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The Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke & The Animals in DSD Just over a year ago, Chad Kassem at Acoustic Sounds announced the launch of Super HiRez, a new downloads site that would bring out major artist albums in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) in response to many requests from music fans and audiophiles. Since that time,... Read More »

When I think about Phasemation I see a picture in front of my eyes of an older gentleman, the CEO of this company, standing next to the TechDAS Air Force One turntable gently lowering stylus to the groove. That's a picture, to be exact, from a Stereo Sound magazine, and since the size of that... Read More »

Only my oldest, dearest friends call me "Clarkie", so be careful – but it does make for a better title, so, yeah. / The author When I first met Harry it was on the lawn of the St. Tropez Hotel at a C.E.S. some years ago. But we had had a history that, in its... Read More »

Die Mailänder Firma Aqua hat nun nichts mit dem Städtischen Wasserwerk zu tun, sondern dies ist ein Wortspiel mit der Abkürzung von Acoustic Quality. Der deutsche Vertrieb hat uns für den Test neben dem großen DAC auch das dazu passende CD Laufwerk geliefert. Das Äußere mit den abgerundeten Formen ist schon einmal sehr ansprechend, eine gefällige Form ist nun durchaus etwas, was der Szene gut tut. Und was man bei einem Produkt aus Bella Italia auch irgendwie erwarten würde. Aber wie sieht es denn nun im Inneren aus?

DSPeaker is a Finnish company that manufactures audio products using DSP chips made by its parent company, VSLI Solution. The two most widely known DSPeaker products are their two room correction devices: the Anti-mode 8033 that is designed to tame the room nodes caused by your subwoofer and the Dual-Core which provides room correction for... Read More »

The registration lines at RMAF 2014…busy! The Intro… Shazam! How does time pass this bloody quickly? It seems like just the other day that I was at RMAF 2013. Lila and I had to host the PFO Hospitality Room without Dave and Carol Clark, who were dealing with Carol's ailments and couldn't make it. We... Read More »

In a year 2003, a not so widely known German company called Ultrasone launched the Edition 7 headphones. It was a limited edition of 999 units. That the company was little known is an overstatement so it would be safer to say that it was unknown in Poland and I had never heard of it.... Read More »

Gary Dahl, Thom Mackris (of Galibier Designs) and I have been working on a high-efficiency speaker for a while now. This is the outcome of the enormous "Beyond the Ariel" thread on diyAudio. Gary was the first to arrive at the finish line, with the system that appears on the most recent pages of the thread. He's... Read More »

Mastered from the original 1970s era analog tapes and pressed in Germany on beautiful 180 gram vinyl (and also released on CD), ECM's Re:Solutions series brings to light recordings by vibraphonist Gary Burton, saxophonist Sam Rivers, bassist Miroslav Vitous, and the duo of guitarists John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner. Some of these recordings have been... Read More »

During the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2014, Myles Astor posted images and thoughts daily on the Positive Feedback Facebook page. Check out his reports here. RMAF Day One RMAF Day Two RMAF Day Three

I cannot remember the last time I did a review that exploded my mythological view of things like this one has done. I have said for a number of years that the Chinese have been ramping up their game in the world of hifi gear design, production and quality of execution. I run Chinese amps.... Read More »

Blue Circle's Gilbert Yeung is one of high end audio's more colorful and unconventional characters. I can't think of another audio designer who would offer an amplifier with 2,000,000uF of power supply filtering and a 288 opamp output stage or a line of ridiculously inexpensive high performance products enclosed in ABS pipes. The latter is... Read More »

As personal audio enthusiasts, most of us have a decent portable rig to get us through the day.

Occasionally, it becomes our only rig for days (or weeks) at a time during business trips or vacations.

The pictures that accompany High Fidelity's review of the ASX-1000  amplifier show that it is a fairly large, not to say massive, unit. Short of putting the amplifier directly on the floor, I seated it on the Acoustic Revive RST-38H isolation boards. I needed two of them for a firm seating of the amplifier's feet.... Read More »

Bei Hybridverstärkern denkt der Audiophile als solcher irgendwie an: nicht Fisch und nicht Fleisch. Insbesondere die Hardcore Röhrenliebhaber haben so ihre Probleme mit derartigen Geräten und fragen sich eher: Wozu das Ganze? Außerdem ist die Erde eine Scheibe...

Our entire hobby is predicated on the contradiction of music reproduction, and one chord strummed live shatters the illusion of high end. But the joy I get from headphone listening, the main system, my car audio (even my Sports Walkman cassette player!) is very real and, often, equal in intensity. I say, leave the audio... Read More »

Mytek baut Digital-Elektronik mit einem faszinierenden Preis/Leistungsverhältnis, ist seit Jahren in der Studioszene bestens etabliert, hat aber bei der Konstruktion seines neusten Produkts den Hifi-Markt im Visier. Entwickelt wird in den USA und Polen, gefertigt in Polen. Mytek ist also alles andere einer der üblichen Hifi-Hersteller: ein Besuch in Warschau.