2015 RMAF SHOW REPORT – LOUDSPEAKERS OVER $20,000
October 17, 2015 Comments Off on 2015 RMAF SHOW REPORT – LOUDSPEAKERS OVER $20,000
” The striking VR-55 Aktive ($60,000/pr.) leverages collaborative component manufacture and the application of VSA’s pioneering (and extraordinarily cost-effective) patent-pending active noise reducing cabinet technology, using specially developed, custom-built drivers from Accuton and ScanSpeak. The result really speaks to me, setting new benchmarks in its price class for resolution, transparency, and room integration.
MAGICO M PROJECT LOUDSPEAKER $129,000
October 6, 2015 Comments Off on MAGICO M PROJECT LOUDSPEAKER $129,000
While the D-5’s ported bass and contoured frequency response are laughably “inaccurate” by Magico’s linear, low-distortion standards, the D-5 is anything but laughable in the listening. The added mid-to-upper bass sock that this speaker generates, the dark, rich, beautiful tone color from top to bottom, the Magico-equaling transient speed, and the superb treble are, in the words of my friend and colleague Andre Jennings, “simply addictive.” Another way of putting this is that the D-5 and the Wilsons are gorgeous, powerful, and finely detailed on every kind of music. Whether they also sound plausibly like the real thing on every kind of music is a different question. But let me say something else here that’ll rock the boat. For most listeners, the absolute sound doesn’t matter. Let me repeat that again: For most listeners, the absolute sound doesn’t matter. For most listeners, it is the effect of the absolute sound (or of the canned one, for that matter)—the horripilating visceral excitement and ravishing beauty of music and not a fool-ya simulacrum of, oh, a violin or a piano—that matters most.
V-MODA Custom 3D Printed Headphones at $40,000
June 26, 2015 Comments Off on V-MODA Custom 3D Printed Headphones at $40,000
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” Platinum: $12,000-16,000 for on-ear including XS, $27,000-40,000 for over-ear including Crossfade M-100.
Living Voice $2,000,000 System – Video
June 23, 2015 Comments Off on Living Voice $2,000,000 System – Video
Parasound JC 3+ phono pre $3,000
June 16, 2015 Comments Off on Parasound JC 3+ phono pre $3,000
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” I fell hard for the original Parasound Halo JC 3 when it hit the market here in Malaysia some years back. I made the stretch to buy one and have been enjoying it since. As I’ve never been one fortunate enough to have a handful of different moving coil cartridges sitting ready to be mounted and played at any one time, and could not afford the exotic ones which were reputed to be particularly demanding of how they were loaded to give their best, the lack of MC loading options on the original JC 3, limited to either 47k or 100 Ohms, never really bothered me.”
EVOLUTION ACOUSTICS MMMicroOne $4,000 REVIEW
May 31, 2015 Comments Off on EVOLUTION ACOUSTICS MMMicroOne $4,000 REVIEW
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” Real music is full of subtleties, even if it’s a grunge punk band that does nothing but play loud scream into the microphone. There’s great ones and putrid ones (I almost said “rancid” but that’s an actual name of a band”
Skogrand SC Beethoven Speaker Cables Review $22,000
May 28, 2015 Comments Off on Skogrand SC Beethoven Speaker Cables Review $22,000
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“That is, there is more of a difference sonically than ever before between and among our music. Good recordings sound better and bad recordings sound worse. It is what it is. You simply hear more and not less… and less of what one might hear with lesser cables or ones that impart something into or onto the music. The Skogrand Beethoven cables are not going to act as a bandaid. Along with that, you hear more of what the rest of your components are doing; also a good thing. Make that a really good thing if you got the synergy right… and that I do.”
Dolce & Gabbana headphones $7,000
April 18, 2015 Comments Off on Dolce & Gabbana headphones $7,000
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“Evidently, Ms. Duque recently saw a Dolce & Gabbana advertisement on the side of a taxi for their recent showing at Milan Fashion Week featuring a picture of one of the models wearing headphones very much like those she constructed for her photographic series. She’s suing D&G for stealing her idea. Let’s do a little comparison”
2015 EDITORS’ CHOICE: TURNTABLES $5,000 – $10,000
April 12, 2015 Comments Off on 2015 EDITORS’ CHOICE: TURNTABLES $5,000 – $10,000
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” The VPI Classic 3 is an exceptional effort by a company that knows the analog landscape like few others. Arriving complete with the Classic 3 unipivot tonearm, an HR-X center weight, and a PRC ring clamp to fully flatten stubborn LPs, the Classic 3 is fast, lucid, and responsive. Rhythmically it has an upbeat, forward-leaning personality with excellent timbre and pitch definition in the low frequencies. The tonearm is also brilliant, with-on-the-fly VTA adjustability and removable armwands for the slickest cartridge-swapping in town.”
2015 BUYER’S GUIDE: STAND-MOUNT LOUDSPEAKERS $5,000 – $20,000
March 5, 2015 Comments Off on 2015 BUYER’S GUIDE: STAND-MOUNT LOUDSPEAKERS $5,000 – $20,000
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