Amplifier Reviews
Review: LSA VT-70 Integrated Tube Amplifier
How? That was the word and question that nagged at me all the while the LSA VT-70 amp was lighting up the Barn. How can you get so much for so little?
HiFi Reviews
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Kinki Studio EX-M1 Integrated Amplifier
You can’t argue with the numbers. Or so the saying goes.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Qln Prestige Five Loudspeakers
Loudspeakers convert an electrical signal into acoustic energy, i.e. sound waves. Sounds simple. With such a simple sounding job, I find it more than fascinating that the world of available loudspeakers diverge more than they converge when it comes to the mechanics of approaching this […]
Digital Reviews
Review: Mytek Liberty DAC II
My history with Mytek dates back to RMAF 2011, where they debuted the Stereo192 DSD DAC. At the time, this DAC represented a rather large leap toward the affordable in DSD-capable DACs.
Digital Reviews
Review: Melco N50-S38 Music Library
In some ways, I’d like to be able to tell you that the Melco N50-S38 Music Library made no audible difference in my system because that would be simpler than the truth.
Amplifier Reviews
Review: NAD M10 V2 Streaming Amplifier
If I could sing, I’d sing the praises I’m going to lavish on the NAD M10 V2 because it is many good things in one, and with the right speakers, you could easily be done.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Fern & Roby Raven III
Take one look at the Fern & Roby Raven III floorstanding speakers and a few things should become evident.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Perlisten R7t Tower Speakers
The midrange and treble DPC-Array (Directivity Pattern Control) lies at the heart of the speaker in the Perlisten line.
Digital Reviews
Digital Reviews
Review: Ideon Audio Ayazi mk2 DAC & 3R Master Time Black Star
You might think that after spending nine years or so reviewing DACs, there’d be no real surprises left.
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Audio Hungary Qualiton X200 Integrated Amplifier
Back in my early Bennington College days, a local bar just across the Vermont border in NY State decided to make Thursdays dance night. They were clearly trying to attract a Bennington crowd and it worked.
Digital Reviews
Review: Denafrips Terminator II
What are the odds that Denafrips will pull a hat trick? Or would that be a DAC trick?
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Constellation Audio Inspiration Integrated 1.0
Have you ever had a day where you feel as if every move you make is in sync with movements greater than you? As if you’re in step with something larger than the span of a step or day or lifetime?
Digital Reviews
Aqua LinQ: The Missing Linq
Sometimes you don’t realize that something was ever
missing. . .until you find it.
Digital Reviews
Amazon Music Unlimited on the AURALiC ALTAIR G1: A Use Case
There’s a lot to like about streaming directly from a service like Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music Unlimited. No middle man for starters.