Review: YG Acoustics Summit Loudspeakers
There seems to be as many ways to approach speaker design as there are speaker designers, but some go to greater lengths to achieve their particular goals. YG Acoustics is one such intrepid explorer.
There seems to be as many ways to approach speaker design as there are speaker designers, but some go to greater lengths to achieve their particular goals. YG Acoustics is one such intrepid explorer.
There are times when I forget I’m reviewing, something that happened more than the norm during my time with the lovely Aurorasound HFSA-01.
Did you ever wish for a speaker with the immediacy of a single driver, the physicality of a multi-way, and the low end wallop of a powered sub? The Zu Definition 6 comes strikingly close to delivering just that.
The Octave V 16 is, as its name says, a single-ended design running a pair of KT120s (or KT150, KT88, or 8550) in triode mode for about 8 Watts of output power per channel, i.e. more than enough power for a few pair of speakers […]
I’m warming up to CDs. There, I said it. And part of the reason for this newfound fondness is the Technics SL-G700M2.
Some of my favorite hifis are the kind of hifis that are as easy to slip into as a well worn pair of 501s.
No matter how deep I tried digging into the sound of the Thrax Enyo Signature Integrated Amplifier, music kept smacking me in the face foiling any attempts to listen past the tunes.
“Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens.”
The little DAC that could.
Engineering first. When some people look at a speaker from Vivid Audio, they don’t see engineering first, they see design. Which makes sense seeing as Vivid speakers don’t look like other speakers.
“This magic moment, So different and so new.”
I don’t know anyone who looks at glowing vacuum tubes and thinks—Damn! That’s ugly! My best guest is light, and heat, still touch most humans in places that are connected to survival.
There’s a funny trend in the world of hifi reviews that seems to think being dispassionate is a sign of objectivity and that the less experience we have actually listening to a piece of gear the more value our opinions hold.
One of the things about big(ger) speakers is they tend to sound, big(ger).
Read just about any review of the Enleum AMP-23R and you’ll find likes and loves. This review will not stray from this well worn path of praise, so reader’s who just want to know whether or not I like the AMP-23R, you can stop reading […]
That’s right—the Cocktail Audio X45Pro packs a lot of digital source stuff and preamp functionality into a single chassis acting as streamer, server, CD player/ripper, DAC, FM tuner, and MM Phono Stage which helps explain its 127-page manual.
On September 6, 1976 a Russian fighter pilot decided to defect by landing his MIG-25 in Hokkaido, Japan. One relevant discovery found inside that MIG was the Russian 6C33C-B dual triode vacuum tube.
And then there were three.
Power isn’t everything.
I’ve been living with DACs from France’s totaldac for the past ten years, giver or take, and the reason is simple—I love listening to music through them.
Sometimes it takes time for the stars to align.
One thing I know for sure—I need more records. Lots more records.
Other voices, other rooms.
Sometimes up is up.
Back in high school I bought my first motorcycle, the agreement with my father being nothing over 350 cc so with the help of a mechanic friend, he found and I bought a lovely minty fresh green 1972 Honda CB350.
Fredrik Lejonklou is the man behind the company that bears his name and he’s got interesting ideas about hifi design, beginning with his stated goal: “I don’t really care whether it sounds ‘correct’ – I care about how it feels.”
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