DISCO-ANTISTAT MK.II+ BEST MANUAL CLEANING SYSTEM YOU CAN BUY?
August 18, 2024 Comments Off on DISCO-ANTISTAT MK.II+ BEST MANUAL CLEANING SYSTEM YOU CAN BUY?
hybrid Centaurus Major and Minor Review
August 17, 2024 Comments Off on hybrid Centaurus Major and Minor Review
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The Major, too, works best with a minimum of 18in clearance from the back wall, but you can just about get away with flush placement. With both speakers, fine-tuning involves the usual Apogee four-step, juggling tilt (using the screw-in spikes), toe-in, fore-and-aft placement and left/right positioning. What’s important for those who might consider the Minor due to its suitability for small rooms is the optional stand, which adds a few inches to the height but adjusts the tilt for nearfield listening.
My main concern with these speakers involved the amplifier selection. Using the familiar battery of sources – Lyra Clavis cartridge, SME V/Oracle front end, and CAL and Marantz CD-12 CD players – I spent most of my time swapping amplifiers, trying hard to find one which wouldn’t drive the Centaurs. Let me tell you something else: nobody has heard what an Apogee can do unless they’ve used valves. And, as we all know, this has been denied us due to the hideously low impedances of the full-range models. A Croft Series 5, Radford STA-25, a 35W/channel from Woodside costing roughly the same as a pair of Minors and some 100W monoblocks from Ray Lumley, drove the Minor to adequate levels – and the Major.
Audience frontRow Interconnects and Speaker Cables Review
August 17, 2024 Comments Off on Audience frontRow Interconnects and Speaker Cables Review
The frontRow cables excelled at their reproduction of the frequency extremes. The frontRows played back high-frequency instruments with consummate air, extension, and clarity, and without any accompanying grain, grit or brightness. Elvin Jones’ cymbal work on “Outlaws” from his Bill Frisell with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones CD (Nonesuch 79624-2) had a condign mix of bite and burnish, and was played back with seemingly endless air and extension. And Dave Holland’s bass playing was supple and rhythmic, with propulsive drive. The frontRows’ bass was chameleonic in nature, adding no innate editorializing to the musical message.
Soundproofing A Home Theatre with QuietRock
August 17, 2024 Comments Off on Soundproofing A Home Theatre with QuietRock
Grado SR325x $295 Review
August 16, 2024 Comments Off on Grado SR325x $295 Review
https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/grado-sr325x
Comfort is another area where these headphones divide opinions. At 340g, they’re not heavy, and there’s enough in the way of adjustment to cope with a wide variety of heads. But not everyone will get along with the new foam earpads, or the on-ear design – which is becoming increasingly rare in a world dominated by noise-cancelling wireless cans. These are firmly wired headphones aimed at home use, so we would warn against taking these out on the move.
Even as long-term Grado users, it takes us a while to get used to them due to their thinness and overall shape, but it’s worth persisting. A few days of acclimatisation makes us more kindly disposed towards them, particularly as the new earpads cause a subtle shift to the balance of the SR325x’s sound, making them a less demanding listen.
We compare the two types of earpads and it becomes clear that the headphones sound smoother and more authoritative in the bass with the new design. We try the new pads on previous generations of the SR325s (we have both the older ‘e’ and even older ‘i’ versions on hand) and in each case the sonic changes are consistent; a more direct presentation with greater top-end refinement and improved low-end solidity.
Acoustical Systems Astellar Turntable
August 16, 2024 Comments Off on Acoustical Systems Astellar Turntable
https://www.analogplanet.com/content/acoustical-systems-astellar-turntable
Additionally, the Astellar sports a double-point brushless DC motor belt drive with active dynamic control motor management, a double flywheel drive with “maximized inertia” incorporated in the active motor management, a decoupled bearing level, and playback speed options of 33, 45, and 78, all of them said to be fully stabilized with “below 0.01 derivation from mset speed.:
Other specs and features of the Astellar table include a 17 x 5 x 15in (w/h/d) external power supply that weighs 39lb, with the connection and wiring between the power supply and turntable supplied by LEMO. The Astellar is available in five finishes: metallic black, Apolyt-dark anthracite, dark titanium, silver, and light titanium. The dimensions of the Astellar table are 27 x 9 x 18in (w/h/d), and its net weight is 194lb.
Finally, the SRP for the Acoustical Sounds Astellar turntable is $95,000 — and, in this case, it looks to be worth every stellar penny.
I VISITED THE 100 YEAR OLD RECORD STORE
August 15, 2024 Comments Off on I VISITED THE 100 YEAR OLD RECORD STORE
PS AUDIO STELLAR STRATA MK2 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW
August 15, 2024 Comments Off on PS AUDIO STELLAR STRATA MK2 INTEGRATED AMPLIFIER REVIEW
Testing the preamplifier by itself and using the RCA digital input jack, the results of activating the three available digital filters on the frequency response with 16/44.1 sampling are shown below in Figure 21. The digital input was 0 dBFS which means full DAC analog output into the preamplifier section, The Volume was set to 48. Each filter delivers a different roll-off response at 20 kHz. You just need to try them all to see which one you prefer. Filter 2 gives the most high-frequency roll-off, and this will make the sound a bit smoother. Since this Class D amplifier has quite a bit of high frequency distortion, start with Filter 2, and then switch to the others, using music that has a lot of high frequencies, such as violins.
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