Noble Audio Onyx $3200 Review
January 2, 2025 Comments Off on Noble Audio Onyx $3200 Review
Any illusion of a mosh pit-type staging experience due to my characterization of the Onyx as a darker-sounding monitor would be erroneous.
Granted, it is not as sparkling as the Ragnar or Ronin, but there is enough of a lift around 6-8k and decent headroom to ensure it doesn’t sound claustrophobic. Where the Onyx soundstage excels is its excellent level of depth and impressive channel separation with above-average width.
RDacoustic Silentmax 3D Luxury Edition
January 2, 2025 Comments Off on RDacoustic Silentmax 3D Luxury Edition
Developed under a separate brand name, RDacoustic Silentmax® is a 12 mm thick acoustic panel characterized by excellent acoustic energy absorption. It is meant to serve anywhere where reverberation times needs to be reduced: in modern interiors, but also in offices, meeting rooms, classrooms, auditoriums and so on. Made from 100% PET recyclate, it is durable, non-flammable and colour stable. All information about the acoustic properties of this material can be found at its respective webpage, silentmax.eu. The three-dimensional design, which divides the panels into acoustic segments, is a mix of simple cost-effective flat panels and the more advanced series of our hybrid diffusers. Compared to flat panels, it offers the same variability of integration into the interior but its active area is almost 2.4 times larger.
KEF Muon Speakers at the KEF Music Gallery in London
January 2, 2025 Comments Off on KEF Muon Speakers at the KEF Music Gallery in London
Focal Diva Utopia Review
January 1, 2025 Comments Off on Focal Diva Utopia Review
https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/focal-diva-utopia
Elsewhere there isn’t much to complain about. We are getting a wonderfully clean and clear presentation with Florence Welch’s powerful vocals coming through with conviction. Instruments and voices are rendered with convincing texture and a good degree of natural warmth. It’s a tidy and controlled presentation with a decent if not explosive sense of rhythmic drive.
We’re happy to report that the Diva’s performance stays pleasingly consistent whether we use the built-in streaming module, the stereo analogue input or the optical connection. We rarely come across a product where the performance of each of these inputs is so balanced.
Bel Canto Pre5 Preamplifier and REF501S Amplifier Review
January 1, 2025 Comments Off on Bel Canto Pre5 Preamplifier and REF501S Amplifier Review
I had a chance to try briefly the Pre5 headphone feature and found it to be a decent performer, which should delight the headphone users out there. Therefore, without reservation, I could say that the Pre5 and REF501S were competent performers all around. Towards the end of the review, I swapped out the REF501S with its predecessor, the REF500S. The comparison revealed slightly different sonic characteristics between the two amplifiers. It seemed that the REF501S traded a slightly warm and laid-back presentation of the REF500S for better transparency and a slightly more intimate soundstage. To be clear, this comparison did not reveal that one was better than the other. In my opinion, the two amplifiers exhibited about equal level of performance; they are just slightly different in their musical presentations.
Estelon X Diamond Mk II loudspeaker $89,000 Review
December 31, 2024 Comments Off on Estelon X Diamond Mk II loudspeaker $89,000 Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/estelon-x-diamond-mk-ii-loudspeaker
Balanced, engaging, and multifaceted, the Estelons took me through many moods. I felt not just in sync with the music but blessedly affected by it too. It’s true that sonically, in my room, the X Diamond Mk IIs were a notch past the midpoint between earthy and analytical. They have a slightly more pronounced mid-treble region than my Focal Scalas do. That means that they paired well with the Aurender A20 and the Grimm Audio MU1, and not as successfully with the otherwise excellent Eversolo DMP-A8 (which doesn’t sound sharp or strident per se but can’t boast perfect fluidity either). The A20 and the MU1 are both a touch mellower, less forward, more “analog” perhaps. That suits the Estelons.
In a historic account of a love triangle that I read recently, the femme fatale seduced her lover with a suggestive dance. The sentence that stood out was “When she danced, the concealed was revealed.” That’s also a very fitting description of the X Diamond Mk IIs. For speakers at this price level, you’d expect impeccable beauty inside and out, visually and sonically, and that’s what you get with these comely Estonians. They ooze detail and resolution and naturalness, unveiling what remains hidden—or is sloppily sketched—through lesser contenders. It’s hard to think of higher praise
Hifiman Susvara Unveiled $8,000 Review
December 31, 2024 Comments Off on Hifiman Susvara Unveiled $8,000 Review
So yeah, the Susvara Unveiled can be driven by many amplifiers, but they will all make the Susvara U. sound differently. In that regards the Unveiled is a transparent headphone. It’s also clear that the better amps, or should I say technically stronger amps, really make the Unveiled shine. When using a lower resolution DAC or bad files, you will immediately hear that so make sure your full setup is up to the task.
Vevor Digital Ultrasonic Record Cleaner
December 31, 2024 Comments Off on Vevor Digital Ultrasonic Record Cleaner
Lorenzo Audio Labs LM1 Loudspeakers $200,000 Review
December 30, 2024 Comments Off on Lorenzo Audio Labs LM1 Loudspeakers $200,000 Review
The LM1s are world-class cost-no-object loudspeakers in every way. The LM1s embody an achievement in design, engineering, craftmanship, and most of all, sonic performance. Lorenzo Audio Labs set a high benchmark for all others to be measured against. Sonically speaking in my system, the LM1 are as good as it gets. My twenty-five plus years audio search for reference loudspeakers is over. Regardless of cost, I told Visintainer that I’m keeping the review pair and wrote him a check. Hats off to Miguel Lorenzo Castro for creating this masterpiece.
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