AURALIC ARIES G2.1 NETWORK STREAMER REVIEW
September 1, 2021 Comments Off on AURALIC ARIES G2.1 NETWORK STREAMER REVIEW
http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/auralic-aries-g21-network-streamer/
Having got to this point the listening continued with Patricia Barber’s take on ‘Summertime’ [A Distortion of Love,Antilles], an evergreen standard if ever there was. Her voice at the start is positively ethereal, expanding into depths way behind the speakers and forcing your eyes closed to experience the sublime. The darkness of the background and the subtle percussion work that builds so slowly giving the piece a mesmerising quality that contrasts violently with the following track, ‘Subway Station #5’. Here, the drums’ energy forces your hands to attempt to emulate its activities, and you realise it’s a good thing that listening is a solitary pursuit. The ARIES G2.1 is an exceptional streamer with an excellent feature range and an increasingly sophisticated control app that gives instant access to those streaming services that are worth buying. If you get the components that surround it up to the same standard, you will have digital audio the likes of which few have enjoyed.
Amphion Argon1 Bookshelf Loudspeaker Review
September 1, 2021 Comments Off on Amphion Argon1 Bookshelf Loudspeaker Review
https://www.audiophilia.com/reviews/2021/5/19/amphion-argon-loudspeakers
A well designed wave-guide will control the directivity of the tweeter at this critical crossover point, narrowing the dispersion of the lower end of the tweeter to accept the narrowing upper dispersion range of the woofer. This increases the area that the tweeter couples to the ‘air width’ of the woofer, expanding the area of commonality between both speakers. Voila, an ultimately smoother coherence of transition and ranges of sound. Much closer to how humanity hears sound. This is the theory. Easy to describe; inherently difficult to construct. Amphion, however, has mastered the theory and its practical application. Wave-guides and lower crossover points have been part of Amphion’s tradition right from the beginning and their experience clearly shows.
Apple Acquires Primephonic Music Streaming Service
September 1, 2021 Comments Off on Apple Acquires Primephonic Music Streaming Service
Focal Clear Mg $1490 Review
August 31, 2021 Comments Off on Focal Clear Mg $1490 Review
https://www.whathifi.com/us/reviews/focal-clear-mg
The Focal’s transparency is highlighted by the sizable lift in performance when we switch to our reference Naim streamer/Burmester amplifier combo. Here, we’re aware of a greater sense of control and dynamic expression. There’s clearly even more information and we’re pleased with the way the Focals arrange it with control and composure.
Tonally, they’re full-bodied in a manner that eludes most rivals, and this presentation results in instruments and voices coming through in a more natural and engaging manner. The overall balance is a little on the fuller, rounded side, but not so much that it affects the Focal’s ability to convince.
Mark Levinson No.5105/Ortofon Quintet Black S MC Review
August 31, 2021 Comments Off on Mark Levinson No.5105/Ortofon Quintet Black S MC Review
https://www.whathifi.com/us/reviews/mark-levinson-no5105ortofon-quintet-black-s-mc
A large part of a record player’s tonality comes from the cartridge, and here the Ortofon Quintet Black S delivers exactly what we’ve come to expect from the Danish brand’s more premium offerings. It’s a clean, even-handed performer that errs slightly on the cooler side of neutral, which suits the turntable’s character well. When mounted in the No.5105, we have no issue with the cartridge’s detail resolution or its ability to track low-level instrumental strands in a complex piece of music. It’s a good choice for the turntable design and works well in context.
This Mark Levinson sounds big-boned and composed no matter what we throw at it. There’s good insight when we play Orff’s Carmina Burana, the turntable able to communicate the over-the-top drama of this piece well. Singers come through with a convincing presence and there’s no issue in revealing subtle instrumental or vocal textures.
Dan Clark AEON 2 Headphones Review
August 30, 2021 Comments Off on Dan Clark AEON 2 Headphones Review
REVIEW – Dan Clark AEON 2 Headphones
The lack of graininess and restriction the AEON 2s possess is spooky good. Thanks in part to their extreme comfort and light weight, with the cumbersome factor lifted, it’s so much easier to enjoy the music and not feel like I have a pair of cans (the tomato soup kind, not the headphone kind) on my head. I suspect that this will go a long way to entice a potential user. Even after hours of sitting in the chair listening while editing, these are lovely headphones.
Basis Audio 2200 Signature Turntable & Vector 4 Tonearm $8000 Review
August 30, 2021 Comments Off on Basis Audio 2200 Signature Turntable & Vector 4 Tonearm $8000 Review
And while I’m sure that Conti’s Transcendence and other stratospherically priced designs may take you steps beyond the 2200/Vector 4 ($18,410 with Reflex Clamp, Calibrator Base, and Cable Isolation), I must report that never in my almost four decades as an audiophile have I lived with a record player like this one—so across-the-board uncolored, transparent, coherent, and seemingly responsive to whatever frequency, dynamic, ambient, tonal, spatial, ambient, and other microscopic information may be pressed into vinyl grooves.
AUDIOPHILE HEAVEN
August 30, 2021 Comments Off on AUDIOPHILE HEAVEN
https://www.monoandstereo.com/2021/07/audiophile-heaven_31.html
I keep getting asked to post more high-end audio system photos, so here is another 50+ photo set of high-end audio gear galore, with plenty of renowned brands to enjoy
Göbel Audio • Divin Noblesse Loudspeakers $220,000 Review
August 29, 2021 Comments Off on Göbel Audio • Divin Noblesse Loudspeakers $220,000 Review
http://www.theaudiobeat.com/equipment/gobel_divin_noblesse.htm
Along with that low-frequency speed and definition come transparency and dimensionality. Anybody who has worked with positioning their own speakers will know what that means. Bringing clarity to the bottom end automatically declutters the midbass, midrange and on up. I differentiate midbass in this instance because that’s the range that imbues music with so much of its drive and energy, life and vitality. Gaining that clarity at source (as it were) even before you work with room placement is fundamental to the Divin Noblesse’s overall sound, its lucid presentation and coherent sense of musical energy and presence. You’ll often hear speakers described as well integrated or contiguous, seamless or even-handed, but in the case of the Göbels that goes well beyond the absence of tonal discontinuities and deep into the realm of musical energy and projection. The same substance that imbues Michael Kiwanuka’s kick drum with such solid impact applies right up the range, whether it’s cello, a pianist’s right hand, violin or bells. There’s no wispiness or thinness at the top, no pared-away or etched quality to the midrange
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