LSA Signature 50 Speakers Review
April 12, 2022 Comments Off on LSA Signature 50 Speakers Review
The LSA Signature 50 Speakers
There’s a cost to play because Underwood HiFi isn’t Amazon, Best Buy, or Nordstrom. If you don’t like the Signatures enough to keep them, there’s a 15% restocking fee. And you’ll have to pay to ship 50 pounds back. But remember, experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want, and everyone has to keep the lights on.
If the description of the LSA 50 Signatures ticks your boxes, you probably won’t want to send them back. That said, these are worth rolling the dice for. Should your system grow beyond the roots you plant with the LSA 50 Signatures, you’ll probably keep them for a second system or to pass on to your kids or a friend about to start their audio journey. They are that good.
Cambridge Duo headphone amplifier & phono preamp
April 12, 2022 Comments Off on Cambridge Duo headphone amplifier & phono preamp
Lab 12 integre4 Audiophile Integrated Amplifier Review
April 11, 2022 Comments Off on Lab 12 integre4 Audiophile Integrated Amplifier Review
https://www.audiophilia.com/reviews/2021/10/26/6difo4beq7hy6zrt1kyjbzb1nfk45a
As you can see from the promotional images above, the integre4 is a good looking integrated amplifier. It has excellent sound and is very easy to use. It will grace any listening space. It’s not especially ‘tubey’, but does present as typically pentode. However, lovers of tube designs will enjoy the emotion the integre4 bestows on the music. And if swapping tubes is how you roll, the integre4 is your guy.
Lab 12 is now 10 years old, and, as they transition into their next generation, you can be sure you are getting quality production and fine design from a Greek audiophile with his listening ears on. Highly recommended.
Simaudio Moon 740P Preamplifier and Moon 820S External Power Supply Review
April 11, 2022 Comments Off on Simaudio Moon 740P Preamplifier and Moon 820S External Power Supply Review
Kostas Metaxas T-RX Tape Deck Review
April 10, 2022 Comments Off on Kostas Metaxas T-RX Tape Deck Review
To hear clearly what I’m talking about you need…well, you need a T-RX. Through the Tourbillon, you’ll hear every note in those “sheets” of sound—’Trane’s high-speed arpeggios and diminished scales, the “three-in-one” chords that Monk taught him, the sixteenth-note quintuplets and septuplets, often played so quickly that, as one jazz critic noted, they seem to liquify from arpeggios into glissandos—and you’ll hear them with the “spin,” the harmonic/dynamic/temporal nuances that Coltrane added to each and every one. Rather than uniform sheets of sound, this avalanche of notes is like tiny beads of varying shape and color, dangling, curtain-like, from a horizontal melody and root-modal line that Coltrane is oh-so-careful to remind you of, by adding just a little stress or duration to key melodic notes.
Conrad-Johnson ART 150 Stereo Amplifier $19,500 Review
April 10, 2022 Comments Off on Conrad-Johnson ART 150 Stereo Amplifier $19,500 Review
The ART 150’s performance envelope isn’t limited to solo voice or small-scale instrumental recordings. Its ample power supply (with ten times the capacitance of the original ART Series) provides the requisite muscle to deliver the instantaneous current that takes large-scale, complex, and demanding musical passages by the scruff of the neck and shows them who’s boss. A term I’ve coined after living with big floorstanding Dynaudios for a number of years is “dynamic slam”: the ability to quickly, cleanly, and effortlessly scale from pianissimo to fortissimo, and, man, the ART 150 has sure got it.
“Asturias (Leyenda)”on Isaac Albeniz’s Suite Española performed by the New Philharmonia Orchestra [Decca, CAPC 6355 SA] is presented with such drive and immediacy that you feel you’re sitting in the orchestra rather than the audience. At the big crescendos, the brass and timpani have the speed and power of a crack of thunder; the cymbal crashes are shimmering and clean.
Bowers & Wilkins 801 D4 Loudspeaker $35,000 Review
April 9, 2022 Comments Off on Bowers & Wilkins 801 D4 Loudspeaker $35,000 Review
The comprehensiveness of the 801 D4’s sonic strengths is apparent, I should say, even with amplifiers that don’t entirely conquer the impedance drop described above. One certainly should not conclude that there are only a few amps out there that will do the job. Just a few days after I parted ways with the review pair, for example, I heard the new 801s at Capital Audio Fest played with a pair of McIntosh MC901s, the solid-state section driving the woofers and the tube section handling the upper drivers. The results were stunning.
Unless you view the fact that the Bowers & Wilkins 801 D4s demand stout and sturdy amplification to sound their best as a demerit, they are a loudspeaker without any musically consequential deficiencies. If you listen to nothing but Renaissance recorder music, these speakers will give you a sound that’s airy, dimensional, and tonally correct. If it’s Death Metal that floats your boat, you won’t be disappointed, either—they’ll render all the slashing, bashing, and growling with as much attitude as you could hope for. Best of all, if you indulge in the Baltimore Consort in the afternoon and Cannibal Corpse after dark, the 801s won’t bat an eye.
SHOZY ELSA REVIEW
April 9, 2022 Comments Off on SHOZY ELSA REVIEW
The mid-bass body completes the presentation nicely with good transition, and the mids have very good dynamism and definition. Although the Elsa is an IEM that gives generous treble, which I’ll go into shortly, the mids still have good space to shine. Elsa also escapes from being a thin-sounding IEM, and although it somewhat has a bright-ish signature, it still has a very good body and musicality here.
So the mids are quite energetic and a bit bright but not too much. So you get very good clarity and transparency here. The instruments and vocals have excellent definition. The instrument separation is good and the instruments and vocals have good positioning. The mids also have a very consistent and realistic tonality with a studio-quality approach. So the Shozy Elsa also gets the job done in the mid-range department too.
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