Woo Audio WA22 Balanced Headphone Tube Amplifier and Pre Amplifier Review
July 1, 2023 Comments Off on Woo Audio WA22 Balanced Headphone Tube Amplifier and Pre Amplifier Review
HiFi Rose RS520 streaming integrated amplifier $3695 Review
July 1, 2023 Comments Off on HiFi Rose RS520 streaming integrated amplifier $3695 Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/hifi-rose-rs520-streaming-integrated-amplifier
Because HiFi Rose is an engineering-centric company (footnote 8), niceties like translation and spelling sometimes seem to get short shrift. On the RS520, linguistic quirks were never particularly enigmatic, but perfection is a ways off. When connecting to Bluetooth, the message you get is the slightly off-kilter “Execute [Bluetooth] to search for available devices.” The screen that lets you choose among three font sizes for streaming music says, by way of instruction, “Enlarge a Playback information.” Even the company’s official English-language website (footnote 9) states, “Before the sudden change, the tool until yesterday is meaningless.” Jon Derda says HiFi Rose has been “making small changes with each iteration of [the RS520’s] firmware (footnote 10), to Americanize the product further.” Importantly, the 64-page product manual is written in rock-solid English, no complaints.
HIFIMAN ARYA ORGANIC $1,300 REVIEW
July 1, 2023 Comments Off on HIFIMAN ARYA ORGANIC $1,300 REVIEW
What we like about Hifiman is that they are an innovative company, and they continue to R&D new goodies for us Audiophiles. More importantly, they let trickle-down high-end technologies to their lower-range units, and that results in a very impressive headphone line-up.
Another thing I appreciate is the fact that they have great gear in all segments of the market. No matter what budget you have to spend, Hifiman has you covered with something good.
Naiu Laboratory Ella Mark 3 Class ND Stereo Amplifier Review
June 30, 2023 Comments Off on Naiu Laboratory Ella Mark 3 Class ND Stereo Amplifier Review
If you click on my name in the header, you can see the equipment I used throughout the review process. I recently acquired the excellent Topping E70 Velvet DAC, which features a pair of the latest top-of-the-line AKM AK4499EX DAC chips (AKM’s production came back online mid-2022). The E70 Velvet presents digital music (especially DSD files) with an exciting level of transparency and musicality in combination with the already outstanding Euphony gear. And I’ve had the Ella Mark 3 amp set up in my larger listening room for several months now, connected to the Magneplanar LRS+ loudspeakers. I used an AudioQuest Blizzard w/DBS AC cable to provide power to the Ella Mark 3, and the entire system used balanced connections throughout. Since the origins of this review came from Robert Devcic’s interest in my impressions of the Ella with my Magneplanars, this was the logical place to start. A word of note: while the Ella Mark 3 doesn’t generate the kind of heat an amp that’s biased into pure Class A does, it gets somewhat warm to the touch with extended listening. In my experience with Ella, it sounds a bit cold from startup, and needs time to reach its normal operating temperature to achieve the ultimate in sound quality.
Klaudio Magnezar Turntable Review
June 30, 2023 Comments Off on Klaudio Magnezar Turntable Review
https://www.analogplanet.com/content/klaudio-magnezar-turntable
Features for the Magnezar ’table include a magnetically levitated platter, an ultra-quiet direct-drive motor, enhanced liquid stabilization and lighting, automatic spindle and peripheral clamping, aluminum construction, a dual tonearm support that includes the aforementioned Klaudio tangential tonearm and laser pod, and adjustable platter speeds of 33, 45, and 78rpm.
The SRP for the Klaudio Magnezar turntable has yet to be announced, but as soon as the company confirms it with us directly, we will update that information here accordingly.
HiFiMAN Ananda Nano MEGA Comparison Review
June 30, 2023 Comments Off on HiFiMAN Ananda Nano MEGA Comparison Review
VPI Avenger Direct Turntable & 12″ FatBoy tonearm Review
June 28, 2023 Comments Off on VPI Avenger Direct Turntable & 12″ FatBoy tonearm Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/vpi-avenger-direct-turntable-12-fatboy-tonearm
“This is the most solid and least error-producing system in the business,” Weisfeld senior said. The Avenger Direct uses the same basic motor—the same rotor stator—used since the Classic Direct, but the way that motor is driven changed with the HW-40. In its earlier implementation, the motor was driven as a brushless, direct-current (BLDC) motor; in the later direct-drive ‘tables, including the Avenger Direct, it is implemented as a PMAC (permanent-magnet AC) motor, “driven sinusoidally as a three-phase AC motor,” Harry wrote in an email. The motor-drive system is servo-controlled by an active Texas Instruments–based feedback loop. A magnetic strip with 2500 magnetic elements on the platter is read by a magnetic head; that information is fed back directly into the drive system to correct errors. “The drive is so powerful you can put your finger on the side of the platter while running and it does not slow down,” Harry wrote. “With no cogging, when the platter turns there is no vibration.”
Parasound HALO JC 5 Amplifier $6399 Review
June 28, 2023 Comments Off on Parasound HALO JC 5 Amplifier $6399 Review
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