HiFi News
Roon’s New Nucleus Titan Server Arrives at CES 2024
CES is still a thing? I joke because it still is a BIG Show for Consumer Electronics and now that Roon lives under the Harman International umbrella, a CES unveiling makes sense.
HiFi
HiFi Thoughts
HiFi Thoughts for a New Year
Every so often, an idea rattling around the WWW about our beloved hifi hobby sticks in my head like a jingle.
HiFi Reviews
Review: Wharfedale Dovedale Standmount Speakers
The original Wharfedale Dovedales date back to 1959. This all-new version celebrates the company’s 90th anniversary and fits nicely into their Heritage line with lovely stout retro hand veneered appeal.
HiFi Thoughts
Further Thoughts on Why I Chose Tidal & Qobuz
In a word, Roon.
HiFi Thoughts
Why I Chose To Pay For Tidal HiFi
Tidal recently sent an email to industry members, e.g. reviewers like me, who had been enjoying a free Tidal account to let us know the free ride would end on December 12, 2023.
HiFi Thoughts
Season’s Greetings & a Note of Thanks
Here’s wishing you (all) a happy healthy Holiday season.
HiFi News
Octave Audio Releases Two New Mono Amplifiers Into the Wild: the Jubilee Mono Ultimate and the MRE 220 SE
To say I liked the Octave V 16 Single Ended Integrated Amplifier is like saying Popeye liked spinach.
Amplifier Reviews
Review: Audio Research I/50 Integrated Amplifier
Tung-Sol introduced the world to the 6550 beam tetrode vacuum tube in 1954, with early production coming out of their Bloomfield, NJ plant. I grew up about 8 miles away and that plant, the Electron Tube Division, remained in operation until I was a teen. […]
HiFi
Twittering Machines: A Year (of Reviews) in Pictures
Taking photos of the gear that’s here for review, in Barn, ranks among my favorite things. Getting a good likeness is an important piece of information and, ideally, a feast for the eyes.
Digital Reviews
Review: Ideon EOS DAC
How much do we really know about a DAC we’ve never heard? The answer depends on who you ask.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Vivid Audio GIYA G3 Series 2
There’s no mistaking a Vivid Audio speaker. Even, I would suggest, with one’s eyes closed and ears open.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Merason DAC1 Mk II
I’ve been waiting, patiently, to get some Barn time with a Merason DAC, having enjoyed some of the systems containing one at a number of hifi shows, so color me pleased to be sitting in front of a new Merason DAC1 Mk II.
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: GoldenEar T66 Tower Speakers
The T66 is the first speaker in GoldenEar’s new T Series that offer refinements over GoldenEar’s much loved Triton Series of loudspeakers.
TM Favorite Gear of 2023
Twittering Machines Favorite Gear of 2023
If my writing is any good at communicating, you already know a few of my favorite products from 2023. After all, conveying enthusiasm for the things that turn our attention to the beauty and power of music is the first item on my job description […]
In Barn for Review
In Barn for Review: Viva Solista Integrated Amplifier
The Vivia Solista is a single-ended Class A integrated amplifier that relies on 845 triodes to produce its 22 Watts of output power.