Flashback-Fi
Ensemble Solo B-50 “Tiger” Hybrid Integrated Amplifier: Silk and Style
Do integrated amplifiers ever go out of style?
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Flashback-Fi
Audio Note DAC 4 Signature: A Heavyweight Champ
Compared to the recently reviewed CAL Alpha DAC, the Audio Note DAC 4 Signature is a spring chicken.
Flashback-Fi
The CAL Labs Alpha: A Tube DAC For The Ages?
Have you ever wondered — What does a 25-year-old DAC sound like? Well, I’m here to tell ‘ya.
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A Few (more) Weeks With Junior: Wavelength Audio Junior EL84 Integrated Amplifier
A few (more) weeks with Junior.
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In Barn For Flashback-Fi: Audio Note DAC 4 Signature
The Audio Note DAC 4 Signature, c.2002, is a non-oversampling, digital filterless DAC using premium parts, more silver than a Liberace concert, a tube rectified choke filtered power supply, and a pair of E182CC / 7119 dual triodes in the Class A output stage. It […]
Flashback-Fi
In Barn for Flashback-Fi: Ensemble Solo B-50 “Tiger” Hybrid Integrated Amplifier
The Ensemble Solo B-50 Tiger Hybrid Integrated Amplifier comes to us from 1991, care of John DeVore of DeVore Fidelity.
Flashback-Fi
In Barn for Flashback-Fi: California Audio Labs Alpha Tube Analog Processor (DAC)
Vintage digital! The California Audio Labs Alpha DAC was the third digital device I owned from CAL, preceded by the Icon and Tercet MKIII CD players. So this Flaskback-Fi hits home.
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In Barn for Flashback-Fi: Wavelength Audio Junior Integrated Amplifier
I can think of no better way to kick off our new Flashback-Fi feature than the Wavelength Audio Junior Integrated Amplifier. Let me tell you why.