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REVIEW: Stein Music HARMONIZER SYSTEM H2 + BLUE SUN + BLUE DIAMONDS...

here is an abundance of crazy, or at least bizarre audio products on the market. Every now and then we got surprised by a new idea delivered by visionaries or madmen (quite often they are the same) –...

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REVIEW: Thrax Audio TERES + LYRA   - power amplifier + loudspeakers...

o be honest I can't remember how it started. In my own review of Dionysos preamplifier for January 2011 I wrote that I'd firstly learned about existence of Thrax Audio one year earlier during High End...

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REVIEW: Trilogy 925 - integrated amplifier from GREAT BRITAIN

s I already mentioned once (in the review of Wow Audio Lab L1/M1 amplifier), Audio Show in Warsaw is a place for me to collect information. Not necessarily about the sound but rather about brands,...

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REVIEW: Mytek MANHATTAN - digital to analogue converter/headphone amplifier...

n October 2013 Mr Michał Jurewicz, a Polish engineer, USA resident, founder and owner of Mytek Digital, when discussing future plans of his company mentioned that he was planning to release few new...

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REVIEW: Dynaudio CONTOUR S 1.4 LE - loudspeakers from DENMARK

ynaudio belongs to the top loudspeaker manufacturers in the world – that's exactly what one could read in press information released for the premiere of two models from Contour S Limited Edition line,...

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REVIEW: ISOL-8 Substation LC + HC - power conditioners from GREAT BRITAIN

There is no "one size fits all" solution when it comes to effective power conditioning. We know this through many years of development and hard won experience. We offer a range of products so you can...

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FEUILLETON: ABOUT DOGS AND CAT, OR: DOES THE LENGTH MATTER? - Close...

PRE-INTRODUCTION eople, in one of the categories, can be divided into "pickers" and "predators. Homo sapiens because its eating habits is quite a strange. What he accumulates – he eats, what he catches...

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REVIEW: Gigawatt PC-4 EVO + LS-2 - power conditioner + power cable from POLAND

ne can wonder why so many people at certain age start using expression „I remember that...” more and more often. I can not not remember that several years ago whenever I came across such expression in...

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COVER STORY, INTERVIEW: JAN TOMASZ ADAMUS | CAPELLA CRACOVIENSIS - conductor,...

day like any other one. But then we heard: „It's a coincident, obviously, but on the same day you contacted me, I bought myself a new audio system. Actually it's almost the same as the one I had before...

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REVIEW: Accuphase E-470 + DC-37 – integrated amplifier + DAC | MADE IN JAPAN

hile tracing the development of the Accuphase company for the last several years, I underestimated its approach to designing audio equipment for a long time, which was in evident contrast with my...

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REVIEW: Mark Levinson №585 - integrated amplifier/DAC | MADE IN USA

The No 585 has been created to achieve top quality sound in every detail. It is a combination of exceptional universality with a powerful AB class amplifier which supplies 200W of power at 8 Ω and 350...

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REVIEW: Tellurium Q ULTRA SILVER - interconnect + speaker cable | MADE IN...

eoff Merrigan, the CEO of Tellurium Q, is not very effusive when it comes to telling the secrets of his cables design. To be honest, it seems as if he wants people to know as little as possible about...

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REVIEW: Haiku-Audio HAIKU BRIGHT MK3 – integrated amplifier | RED Fingerprint...

hile big companies from various branches, who are responsible for new solutions, research and patents, constitute the driving force of the world of audio, the salt of the earth, so to speak, are small...

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INTERVIEW: STUART SMITH, „HiFi Pig Magazine”, editor-in-chief | FRANCE...

et us think: “Soundstage!” was established in the year 1995, whereas “EnjoyTheMusic.com” was set up a year later, in 1996,; “Positive-Feedback Online” moved online in 2002 (it had been printed since...

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REVIEW: NAIM AUDIO STATEMENT – preamplifier + power amplifier | GOLD...

he word ‘Statement’ could be translated in many ways but in fact it always comes down to: expressing one's opinion in an ultimate, irrevocable way. So if one calls a product using this particular word,...

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Pylon Audio SAPPHIRE 25 – loudspeakers    RED Fingerprint...

alking only about the price of these speakers, about how impressive product we get for the price, how well it is made – that would be a classic reductionism. Focusing on one feature would suggest its...

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APL ILLUMI-FI DSD-S - digital-to-analogue converter    MADE IN...

ne of the most well-known Polish constructors specializing in digital systems asked me recently what we see in the “whole DSD thing”. I frankly said that the answer is “nothing”, because DSD files...

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Acoustic Signature TRIPLE X – turntable    MADE IN GERMANY

he two models I already reviewed – the Challenger Mk3 for „Audio”, and Storm for “High Fidelity” proved to be a proper showcase of Acoustic Signature's achievements. Especially their shape was quite...

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Remton LCR - phonostage MM    MADE IN CZECH REPUBLIC

oday phonostages purposed only for MM (Moving Magnet), high output MC (Moving Coil High Output), and MI (Moving Iron) cartridges (made mostly by Grado) are true rarity. To be honest, I do not know why....

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Totaldac d1-twelve DAC - digital-to-analogue converter    RED...

he last page of a folder presenting the offer of the French Totaldac company reminded me of the way in which digital technology has developed in the last thirty-five years, in the context of the audio...

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