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...
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,...
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...
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:...
The Coat Hanger Argument: Anatomy of a Concession Disguised as a Victory Theodore Walton Denney III ...with no methodology, no data, and no peer review. The standard for evidence depends entirely on which direction the conclusion points. Evidence supporting cables requires impossible rigor. Evidence dismissing cables...
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...
A Rose by Any Name - The Platanus Rose MC Phono Cartridge Juan C. Ayllon ...process was tedious: I played a reference song with one cartridge, scribbled observations, replaced the reference record with a throwaway disc, unscrewed the locking collar, inserted and locked in the...
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...
