CES 2018: Soundot Compact Active Speakers
January 16, 2018 Comments Off on CES 2018: Soundot Compact Active Speakers
Questyle Audio CMA400i DAC with Headphone AMP Review
January 15, 2018 Comments Off on Questyle Audio CMA400i DAC with Headphone AMP Review
“The Questyle Audio CMA400i is a modestly priced powerhouse of a device that will take you far with your headphone dreams. It will also play well with others in your system as a standalone DAC—playing all types of digital files—and as a preamplifier. I’ve heard other superb headphone amplifiers (tube and solid state) costing more from Woo Audio [WA7 Firefly] and costing far more, the Cypher Labs Prautes, and while the Questyle can’t quite match the Prautes for luxurious musical delivery, it’s pretty damn close. And it comes with other tricks, too. Highly recommended. ”
HORNSOLUTIONS MIDSIZE HORN SPEAKER SYSTEM INSTALLATION
January 15, 2018 Comments Off on HORNSOLUTIONS MIDSIZE HORN SPEAKER SYSTEM INSTALLATION
“A custom installation of the Hornsolutions Midsize System. The size is always based on the bass-midrange. In this particular installation, there was already an unused fireplace and the Basshorn was implemented to save some space. Basshorn is working from 35Hz-150Hz. Drivers are two Altec 416 B 15″ Bass. Complete system is an active with running with the help of Hornsolutions Room correction DSP and Thomas Mayer tube amplifiers.”
CES 2018: Chord QUTEST DAC – VIDEO
January 14, 2018 Comments Off on CES 2018: Chord QUTEST DAC – VIDEO
Wilson Audio Alexia Series 2 Loudspeakers $57,900 Review
January 14, 2018 Comments Off on Wilson Audio Alexia Series 2 Loudspeakers $57,900 Review
“I have a theory that we audiophiles love soundstaging and dimension so much because we are innately such visual creatures with a cultivated vocabulary for measuring and pointing in space. If you want to appreciate how adept is the human hearing system at sonic location, listen to the Alexia Series 2. There’s a lot to be said for proper timing and wave form preservation but talk stops when the Alexia’s play. Thanks to keen driver positioning and improved coherence, dimensional performers appeared before me in aural space with a newly heard definition; soloists more often appeared in bas-relief than as cardboard cutouts. From cavernous symphonic halls to intimate churches to near dead recording studios, venue context became easily heard. Everything was more transparent. I experienced genuine improvement in midrange and low frequency attack and decay. Notes stopped. New notes began.”
Technics SL1000R Turntable System – Hands On
January 14, 2018 Comments Off on Technics SL1000R Turntable System – Hands On
ACOUSTIC RESEARCH AR-M2 REVIEW
January 13, 2018 Comments Off on ACOUSTIC RESEARCH AR-M2 REVIEW
“The use of a Class A headphone amplifier means the player has some serious power to give and is capable of driving about anything you are able to throw at it, however, this comes at a cost meaning the noise floor isn’t pitch black with sensitive earphones.”
Vivid Audio Giya G1 Spirit loudspeaker Review
January 13, 2018 Comments Off on Vivid Audio Giya G1 Spirit loudspeaker Review
“After all that, in the weeks following O’Hanlon’s visit, I continued to fine-tune the Spirits’ positions and toe-in angles. Bass was the way I like it. Tonality was spot-on and very realistic, but I was looking for the optimal balance between razor-sharp depiction and soundstage size and depth. My quest ended with a magnificently big sound but not the tightest imaging. Instruments and voices still hung in space as they should, but each was more rounded and slightly more diffuse than the images produced by my MartinLogans electrostatics. This was not necessarily a bad thing.”
Read more at https://www.stereophile.com/content/vivid-audio-giya-g1-spirit-loudspeaker-page-2#ZRVRMvT9aZu4KfVy.99
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