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  • [ February 3, 2023 ] Album of the Week: Shabaka and the Ancestors | We Are Sent Here By History Album of the Week
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In Barn for Review: Cocktail Audio X45Pro Streamer/DAC/CD Player/Ripper/Server/Tuner/Preamp

February 6, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

Korea’s Cocktail Audio has loaded up their X45Pro with just about all of the digital functionality you could ask for, added a MM phono stage, DAB+/FM Tuner, color LCD screen and volume control for good measure.

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In Barn for Review: totaldac d1-unity DAC

January 25, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

You’d be forgiven for thinking this is another photo of the totaldac d1-tube DAC/Streamer that’s been living in the Barn since 2020. But it’s not.

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In Barn for Review: Perlisten S5t Tower Speakers

January 23, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

The new Perlisten S5t Tower Speakers are the little brother of my 2021 Favorite Speaker of the Year, the Perlisten S7t.

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In Barn for Review: Fezz Audio Alfa Lupi Integrated Amplifier

January 19, 2023 Michael Lavorgna

PCL86 Push Pull Class AB, 2 x 10W. I think that’s poetry.

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In Barn for Review: ModWright Analog Bridge

December 21, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

The ModWright Analog Bridge is meant to sit in between hifi components, like between a preamp and amp, to endow your system with “the sonic strengths of tubes…without adding noise or distortion.”

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In Barn for Review: Sonner Audio Legato Duo Floorstanding Loudspeakers

December 19, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Easy to drive and easy on the eyes, I’ve been eyeing the speakers from Sonner Audio at HiFi shows for years. Their Legato Duo has finally arrived in Barn.

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In Barn for Review: Sonnet Kratos Mono Power Amplifiers

December 13, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

FET input + Class A/B MOSFET out = 50 Watts into 8 Ohms, 95 Watts into 4.

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In Barn for Review: Audia Flight FLS 10 Integrated Amplifier

December 12, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

200/380/700 Watts into 8/4/2 Ohms from the Audia Flight FLS 10’s class A transimpedance/current-feedback circuitry.

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In Barn for Review: Auralic ARIES G1.1 Wireless Streaming Transporter

November 8, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Packets in, digital audio out.

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In Barn for Review: EAR Phono Classic MM/MC Phono Preamplifier

November 7, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

When it comes to hifi (and movies), I love a classic and the EAR Phono Classic is aptly named.

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In Barn for Review: Sonnet Digital Audio Pasithea DAC

November 5, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

I first heard about Sonnet Audio from my dear friend Alex Halberstadt who wrote about their Morpheus DAC for Stereophile. Careful readers will have spotted a mini theme.

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In Barn for Review: Lejonklou Slipsik 8 MM Phono Stage

November 2, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Lejonklou, the hifi company, is named after its founder Fredrik Lejonklou and I know a bit about both because my dear friend Alex Halberstadt wrote about them in Stereophile.

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In Barn for Review: MoFi StudioPhono Phonostage

October 31, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

The late sorely missed legendary Tim De Paravicini of EAR fame had a hand in the circuit design of the MoFi StudioPhono Phonostage and it costs $349.

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In Barn for Review: Ortofon 2M Black MM Phono Cartridge

October 29, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

The Ortofon 2M (Moving Magnet) Black cartridge sports a Shibata diamond stylus, nude, to better ride the grooves, a low viscosity, halogen free polycarbonate (PC) resin Hopelex body, and a special upgraded engine, featuring split pole pins with a silver plated copper wire.

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In Barn for Review: Manley Labs Chinook Special Edition MkII Phono Preamplifier

October 26, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

I’ve been a fan, albeit from afar, of Manley Labs for years. There’s something no-nonsense about the company, a refreshing directness and attitude that strikes me as a bit fresh, in the best sense(s) of the word.

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In Barn for Good: Denon DL-103 MC Cartridge

October 24, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Welcome back!

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In Barn for Review: Aurorasound VIDA Prima Phono Preamp

October 22, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

“Phono Equalizer Amplifier” is written on the front of the Aurorasound VIDA Prima Phono Preamp cause that’s what it does and is.

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In Barn for Review: Hegel V10 Phono Preamp

October 19, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

When Hegel’s founder Bent Holter decided to build a phono preamp, about 30-years after the company was founded, he started from the ground up.

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In Barn for Review: Schiit Mani 2 MM/MC Phono Preamp

October 18, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

And so it begins.

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In Barn for Review: EMM Labs NS1 Streamer

September 28, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

A clean stream.

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In Barn for Review: A Parasound Stack – JC 3+ Phono Preamplifier/JC 2 BP Preamplifier/JC 5 Stereo Power Amplifier

September 26, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Power, precision, control. A Parasound stack.

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In Barn for Review: Meitner MA3 Integrated D/A Converter

September 25, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

The Meitner MA3 Integrated D/A Converter also houses a Roon Ready network player and volume control making it a plug & play streaming Preamp/DAC solution.

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In Barn for Review: EMM Labs DA2 V2 Reference Stereo DAC

September 25, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

The DA2 V2 Reference Stereo DAC is EMM Labs’ flagship DAC. When the opportunity arose for me to hang onto the review sample from the BIG system for closer inspection, I took it (not literally, mind you).

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In Barn for Review: Mola Mola Kula Integrated Amplifier

September 24, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Sleek & sexy works for me.

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In Barn for Review: A Silent Angel Stack – Munich M1 Streamer, Bonn N8 Audio Grade Network Switch, Forester F1 Linear Power Supply

September 24, 2022 Michael Lavorgna

Silent Angel recently signed up with US Distributor Specialty Sound & Vision who asked if I’d be interested in reviewing a stack, albeit kinda mini, of their digital gear. And here we are.

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