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...
Magico S5 Loudspeakers - End of a Love Affair Myles B. Astor ...Transparent Audio Reference XL MM2 or Skogrand Ignis Purist speaker cables (see upcoming review). Of the two, my favorite speaker cable to use with the S5s was the Skogrand Purist...
STEALTH Audio Helios Phono Cable - Analog Dreams of Noise-Free Vinyl Marshall Nack ...insights. I soon determined its impressive reveal hinged on one overriding characteristic: the cable's off-the-charts signal to noise ratio (SNR). Fine Analog Let me back up a bit. My reference...
From the Kipnis Studios (KSS) - A Cursory History of My Exploration into AC Power Filtration, Regeneration, and the Proximate Effect of Weird Enhancements on Audio Recording & Playback Jeremy Kipnis ...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 Wires Straight...
GoldenEar T66 Loudspeaker Michael Zisserson ...with many of the same design elements that brought the Triton Reference to the spotlight. GoldenEar did not simply rest on the laurels of the Triton Reference, the T66 has...
Toronto Audio Fest (TAF) 2025 – Show Coverage, Part 2 Douglas Seth Brown ...monolithic 4-tower Genesis Infinity Reference IRS-V loudspeaker system that Arnie Nudell had once unleashed upon the audio world, the T-Rex had similar aspirations of bringing Titanic depth and Godzilla-level impact...
AXPONA 2081, Photo Essay Part 3 Carol Clark ...nice. A museum of electrical things in the High Fidelity Cables room. Van der Graaf generator. Electricity was in the air. High Fidelity Cables system. High Fidelity Cables, the cables...
Three Simple and Cost Effective Hot-Rod Mods for the Classic Thorens TD-124 Turntable! Jeff Day ...Reference TripleC NCF AC power cables, and the Thorens TD-124 was connected to wall AC with an Acoustic Revive Power Reference power cable. My Artisan Fidelity Thorens TD-124 Statement turntable...
Audio Ramblings - The Aurender A10 and Comments on Cables from WireWorld Dave Clark ...Cat8 cables in the chain. With these cables, everything just gets that much better… and in the ways noted above. Sweeter, more resolving… the WireWorld Starlight Cat8 cables are anything...
Silent Angel Bonn NX LAN Switch Wojciech Pacuła ...its own reference clock. Angel Bonn N16 LPS with TiGLON and Acoustic Revive LAN cables—the present reference in the High Fidelity system. Recordings used for the test Melody Gardot, Sunset...
Impressions: More of My 2022 Brutus Awards, Part the First David W. Robinson ...Gary Mulder to do the setup in my reference listening room; believe me, given the size and weight of these speakers, this was no little thing. Not that this was...
Swedish Analog Technology (SAT) LM-12 Tonearm: Analog Playback Meets Rocket Science Myles B. Astor ...this case hearing the "perceived" sonic footprint of the SAT LM-12 tonearm or an attendant coloration elsewhere the reference audio chain? The electronics? The speakers? The cables? The room? Or...
A System Approach: Benchmark Media Comes to gb's Tune Saloon Gary L Beard ...and amp, Speakon to Banana speaker cables, and XLR to RCA cables to connect single-ended sources to the AHB2. These well-made cables are assembled from products manufactured by Canare and...
AXPONA 2023 - Several Highlights and a Few Observations Robert S. Youman ...CH Precision components, the A-1 speakers were able to shine at a price point that would be difficult to equal—even with a much bigger foot print. This included the CH...
Audio Ramblings and the Telos GNR 5.1 Plus+ Active Grounding Box Dave Clark ...a high precision digital clock, GNR generates low distortion Ground reference voltage, giving each equipment a consistent reference point. When the audio setup is operating on a singular Ground potential,...
Impressions: The Ayon Audio HA-3 SET Headphone Amplifier and the Focal Utopia Headphones David W. Robinson ...I also have some great headphones and headphone amps for stay-at-home. Either way, I'm well served. As a result, over the years I've built up a collection of reference headphones,...
Schiit Audio Bifrost 2 DAC And Ragnarok 2 Nexus Integrated Amplifier Editors at Positive Feedback ...Yamaha WXC-5 Wi-Fi Blue Tooth Receiver. Reference Amplification: Sanders ESL power Amplifier, Prima Luna Prologue 2 Integrated Amplifier. Speakers: Aurum Cantus V30M, with Mark Daniels Omni Harmonizer tweeters. Speaker Cables:...
Didn't Pass but Didn't Go - Further Thoughts on Pass Labs XA30.8 Larry Cox ...Audioquest cables sounded good, but they were also much longer, heavier and less inclined to stay connected to my speakers. The 3232 speaker cables had my modest Modi MB uncork...
