COVER STORY: Mark Levinson №52 | 40th Anniversary - Line/Phono Preamplifier...
ach business enterprise has its own so-called "founding myth" (in Western classical scholarship often referred to as etiological myth from the Greek word αἴτιον, “a cause”). The founding myth for Mark...
View ArticleINTEREVIEW: SCOT HULL, Part-Time Audiophile – editor | “THE...
[From: Wojciech Pacuła Date: Monday, October 6, 2014 at 4:40 PM To: Scot Hull Subject: Re: Introducing: The Audio Traveler] Dear Scott, I am editor of High Fidelity (High Fidelity.pl) magazine, Polish...
View ArticleREVIEW: KBL Sound RED EYE - Digital Cable from POLAND
he Digital Revolution 2.0 that has been happening in audio world in recent years changed the whole industry. It shifted the focus to devices that play and convert digital signals. Suddenly digital...
View ArticleREVIEW: AURALiC ARIES Wireless Streaming Bridge – Streaming...
Many people wonder what will we do next. As you can see the only thing we lack in our portfolio is a signal source. And, to be honest, we have been working on our own streamer's platform for years now...
View ArticleREVIEW: Aries Cerat INCITO - Line Preamplifier from CYPRUS
f you wanna get things going, start with panache. This is one of the strategies of drawing customers’ attention and one that brings about good results. In the areas where experience counts, such a...
View ArticleREVIEW: Kondo KAGURA - Power Amplifier from JAPAN
ANOTHER CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH KONDO, AND YES, EXALTED AGAIN 've been tube fan for a long time now, from the moment first (quite inexpensive in fact) SET landed in my room and took me for unforgettable...
View ArticleREVIEW: Trenner&Friedl ISIS - Floorstanding Loudspeakers from...
he Isis is the largest speaker in the Trenner&Friedl "Egyptian" sub-series, which also includes the Pharoah, reviewed by “High Fidelity” in February 2014, and the smaller Ra that is actually higher...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: YOAV GEVA | YG Acoustics – CEO (USA)
xhibitions and shows are surely not the best place for presentations of high-end audio systems, at least not when a sound quality is what matters. Problems with acoustics, power, and a really short...
View ArticleAWARDS OF THE YEAR 2014
nformation about yearly „High Fidelity's” awards are firstly presented during AudioShow each year. The show is a perfect opportunity for Distributors and Manufacturers to „spread the word” to their...
View ArticleKRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY, Meeting No. 95: Accuphase DG-58 JIM S....
NOSPR usic lovers all over Poland lick their lips with jealousy at the concert hall in Katowice. By this, I mean the new headquarters of the Polish Radio’s National Symphonic Orchestra. Mr. Tomasz...
View ArticleREVIEW: ModWright Instruments PH 150 - phonostage MM/MC from USA
n my previous reviews of products of American company ModWright I explained in detail why it belonged to my favorites. Long story short – it's a reasonable company that has been delivering high quality...
View ArticleREVIEW: Dubiel Accoustic NIRVANA BATTERY - Compact Disc player...
riends who set their stands during Audio Show 2014 to sell CDs and LPs all told me the same thing after the Show – sales dropped by half compared to previous years. Some of them started to wonder...
View ArticleREVIEW: iFi Audio STEREO 50 + LS3.5 - integrated amplifier/DAC +...
t's hard to take eyes off new iFi products. This British company using logos, letters and design that all look like taken from Luxman, Leak, or Richard Allan products from 60ties or 70 ties, or from...
View ArticleREVIEW: Lumïn S1 - network music player from Hong Kong
he world today relies on charts and measurements and results. And while audiophilia tries hard not to follow the mainstream, pointing out its weaknesses and failures, we should still use this popular...
View ArticleREVIEW: Dynaudio CONFIDENCE C1 PLATINUM – loudspeakers from Denmark
udio industry is like show business in that it feeds on the latest and newest. Large audio corporations launch new models of the same components every year or two, while smaller manufactures do it...
View ArticleSHOW COVERAGE: AUDIO SHOW 2014 (Poland )
BLANK ow, tell me that people do not read. Wrong! The Krakow edition of “Gazeta Wyborcza” from 27th October 2014 had on its front page the article titled Tu królową jest literatura (Literature is the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Ayon Audio SPHERIS III LINESTAGE – linestage...
y memories from (I think) the first edition of High End Show in Munich (after it moved from Frankfurt's Kempinsky Hotel), survived in few „capsules”. Each of them contains a part of me, but also – as I...
View ArticleREVIEW: Wow Audio Lab L1 PREAMPLIFIER + M1 POWER AMPLIFIER -...
udio shows are not a perfect place for sound quality assessment. Anybody who attended at least one of them realizes that. Unfriendly room acoustics, many people walking around and wanting something all...
View ArticleREVIEW: Oyaide ACROSS 750 RR V2 + TUNAMI II SP-B V2, TUNAMI GPX-R V2...
t must be a real shock for a company that uses some particular material as a key element for its products when it learns that it won't be manufactured anymore by a single provider. If the whole...
View ArticleREVIEW: Audiomatus TP 02 – line preamplifier from Poland
firstly met Mr Andrzej W. Matusiak in 2006 not long after I started „High Fidelity” (‘W’ in the name is ‘Wincenty’). We „met” via email to organize a test of Audiomatus AM250 ver. R amplifier. It...
View Article