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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Toronto Audiofest 2019 Malcolm J. Gomes ...told us that the M2 speakers were one of the first units of this model to ship from Magico factory. The speakers were fed by CH Precision P1 Phono Stage...
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,...
Sikora KV9 Max Zirconium Series 9" Tonearm Marek Dyba ...another Polish company, namely Bydgoszcz-based Albedo (a well-known manufacturer of all kinds of audio analog cables and conductors). After trying out Julian's cables (interconnects, and speaker cables), Janusz decided to...
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...
