Triode Wire Labs American II Series...
11-04-2024 | By Malcolm J. Gomes
By far, the most common blind spot that most audiophiles I have met and chatted with seem to have, is the lack of awareness of the importance of the quality of power that they feed into their audio system. I have encountered...
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Audiomods 12" Series Six Tonearm
11-01-2024 | By John Hoffman
In 2020 Jeff Spalls introduced the Audiomods Series Six tonearm, providing many analog hobbyists with an opportunity to experience excellent yet affordable analog playback. Shortly after the Series Six's introduction, two...
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Fyne Audio F1-8S Loudspeaker
11-01-2024 | By John Acton
Over the course of my audiophile journey, I've owned, reviewed, or auditioned many different types of loudspeakers, from electrostatic to planar, from dynamic to horn-loaded, in a myriad of configurations. The one transducer...
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Goldring 1012GX Cartridge
10-26-2024 | By Ed Kobesky
"They're boxy, but they're good." That was the slogan coined for Volvo cars by Dudley Moore's unhinged ad exec in the mediocre 1990 movie farce, Crazy People, which imagined what might happen if marketers started writing...
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World Premier Review: Audeze CRBN2...
10-21-2024 | By Robert H. Levi
Audeze strikes again with its new CRBN 2 reference electrostatic headphones! Weighing in at 480 grams versus 300 grams for the original CRBN, with increased depth of the leather ear cups and housing, significantly improved...
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Waters on the Hardware: The Mola...
10-21-2024 | By Dean Waters
"Dean Waters: Portrait with Cigar." PAF 2023, SeaTac, WA The Mola Mola Makua Preamp, front-top oblique view In June of this year, I had a wonderful opportunity to attend High End in Munich. With an attendance of well over...
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The Gem Dandy PolyTable Signature...
10-21-2024 | By Juan C. Ayllon
My eyes welled with tears staring at a glorious reproduction of Edgar Degas' painting, The Orchestra at the Opera, in a massive book in the reference section of the University of California, Riverside Library. As an art...
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Ultrasonic Record Cleaners from...
10-17-2024 | By Bruce Kinch
HumminGuru? Just another Tik-Tok #influencer, you'd think? No, it turns out HumminGuru is a Hong Kong-based firm focused on accessories for vinyl enthusiasts, from LP inner sleeves to ultrasonic record cleaning machines. Two...
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The New Apartment Lounge - There...
10-15-2024 | By Maurice Jeffries
New Kids on the Block Back in late fall 2021, as most of the nation impatiently wiped layer upon accumulated layer of sleep from COVID-19 weary eyes, GTT Audio & Video's head honcho Bill Parish bravely invited a small...
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GoldenEar T66 Loudspeaker
10-14-2024 | By Michael Zisserson
This is not 1999 anymore. Flash forward 25 years and most loudspeakers from any reputable manufacturer are far more than a few speaker drivers in a cabinet with basic filtering. The finest loudspeaker companies are...
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Crystal Cable Infinity Power Cable
10-14-2024 | By Marshall Nack
Mention Crystal Cable in an audiophile conversation, the adjectives that likely come to mind are thin, elegant, top-drawer fabrication, and expensive. With an unflinching eye on aesthetics, the color scheme has always...
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The Quadratic Audio MC-1: Max Vinyl...
10-04-2024 | By Juan C. Ayllon
Photo by Bryant Larsen The Quadratic Audio MC-1 was influenced by a triumphant tradition that rose from the Great War's ashes to avant-garde and worldwide influence that continues today. It was 1919 in post-World War I...
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Waters on the Hardware: The...
10-03-2024 | By Dean Waters
Dean Waters with Cigar: a Portrait. (Photograph and image processing by David W. Robinson.) The Merrill Audio ELEMENT 110 Monoblock Amplifier (image by Dean Waters) As we continue our never-ending journey towards audio...
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McIntosh MC830 Solid-State...
10-01-2024 | By Douglas Seth Brown
McIntosh MC830 Solid-State Amplifier (courtesy of McIntosh) McIntosh amplifiers are the type of ultra high-end audio components that cause fist fights at estate hearings. When the opportunity to review a pair of McIntosh's...
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Play All the Records! - The Criton...
09-21-2024 | By Michael Laurance
Perhaps the principal joy in attending audio shows is sitting and auditioning insanely expensive speakers, many with six-figure price tags. As long as I live, I will never tire of it. If nothing else, it puts everything in...
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XACT USB and Ethernet Cables
09-20-2024 | By Marshall Nack
I live on the fourteenth floor of an apartment building on a busy avenue in NYC. Even this high up with the windows closed, the sounds of the city—automobile horns, pulsating boom boxes, people arguing—filter in. It's...
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