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Dynaudio Special Forty Loudspeakers
For their 40th anniversary, Dynaudio endeavored to make something very special. Their team faced a choice: design a new flagship speaker or make a top-shelf bookshelf at a price point accessible to...
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World’s First Review: VPI’s Voyager
About a year and a half, on a visit to the VPI factory, Mike Bettinger had just joined the staff and was hard at work on what would become the Voyager phonostage. A true old-school perfectionist,...
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The Triangle Theta Speakers
If you live in a somewhat compact listening environment, Triangle’s Theta is a perfect quality vs. quantity proposition. In my 13 x 15 foot listening room, driven by the precise Nagra 300p amplifier,...
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The Gold Note IS-1000 Amplifier
We’ve just started to audition the Gold Note IS-1000 integrated amplifier and it’s amore from the start. Featuring an integral phono stage, based on the circuitry of the PH-10 that we already love, a...
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The Audio Physic Avanti Speakers
One of the toughest hurdles to overcome in a small to medium sized listening environment is where to put the speakers. So often, we’d love big speaker sound, but don’t have the room, and sometimes that...
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Pure Audio Project – Trio 15 Horn
A new discovery is exciting, even after hundreds of reviews – when you think you’ve heard nearly everything. Open baffle speakers have always been that little blinking light in the corner of my eye at...
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The MartinLogan Classic ESL 9 Speakers
Starting this speaker review as I do with nearly every other one with Aimee Mann’s “This is How it Goes,” I’m pretty excited about the Classic ESL 9 from MartinLogan. To be fair to those of you that...
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Acoustic Energy AE100 Speakers
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Rhea Audio Alta
A few years ago, we reviewed the original Alta Audio speakers and came away very impressed at the integration of woofer and ribbon tweeter – a tough engineering feat. Great as they sounded, the...
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The Sonus faber Guarneri Tradition
Now in its fourth iteration, the Sonus faber Guarneri is still a standout performer. How the engineers at SF manage to put so much of the sound of their larger speakers in such a small cabinet always...
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Bowers and Wilkins 707S2
After hearing Jeff’s praises of the D705 s2, I appreciated the chance to put some ear time on their smallest bookshelf speaker in B&W’s 700 series lineup, the D707 s2. These diminutive marvels...
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Bowers and Wilkins 705S2
After a few months of constant listening, I want to say “Bowers & Wilkins new 705s2’s kick major ass,” but that would be so un-British. But they really do. Today, listening to Emerson, Lake, and...
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The REL T7i Subwoofer
Usually, subwoofer discussions start with tales of thunderous, booming bass that rocks the house. I’ve been using REL subwoofers for about 10 years now and that’s not what this is about. They will...
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Features Old School: The Magnepan Tympani 1D 995: Acoustic Energy AE-1 Journeyman Audiophile: Triangle Theta Aural Exam: Rotating Your Tubes! Walkabout: A visit to Munich HiEnd 2018 MINE AYO Wearables...
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The Clearaudio Charisma V2
Audiophiles love to argue the merits of moving magnet vs. moving coil cartridges. Come to think about it; they love to argue about nearly everything. However, the MM/MC debate gets sketchier as the...
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The Sensitive Sound Art-Majestic MC Cartridge
Zeroing in on the tonal characteristics of a phono cartridge and keeping it within a budget that makes sense is often one of the biggest challenges facing an analog enthusiast, but it can be done....
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ARC REF 75SE Power Amplifier
Switching from the delicate, quirky vocals in Bjork’s latest, to Keith Jarrett’s classic The Koln Concert, to the pounding beats in High Contrast’s Night Gallery, through the new Magnepan .7 speakers,...
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Features Old School: Paul DeMara revisits the Walkman! 995: Pro-Ject Debut Recordmaster Journeyman Audiophile: Parasound JC3 Jr. By Eric Neff Aural Exam: Stressing about Cables MINE Gig Harbor Goodies...
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Luxman PD-171A Arrives!
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to visit Japan, one of the first things you will notice is how deliberate everything in Japanese culture is. They do not take anything, even the most minute act,...
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The Koetsu Onyx Platinum
Mounting a $10,000 phono cartridge gives you a bit of respect for surgeons: one slip and kaboom! All that craftsmanship down the drain. But the effort is worth it. Once mounted, moving a smidge here, a...
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