World Premier - Zesto Audio Eros 500 Select Class A Monoblocks Robert H. Levi ...outboard drive for the music library. Cables include: UITaudio, Cardas, RSX, Jorma Design Restored Reference FM Tuners: Day-Sequerra, Marantz 10b, McIntosh MR80, Magnum Dynalab MD 108T What You Will Hear...
Trumpet MC Phono Stage from Hagerman Audio Labs Robert H. Levi ...and more in my review forthwith. Let us begin with the near-field reference system as follows: Grado Reference III MI Cartridge and the Hana Umami Blue MC Cartridge Project Wood...
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...
Stacore CLD Footers; A Universal, Rigid Audio Equipment Footer Marshall Nack ...to the music, let's discuss how resonance control is implemented by CH Precision and Stacore. The CH Precision design involves heavy, solid steel rods that are inserted into openings at...
Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2016, Part The First David W. Robinson ...Crystal Reference Record Clamp The Walker Audio Proscenium Black Diamond Level V Reference Turntable with new Air Supply System (photograph and processing by Robinson) Once again Walker Audio scores multiple...
The New Apartment Lounge: Digital Delights with the Bakoon DAC-21! Maurice Jeffries ...new to my reference set-up, it quickly became apparent that the DAC-21's sonic performance would require a wholesale reassessment of what affordable outboard DACs can do. Weeks later, it continues...
Master Fidelity’s NADAC Digital Suite: A New Benchmark Greg Weaver ...C Clock, in my own reference system, I was beside myself with anticipation. My enthusiasm for spending time with these components in my own reference system was driven by my...
Lamm Industries L2.1 Reference Preamplifier Marshall Nack ...keen insight into the proceedings. Most listeners noted the tubey aspects and simply moved on. This was in the context of my CH Precision electronics and Kubala•Sosna Elation! wires connected...
TiGLON MS-DR20A Azure Dragon AC Power Cable Wojciech Pacuła ...power cable was assessed in a High Fidelity reference system, powering the Ayon Audio CD-35 HF Edition SACD player (№ 1/50) in an AA/BB/A comparison test. The reference point was...
From the Kipnis Studios (KSS): The View From The Top - An Interview with Tommy O’Brien of Digital Amplifier Company Jeremy Kipnis ...DFPC Power Cords (x5) Cardas Golden V, Neutral, Micro-Twin, and Clear Cables, Interconnects, Power Cords, Digital Connections, Microphone Cables AudioQuest Ruby Speaker Cables & Interconnects, Glass Optical and HDMI Cables...
Impressions: the Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC David W. Robinson ...high-end audio gear were in the same groove. He knows my stereo reference listening room; I know his, which I consider to be the best that I've heard. Buddha Bill...
Silverline Minuet Grand Loudspeakers Michael Wechsberg ...I hooked up the speakers to my reference E.A.R. all-tube electronics. This time I used the Kubala-Sosna Emotion speaker cables that I normally use with the Martens. I found I...
The New Apartment Lounge: Piercing the Electroacoustic Veil with Audionet's Paradigm-Shifting WATT Integrated Amplifier Maurice Jeffries ...to make this baby sing. I used interconnects and speaker cables in the $3-4K range, not stratospherically expensive by any means, but hardly cheap. Lower cost cables sounded fine, but...
VPI 12-inch 3D Fatboy Tonearm: Thick Does the Trick - Part 2 Myles B. Astor ...was used with a variety of phono cables (I'm of the mind, however insane, that phono cables can make a bigger difference in the sound of an tonearm than does...
Reimagining Net Neutrality: The Mola Mola Kaluga Class D Mono Power Amplifiers and Companion Makua Preamplifier (with onboard DAC and Phono Modules) Maurice Jeffries ...years. The gracefully swooping bead-blasted aluminum chassis evokes ocean waves, no doubt a deliberate visual reference to the ocean-dwelling species of sunfish from which the company takes its name. The...
Impressions: The PS Audio DirectStream DSD DAC David W. Robinson ...Ignis reference loudspeaker cables Wave Kinetics 2NS attenuation isolation feet Stein Music Speaker Match Signature crossover enhancers Furutech Daytona 303 Power Conditioner and Distributor HP Pavilion DV-8T i7 notebook computer...
The Bag End ISUB2-18 Powered Sub Rocks the Low End with Precision, Adding Elegant Oomph to Your Playback Experience! Juan C. Ayllon ...upfront to the left of my Usher ML-802 loudspeakers (on IsoAcoustic Orea Bordeaux Equipment Isolators) tethered to the Pass Labs X150.8 amplifier with reference Straight Wire Crescendo 3 speaker cables....
Phono System Extraordinaire: EAT Forte S Turntable with Csharp 12 inch Carbon Tonearm, Grado Aeon MI Cartridge, WyWire Diamond Phono Cable, and the EAT Massive LP Weight Robert H. Levi ...musical and realistic, with a solidity, clarity, dynamic soundstage, and overall definition close to my four times more expensive reference: HERE for under $9500 retail for the entire package. Subsequent...
Impressions: Robinson's Brutus Awards for 2017, Part the First David W. Robinson ...Conditioner and Power Distribution Unit; a PASS Labs INT-250 integrated amp; Beethoven power cables, interconnects, and speaker cables by Skogrand; and Evolution Acoustics MMMicro One Monitor Speakers on Wave Kinetics...