Constellation Audio Inspiration Stereo 1.0 Amplifier $11,000 Review
August 17, 2016 Comments Off on Constellation Audio Inspiration Stereo 1.0 Amplifier $11,000 Review
” Spending time with Constellation Audio’s Inspiration Stereo 1.0 amplifier has been a rewarding and educational experience: rewarding because it’s one of the better two-channel amplifiers I’ve heard; educational because I grew to understand and appreciate Constellation’s approach in trickling down technology to its more affordable models. Priced at $11,000, the Stereo 1.0 shares most of its circuitry and parts with Constellation models costing four to nine times as much. This undeniably makes it Constellation’s best value in a power amp. But in the high end, it’s not always just about value — it’s also about absolute performance, and the Stereo 1.0 has nailed that too. It achieves levels of transparency, power, control, tonal color, and dimensionality well beyond those implied by its price and specifications. I believe that Constellation Audio has created something special in the Inspiration Stereo 1.0. I’ll be sad to see it go. Highly recommended.”
The Pristine Vinyl ViVac RCS Record Cleaning Machine Reviews – Video
August 17, 2016 Comments Off on The Pristine Vinyl ViVac RCS Record Cleaning Machine Reviews – Video
COWON PLENUE M $900 REVIEW
August 16, 2016 Comments Off on COWON PLENUE M $900 REVIEW
” The Treble is the best quality of the entire experience, by far. You can get a nice and sweet sound up top, but not so much in the bass or midrange bands. I don’t know why. Most EQ presets are painful and severely thin out of the entire experience, like Classical for example, an unlistenable monstrosity of an EQ that I’d not force upon my worst enemy. Do know that you can achieve very good treble response with some toggles here and there, but nowhere else.”
New Entry Point Turntable For Clearaudio’s Innovation Range
August 16, 2016 Comments Off on New Entry Point Turntable For Clearaudio’s Innovation Range
‘” It may be at the entry level of the Innovation series, in reality the ‘Basic’ is anything but. Say Clearaudio: ‘Its design and construction bear all of the key Clearaudio hallmarks: intelligently-selected materials, precision engineering, painstaking craftsmanship and innovative technologies’. The resonance-optimised chassis features Clearaudio’s iconic three-point design with its ‘sandwich’ construction of Panzerholz (a solid, bullet-proof wood) and aluminium. Speed stability is achieved with Clearaudio’s decoupled custom-built high-torque DC motor with their patented Ceramic Magnetic Bearing (CMB) and Optical Speed Control (OSC). CMB allows the dynamically balanced platter to magnetically levitate on an inverted and polished ceramic bearing shaft with polished sintered bronze insert.”
Amazon Quietly Becomes High-End Audio Dealer
August 16, 2016 Comments Off on Amazon Quietly Becomes High-End Audio Dealer
” Nearly 20 years after e-commerce became a household word, many high-end audio brands continue to protect their brick-and-mortar dealers by not allowing Internet sales of any kind. Other high-end brands allow customers to purchase online, but only from a dealer that has been authorized by the manufacturer. Until recently, the 600 lb. gorilla of e-commerce was a non-player in any of this…but that’s changing.”
MQA: Questions and Answers
August 15, 2016 Comments Off on MQA: Questions and Answers
“It is now widely, although not universally, accepted that “hi-rez” digital audio, with increased sampling rate or bit-depth, delivers improved sound quality. But it does so at large cost to coding efficiency. A 24-bit/88.2kHz recording requires three times the data rate of a 16-bit/44.1kHz alternative, and that ratio increases by further factors of two as sampling rate is doubled again to 176.4kHz and then to 352.8kHz, the sampling rate of DXD. While the progressive improvement in sound quality is welcome, it takes a disproportionate toll on data rates and storage capacity. Simply increasing sampling rate also fails to address head-on why it is that 44.1kHz and 48kHz sampling rates impose subjective limitations. Instead, sampling rate has become a proxy for resolution.”
HIFIMAN EditionX headphone Planar magnatic Review – Video
August 15, 2016 Comments Off on HIFIMAN EditionX headphone Planar magnatic Review – Video
PEACHTREE AUDIO SHIFT REVIEW
August 15, 2016 Comments Off on PEACHTREE AUDIO SHIFT REVIEW
” Technically the chip in the Piccolo maybe a bit limited but tonally it is a very sweet warm to neutral sound with a nice full sounding low end that stays relatively linear and avoiding any mid-bass elevation. By comparison, the Shift is little more neutral and drier sounding. You do get a decent extension on the Picollo but not as much as the Shift which has a more aggressive low-end response and a bit more slam in comparison. Neither the Shift or the Picollo have the most strident or forward trebles so both are reasonably forgiving with lossy or badly recorded material. The resolution, detail, and dynamics are firmly in the Shift’s corner even when dropping down to 16 bit sampling it just has far more to offer.”
Sennheiser HD 800S Headphones – Review
August 15, 2016 Comments Off on Sennheiser HD 800S Headphones – Review
“I don’t own an original HD 800, so I visited my friend Michael Toto at Stereo Exchange in NYC to compare the store’s HD 800 with the HD 800 S. Plugged into a Chord Hugo headphone amp/DAC, the HD 800 S is sweeter on top and fuller on the bottom, but both headphones share a big-as-outdoors soundstage. The HD 800 S takes a bit of the edge off overcompressed recordings, while the HD 800 lets you hear every last bit of the harshness. With pristine audiophile recordings, I preferred the HD 800.”
Woo Audio’s WA7tp headphone amplifier Review
August 14, 2016 Comments Off on Woo Audio’s WA7tp headphone amplifier Review
“The WA7tp has two headphone jacks, a 6.3mm and a 3.5mm one. I used the 3.5mm jack with a couple of in-ear headphones, namely a set of Beyerdynamic iDX 200 iEs and my Ultimate Ears Reference Monitors. Most tube amps are too noisy to use with in-ear headphones, but the WA7tp was super-quiet, so it could clearly delineate the palpable textures on electronic music, like Brian Eno’s recent album “The Ship.”
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