REVIEW: White Bird Amplifications VIRTUS 300B - headphone amplifier from...
Published: 1. October 2012, No. 101 Headphone amplifiers – apart from DACs with a USB input – have been the hit of the last two years. As you can easily imagine, their popularity is related to the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Ear Stream SONIC PEARL - headphone amplifier / linear preamplifier...
Published: 1. October 2012, No. 101 “I am writing this as a fan of Highfidelity.pl portal and a fledgling audio manufacturer. I have been interested in Hi-fi basically from primary school, when I...
View ArticleREVIEW: Audiomica Laboratory EXCELLENCE SERIES: Erys + Celes + Ness - cable...
Published: 1. October 2012, No. 101 “The aim of designing the new Excellence series was to extend our offer to include the cables that combine the technologies used in Ultra Reference i Red Series with...
View ArticleREVIEW: Ardento ALTER - loudspeakers from Bydgoszcz, Poland
Published: 1. October 2012, No. 101 If I recall correctly the first time I had ever heard about Ardento was in September, or beginning October 2010. At that time I conducted review of some products of...
View ArticleREVIEW: Ancient Audio STUDIO OSLO - active loudspeakers from Kraków, Poland
Published: 1. October 2012, No. 101 "Studio Oslo are excellent nearfield monitors. They sport a single widerange driver which allows user to comfortably listen to them from as close as 1 meter range....
View ArticleCOVERAGE: Krakow Sonic Society: Acoustic Revive RAF-48H - anti-vibration...
Published: 1. October 2012, No. 101 That meeting was supposed to be different. Maybe not totally different but special. The plan of course was to meet and listen to music, have some conversation and...
View ArticleREVIEW: Lym Audio LYM 1.0T PHONO + Arcam rLINK + Music Hall mmf-2.2 -...
Published: 1. November 2012, No. 102 It would seem that audio components are inanimate objects, dead by definition. We, audiophiles, naturally anthropomorphize them giving them human traits for we are...
View ArticleREVIEW: Human Audio Libretto HD + Tabla - CD player/DAC + USB-S/PDIF...
Published: 1. November 2012, No. 102 People from Human Audio are not easy to reach. Even though it was them who came up with the suggestion to test this combo, i.e. a CD player with a digital input and...
View ArticleREVIEW: HiFiMAN HE-300 - dynamic headphones from USA/China
Published: 1. November 2012, No. 102 HE-300 are the only full-size dynamic headphones offered by an American company HiFiMAN. Founded in 2007 by Mr. Fang Bian it has direct ties with China, the country...
View ArticleREVIEW: Audio Research REFERENCE 75 - power amplifier from USA
Published: 1. November 2012, No. 102 REF75 is the newest power amplifier offered by U.S. manufacturer Audio Research Corporation, introduced as a starting model in the prestigious Reference line....
View ArticleREVIEW: ModWright Instruments KWI 200 - integrated amplifier from USA
Published: 1. November 2012, No. 102 The story of Modwright is not so different from many others. Its owner, Dan Wright, started with modifying products of other brands, and finally he decided he was...
View ArticleREVIEW: Fonica F-600 - turntable from Poland
Published: 1. November 2012, No. 102 "As far as the Fonica name is concerned, Grupa Kapitałowa Complex S.A. bought the trademark FONICA at some point, and the current firm has nothing to do with former...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: JEFF DORGAY, publisher of TONEAudio - audio magazine from USA
Published: 1. November 2012, No. 102 TONEAudio, published by Jeff Dorgay with considerable help from his wife, American, web-only magazine is the best looking audio magazine I know. Only single issues...
View ArticlePMC GB1i - speakers from UK
Published: 3. December 2012, No. 103 The newest series from PMC that is Professional Monitor Company is the Twenty series. Prepared for the manufacturer’s 20th anniversary it is much more affordable...
View ArticleHarbeth M30.1 - speakers from UK
Published: 3. December 2012, No. 103 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF HARBETH!!! The Monitor 30 (or M30) was developed in 1997 to work in the BBC studios. Its first, “home” version was called the Monitor 30...
View ArticleEstelon Model XA - speakers from Estonia
Published: 3. December 2012, No. 103 Products from this part of Europe, which means – as Milan Kundera and Andrzej Stasiuk named it (see anthology Moja Europa) – Middle Europe, rarely truly get to the...
View ArticleAUDIO SHOW 2012 - show coverage from Poland (over 120 pictures!)
Published: 3. December 2012, No. 103 I like Audio Show. It’s the most tiring audio show in which I participate and yet at the same time the most interesting, most fascinating. It’s fascinating mainly...
View ArticleAscendo C8 Renaissance - speakers from Germany
Published: 3. December 2012, No. 103 The name Ascendo is surely familiar to many HighFidelity Readers. Not only have we had a distributor (Soundclub) in Poland for some time now, but also Wojtek has...
View ArticleAmphion KRYPTON³ - speakers from Finland
Published: 3. December 2012, No. 103 Anssi Hyvönen belongs to a group of manufacturers-visionaries. I don’t mean to say he has some supernatural powers or that he goes “where no man has gone before,”...
View ArticleHIGH FIDELITY AWARDS OF THE YEAR 2012!!!
Published: 3. December 2012, No. 103 AMG Viella V12 + AMG 12J2 REVIEW: No. 98, June 2012, see HERE Precision engineering achieved by the best audio manufacturers is stunning. Take, for example, AMG....
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