Amplifier Reviews
Review: A ModWright Stack—LS 99 Balanced Tube Preamp | KWA 99 Monoblocks
Purity and power.
HiFi Reviews
Amplifier Reviews
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?
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…”
HiFi Reviews
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.
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Triode Evolution 300 Integrated Amplifier
While I’m no fan of violence, someone needs to take the idea that 300B-based amps are soft and wooly out behind the barn and shoot it.
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Audionet HUMBOLDT Integrated Amplifier
When you buy most anything, you’re paying for everything involved in designing, making, packaging, distributing, marketing and selling that thing. You’re certainly not, as some audiophiles appear to think, just paying for some parts.
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.
HiFi Reviews
Review: GoldenEar T66 Tower Speakers
“Better” can be a tricky thing to ascribe to a piece of hifi gear. After all, what each of us like or prefer is a matter of taste not fact. With that being said, the GoldenEar T66 are my very favorite GoldenEar speakers.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Vivid Audio GIYA G3 Series 2 Loudspeakers
Would you be surprised to learn that the Vivid GIYA G3 Series 2 loudspeakers sound like a larger version of the Vivid K 45 loudspeakers I reviewed back in July of 2023? Yet somehow even more than simply bigger?
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.
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Thöress EHT MKII Integrated Amplifier
Hybrids are half-loved by some because ideologies can outweigh outcomes. In the case of integrated amplifiers, the outcome I’m most interested in is how power can turn an electrical signal into waves of emotive sound energy as music.
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: Viva Solista Integrated Amplifier
I can count on one hand the number of integrated amplifiers that stand above and apart from all of the others I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing. Here’s the list:
HiFi Reviews
Review: Volti Audio Rival Special Edition Loudspeakers
There are few things in hifi less obvious than a large horn-loaded speaker when it comes to setting expectations.