A MEMBER ASKS … I don’t get it. C-V’s sound great. I have and owned Klipsch KG 4.2, JBL L46, Baby Advents, Pioneer HPM-1100 & S-1010, Infinity 12″ 3-way with EMIT tweeters, & AR-1. I had a roommate with C-V Premium S2 and Klipsch Lascala. I had a friend that owned an audio store that […]
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The D48 went into production following a year of intense research and development. Areas of improvement have been midrange detail and a cleaner, faster and more extended bass response. A studio monitor quality bass driver was designed for the D48 which features a special impregnated cone and mid frequencies tuned by a cap of greater […]
An eagerly awaited addition to their Professional Fidelity range, SPL this week proudly announce the release of their Performer s1200 stereo channel power amplifier boasting a mighty 520 watts per side. Due to the great success and outstanding musical performance of the Performer m1000 mono power amplifier, I had the desire to translate this sound […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan My friend, Keith Howard, wrote me a wonderfully insightful note that I will share with you. END
LEAK VINTAGE units NOT on ebay https://www.hifianswers.com/2022/10/leak-vintage-not-on-ebay-via-the-audio-miser-this-list-created-09-08-21/
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan There are a lot of parameters audio design engineers must consider when crafting a new amplification circuit. Chief among them is the dynamic ability of a circuit to properly reproduce transients. Transient response in an audio system refers to how quickly and accurately the system responds to changes in the […]
I am missing the liquid and icy sound of high end audio with the following expensive combination . How can I improve achieve that dream sound: Wilson MAXX 1, Accuphase A50 V power amp,Air tight ATM 211 single ended mono amp, air tight ATC 2 pre and Accuphase DP80L/DC81L cd/converter with Transparent referecne speaker cable […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan In a recent post, we discussed some types of distortion that are not typically part of a manufacturer’s specifications. One of those terms, slew rate, generated a bunch of questions and requests for me to explain what it is. I will do my best in as simple of terms as […]
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They say ….. The FPA-4 power amplifier is the latest member of the Sugden Masterclass Family. This output stage is of the classic Sugden pure class A single ended design which has given musical satisfaction to thousands of discerning music lovers over many years. The amplifier benefits from a comparator and correction circuit so that […]
I’m finally getting around to my new listening room, which is not intended to be a man cave but a room for the whole family. The recording studio look is not what I’m after, any acoustic treatments will have to be reasonably subtle and not too ugly. So, can I do this myself or should […]
An animal welfare charity says it has received more than 4,000 calls from people wanting to give up their pets. The Scottish SPCA said the annual figure had tripled in a single year since 2021. The charity said it was down to the cost of living crisis, with most callers to its helpline blaming financial […]
I bought this well respected phono stage as a stop gap earlier this year. I fancy trying something else so this needs to go to help fund it. There’s not a lot on the web about these but everything you do find it positive. I can’t tell you much about the specs I’m afraid. Patrick […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan Their excitement comes from understanding the challenge of making an air piston (which is what a speaker driver is) that can start and stop in perfect synch with the instructions from your power amplifier. To accomplish that feat one would prefer a cone (the piston part) that had zero mass […]
In case you didn’t know, these fantastic unit do come up from time to time BUT please note (a) this is one of the most flexible yet complicated unit I have encountered in over 40 years which means (b) you must have the special control unit remote because many functions that cannot be easily accessed […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan I would suggest that throughout time it’s rather commonplace to hear people discounting or dismissing the experiences of others when worldviews do not match. Sometimes that’s helpful. If I see the world as flat and declare it so, you can help me by explaining the well established facts. That’s a […]
I’d always fancied one of Alphason’s titanium tubed arms like the HR100S or a Xenon. The HR100S tends to be quite expensive (too much for a punt anyway) and I can’t say I’ve ever really heard one at its best as they mostly tend to have been wired with the horrible vdH cable throughout. A […]
Editor’s note: Earlier this week we asked Howard to invite John Mayberry to be a guest contributor here. He’s agreed. Unusually for us we didn’t set John a series of topics. Having read some of his material, all of which we found engaging; his writing being somewhat iconoclastic, we decided to let him write on […]
PS AUDIO / Paul McGowan If you had a chance to read my post of several days ago titled The Bypass Cap you might have been thinking it was about headwear. Or, you might have gotten my analogy of using a super tweeter to augment a standard tweeter. Here’s another for you. If you were to take […]
They say ….. A high quality active pre-amplifier featuring a host of inputs and outputs. The LA-4 makes a perfect combo with either the Masterclass or Sapphire power amplifiers. High-end touches include gold plated circuit boards, relay switching of all inputs and output and a sophisticated class A output stage. The LA-4 is a high […]