Balanced Audio Technology VK-655SE $16,500 Review
July 25, 2015 Comments Off on Balanced Audio Technology VK-655SE $16,500 Review
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” Listening to acoustic instruments highlights the character of the VK-655SE. Its enormous power reserves might not be noticed with less-demanding fare, but the instant a drumstick hits a cymbal or the string of a standup bass is plucked with force, the boundless reserves of this amplifier deliver the dynamic swing required to convince your auditory system that perhaps you’re not listening to recorded music at all.”
Lamm Industries • LP1 Signature Phono Stage Review
July 25, 2015 Comments Off on Lamm Industries • LP1 Signature Phono Stage Review
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” The Reference Phono 2 SE ramps up dynamically without sounding excessive, possesses notable transparency to the signal fed to it, and has an even tonal balance, if not one with lavish color. Consequently, perhaps, it sounds leaner and less physical than the LP1, transients in particular displaying just as much snap but less of the accenting resonance that gives drum strikes, for instance, much of the cut-through-the-air power of the Lamm LP1. The Reference Phono 2 SE has less low-end impact and weight, the bass drum”
Dynaudio Focus 200 XD speakers Review
July 24, 2015 Comments Off on Dynaudio Focus 200 XD speakers Review
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” I can now hear the well known vocals not was recorded in a one-take session, which was difficult to hear, and maybe even impossible with other speakers. But the sound is gorgeous, all of the layers are pictured perfectly. The ease and the flow of the music is seductive, to say the least. And the piano actually now stands in my room – sound wise, of course.”
Astell&Kern AK240 $2,500 Review
July 24, 2015 Comments Off on Astell&Kern AK240 $2,500 Review
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” In short, it sounds great—amazing even. You’ll be very hard-pressed to find a better high-res pocket player at any price. I’ve been hoarding the demo unit from Astell&Kern for several months now and have listened to it with ear buds from Apple, Grado, and AKG (among others), as well as with my six-driver JH Audio custom-molded in-ear monitors and a borrowed pair of Audeze LCD-3 open planar-magnetic ear cans”
Wells Audio HEADTRIP Headphone Amplifier $7,000 Review
July 23, 2015 Comments Off on Wells Audio HEADTRIP Headphone Amplifier $7,000 Review
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” In order to make sure that I heard the best sound possible from this amplifier, I wanted to use similar cabling from the beginning of the chain, to the end. Alex Sventitski of WyWires rose to my challenge and sent me a plethora of his company’s Platinum cable line to demo, along with their Red Series headphone cable.”
Moon by Simaudio Evolution 760A Stereo Amplifier Review
July 23, 2015 Comments Off on Moon by Simaudio Evolution 760A Stereo Amplifier Review
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” But none of this compares to how this diminutive amplifier could, with commanding authority, project into space three-dimensional images of a scale appropriate to the recording. I tried to get the 760A to clip as it drove my Rockport Atrias (sensitivity: 87dB) to levels I’m sure designer Andy Payor never thought probable, but I failed. Dismally. Instead, I heard from the system a highly controlled yet refined portrayal of whatever I had the guts to throw at it. The 760A deserves respect.”
MOON by Simaudio introduces the MOON Nēo 230HAD DSD Headphone Amplifier / DAC
July 22, 2015 Comments Off on MOON by Simaudio introduces the MOON Nēo 230HAD DSD Headphone Amplifier / DAC
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“The Nēo 230HAD is intended for wide range of individuals: Those passionate about music who desire a personal listening experience but without the inclination to build a “full blown” music system; Someone looking for the perfect desktop solution to a computer based audio system; People with a high-performance music system that have a craving to use headphones without making a compromise; Customers that already have a MOON system and need a control center for a secondary system; Or enthusiasts who simply want to gett maximum performance from their reasonably efficient, unbalanced headphones.”
Trenner & Friedl ART Loudspeaker Review
July 22, 2015 Comments Off on Trenner & Friedl ART Loudspeaker Review
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“Quite recently I enjoyed a lot reviewing relatively inexpensive, amazingly dynamic shelf-speakers by Canadian Bryston. I didn’t think then that so soon after I would have chance to listen to another, even smaller speakers, offering even more impressive performance. In this case it is not about dynamics and fun that make performance so enjoyable, but, as one would expect from much more expensive speakers, about sophistication and coherence of the presentation.
ULTIMATE EARS PERSONAL REFERENCE MONITORS REVIEW
July 22, 2015 Comments Off on ULTIMATE EARS PERSONAL REFERENCE MONITORS REVIEW
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” Yes, psychoacoustically, this was an entirely different kind of listening experience—greatly reduced in size and scale from what I’m used to via loudspeakers, with an entirely different “inside your head” rather than “outside your head” perspective. And yet the PRM’s presentation was so transparent, so finely detailed, so beautiful in timbre, and in its own way so effortlessly powerful in dynamics that nothing of the performance was lost.”
MERRILL AUDIO TARANIS STEREO AMPLIFIER REVIEW
July 22, 2015 Comments Off on MERRILL AUDIO TARANIS STEREO AMPLIFIER REVIEW
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” Keep in mind that Merrill Audio’s most expensive amp is called Veritas, which is Latin for truth. If this Taranis is something of a descendant of the Veritas, then we should expect some semblance of truth in its musical presentation. To my ears, that’s precisely what one gets provided the rest of the system is up to the task. Cue up a very well recorded performance of acoustic instruments or voice in natural space to see what I’m talking about.”
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