Triangle Capella Self-Powered Wireless Stand-Mounted Speakers Review
January 30, 2025 Comments Off on Triangle Capella Self-Powered Wireless Stand-Mounted Speakers Review
Create audiophile-grade wireless earbuds and speakers. But it all has to be simple to use. Youth likes easy to blend in with what they are doing at the time.Earbuds are simple to power with small batteries, but speakers are a different thing altogether. They need to have a decent amount of watts available. Batteries won’t work, and putting a Class A/B power amplifier on the back of a speaker will produce a hefty speaker, the rear panel of which would get hot.Enter Class D amplification. They can be small and don’t get hot, just modestly warm at worst.Triangle’s new Capella stand-mount speakers (OK on a bookshelf too since the port is on the bottom) fit the bill, and I got a pair in their Astral Blue wood-grained finish

THIEAUDIO Origin Review
January 30, 2025 Comments Off on THIEAUDIO Origin Review
Origin has a very easily recognizable THIEAUDIO in-house sound. Coming from IEMs like Oracle MKIII and Hype 10, you can easily relate to the Origin’s tuning. It remains rather balanced throughout the frequency range but with an elevated bass response.
The bass is quite strong, with some emphasis on the sub-bass while maintaining a good impact and tightness in the mid-bass region. The midrange, like most sibling IEMs, stays near neutral with a touch of musicality and sweetness.
The two EST drivers make the treble region pleasant without any harshness or sibilance. The bone conduction driver adds vibrancy to the sound, adding a layer of excitement. With the Origin, you can observe the BCD in action due to the tactile vibrations.

SW1X Lady Pearl Horn Loudspeakers
January 29, 2025 Comments Off on SW1X Lady Pearl Horn Loudspeakers
A sneak peek into the production of the SW1X Audio Design Lady Pearl horn loudspeakers, kicking off 2025 with a sleek black finish for the Lady Pearl

Rotel Ras-5000 Review
January 28, 2025 Comments Off on Rotel Ras-5000 Review
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This aspect of its performance is another feather in its cap, as is the integration of HDMI (with CEC control) to make Rotel’s all-in-one an effective TV audio solution as well as a provider of musical delights. Simply switching on my TV woke up the amplifier, with sound arriving so quickly you’ll probably still be scrolling through the list of content on whatever streaming service or broadcast platform you prefer.
Many buyers of the RAS-5000 won’t be using it in this manner, but its abilities meant it delivered music-driven content, such as Sacha Jenkins’ Black & Blues documentary focused on the life of Louis Armstrong [Apple TV, stereo], in a lush, engaging way far superior to that of a flatscreen TV or soundbar. The nightclub ambience in the (sometimes very old) archive video and tape recordings was palpable. So, while Rotel’s RAS-5000 is an accomplished music performer first, it’s certainly eager to please when pressed into other duties.

PSB Imagine T65 Loudspeaker $1999 Review
January 27, 2025 Comments Off on PSB Imagine T65 Loudspeaker $1999 Review
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I continued with Mule Variations and listened to “Take it With Me.” Again, I was impressed by the wonderful, sharply depicted center fill the PSBs created and the broad soundstage they cast. After a short piano introduction, Waits’s gravelly voice enters, and my ears perked up hearing it so profoundly deep. Like on the Sexton track, I was picking up on something I’m not accustomed to hearing with my own speakers. “Take it with me when I go,” he rasps, with a voice chesty and full. I loved how he sounded. This, I knew, is the track I’d play to show off what these speakers can do. When I switched over to the Monitor Audios, I found Waits’s voice to still have a striking presence, but I didn’t hear that extra bit of emphasis in the lowest region of his coarse baritone.
As good as the PSB T65s sounded, they couldn’t match the performance of the Monitor Audio Gold 300s. The Monitor Audios just gave me more of what I wanted to hear. Still, listening to the PSBs was a treat, and as I swapped the cables back and forth between the two sets of towers, it became obvious to me that the T65s came much closer to approaching the Gold 300s’ sound than one might expect from their disparate prices.

THORENS Reference Turntable
January 27, 2025 Comments Off on THORENS Reference Turntable
Eversolo DMP-A8 Streamer-DAC-DAP-Preamplifier $1,980 Review
January 26, 2025 Comments Off on Eversolo DMP-A8 Streamer-DAC-DAP-Preamplifier $1,980 Review
Used in conjunction with its internal streamer, the DMP-A8 became a potent streaming DAC device. I spent a good chunk of time evaluating the DMP-A8 in its streaming DAC function in this review (connected to Classe CP-700 preamplifier and Krell KAV-2250 amplifier) and came away impressed. In such a function, it was hard to think of other components out there that bested the DMP-A8 in features and performance in the sub-$2,000 price range. The streaming control using the Eversolo app was a delight to use, and the device responded swiftly to the selected playback track through the app. Besides displaying the album cover figure and the track information on the device’s front screen, this information was also displayed in the app, hence eliminating the need for reading the small text on the front display.


Air Tight ATM-1 2024 Edition power amplifier $14,975 Review
January 26, 2025 Comments Off on Air Tight ATM-1 2024 Edition power amplifier $14,975 Review
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A tube amp fanboy to my core, I’ve long stalked the aisles at hi-fi expos, eyes peeled for that telltale AirTight gleam. Their exquisite craftsmanship and captivating sonics have, in my mind, elevated them to the status of sonic royalty, their mere presence inspiring reverence.
When he reviewed the ATM-1S a decade ago, Art Dudley concluded that it was “right up there with the best I’ve heard.” I’ll go him one better: The AirTight ATM-1 2024 Edition is the finest amplifier I’ve hosted in my sonic sanctuary.
As the seasons shifted and Greenwich Village’s summer cacophony faded, the ATM-1E delivered sophistication of tone and taut, muscular bass, dynamic punch plus midrange and treble clarity, wrapped in a balanced presentation that was consistently satisfying, spicy, and surprising. Rare delicacy and imaging clarity wove instruments, voices, and ambient sounds into a harmonious whole that left me wanting nothing.


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