In Barn for Review

This is my first encounter with a product from Switzerland’s Orpheus Lab.

One look at the Wilson Benesch A.C.T. 3Zero Loudspeakers tells you a lot beyond their 2.5 way design—mainly we’re looking at something very different from the ground on up.

The front-loaded bass reflex Dynaudio Core 5 stand 14″ tall and house a 1.1″ Cerotar Pro soft dome tweeter, a 5″ MSP (Magnesium Silicate Polymer) woofer, a pair of 280 Watt amps per driver per speaker, and a DSP x-over. A lot of speaker for […]

I have records, some old some new, and some of ’em, most?, need a good cleaning.

How about an all totaldac digital front end for spinning CDs, serving, streaming, and D to A’ing? Why not!

I’ve been up the Treehaus Audiolab path before with my review of their ‘Phantom of Luxury’ Field Coil Loudspeakers about which I said:

The Weiss Helios is the company’s flagship DAC, which is more than a DAC as it also includes UPnP/Roon capable streaming, a host of DSP options, a headphone amp, and volume control for use as a preamp.

Maggies! And it’s about damn time!

You’re looking at (and into) the 2-way Verdande Loudspeakers from Norway’s Ø Audio. For a sense of scale, that woofer/midrange measures 15″ while the tweeter sits inside the abyss-like Quad Vertex SoundField Horn about a foot from its mouth.

Regular readers know I own a pair of DeVore Fidelity O/96 loudspeakers which I’ve used as my reference for years.

“Hey! Harbeth has a new desktop-friendly active speaker. You interested?”

The first Audio Note Meishu hit the market back in 1994. You read that right–over 30 years ago.

My interest in and coverage of gear from Italy’s Audia Flight has taken me from their entry integrated to the current top of the line integrated and now to the second from the top separates with their Strumento Series stack.

The Qualiton 300B integrated amplifier runs 4x 300Bs in parallel single-ended Class A for a total of 25 Watts per channel.

Are two Wattsons better than one?