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Review: Atoll SDA300 Signature Streamer / DAC / Integrated Amplifier
There’s something about a Class A/B amp.
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Review: Octave Audio V 70 Class A Integrated Amplifier
The Octave Audio V 70 Class A Integrated Amplifier has a lot of great things going for it.
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Review: A Cambridge Audio EX Stack | EXN100 Network Player & EXA100 Stereo Integrated Amplifier
I admit that I checked the price of the Cambridge EX stack numerous times throughout the review period.
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Review: Dynaudio Contour Legacy Limited Edition Loudspeakers
The review pair of the Contour Legacy Limited Edition speakers arrived with plenty of play time already on ‘em and they were out their flight cases and playing music on the Barn’s A-Side moments later.
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Review: Vienna Acoustics Limited Edition Bach Ultimate Loudspeakers
There’s something nice, something intimate, about a good two way.
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Review: Linear Tube Audio Aero DAC Part 2 Tube Rolling
The ability to flavor the sound of our hifi by swapping tubes is a beautiful thing. After all, the perfect hifi doesn’t exist because we use ‘em to listen to music, a deeply personal thing.
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Review: Fern & Roby Amp No. 2
If you don’t care what something is made from, how it’s made, where it’s made, who made it, what it looks like, how it feels to live with, or how it sounds then you can skip this review.
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Review: Living Voice R80 OB-X Floorstanding Loudspeakers
On the face of it, a tower speaker that reaches down into the mid-20Hz region and needs only a few Watts to come alive sounds like a dream come true.
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Review: Bluesound Node vs. Sbooster NODE
My friends at Harmonia Distribution sent me a little challenge package—2 Bluesound NODEs (N130), one stock and one with the Sbooster AIB Connection Kit and matching Sbooster ECO Power Supply.
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Review: BorderPatrol S20EXD Parallel Single-Ended Amplifier
When talking ideals in amplification, or any piece of hifi for that matter, my pinnacle is well balanced.
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Review: Qln Reference 9 Loudspeakers
One word kept coming to mind each time I thought about writing about the Qln Reference 9 Loudspeakers—Yes.
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Review: Vinnie Rossi BRAMA Integrated Amplifier
The Vinnie Rossi Brama Integrated Amp slipped, gracefully, onto my list of Favorite Amplifiers soon after it arrived.
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Review: totaldac d1-unity w/Live Clocking Option
Let’s make this easy—totaldac’s new Live Clocking Option offers a subtle yet clear improvement.
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EMT HSD 006 MC Cartridge: An Appreciation
EMT, the company, is about as classic a hifi company as classic gets.
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Review: Wattson Madison Streaming DAC
There’s part of me that wonders why all DACs aren’t streaming DACs—Ethernet in/analog out. Simple. Truth be told, I love a good streaming DAC.
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Review: Linear Tube Audio Aero DAC (Part 1)
Non-digital digital.
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Review: Unison Research Unico 90 Integrated Amplifier
I’m tempted to point out that I’ve been very impressed by a number of hybrid integrated amps of late. Nealy enough to be tempted into saying I really like hybrid integrated amplifiers.
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Review: Piega Coax Gen2 411 Standmount Speakers
Some speaker’s appearance telegraphs their sound more than others, or so I say in a kind of surface way.
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Review: Audiovector QR 7 SE Loudspeakers
When it comes to loudspeakers, I like all kinds.
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Review: Fyne Audio Vintage Classic XII Floorstanding Loudspeakers
To say I was impressed by the Fyne Vintage Classic XII is kinda like saying I’m impressed by air conditioning—it’s all a matter of degree.
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Review: Network Acoustics Muon Pro Ethernet Filter
Q: Why do you have a Network Acoustics Muon Pro Ethernet filter in your hifi? A: Because it makes music sound better.
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Review: LAIV Harmony DAC
NOS or OS, the audiophile’s choice.
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Review: A ModWright Stack—LS 99 Balanced Tube Preamp | KWA 99 Monoblocks
Purity and power.
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Review: A Naim New Classic Stack—NAC 332 Preamplifier/NPX 300 Power Supply/NAP 250 Power Amplifier
Does anyone really review Naim gear or does Naim gear review us?
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Review: totaldac d1-triunity DAC
“Now, I’m not one to stand on ceremony or suggest that a given technology is inherently superior to another—it’s all in the implementation…”
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Review: Treehaus Audiolab ‘Phantom of Luxury’ Field Coil Loudspeakers
Trees, ‘hauses, audio, and labs are some of my favorite words as they, when combined, bring to mind all manner of lovely hifi things past and present.
