Active Speakers from Cabasse: The Pearl Pelegrina €25,000 MSRP
December 3, 2021 Comments Off on Active Speakers from Cabasse: The Pearl Pelegrina €25,000 MSRP
https://stereo-magazine.com/article/exklusiv-active-speakers-from-cabasse-the-pearl-pelegrina
At the heart of the new speakers is the tri-coaxial TCA driver, also found in Cabasse’s La Sphère and Baltic V speakers, which combines woofer, midrange and tweeter into one driver. A built-in 30-cm subwoofer with Cabasse’s HELD technology is added to that. Thanks to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DAC and active technology, the Pearl Pelegrina can be used as a complete streaming system; additional digital and analog inputs are also available.
The Pearl Pelegrina additionally offers DSPs and room correction – which works via a built-in microphone – to further optimize the music signal. The wireless speakers are also multi-room capable via the StreamCONTROL app, and can be controlled with the included Bluetooth remote.
The Cabasse Pelegrina are limited to 70 pieces and are said to cost €25,000 (MSRP for Germany including stand). Each model also features a numbered aluminum plaque.
Wells Audio Cipher DAC $5000 Review
December 3, 2021 Comments Off on Wells Audio Cipher DAC $5000 Review
I tend to find that ESS based DACs have a sound that I describe closer to etching than to painting when it comes to how they present the sound stage. The Cipher is not an exception to this. It etches the sound stage in front of you, with incredible detail, space, and depth. While the Mytek Brooklyn does this as well, I find that the Mytek is drier and more forward in its presentation. This creates too much of a good thing depending on the recording. Said a different way, give the Brooklyn the wrong material in the wrong signal chain and it can sound overly sharp and bright to my ears.
Unlike the Brooklyn, the Cipher never sounded overly harsh or dry to my ears. I assume that a big part of the reason why is Jeff’s output stage. I found that every recording has a minimum amount of body or weight. This weight when combined with the extremely detail of the ESS chipset balanced the sound and created something really special.
World Premiere Review reel to reel tape deck
December 3, 2021 Comments Off on World Premiere Review reel to reel tape deck
Magico A5 $24,800 Review
December 2, 2021 Comments Off on Magico A5 $24,800 Review
The A5, as I said, is built to NASA tolerances, and it performs like it. It offers micro-resolution, yet never approaches sounding analytical. Treble extension is near stratospheric, while dancing on the razor’s edge but never falling off. The tweeter is light, extended, airy, detailed, and delicate without any ringing, breakup, shoutiness, or fatigue. It’s quite remarkable, and it’s got dynamics to spare. I can understand why Alon chose this particular 28mm dome tweeter even over his diamond-coated variant for the A5; it just suits the overall voicing so well. The tweeter does offer near the same level of complexity and depth as the M2 tweeter, but seems to lack its sense of finesse and faster-than-light speed. If memory serves, the M tweeter may be a touch warmer overall. Yet the A5 tweeter is lightning fast, like a Maggie with laser-accurate image specificity. It presents the upper registers with an almost mystical weightlessness and fantastic acceleration, yet cushions them with mellowness without ever truncating extension. Details in the treble and midrange come through totally without restriction. With the rare combination of higher volumes and poor (or low-resolution) recordings, the A5 can blossom to the point of sounding tipped-up. A step or two lower on the old volume knob, or skipping that particular track, solves the problem post haste. This speaker does not, in any way, sugarcoat a miserably compressed file, offensive recording, or poor source.
Degritter Ultrasonic LP Cleaner Review
December 1, 2021 Comments Off on Degritter Ultrasonic LP Cleaner Review
Degritter Ultrasonic LP Cleaner
In practice, the Degritter delivers all the incontrovertible benefits of ultrasonic cleaning. I pulled out a copy of Joni Mitchell’s classic Court and Spark that I bought more than 40 years ago (and have since replaced with a remastered version), and listened to it before and after cleaning. I also compared the sound before and after cleaning with another record I’ve had for decades, Bill Evans’ You Must Believe in Spring. I also tried a couple of recent used acquisitions, Linda Ronstadt’s For Sentimental Reasons (a spectacular recording, by the way), and Dexter Gordon’s The Monmartre Collection, Volume Two (that was sent to me in a Montmarte Collection Volume One jacket). This record, not available in any digital format, captures Gordon in his prime (1967) with a terrific band. With all these LPs, a cycle through the Degritter didn’t just reduce surface noise, as you’d expect; it also presented a startlingly blacker background that made the music seem to exist independently of the physical medium. The effect is a more believable presentation and a heightened sense of contemporaneous music-making. I really heard this on the Dexter Gordon record; the feeling of hearing a four-piece group play in a jazz club was more pronounced after cleaning. Ultrasonic cleaning also seems to make it easier to hear individual instruments, as though each exists as its own entity rather than being fused into a single fabric.
Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G Loudspeaker Review
December 1, 2021 Comments Off on Monitor Audio Silver 500 7G Loudspeaker Review
https://www.hifinews.com/content/monitor-audio-silver-500-7g-loudspeaker
Inside there’s also a new crossover, which the brand says was designed concurrently with the Silver 500 7G’s drivers, one project informing the other. Ceramic resistors, polypropylene and polyester capacitors, and air-core and steel-core inductors are used across an optimised three-way (800Hz/2.7kHz) network.
For £1725, these floorstanders are rather imposing. If you want a loudspeaker that will fit neatly in a small/mid-sized room, investigate the Silver 200 or 300 models, as these use 156mm woofers and so don’t have this cabinet’s 23cm girth. The Silver 500 7G enclosure is deep too (33cm), and once Monitor Audio’s new – and smart – moulded ABS outriggers are attached you’ll have lost a lot of floorspace.
It’s useful, then, that the new styling of this seventh generation is right on trend. Monitor Audio describes it as ‘crisp-edged’, but that sells it short. There are no curved faces, but corners are smooth and the finish of our ‘High Gloss Black’ and ‘Satin White’ samples was spectacular. There are three other colourways to choose from: Black Oak, Natural Walnut and Ash variants that dress the cabinet in real wood veneers. The last of those is intended to evoke the ‘Scandinavian look’, so ABBA fans should hunt it down.
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