Amplifier Reviews
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.
Digital Reviews
Digital Reviews
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.
Digital Reviews
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.
Digital Reviews
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.
Digital Reviews
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.
Digital Reviews
Review: Linear Tube Audio Aero DAC (Part 1)
Non-digital digital.
Digital Reviews
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.
Digital Reviews
Review: LAIV Harmony DAC
NOS or OS, the audiophile’s choice.
Digital Reviews
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…”
Digital Reviews
Review: Grimm Audio MU2 Music Player
If you want to hear the best digital music reproduction I’ve heard by an obvious and distinct margin, you’ll need to find a Grimm MU2 to listen through.
Digital Reviews
Review: Silent Angel Bonn NX Network Switch & Genesis GX Word Clock
The two most important factors in HiFi performance are system effects and environment.
Digital Reviews
Review: Merason DAC1 Mk II
DACs are like dinner party guests: you don’t want loud and obnoxious but you also don’t want overly polite and boring.
Digital Reviews
Review: Auralic ARIES G2.2 Wireless Streaming Transporter
The big question for me regarding the Auralic ARIES G2.2 was a simple one—is it better than the Auralic ARIES G1.1 and if so, how.
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Audio Research I/50 Integrated Amplifier
Tung-Sol introduced the world to the 6550 beam tetrode vacuum tube in 1954, with early production coming out of their Bloomfield, NJ plant. I grew up about 8 miles away and that plant, the Electron Tube Division, remained in operation until I was a teen. […]
Digital Reviews
Review: Ideon EOS DAC
How much do we really know about a DAC we’ve never heard? The answer depends on who you ask.