In Barn for Review: Sonnet Digital Audio Pasithea DAC
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.
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.
Digital music replay can feel like wearing someone else’s shoes—rarely do you get a perfect fit. Whether too loose, too tight or too lumpy, getting digital right can be an elusive task.
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.
My hifi underground, yours may be a different one, spoke with a unified voice about the PrimaLuna EVO 300—“You have to hear this.”
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.
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.
On the backside of 6+ years reviewing nothing but digital hifi gear, you learn a few things. One of those things being—in digital, absence makes the ears grow fonder.
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.
In his accompanying post to the latest Darko.Audio Podcast I took part in, Darko refers to our approach as ‘Anyshit goes’. I like that.
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“Phono Equalizer Amplifier” is written on the front of the Aurorasound VIDA Prima Phono Preamp cause that’s what it does and is.
A stack of Bel Canto. But a stack that includes an integrated amplifier with a DAC inside and a streamer that has a DAC inside? What gives?
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.
And so it begins.
Speakers are the most personal of hifi choices. More than other piece of gear, speakers speak to us or they don’t and they live among our other things as part of the furnishings. You want to love your speakers.
I’d say the days of nostalgia for spinning CDs are here. And why not? The trouble with early CD replay wasn’t the format, it was the filters.
$949. Between that price and the product name, which describes its function, some people are already ready to click “Add to cart”.
Picture this: You’re alone in your home listening to that new favorite record, slowly easing out of the cares of the day and into the effortless weightless beauty that is the music experience.
If you have your ear to the ground, you’ll already have heard that the Q Acoustics Concept 50 Floorstanding Speakers are a Barn-storming bargain, offering fit & finish plus performance that’ll leave you wondering—how can they do this for that?
I love a good celebration and Denafrips is toasting 12-years in business with the new Anniversary Editions of the company’s popular Terminator II & Terminator PLUS NOS DACs.
The LTA Z40+ incorporates David Berning’s patented ZOTL amplification for 51 Watts of transformer-less output power generated by four pentode tubes that peak out from the unit’s top plate.
The new Melco N50-H60 Music Library sits between the company’s entry-level N100 and the compact N1Z in terms of price and performance, making it the Goldilocks choice.
“Sushi can only be evaluated by eating it.” That is one of my favorite quotes from Soulnote’s Design Philosophy page. I’ve been saying similar things for decades, albeit with a NJ flavor.
A clean stream.
I always kinda cringe when an audio reviewer calls the thing they’re reviewing a DUT (Device Under Test). First off, it sounds horrible and secondly reviewing hifi gear is not a test.
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