Magnepan MMGi speakers $650 Review
July 30, 2017 Comments Off on Magnepan MMGi speakers $650 Review
“No wonder the MMGi sounds bigger — and its stereo imaging closer to life-size — than any bookshelf or small tower speaker you or I have ever heard. Magnepan has been refining this technology since the early 1970s, and builds all of its speakers in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.”
Cary Audio AiOS INTEGRATED AMP/DAC $2,995 REVIEWS
July 30, 2017 Comments Off on Cary Audio AiOS INTEGRATED AMP/DAC $2,995 REVIEWS
“If you spend more money than the Cary AiOS, and you spend that money on separate pieces of hi-fi and the cables you’ll need to connect everything (not to mention any connectivity and power supply upgrades and tweaks), you can get better sound. If you want one box that is truly all-in-one, meaning all one need do is connect it to your network and your speakers and serve and/or stream away, the Cary AiOS checks off all of the boxes.”
Focal Utopia Headphones $4,000 Review
July 30, 2017 Comments Off on Focal Utopia Headphones $4,000 Review
‘I needn’t belabor the fact that the Focal Utopia has the best top end of any headphone I’ve ever heard. But isn’t the price practically a provocation? I should point out that Focal does offer the less expensive Elear, with aluminum-magnesium dome drivers, for a quarter of the price (review at soundandvision.com), and really good headphones can be had for a few hundred. You could buy three HiFiMen, 10 Sennheisers, or 40 Sonys for the price of one Utopia. But even at $3,999, the Utopia costs less than about three-dozen floorstanding speaker models in our Top Picks. For what is surely the king of the dynamic-headphone category, that’s prac- tically a steal.”
Pass Labs HPA-1 Headphone Amplifier $3500 Review
July 29, 2017 Comments Off on Pass Labs HPA-1 Headphone Amplifier $3500 Review
“Putting aside its prime directive as a headphone amp for a moment, the HPA-1 got right into the swing of being a dedicated preamp as it smoothly drove the active ATC SCM19A floorstanding loudspeakers (Issue 272). It exhibited the same lack of artifice, dynamic drive, and resolving power. Differences were subtle, subtractions minor (to some degree reflecting the added acoustic of my listening room); however, low-frequency pitch definition did soften slightly and soundstaging wasn’t as dimensionally immersive as that of my reference electronics. Even as a stand-alone preamp the HPA-1 is immensely competitive in its class, and for driving a powered desktop system (the likely goal) pretty hard to beat.”
12 Most Significant Loudspeakers of All Time (The Absolute Sound) – Video
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How to make DIY Audio Highend Isolation platform base – Video
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HULGICH AUDIO ASTOR LOUDSPEAKERS $12,000 REVIEW
July 28, 2017 Comments Off on HULGICH AUDIO ASTOR LOUDSPEAKERS $12,000 REVIEW
“As an audiophile, we tend to get caught up looking and listening for faults and being critical rather than appreciating the music itself. I made very few notes in this review as I really enjoyed the Hulgich Audio Astor for all its capabilities and its very few flaws.
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SME Model 15A Review
July 28, 2017 Comments Off on SME Model 15A Review
” Our usual advice with turntables is to place them well away from speakers and on a rigid, level, low-resonance support. While the combination of well-designed suspension and high mass makes this Model 15A less sensitive than most of its competition, this advice still holds if you want best performance.”
HiFiMAN Edition X V2 – Review
July 28, 2017 Comments Off on HiFiMAN Edition X V2 – Review
” The price shelf of the Edition X V2 is really a “new” $1k benchmark. The headphone is very much HiFi at its core, with even more entertainment flushed out on both ends. Designer Fang Bian has constantly pushed for better and better sound from his products, and this new middle ground here is no exception. ”
Audio Research GSi75 Integrated Amplifier $16,000 Review
July 27, 2017 Comments Off on Audio Research GSi75 Integrated Amplifier $16,000 Review
“The $16,000 price tag may stun a few at first, but when you realize what the team at ARC has packed inside the GSi75, and the fact that you don’t have to buy three sets of interconnects and power cords, it’s an amazing bargain – for the right customer. Because everything is inside and there is no preamp out, this is either a piece you will live with forever, or the upgrade bug will sour you. A cursory survey of a few friends with mega ARC systems reveals more than one have bought a GSi75 as the core of their second system, or vacation home system and are thrilled.”
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