Waters on the Hardware: The Mola...
05-02-2024 | By Dean Waters
Dean Waters at the Pacific Audio Fest, 2023: a portrait with cigar (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) The Tambaqui from Mola Mola represents the finest in high end DACs available for the serious...
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SAE HP2-D Amplifier and MK One...
05-02-2024 | By Gary Lea
Fifty years ago SAE hit the market with its first amplifier, the venerable MK 1. A 60-watt per channel affair that stunned the audio world and received rave reviews by none other than J. Gordon Holt when he stated that under...
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With the New Record Doctor X, Your...
04-20-2024 | By Juan C. Ayllon
As widely noted, for the second year in a row in 2023, vinyl record sales topped compact disc sales in the U.S.—this time by a whopping $43 million, or about six million more than total CD sales last year (popsci.com)....
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Vera-Fi Audio's SnubWay Noise...
04-18-2024 | By Tom Gibbs
I'm constantly on social media, quite often for audio-related purposes. And I'd seen teasers for months highlighting the ongoing development of Vera-Fi Audio's SnubWay Noise Defender, or more simply, SnubWay. The posts...
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Gingko Audio's Cloud22 Isolation...
04-17-2024 | By Francisco Duran
As many years as I have been in this hobby, within the last few I have become more and more intolerant of the exaggerated claims of expensive tweaks by some manufacturers. You can throw wire and cable into this debate, but...
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Waters on the Hardware: Qln...
04-10-2024 | By Dean Waters
Dean Waters at Pacific Audio Fest 2023: a portrait (photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) The Qln Signature Series, Fifth Generation, front view with magnetically attached grill cover For the last several...
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A Follow-up on the Vanguard Caldera...
04-06-2024 | By Tom Gibbs
My original review of the Vanguard Caldera 10 subwoofer earlier this year was nothing short of an all out rave, and deservedly so! I know this is beginning to sound like the proverbial broken record, but how Vera-Fi Audio's...
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Puron Resolve RFI Eliminators
04-02-2024 | By Tom Gibbs
In my recent review of the Puron AC Power Conditioners, I was struck by the abundance of amazing and relatively inexpensive enhancements available to substantially improve the performance of your audio and video...
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XACT S1 Music Server
03-30-2024 | By Marshall Nack
The brochure included with the XACT S1 music server hammered on the point again and again. Digital that doesn't sound like digital. More like vinyl. The single-minded focus caused me to reflect on the scene and our recent...
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Zesto Audio Andros Spirit...
03-22-2024 | By Robert H. Levi
The Zesto Audio Andros Spirit Phonostage (image courtesy of Zesto Audio) The new Zesto Audio Andros Spirit Phonostage is an inexpensive wonder. It is so precisely cut from the same cloth as the Andros II and Deluxe II, all...
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Waters on the Hardware: Mola...
03-13-2024 | By Dean Waters
Dean Waters at Pacific Audio Fest 2023: A Portrait with a Cigar. (Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson) About four months ago I received a Mola-Mola Tambaqui DAC and a Mola-Mola Perca stereo amplifier from...
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Bella Sound Kahili Amplifier
03-13-2024 | By Will Wright
Bella Sound is the brain child of Michael Vice. Educated at UC Berkeley and Stanford in Physics and Electrical Engineering, Mike has poured his decades of experience and over 40 patents into his unique designs. Bella Sound's...
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Vanguard Scout Loudspeakers from...
03-10-2024 | By Tom Gibbs
I've been reviewing a ton of LPs over the last few years, and to enhance my review process, I set up a dedicated, all-analog system in one of my audio rooms. That system features dual turntables from ProJect and Rega, a PS...
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WAY Cables: From Serbia with Love
03-09-2024 | By Gregory Petan
WAY Cables Poetry X Analogue XLR interconnects Despite having access to a pretty wide range of very enticing gear, I really try to avoid the marry go round of constantly swapping gear in and out of my reference...
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CleanerVinyl Ultrasonic Record...
03-01-2024 | By John Hoffman
Playing vinyl is some of the most fun you can have in this hobby. Sliding a record out of its sleeve and setting it on the platter, throwing a switch and watching a turntable to come up to speed, cueing down a tonearm and...
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JBL TT350 Classic turntable
03-01-2024 | By Ed Kobesky
To paraphrase Lawrence Welk: there are more new turntables than ever to choose from, good and bad, and this is certainly one of them. That's actually how a lot of reviews seem to go these days, and who can blame the poor...
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