Florida Audio Expo 2023 - Part 4 Tom Gibbs ...always feeding Jeff's loudspeakers don't hurt things either! As always, all cables throughout the system are from Cardas, and the digital source was an Aurender A20 Reference network player. The...
ATC SCM19AT Active Tower Speaker System Michael Wechsberg ...Townshend Rock 7 with the high output London Reference Cartridge. I use a variety of interconnects and power cables, but for this review I connected the speakers and preamp with...
AXPONA 2022 - My Six Favorite Rooms Robert S. Youman ...Amplifier ($35,000 ) Estelon Forza Loudspeakers ($160,000) Innuos Statement Streamer ($15,100) MSB Reference DAC ($49,500) Transparent XL Cables Throughout (Assorted) Quintessence Audio, Sonus Faber, Boulder, Clearaudio, DS Audio, dCS, Transparent,...
The Latest audiodharma Cable Cooker Marshall Nack ...This outcome surprised me. The CH Precision Reference Balanced Link Time to try another cable brand. I chose two runs of CH Precision Reference Balanced Link interconnect, because its design...
The "New" AXPONA? Maurice Jeffries ...($2729), and Pear Audio Blue Reference phono preamp ($4495); GamuT-refurbished Revox RTR player; GamuT M250i monoblocks ($25,990/pair) plus reference cables; and RS7i speakers ($39,990/pair) per pair; and Gamut cable loom)....
Siltech Royal Single Crown Interconnect Wojciech Pacuła ...HOW WE LISTENED The Siltech Royal Single Crown interconnect was tested in the High Fidelity reference system, where it was compared to the reference cables: Siltech Triple Crown. The interconnect...
The 2025 Florida International Audio Show Lee Scoggins ...be damned. Cables were the reference level Audioquest Dragon cables. Honestly, some of them could have used better mastering. But then they cued up Jon Martyn's Solid Air album. This...
Music Streaming with Fidelizer - the Nimitra2 Server + Nikola2 LPS + EtherStream Network Switch Marshall Nack ...to use my much more expensive CH Precision transport as the reference, I'd say the Mac with Fidelizer ancillaries reproduced about 60% of what's to be had, forcing me to...
From the Kipnis Studios: The View From The Top - Essence for Hi Res Audio, the HDACC Jeremy Kipnis ...Ruby Speaker Cables & Interconnects, Glass Optical and HDMI Cables Monster Cables M1 & M1000 Speaker & Interconnect, Pro 500 Microphone Cables Mapleshade 1st Generation Experimental Speaker, Interconnect, and Digital...
Impressions: My Brutus Awards for 2019, Part the Second David W. Robinson ...its active shielding and grounding. I have the Playback Designs MPT-8 Reference Transport and MPD-8 Reference DAC resting two of these units, while the PASS Labs Xs Reference Preamp is...
Aries Cerat Ithaka Minor DAC Key Kim ...out how Danos could make the digital source sound so good. Yes, other big guns, such as DCS, MSB, CH Precision, and Wadax sounded excellent at the show; but the...
The New Apartment Lounge: Musical Fidelity's Scrumptious M6 Encore 225 Integrated Amplifier Maurice Jeffries ...ails you. On the other hand, and much to my surprise, my reference Maggie 1.7i planar speakers clearly preferred the added power, precision, and control that my reference amps deliver,...
XACT USB and Ethernet Cables Marshall Nack ...unveiled a bunch of new gear, among them a line of reference cables. JCAT already retails cables; the XACT Phantom USB and LAN cables aspire higher in performance and price...
The Power and Precision of ATC SCM40 Active Loudspeakers - Are They For You? Juan C. Ayllon ...(whose Crescendo 3 speaker cables are used with my SCM40 passives, while their Crescendo 3 balanced cables connect to the active version), informed me prior to my review of the...
Brief Impressions: The YG Acoustics Sonja XV Reference Loudspeaker, a Photo Essay David W. Robinson ...pairs) Kubala-Sosna Elation! Cables throughout Looking down the right side of Bill Parish's large reference listening room: the source racks All of these components represent world-class design and execution, of...
AVM Ovation CS 6.2 Streaming CD-Receiver Michael Wechsberg ...as well. I tried a couple of other speaker cables I had on hand and settled on a pair of XLO Signature 3 speaker cables I reviewed some years ago....
High Fidelity CT-1 Ultimate Reference Cable System Gregory Petan ...the kind of creativity Rick has applied to his designs and the greatly admire the performance his High Fidelity CT-1 Ultimate Reference Helix cables delivered. Prices are noted in the...
The Premier of Two Extraordinary Audiophile Accessories by SteinMusic of Germany: the Schumann Generator S1 and the Inline Speaker Signature Silver Robert H. Levi ...less definition. Coltrane's sax sounds less alive and realistic. Listening to Reference Recordings 45 RPM Nojima Plays Liszt, Schumann S1 on, the notes ring with bell like precision. The piano...
Göbel Lacorde Statement XLR Interconnects Marshall Nack ...Ralph Sorrentino, the Brand Ambassador for CH Precision America, a call. CH had five rooms and I noticed they were partnering a lot with the Göbel brand for speakers and...