Parrot Zik3 Headphone Review – Video
April 11, 2016 Comments Off on Parrot Zik3 Headphone Review – Video
TriangleART Symphony SE turntable and Osiris tonearm Review
April 11, 2016 Comments Off on TriangleART Symphony SE turntable and Osiris tonearm Review
“As we moved into more and more different kinds of music, I begin to notice something about his demeanor. When listening to the Beatles’ Love album, he was ready to move on to something else more quickly than normal. This also happened when I played a Kronus album. When I asked him about it, he at first, said he just wanted to hear more different kinds of music on the system. Then I put on Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, and he was locked in again. Then he turned to me and said this combo seemed more sensitive to the quality of recordings than the AMG combo did.”
Hum Pristine Reference Custom In-Ear Monitors Review
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” Overall, the HUM Reference CIEMs are extremely dynamic and have the best transparency of any CIEMs here. They may not produce the uppermost and lowermost frequency extremes, yet odds are you might not miss them all that much. A bit of EQ’ing can help to some extent of course. HUM’s Pristine Reference CIEMs may be perfect for sound engineers who are seeking to hear as much as possible within their mix. Personally, I’m now using these CIEMs when mastering, augmented with my fave Noble K-10 CIEMs when I want to enjoy a more musical presentation. Considering the relatively reasonable pricing of $1299 for a pair of very high quality CIEMs, they fall within a comfortable cost zone. If you love accuracy and excellent dynamics plus super-wide soundscape, you owe it to yourself to investigate getting a set of HUM Pristine Reference custom in-ear monitors.”
Kemp Elektroniks MAXiiMUS P16 review
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” What yours truly can say is that the MAXiiMUS P16 comes at 5 kg and only uses 0,4 Watt. It ́s based on the principles of harmonizing electrosmog, and the pictures I took together with USB and digital cables is just to show the size of the MAXiiMUS, and not meaning they have to be connected to the unit.”
Woo Audio WA8 amplifier Review
April 10, 2016 Comments Off on Woo Audio WA8 amplifier Review
” The WA8 also sounded great with my hard-to-drive, high-impedance (600 ohm) Beyerdynamic T 1 full-size headphones; the amp sweetened and warmed up the sound. I next played my low-impedance (32 ohm) Grado RS-1 headphones with the WA8, and compared it with an Aurender Flow portable digital converter/headphone amp ($1,295/AU$1,799). The solid-state Flow was a touch more laid-back and mellow; the WA8 more transparent, low-level detailing and spatial cues were more vividly presented. While you might expect the tube amp would be more “tubey,” the solid-state Flow softened details more than the WA8″
GoldenEar Technology Aon 2 – VIDEO
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Manger p1 Review
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“Manger’s ingenious drive unit replicates the basilar membrane in the human ear and produces acoustic signals that are temporally and tonally correct at the same time. Avoiding the piston-shaped movement of a conventional driver, Manger created a bending-wave transducer with a flat, circular membrane of angular flexible foil, excited by a voice coil to make back and forth movements. Yet, and here’s the clever part, its waves radiate concentrically from the centre to the edge; the voice coil only having to excite the membrane’s centre for the sounds to be radiated by the bending waves around the coil.”
PHATLAB AUDIO PHANTASY REVIEW
April 10, 2016 Comments Off on PHATLAB AUDIO PHANTASY REVIEW
” In both hi-Z and low-Z settings, it supplies a rich, but clear signal with a great affinity for female vocals – to certain headphones. And, both Z settings are bass light. Being a very tubey amp, Phantasy puts out loads of harmonic distortion, and is prone to early onset of IMD both under load and not. The good news is that sizzling IMD doesn’t affect normal to loud listening levels with any load I have tried. I listen to the 600Ω DT880 at volume levels no higher than 15% – 20%, at which settings, IMD is about as low as you can expect from a SET design. Phantasy kicks out sizzle-free signal into the DT880/600 up to a rotation of about 50% of its volume pot, which is well loud.”
Puro Sound Labs BT5200 Review
April 10, 2016 Comments Off on Puro Sound Labs BT5200 Review
” The imaging on this recording did in fact take a good step forward so I was heartened to see that these headphones could scale with better hardware and recordings. The overall presentation still offered a warm and seductive performance that really drew me in and put a smile on my face. The layering of the bass/mids/treble was done quite well and dare I say, even on par with my favourite on-ear headphones the Beyerdynamics T51p headphones (but these come in at almost 3X the price). The final bits of refinement and clarity (especially comfort and overall build quality) still go to the T51p’s, but the BT5200s were not far behind and for those on a shoe string budget, I cannot recommend these more highly! ”
Audio Reference Technology Monolith SE cable system Review
April 10, 2016 Comments Off on Audio Reference Technology Monolith SE cable system Review
” If you are looking for an organized stage with great, full-bodied imaging, “Miss You” from the Rolling Stones will fill the bill. This one I just had to crank up. Feeling “in the room” with real presence due to meaty, well-defined images, this song has held up remarkably well. It sounds more like funk than disco now some 30 years later. The Doobie Brothers “ Listen To The Music” brings all the great traits of the A.R.T. Monolith SE cable together. Great imaging, full bodied yet airy, mind you. Image specificity was solid yet it was the timbre that really caught my attention. Instruments sounded remarkably life-like. I think there could be some inner detail left to explore but my guess is the leading products in the A.R.T. line may provide that level of deeper insight. But listening to “ Listen to the Music,” I can’t help but realize that is exactly what the A.R.T. cable does, it lets me “listen to the music” in a very special and deeply engrossing way.”
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