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...
Stage III Triton Power Cord Marshall Nack ...stereo amplifiers. Too Much of a Good Thing The Kraken recently came back for a return visit, only now my situation has changed. I'm running the CH Precision M1 Monoblocks...
Krakow Sonic Society Meeting 121 - Ultimate HQCD Discs Wojciech Pacuła ...harder, and thus generates a higher level of jitter. Memory-Tech then developed a process in which instead of polycarbonate it used a different type of plastic used to produce precision...
McIntosh MC830 Solid-State Monoblock Amplifiers Douglas Seth Brown ...McIntosh's valve amplifiers, but with slightly less tube warmth and a bit more solid-state muscle. They chiseled sonic images with greater precision and in a less rounded and romantic way....
47 Labs Gaincard Amplifier Editors at Positive Feedback ...get out the music's way that is unlike anything I have heard recently. Some of the better single-ended triodes also do this, but not with such a sense of precision...
Pass Laboratories XP-25 Phono Preamplifier Robert S. Youman ...Research Powercell 10 UEF & FEQ - PowerCell Equalizer MIT SL-Matrix50 Interconnects and SL-Matrix90 Speaker Cables SRA VA Turntable Isolation Base Rix Rax Hoodoo Component Rack Magico QPod Footers Caveat...
Wireworld Releases Platinum Starlight® 48 HDMI Cable Positive Feedback ...an Ultra-High Speed HDMI cable with the amazing harmonic purity, dynamic expression and imaging precision of the scientific reference standard, a direct connection between components,” comments Wireworld designer and President,...
Teddy Pardo MB100 Amplifiers Michael Zisserson ...during long streaks of electronic music at unreasonable levels. Greater detail comes in the form of ultra-premium parts such a 0.01% precision resistors, brand-name hook-ups, and high grade non-electrolytic capacitors....
Vertere Acoustics introduces the new CALON high-end Phono Preamplifier Positive Feedback ...all the performance gains enabled by recent improvements in Vertere Record players, especially the new XtraX cartridge, SG-II PTA HB, and Reference tonearms, are not lost. Less-than-ideal circuits, circuit layouts,...
RMAF 2018 Photo Essay Part 5 Carol Clark ...Son, Relaxa 530. XACT Audio, CH Precision, Rockport Technoloties, Kodo turntables, Schröder tonearms....and the door sign promised, "No Diana Krall!" Fidelis Music, Stenheim, Acoustic Signature Turntables, Exposure Electronics, Stein Music,...
Audio Ramblings - The AURALiC Aries G2 Streaming Transporter Dave Clark ...how the Aries G2's clock works. Not a big deal… turn the unit off from the front and then from the rear, swap whatever cables one needs to swap, then...
The New First Watt F8 Stereo Amplifier from Nelson Pass: Time Travel In a Black Box! Jeff Day ...XP-17), and an Acoustic Revive 'Power Reference' (for the First Watt F8). All the power cables were plugged into an Acoustic Revive RPT-6 Absolute NCF Power Distributor, and an Acoustic...
Vitus Audio Signature Series SIA-030 Integrated Amplifier Wojciech Pacuła ...It simply looks great! HOW WE LISTENED TO IT The Vitus Audio SIA-030 amplifier was assessed in the High Fidelity's reference system and compared to a set consisting of the...
EAT C Sharp Turntable Combination Robert H. Levi ...WyWires best, and state-of-the-art in my opinion. I choose the Diamond by ear over other cables that were even more expensive. It is magical with the Kiseki, shielded to the...
Blue Circle O22i Integrated Amplifier Tom Campbell ...my reference, the Coda Unison integrated, which has been my off-and-on reference amp for more than a decade. The Unison has been a trooper for me and remains a super-solid...
RSX Technologies Beyond Power Cord Robert H. Levi ...a game-changer for their high-resolution system. I am a connoisseur of power cords, so to speak, and find them essential to fine-tuning a reference system to peak performance. I agree...
AVM Evolution A5.2 Integrated Amplifier Gary L Beard ...speaker cables to keep them from interfering with the power cord inlet and input interconnects. Photo by G.L. Beard Once the rear mounted main power switch is flipped on, the...
Stage III Concepts Analord Master Marshall Nack ...Master. Installation Similar results occurred when I paired the Analord with the CH Precision P1 Phono Stage (review coming). I wanted to try it on the Lamm LP1 Signature Phono...