Electrocompaniet ECI 6 MKII Integrated Amplifier $6200 Review
May 3, 2025 Comments Off on Electrocompaniet ECI 6 MKII Integrated Amplifier $6200 Review
https://www.audiophilia.com/reviews/2024/12/11/electrocompaniet-eci-6-mkii-integrated-amplifier
During The Firebird, another Watford gem (Classic Records/Dorati/LSO), the ECI 6 allowed the spacious acoustic and the pinpoint imaging achieved by the original Mercury recording team in 1960. Also, the very demanding dynamic range of this pressing (Bernie Grundman cut) presented no problems to the MKII. The control of bass during the bass drum heavy Side 2 was very impressive on transient, note and decay. Excellent control.
The MKII is said to have an improved power supply, and this new version never gave me an ounce of power envy. At times, however, the massive headroom of the MBL allowed a more refined, effortless playback—an ease that only gobs of brilliantly engineered power through the right speakers can bring. In my case, it’s not about speaker matching, though that is important; it’s a comfort and peace of mind thing. And if you hear one of these 20 K plus integrateds, such as examples from MBL, D’Agostino or Accuphase, you’ll know what I mean. The Bugatti Veron rarely uses its 1000 hp, but it’s there underfoot, and the driver knows it and feels it.
SMSL RAW-DAC1 Review
May 3, 2025 Comments Off on SMSL RAW-DAC1 Review
It could be said that SMSL is pretty good at what they do. It can also be said that they sometimes put models out quite quickly, hardly giving us time to enjoy the existing ones.
The SMSL RAW-DAC1 could be the current culmination of all those machinations within the company. Keeping the DAC separate is always in the best interest of sound quality.
The RAW-DAC1 comes across as almost startlingly neutral in presentation, with a crystalline nature that presents a whole new aspect. The clarity with which the music is presented through the various sources here is equally impressive, no matter the budgetary limitations of each.
The RAW-DAC1 allows vocals to come through with a level of clarity they have no right to and carries forth a thoroughly engaging signature.
Eversolo MASTER EDITION DMP A6 GEN II Review
May 3, 2025 Comments Off on Eversolo MASTER EDITION DMP A6 GEN II Review
Technics SC-CX700 active loudspeaker system Review
May 2, 2025 Comments Off on Technics SC-CX700 active loudspeaker system Review
https://www.stereophile.com/content/technics-sc-cx700-active-loudspeaker-system
The rear panels are not the same at all. The secondary speaker has only an AC input receptacle, an RJ45 jack for making a wired connection with the primary speaker, and a button for pairing it wirelessly with the primary. This pairing is done at the factory, but this button can be used should that pairing fail or should one of the speakers need to be replaced.
The primary, on the other hand, is busy with connections. In addition to the AC input and the RJ45 for that inter-speaker cable, there’s a wired output for a subwoofer (RCA), a switch to change L/R channel assignment, and the actual inputs corresponding to six of the seven signal inputs mentioned above. (You don’t need a wired input for Wi-Fi or Bluetooth!)
Pass Laboratories XA200.8 10th Anniversary $2,499 Review
May 2, 2025 Comments Off on Pass Laboratories XA200.8 10th Anniversary $2,499 Review
In the last ten years, I put a monstrosity of equipment up-stream of the XA200.8 and not only has it been utterly rugged in engineering and indestructible in use, its gentleness towards speakers is unsurpassed. I put it through the 100dB sensitive Destination Vista horn and later on the Pureaudioproject Quintet 15 with Voxativ AC-X during their respective auditions and the amp was gentle and judicious, never brutal or brittle; the first watt or so required for live performance level playback through these speakers was pristine and rich, never mind it probably never needed to produce the second watt, much less the two hundredth watt for that matter. Of course, for such efficient speakers the $7,650 XA30.8 would’ve sufficed, but the XA 200.8 was so well-engineered it was arguably the most trustworthy and ideal solid-state amplifier to pair to those speakers.
Maytak Audio M6 $949 Review
May 1, 2025 Comments Off on Maytak Audio M6 $949 Review
The relatively high sensitivity also means the noisy sources will be easily revealed. Whilst an 11-ohm load facilitates high voltage sensitivity, it also means that the Maytak M6 are quite sensitive towards output impedance.
With loudspeakers, the rule of thumb is to keep output impedance 8 times lower than the load, so with the M6, this translates to 1.4 ohms.
One must also keep in mind that these are multi-driver IEMs with non-linear electric impedance, so high impedance drive will interact with them and cause shifts in the frequency response.
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