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Cary Audio 308T CD Player

Editors at Positive Feedback — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 16:16:48 +0000

This article by Sasha Matson originally ran in Issue 5, February/March 2003, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print" you are also going to see some articles from our early days of going online. It is to my fellow fence sitters that I speak. The time... Read More »

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The Audio Note (UK) CD 4.1x 'Level Three' Red Book CD Player: Digital Transcendence!

Jeff Day — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:54:56 +0000

Greetings friends, I hope life is treating you well in 2022. Today I have an impressive Red Book CD player to tell you about, the Audio Note (UK) CD 4.1x Red Book CD player (MSRP $14,331 USD). The Audio Note (UK) CD 4.1x CD player is an expensive high-fidelity Red Book CD player with a... Read More »

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Ayon Audio CD-35 II CD Player and USA Labs RS9 Music Server

Editors at Positive Feedback — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:15:31 +0000

Two very versatile, and impressive, performers. Review By Bob Grossman With this article, Positive Feedback continues its content-sharing relationship with Enjoy the Music where Bob Grossman shares his thoughts on the Ayon Audio CD-35 II CD Player and USA Labs RS9 Music Server. Dr. David W. Robinson, Editor-in-Chief The Ayon Audio CD-35 II, as reviewed here, is the... Read More »

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NAD C541 CD Player

Editors at Positive Feedback — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:36:31 +0000

This article, as reviewed by Victor Chavira and Jim Grudzien originally ran in Issue 2, August/Sepetmber 2002, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print" you are also going to see some articles from our early days of going online. NAD is a British company that specializes... Read More »

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The Audio Note (UK) CD 2.1x/II Red Book CD Player: A CD Player that Reveals the Soul of the Music!

Jeff Day — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 23:18:25 +0000

In my article about the Audio Note (UK) Oto Phono SE Signature Integrated Amplifier for Positive Feedback (Issue 108 HERE) I discussed how impressed I was with the Oto's performance powering my vintage Duelund-Altec Project "Stokowski" loudspeakers (Issue 105 HERE). The Oto and Altec-Duelund combination really wowed me with its superb musicality and sonic performance,... Read More »

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Cary Audio 306/200 CD Player

Editors at Positive Feedback — Fri, 01 May 2020 17:04:05 +0000

This article, as reviewed by Ed Morawski and Dave Clark originally ran in Issue 2, August/September 2002, so while we call this section "New Old Stock - Articles from Our Days in Print" you are also going to see some articles from our early days of going online. I feel I have a pretty fair... Read More »

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Impressions: The Playback Designs MPS-8 Reference SACD/CD Player with Quad DSD DAC and StreamX Streamer Module, Part 1

David W. Robinson — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 03:22:56 +0000

Ye Olde Editor, Happy Valley, Oregon, 2018. Portrait by John Robinson. Playback Designs has returned again…with a vengeance! Their Dream Series of digital audio designs debut here at PF River City with their MPS-8. Part one of my impressions is here…read on for my take on what Andreas Koch and company have achieved. The powerful... Read More »

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Universal Disk Players Placed on Endangered Species List

Norman Tracy — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 23:07:59 +0000

"May you live in interesting times." Legend has it that in ancient China this was a curse to be invoked against one's enemies to deprive them of a calm, simple life. The modern audiophile equivalent was the April 2, 2018 press release from Oppo's audio/video division announcing cessation of production of existing products and closing... Read More »

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Audio Aero Prima CD Player

Editors at Positive Feedback — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:04:38 +0000

This article, as reviewed by Carol Clark, Victor Chavira, and Larry Cox, originally ran when audioMusings was in print. Issue 11, 2000 I awaited the arrival of the Audio Aero Prima CD player with great anticipation. Like my five-year-old Audio Electronics CD1, the Prima is a highly modified Phillips unit with a variable tube output stage. However, that... Read More »

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California Audio Labs CL-15 CD Player

Editors at Positive Feedback — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:56:26 +0000

This article, as reviewed by Sherman Hong, Victor Chavira, Francisco Duran, and Larry Cox, originally ran when audioMusings was in print. Issue 2, 1998 I awaited the California Audio Labs CL-15 player-processor with great anticipation. Eons ago, I was so enthralled with the CAL Genesis CD player that I almost bought it, but my lust was more powerful... Read More »

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T+A elektroakustik PA 3100 HV Integrated Amplifier and PDP 3000 HV SACD/CD-Player with DSD & PCM DACs

Robert S. Youman — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 02:48:31 +0000

I have been very excited about this review since the opportunity was presented late in 2016. The T+A PA 3000 HV integrated amplifier and PDP 3000 HV SACD/CD/DAC have both received many rave reviews over the last two years. The descriptive "rave" would be quite an understatement. Some of my audio buds with ears that... Read More »

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Ayon CD-3sx CD Player

Gary Lea — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:10:08 +0000

The Ayon CD-3sx CD Player is a companion piece to the Ayon Triton III integrated amplifier that I reviewed. This is a full-featured Tube Top Loader CD-Player Class-A triode vacuum-tube output stage for single-ended & balanced operation, All the superlatives that apply to any Ayon product apply to the CD3sx. It followed the Ayon formula... Read More »

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Esoteric K-01X SACD/CD Player

Robert S. Youman — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 04:58:07 +0000

The Esoteric K-01X SACD/CD Player It has been an interesting couple of years while ramping up on my knowledge and experience with computer audio and the latest from all things digital. For those marketing folks out there, the traditional definitions for innovators (2.5%), early adopters (13.5%), early majority (34%), late majority (34%), and laggards (16%)... Read More »

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The Neoteric Listener - The Ayon Scorpio Integrated and CD-07s Compact Disc Player

Dean Seislove — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 01:55:10 +0000

The Ayon Audio Scorpio is a heavy, Class A integrated amplifier made of high grade aluminum and powered by gleaming KT88 and 12AU7 tubes. One look and listen, and you know it's textbook audio, the perfect answer to your friends when they say, "So how's a high end amplifier any different from my Yamaha?" Like... Read More »

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E.A.R. Acute 4/DAC 4 CD/SACD Player (US Premier Review)

Robert H. Levi — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:42:39 +0000

I was truly unsure that in 2015 any of us would be needing a two box, multi-function digital source for portable transportable media. I took a CD around with me at T.H.E. Show Newport and found few rooms that could play it or, at least, without first ripping it. That said, the course of true... Read More »

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Accuphase DP-720 SACD Player

Marshall Nack — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 21:46:49 +0000

Music servers… audio streaming. Every club needs the next New Thing to survive and grow. At this juncture in the second decade of the new millennium High End audio has already got theirs. But it sure feels like we've been here before. This is déjà vu; I'm seeing 1983, when SONY's “perfect sound forever” ad... Read More »

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