Nordost’s Valhalla 2 Ethernet Cable Positive Feedback ...designed, manufactured, and terminated in the USA. Each cable is constructed with precision, consistency, and quality fabrication, providing a massive improvement over standard issue, mass-produced, low precision Ethernet cables. 8...
Duevel Venus Loudspeakers Paul Candy ...a fraction of the acoustic output of an omnidirectional speaker as the Venus. Indeed, my 30-watt Audiomat Opera Reference amplifier had little difficulty driving the Venus to whatever volume I...
E.A.T. Jo NO 8 MC Cartridge Gary Lea ...products. These include cartridges, stunning turntables, tonearms, the aforementioned tubes, amplifiers, phono stages, and accessories. Just waiting for some speakers and cables to round out the complete E.A.T. System. Jozefina...
AudioMachina Maestro GSE Dirk Sommer ...with KT 150, Einstein The Poweramp (2x) LumenWhite DiamondLight Monitors. Precision Interfacer Technology, HMS Gran Finale Jubilee, Audioquest, Swiss Cables Reference, Goebel High End Lacorde. PS Audio Power P5, Clearaudio...
van den Hul XGW Colibri Signature Stradivarius Moving Coil Cartridge: A New Contender for State-of-the-Art Myles B. Astor ...low distortion. In the end, it's an absolute dead heat between the Colibri XGW Signature Stradivarius (Reference 1) and Atlas SL (Reference 1a). Each cartridge brings a different set of...
The SPL Phonitor 2 Dirk Sommer ...Audeze LCD-X and EL-8 closed back, PSB M4U, Ergo 2 Precision Interface Technology, HMS Gran Finale Jubilee, Audioquest, Swiss Cables Reference, Goebel High End Lacorde PS Audio Power P5, Clearaudio...
Clones Audio 25iR Integrated Amplifier Wojciech Pacuła ...balance of 25iR was shifted towards lower midrange and it was surely not as resolving as reference sets. But such comparison made sense only because without such reference 25iR seemed...
Cen.Grand DSDAC1.0 John Hoffman ...wide array of Digital to Analog converters and have yet to find one that soundly trounced my long-time reference multi-bit DAC that utilized the Burr Brown PCM1704 chip set. Last...
Musical Artisans Announces Annual Fall Event Featuring Five Major Product Premieres Positive Feedback ...debut the new Flow Ultima signal and power cables, recipients of The Absolute Sound’s prestigious Product of the Year Award. These superb signal and power cables hold two world patents...
Transrotor JR Tamino MC Cartridge Dirk Sommer ...Ayon Epsilon with KT150 tubes Loudspeakers: LumenWhite DiamondLight Monitors, Kaiser Acoustics Kawero! Classic Cables: HMS Gran Finale Jubilee, Swiss Cables Reference, Goebel High End Lacorde Accessories: PS Audio Power P5,...
Octave Jubilee PRE Preamplifier and MONO SE Amplifiers Wojciech Pacuła ...The components are very nice, and so are those in the power amplifiers. These are high power precision resistors, ERO / Vishay capacitors etc. POWER SUPPLY The appearance of the...
Wolf von Langa WVL 12639 SON Loudspeaker System Tim Aucremann ...the magnets in the field-coil speakers, the SONs come with an external variable-current power supply with a user-adjustable potentiometer, gauge, and power cables. Warranty is 5 years upon registration. Technological...
Nordost at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2018 Positive Feedback ...year, October 5–7 at the Denver Marriott Tech Center. This year Nordost’s Humboldt Peak room is going to be showcasing a stellar system featuring components from CH Precision, DCS, and...
Accuphase C-3900 Line Preamplifier Wojciech Pacuła ...on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Accuphase company launched its reference preamplifier C-3800 which was replaced with the C-3850 model in June 2016. Starting with the C-3900 that...
Matrix Audio MP1 and MA1 John Hoffman ...reference level product. Many components are manufactured at Matrix Audio facilities. The fit and finish of these pieces are superb. WBT speaker binding posts and Wima and Mundorf capacitors are...
Doshi Audio V3.0 Tapestage: Choices, Choices, Choices Myles B. Astor ...Doshi Audio V3.0 tapestage. Nick Doshi's phonostage has been my reference for quite some time (more on the new V3.0 soon) and seeing and hearing his new V3.0 tapestage at...
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On - Marvin's Masterpiece Claude Lemaire ...Forest on drums, Robert White on guitar, and the lengendary James Jamerson on his Fender Precision Bass, who on this occasion famously played the entire bass line laying down on...
Brief Impressions: High Definition Tape Transfer’s DSD256 of Bernstein Conducts and the DSD128 of Bernstein's Stravinsky/Debussy David W. Robinson ...context, sketched... My comments on these two recordings were based upon listening via our reference office system here at PF Central. It consists of the following: The wondrous Vinnie Rossi...
Bending Wave USA's Grand Opening Is Set For January 26th, 2019 Positive Feedback ...Opening celebration will take place on January 26th and 27th, 2019. The sound room is equipped with $750,000 worth of high-end luxury speakers and cables from Germany, and reference quality...