I began reading with interest the recent thread about “Life after Arcs” as i had my eye on a pair and they rarely come up for sale here in Australia. Anyway they have been in for about a week and i have managed a few spins of the cd player and this evening i have […]
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Does anyone here have experience with this? Over on my recent “High-End (ahem!) British Amp” thread, I was advised that one solution to a budget ‘Power + SQ’ combo would be using a Studio-brand power amp at home, like Mc2 or Yamaha. Presumably fed by a decent pre-amp as I have multiple sources to connect. […]
Why all the Hifi systems nowadays lose the Loudness button? Do we need it again as we did in 70’s and 80’s? Dip in and out HERE Please click HERE to access the entire Point Of View archive.
WHAT IT TELLS US Sensitivity is a measure of the magnitude of input signal need for the amplifier to produce full output, at maximum volume. This tells us what signal sources the amplifier can handle, and produce full output if required. But it also tells us where the volume control is likely to be set is […]
No one has ever accused Franc Kuzma of designing glamorous audio jewelry. His turntables and tonearms are industrial-strength examples of engineering know-how and machining excellence. But to those who appreciate such things, his products are truly beautiful, even if they’re not adorned with chrome, wood, and sleekly polished surfaces. And if looking at the 4Point […]
Ideally, LPs should be played with the pickup stylus remaining tangential (ie, at a 90° angle) to the groove—just as the lacquer from which the LP was ultimately stamped was cut in the first place. Over the years, many attempts have been made to accomplish this. Back in 1877, Thomas A. Edison’s original machines tangentially […]
HiFi Choice magazine writes as follows: Naim introduces its ‘entry-level’ network audio player, but there is nothing ‘entry-level’, however, about its performance, says Malcolm Steward The ND5 XS is Naim’s second network audio player and its first to offer native streaming of 24-bit/192 kHz sources. It follows the lauded and more expensive (£2,995) NDX (HFC […]
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I literally dropped everything when Rega’s new Planar 25 turntable arrived a few weeks ago. I’d heard the ‘table compared with the Planar 3 at designer Roy Gandy’s house when I visited Rega last fall—see “Analog Corner” in the January ’99 Stereophile—and was anxious to audition it in my own system and tell you what I […]
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The thread starts: What do you recommend as a good – and reasonably priced – amp or integrated amp option for my JBL L100s? Take a look HERE ===//=== Please click HERE to access the entire VINTAGE archive Please click HERE to access the entire Point Of View archive.
“I’m running DSP 5200s but I can’t comment on them compared to the other speakers you mention as I have not heard them. Meridian products are supposed to have a ‘laid back’ approach to sound presentation, it doesn’t seem that way to me and I come from a full active Linn set up. There was […]
Jonathan Scull (Stereophile magazine) writes: “Preaching to the converted,” I sighed to myself as I read the manual for the Stax Omega II Earspeaker headphone system. I fondly recalled my headphone reference for all time—the Most Fabulous and Seductive Sennheiser Orpheus tubed electrostatics, which Thomas J. Norton reviewed for Stereophile in 1994. I recalled the Orpheus’s heady, […]
The thread starts: Hi All, Recently just for fun I purchased a short run of “expensive” speaker cable ($9/ft) and have been A/B-ing it in my system with great delight. I used to believe that there wasn’t much difference at all and that cable was cable. But now I have proven to myself that there […]
Wojciech Pacuła writes The lower one goes, the softer the bass becomes but it never lost its content or contours. Yet this was not a voiced contoured sound. Certain elements related to plastic diaphragms could be noticed similar to Dynaudio and Vienna Acoustics speakers. I refer to a slight rounding of the attack and a […]
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The Absolute Sound (Paul Seydor) writes ….. A few days after I took delivery of the Monitor 40.2, the third version of Harbeth’s flagship loudspeaker, a close friend fell by for a listen. He’s a Los Angeles studio musician (a violinist who’s played many high-profile film scores, often serving as concert master), who is also […]
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Paul Wilson writes: We live in a global economy. High-performance audio components are made in almost every country in the world. Even China has emerged as a purveyor top-shelf brands. But, what about New Zealand? I had the pleasure to interview Mr. Brian Willoughby, Managing Director of Plinius, who just happen to be located in […]
I saw it coming back in 1996. That was when Rega introduced their full-bore assault on the state of the art of record replay, the Planar 9 turntable. The P9 was and is a superb product, but because it sells for $3900—more than five times the price of the company’s bread-and-butter model, the venerable Rega […]
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I’ve recently downsized my system quite considerably to put money into property and I’m left with a Resolution Audio Opus 21 CD player and a Leben CS600 integrated amp as the basis of a system. I’ve sold my Living Voice OBX-RWs and need to buy something to replace them. My room is 12 x 14 […]