comments Off on PSB Speakers M4U 4 Headphone Review
” I did the bulk of my listening with my iPod classic, before I stepped up to the latest version of FiiO’s high-resolution X5 music player ($350) to tap the M4U 4’s full potential. Dynamics and transparency improved, a lot, so with Aphex Twin’s Drukqs album, the seriously deep bass passages were more viscerally felt, and with Rob Wasserman’s Solo album, his acoustic bass’s dexterity and precision were no less astonishing”
LEAR NS-U1 IEM Review
December 19, 2015 Comments Off on LEAR NS-U1 IEM Review
” Your ears will need a few seconds to adjust to how things are being presented to you on NS mode also as everything is pulled in a bit more from the sides and placed more in front of you imaging wise. Within those seconds however immediately you will notice the tonality get a welcome injection of warmth, body and musicality. The NS On mode clearly sounds the beefier of the two signatures. Left right stereo separation is far less tangible also and initially you might think your soundstage is being squeezed up and becoming more congested or intimate but in reality it actually does sound a bit more like how some speakers project.”
Paradigm Premium Wireless Series PW AMP Stereo Amplifier Reviewed
December 19, 2015 Comments Off on Paradigm Premium Wireless Series PW AMP Stereo Amplifier Reviewed
” Frankly, the sonic differences between Anthem Room Correction set to its defaults and tweaked to heck and back to suit my own preferences were minimal at best. The differences between the performance of the PW AMP with and without ARC, though, were substantial. Switching back and forth between room correction and no room correction is a simple matter of holding the Mute button for a few seconds, which makes for pretty easy comparison. Without ARC, bass performance was a wee bit less even, a little less controlled, and some mixes had a tendency to be a little out of whack.”
KEF LS50 monitor speaker REVIEW
December 19, 2015 Comments Off on KEF LS50 monitor speaker REVIEW
” The LS50’s proprietary “Uni-Q” driver combines a ribbed 5.25 inch (130mm) aluminum/magnesium woofer with a 1-inch (25mm) aluminum dome tweeter in its center, the driver sports a die-cast aluminum frame. The tweeter has that nifty looking Tangerine waveguide that uses “radial air channels to produce spherical waves up to the highest frequencies.” The Uni-Q driver shares a design and engineering kinship with the similar looking unit in KEF’s flagship Blade Two speaker. The LS50 speakers’ rear-end hosts an elliptical bass port and heavy-duty binding posts that match the quality feel of the rest of the speaker. There are no provisions for wall mounts or brackets, but this isn’t really the sort of speaker that sounds best hugging a wall. I had them on metal floor stands 3 feet away from the wall.”
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