Florida Audio Expo 2020: Better the Second Time Around, Part 2 Maurice Jeffries ...Wires Obsession power cables ($1399 each), American speaker cables (bi-wired at $1099), and Spirit II interconnects (starting at $399/pair, all hand-made in the U.S.A) sang. The sonically and visually striking...
Audience frontRow Interconnects Marshall Nack ...and preamp in my fully balanced CH Precision system. The XLR was stronger across the board. Where the RCA was soft and smooth, the XLR had more depth of tone,...
Kora Explorer 90SI Integrated Editors at Positive Feedback ...Anthem Amp 1 amplifier. SOURCE NAD T541 CD/DVD player. CABLES Nordost Quattro-Fil interconnects, Blue Heaven speaker cables, and El Dorado power cords. ACCESSORIES Monster Cables HTS 1000 AC center. Vibrapods,...
The New Apartment Lounge: Minimalism Redux - The "Not So Little" Kronos Sparta 0.5 Turntable Maurice Jeffries ...marmoreal bass reach and impact, cut from spun glass upper octave purity and air, laser-quick transient precision, stunning midrange articulation, stellar staging, and low self-noise. In the many months since...
The Elegant HiFi-Home Lifestyle Balance PS Audio Aspen FR10 Loudspeaker Juan C. Ayllon ...my reference system by clicking on my byline at the beginning of this review). After initial placement, I connected them to a pair of Straight Wire Crescendo 3 loudspeaker cables,...
Accuphase DP-950/DC-950 Super Audio CD Player Wojciech Pacuła ...both elements I used the same power cables—Acoustic Revive Power Reference Triple- C. The connection with preamplifier was made with the unbalanced Siltech Triple Crown interconnect. SOUND Recordings used for...
Lamm LL1.1 Signature Dual-Mono Preamplifier Marshall Nack ...just flows, and the transient is the same as I hear in the other Lamm gear I've reviewed recently. It is not like my solid-state CH Precision L1 Preamp's transient—but,...
Serve Vinyl on Your Best China with the Korf HS-A02 Ceramic Headshell Juan C. Ayllon ...purchased. I used the Korf HS-A02 Ceramic Headshell to compare the Gem Dandy PolyTable Signature (at the bottom of the photo) with my reference Micro Seiki BL-91, applying small strips...
Einstein Audio Components – The System Part 1 Dirk Sommer ...Loudspeakers: Kaiser Acoustics Kawero! Classic Cables: HMS Gran Finale Jubilee, Swiss Cables Reference Plus, Goebel High End Lacorde, Habst Ultra III, Audioquest Diamond and Carbon, Cardas Audio Clear Network Accessories:...
XACT S1 EVO Music Server Marshall Nack ...reference cables, which I found shared a similar analogue-style voice. Consequently, I became comfortable associating that voicing with the brand. The latest to roll out is the S1 EVO, an...
Thrax Maximinus D/A Converter + Dionysos Preamplifier + Spartacus Power Amplifier Wojciech Pacuła ...available OEM designs but none came close to our reference. After a bit of research we came across MSB Technology and their discrete sign-magnitude Ladder DAC. This was conceptually the...
Divine Acoustics Galileo Anti-Vibration Feet Wojciech Pacuła ...X-DC350M2R Improved-Version cable. The comparison consisted of listening to the same piece of music (2 minutes long) on the reference feet and transferring it to the tested feet. The reference...
Lone Star Audio Fest 2016 Show Report Norman Tracy ...series cables. System #2 Raven Silhouette MK2 Reference Preamplifier (in black finish), Raven Shaman MK2 Monoblocks (and Raven Goldfinch power amp during part of my demo), JWM Karen 12 analog...
AES 2016 Los Angeles Scott Dorsey ...is that Belden, which manufactures the largest variety of cables you can imagine, has bought out Gepco, which manufactured high quality but inexpensive audio and video cables. It's good in...
T.H.E. Lone Star Audiofest 2025 Show Report Norman Tracy ...ABSOLARE Bybee Purifier. Source the Aries Cerat Kassandra II Reference DAC, Bluesound Nano streamer, and HP laptop with HiFi mods. Cables the Echole Omnia II. This is the system Joshua...
TARA Labs The Zero Evolution Interconnect with HFX Marshall Nack ...With a full loom of the TARA Zero Evo interconnects and HFX FGS—one length of balanced cable between the CH Precision C1 DAC and the L1 Preamp and a second...
Impressions: The Gryphon Audio Kalliope 8x DSD DAC David W. Robinson ...with Pass Labs INT-250, Audionet VIP G3 SACD player, Furutech Daytona 303 Line Conditioner, Skogrand Beethoven Reference unbalanced RCA cables and Beethoven power cable (photograph and image processing by Robinson)...
Flow Three Integrated Amplifier Wojciech Pacuła ...Elemente Master Reference Pagode Edition MkII rack. They should have been complemented by appropriate pads to keep it from sliding on the shelf, but I didn't find any in the...
Furutech - Introduces three new products at High End 2025 Munich Positive Feedback ...cables, meticulously crafted to elevate your audio system's performance to unprecedented heights. Engineered with the same precision and unwavering commitment to exceptional sound quality as the Project V1 power cord,...