AVM INSPIRATION CS2.2 SYSTEM
February 22, 2015 Comments Off on AVM INSPIRATION CS2.2 SYSTEM
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“There’s a phrase I all but threw away in the last paragraph, that deserves some serious unpicking: ‘well-made’. In fact, ‘unpicking’ is a very good term here too, because at first glance you might struggle to see how it’s put together. Although not an entirely screwless case, this brushed black or silver aluminium design drips quality – not in a back-breaking, high-mass way, but made in the way you’d expect from a country obsessed by car shut-lines and precision engineering.”
DigiBit Aria Music Server Review
February 21, 2015 Comments Off on DigiBit Aria Music Server Review
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” The Aria software comes with 18 metadata fields that you can use to describe your recordings; you can add as many other fields as you wish, or delete any you don’t need. Be aware that most CD-ripping programs and most download sites probably won’t automatically fill in these fields for you. The Aria’s ripping program does populate those fields as best it can, and it did a pretty good job. It has access to the AccurateRip database used by dBpoweramp, and the premium databases AMG, freedb, GD3, MusicBrainz, and SonataDB (Classical) — you’ll have a hard time finding a CD the Aria won’t recognize. You may recognize some of those databases as commercial, but worry not — the Aria comes with licenses for their use.
BAETIS INTRODUCES THE NEW XR3 MEDIA SERVER REVIEW
February 17, 2015 Comments Off on BAETIS INTRODUCES THE NEW XR3 MEDIA SERVER REVIEW
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” Kal Rubinson of Stereophile gave our XR2 a great review in 2014, and we received a Recommended Component Award from the magazine. Yes, our prices have had to rise quite significantly to accompany these improvements in all of our models, and to have our servers shown and sold by those few high end audio dealers who fully understand digital audio and, especially, the new field of computer audio at the very highest levels of quality.”
Auralic Aries Review
February 15, 2015 Comments Off on Auralic Aries Review
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” Sonically the Auralic Aries is a superstar. It has all the features one wants and it manages to perform among the best source components I’ve heard. Whether streaming from Tidal HiFi, my local network, or directly from a USB stick the sound of Aries was consistent throughout the review period”
Adcom GIA-275 Integrated Audio Multimedia
February 14, 2015 Comments Off on Adcom GIA-275 Integrated Audio Multimedia
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“The Adcom GIA-275 Integrated Audio Multimedia ($1199) wraps up an 80 watts/channel into 8 ohms integrated amp, a 24/192 and DSD-capable Wolfson DAC, headphone amp, Bluetooth (A2DP and aptX), digital (USB, 2x Coax S/PDIF and 2x Toslink) and analog RCA inputs into one fairly tiny (9.75″ x 9″ x 3.5″) black box”
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.”
ReQuest The Beast Music Server Review
February 9, 2015 Comments Off on ReQuest The Beast Music Server Review
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“Galbo says that The Beast is an an effort to provide an “ultra premium” music server with software geared towards especially difficult categories and sub categories relating to classical music. He says for example that users can can drill down and differentiate the same conductor, the same orchestra, the same composer, the same music piece, on different dates, etc. Storage is reported to be unlimited”
Cocktail Audio X40
February 9, 2015 Comments Off on Cocktail Audio X40
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” The Cocktail Audio X40 ($2695) is basically their X30 (see review) without the power amp. The X40 preamp/DAC/UPnP (DLNA) network player/server/CD player and ripper/FM tuner uses the ESS Sabre 9018 DAC, ESS is obviously having a busy year, and can handle up to 4TB of internal storage. The X40 also adds a MM phono input along with Toslink, Coax S/PDIF, analog RCAs, and USB for attaching storage devices. Outputs include RCA and XLR pairs as well as HDMI to connect to an external big-ass screen.”










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