Hi, I joined a few weeks ago and am initially looking for a second system for use in 2 small rooms (i.e either an amp with 2 speaker outputs or a speaker switch box). I’ve been underwhelmed with the modern equipment I’ve demo’d and reading this section of the forum has roused my interest in […]
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They say: Upgrades can be divided into two arenas, electrical and mechanical. The most popular upgrade is to the wiring and cables. The standard internal wire is copper, so the first upgrade we offer is to change this to single strand silver. The wire is 0.25mm in diameter with both channels being twisted into pairs. […]
Previously published on June 19, 2013 Overview: In 1978, in the early days of Subjective Audio I sold quite a few of these. And for a while I always had one on demo. The reasons why people bought them, and the reason I had one are, well …. not much to do with sound quality. […]
John Atkinson writes: Someone, I forget who it was, once wrote a perceptive essay on how in any field of human endeavor, apparent perfection is attained only when that field is in the process of being superseded. The Palace at Versailles was built when the power of the French monarchy was well into decline; Wagner’s […]
bb3blog writes ….. Much like the beginnings of early high end audio when Audio Research and Conrad Johnson were the common catch words, Marantz and Sansui are two names that most likely crop up when talk goes vintage solid state receivers. Of course there was Pioneer, Sony, Technics and others that carved their respective mark […]
We are told … A loudspeaker manufacturing company initially founded by and named after Friedrich Müller and Wolfgang Backes and was based in Saarbrücken, in Saarland, Germany. Early history is not completely clear to us, the two gentlemen are certainly offering products in the latter half of 1971, trading as a partnership under the name […]
They tell us … While re-thinking the new MkV we felt it was very important to maintain the design signature of the original Paris turntable. Everything else is a total redesign! The Oracle mechanical design concepts are always intimately linked to the overlapping of different materials interacting within a same assembly for an optimal control […]
They say: TEA2 Phono Equalization Preamplifier The TEA2 triode equalization amplifier is a vacuum-tube phono stage offering an extraordinary degree of musical accuracy at a moderate price. The audio circuit of the TEA2 is comprised of two cascaded single-ended triode amplifiers. The circuit is a zero-feedback design, to eliminate the temporal inaccuracies that negative feedback […]
They say … Meet one of the world’s greatest loudspeakers The product of many years of intensive design and engineering work, Siltech’s Symphony delivers a sound as close to the original recording as can be. A massive investment in research and development was made to deliver a cost-no-object reference loudspeaker of superlative ability. Mr. van […]
THE REFERENCE SERIES POWER AMPLIFIER M700 / M700S They say … TAD’s philosophy has remained unchanged for over 40 years, and that is to deliver sound that conveys the full range of emotions without alteration. This philosophy has driven us to develop technology for the reproduction of music in its purest form. Over the past […]
WHAT HI-FI? write … M3 DAC So, here’s a bit of background. Bricasti Design is a small, Massachusetts-based high-end company that specialises in digital and amplification components for both studio and home use. Founded in 2004, it’s still relatively young, but the people behind it have a great deal of experience in audio having worked […]