Impressions: My Brutus Awards for 2019, Part the Third David W. Robinson ...cables. I do. Earlier in the year, Bob Levi had raved about Cardas' Clear Beyond Cables on his turntable system. In this case, knowing George Cardas and his magnificent designs...
AES 2023 New York Convention Scott Dorsey ...series loudspeakers, which are very neutral reference-grade monitors. Designed for accuracy and neutrality rather than for having a huge amount of headroom, they are intended for the mastering room but...
The New Apartment Lounge: Welcoming the New Von Schweikert Audio Unifield 2 Mk III Loudspeakers (Part 1) Maurice Jeffries ...more ruthlessly revealing CH Precision designs. Naturally-voiced tube electronics should also do the trick. Given its chosen tonal balance, it stands to reason that the 2 will not satisfy all...
NORDOST AT HIGH END 2025 Positive Feedback ...Dawn 3 series, and feature a suite of new digital cables launching at the show—an expansion to the Leif 3 range introduced at last year's event. These digital cables, including...
Stage III Concepts Pulsec USB Cable Marshall Nack ...CH Precision C1 DAC? This he was OK with and actually complimented as one of the best. To sum up, there were too many compromises to take my results seriously....
The Lumen White Mystere Reference Turntable Dirk Sommer ...Einstein The Preamp. Amplifiers: Ayon Epsilon, Einstein The Poweramp. Loudspeaker: Lumen White DiamondLight Monitors, AudioMachina Maestro GSE. Cables: Precision Interface Technology, Göbel Lacorde Statement, Audioquest Wild Blue Yonder and Wild...
The AudioQuest Niagara 5000 and the PS Audio P20 DirectStream Power Plant AC Line Purification Products Arnis Balgalvis ...powered the Revel Salon2 loudspeakers. Connections for system 1 were made using Cardas Clear audio interconnect cables and used Cardas Audio Clear Beyond for the speaker cables. All power cables...
Impressions: My Brutus Awards for 2019, Part the Fourth and Final David W. Robinson ...and routing of your cables. A Furutech NCF Booster in action with one of our integrated amps in our office reference system. It's resting on a Walker Audio Prologue Amp...
Furutech NCF Booster Products Marshall Nack ...supporting platform where the cables lay is flat. It also costs a lot less (MSRP $215). Looking around for a good signal wire candidate, the CH Precision Reference Speaker Cables...
Simplicity Offers a Lot of Possibilities Wojciech Pacuła ...And they would sound better, as the examples of CH Precision or JCAT devices show. The system would then become sonically better, but also much more complex, because to the...
Impressions: Art Pepper Arrives in Double DSD! David W. Robinson ...ESS Reference Rack Kubala-Sosna XPander Power Distribution Unit TIDAL Impulse Reference Monoblock Amps TIDAL Agoria Loudspeakers Cabling by Kubala-Sosna (Elation! power cables and XLR interconnects) and Purist Audio Dominus 20A...
Acoustic Revive RTP-4EU Absolute AC Power Strip Wojciech Pacuła ...bottom is flooded with material suppressing high-frequency interference, also suppressing the bar mechanically. Connections are made with Triple-C cables, that we already know from the Power Reference Triple-C review. These...
Lamm Industries LP2.1 Deluxe Phono Preamplifier Tim Aucremann ...on hand were a couple of two-box units: the Audio Research Reference 10 ($33k) and the Lamm L2.1 Reference ($27,990, future review). Along with the LP2.1 I used an ARC...
The Pass Labs HPA-1 - a Superb Headphone Amp to Grow Your System Around Juan C. Ayllon ...PS Audio Powerplant, and custom interconnects and cables. (Photos by Bryant Larsen) On developing the Pass Labs HPA-1 Headphone Amp with a Tube Reference "I'm a big fan of electrostatic...
The Gem Dandy PolyTable Signature Showcases Vinyl with Vim and Vitality! Juan C. Ayllon My eyes welled with tears staring at a glorious reproduction of Edgar Degas' painting, The Orchestra at the Opera, in a massive book in the reference section of the University...
The New Apartment Lounge: Solid-State Joy with Parasound's New HINT 6 Halo Integrated Amplifier Maurice Jeffries ...with decent cables and an affordable digital source, one could assemble a great system for around $7500 ($3k for the amp, $2500 for the speakers, around $1K for cables and...
FinkTeam Borg Loudspeakers Wojciech Pacuła ...kHz. Its function is to change the characteristics with reference to the signal source, cables or amplifier used. The manufacturer points out that the plus setting is suitable for soft...
Node Audio SS-1 Component Support Marshall Nack ...controlled in my reference CH Precision components. All CH gear have the same built-in isolation system. The design involves heavy steel rods with sharp spike tips that are inserted into...
Black Cat Releases Banana-To-Spade Adapters Positive Feedback ...use with a variety of binding posts that do not otherwise allow for use with banana terminations. The XOX REFERENCE Precision Adapter is precision machined from pure copper, high-polished, and...