Parasound Halo P5 PreAmp Review
February 13, 2015 Comments Off on Parasound Halo P5 PreAmp Review
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“The P5 is basically a nicely balanced device, offering a detailed, precise sound that is well extended at both frequency extremes. It takes a neutral – and in absolute terms slightly dispassionate – look at the music, and lets it play with minimal interference. This is, of course, exactly what a good preamplifier should do”
DigiBit Aria Music Server Review
February 13, 2015 Comments Off on DigiBit Aria Music Server Review
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” A typical classical album can be characterized by the composer of the music, the names of the individual singers or instrumentalists, the name of the conductor, or the name of the ensemble. If the work is an opera or oratorio, you have the names of the vocal soloists — sometimes many, any of whom may be the item of chief interest to the listener, as may be the name of the choral group. You might also want to sort a collection by period: early music, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, modern — or by solo instrument: piano, violin, cello, etc. Vanishingly few server programs offer enough metadata fields to let you manage a classical collection. To a lesser extent, jazz recordings are also poorly served. The designers of the Aria’s library-management software have made a worthy effort to meet the needs of the serious classical collector.”
Sony HAP-S1Review
February 12, 2015 Comments Off on Sony HAP-S1Review
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“Five years or so ago, the brave new world of computer audio grew up into hi-fi separates with hard-disk drives inside. Products from companies like Brennan, Cambridge Audio and Yamaha offered instant playback of computer files from standalone boxes. Then streamers appeared, and the whole industry began to rally around this model. Sony’s HAP-S1 (and its bigger HAP-Z1ES brother) are the first to elegantly combine the two technologies, giving the best of both worlds. It works rather like a 21st century CD jukebox, offering instant music, and plenty of it – but it seamlessly integrates with your computer and its music library via your home network. In my view, this is a brilliant solution.”
EARSONICS THE VELVET IEM Review
February 12, 2015 Comments Off on EARSONICS THE VELVET IEM Review
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“What is interesting about EarSonics is that it has a clear house brand and their product line-up all fit within a certain image as well as having a particular house sound. This shows that a lot a thought is put into each product and EarSonics have certainly developed a cohesive range of unique IEMs for their customers”
Sony’s Walkman ZX2
February 11, 2015 Comments Off on Sony’s Walkman ZX2
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” The new ZX2 “High Resolution Walkman” is supposed to hit at around $1,200 for what is, essentially, a digital audio player. As in, it’s an iPod. Without most of the non-audio flexibility that the iPod actually has. Hmm.”
A Tale of Two Speakers
February 11, 2015 Comments Off on A Tale of Two Speakers
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” Before I discuss my auditioning of these two speakers, fig.1 compares their anechoic responses on the tweeter axis at 50″, averaged across a 30° horizontal window and with the complex sum of the woofer and port nearfield responses plotted below 300Hz. (I used DRA Labs’ MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone.) The blue trace is the KEF, the red trace the Revel. ”
Job 225 Mono Amplifier Review
February 11, 2015 Comments Off on Job 225 Mono Amplifier Review
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Let’s face it, channel exclusivity of power supplies can be built into a stereo chassis. But because reality bites, there’ll be practical constraints on size, weight and heat dissipation. Size and weight don’t just inform the consumer side about what’s manageable. It affects manufacturing and shipping too. With class A bias throwing off 90% of generated power as heat; and transformers getting bigger and heavier as power ratings escalate; what’s doable in a stereo chassis does eventual hit limits of plain common sense.”
ROGUE AUDIO SPHINX INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW
February 11, 2015 Comments Off on ROGUE AUDIO SPHINX INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW
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” The main amplifier section is built around an OEM version of the popular Hypex switching module driving MOSFET output devices. As an aside, the Hypex switching units are often found on much more expensive class D amplifiers, including my reference Merrill Thor monoblocks, which clock in at $4800 retail”
MartinLogan Neolith Loudspeaker $ 80,000/pair Review
February 10, 2015 Comments Off on MartinLogan Neolith Loudspeaker $ 80,000/pair Review
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What is very atypical and even novel with the Neolith is its design: it’s fully passive. No, that’s not a misprint. Unlike all other MartinLogan electrostatic speakers which have active components, the Neolith is fully passive from top to bottom. If you look at the Neolith you won’t get that impression. It has a power cord like all MartinLogan electrostatics, but on the Neolith, the power cord serves only a single purpose—to charge the electrostatic panel, nothing more. MartinLogan deliberately made the Neolith a passive design so that audiophile customers could pair whatever high-performance solid state or tube amplifiers they wanted for single or bi-amping the Neolith.”
Marantz HD-DAC1 DSD DAC & Headphone Amp Review
February 10, 2015 Comments Off on Marantz HD-DAC1 DSD DAC & Headphone Amp Review
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” I loved the balance of the presentation. Evaluations were done using both the Coax and USB inputs. I found them to be on par, with the USB maybe offering the slightest bit more of spaciousness. I will say at this time I did some brief comparisons to the far more costly Simaudio Neo 380D and Bryston BDA-1 DACs, and the Marantz was in no way embarrasse”
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