We are not abandoning our standard reviews, but for those of you that would like a little more than the canned press releases everyone else is posting, but not sure if you want to make the time investment in a full review, we present the distilled column.
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If, like us, you still enjoy the CD format, and why would you not? This modestly priced player from Naim, leverages a lot of tech from decades of producing some of the world’s finest digital players, with and without disc transports.
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Sometimes less is more, especially when it comes to vacuum tubes. There’s always something special about a low-powered tube amp and a pair of fairly sensitive speakers.
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If you are still committed to the compact disc, Aqua Audio’s LaDiva transport and Formula xHD DAC is the loveliest combination I’ve had the pleasure to listen to.
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I’ve been living with a pair of Totem’s Kin Play monitor speakers for almost two years now. Needless to say I love em.
However, a recent dog related accident, had one of them toppling off the (what I thought was unmoveable) filled, Sound Anchors stands and dinging a corner.
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Somehow, Audio Research is remembered too often only for their Reference series of components. (i.e. the most expensive), yet the LS series is still incredibly good, always incorporating the benefits of R&D from the REF series.
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One of the best upgrades you can make to an entry level analog front end is a better phono stage.
The biggest problem you face is that nearly everything under a thousand dollars is less than stellar, and if you’ve just jumped in the pond, with a table/arm/cartridge in the $300-$700 range, dropping another G right now probably doesn’t make perfect sense.
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A few strums into Al DiMeola’s new live recording, Saturday Night in San Francisco is all it takes to reveal the delicacy these new phones from Sendy Audio possess.
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If you are a music lover wanting to upgrade your digital front end, but don’t necessarily want to spend $20k – $100k, consider the Aqua LaScala.
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In years past, the “British sound,” especially in terms of loudspeakers, more often than not, was referring to the monitors from the BBC era.
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There’s nothing in audiophile world that compares to the JBL L-100. They’ve probably sold more of these than every other speaker manufacturer combined.
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Nearly every audio manufacturer make a few products that take advantage of all their core competencies, and offer so much value, they become legendary.
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