REVIEW: Vitus Audio SCD-025 MkII – Compact Disc player | DENMARK
In Illustrated History of High-End Audio. Volume Two - Electronics edited by Robert Harley the Vitus Audio brand is mentioned among few others in a section titled: Today’s Vanguard. In the preface to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Verictum X FUSE – fuse | POLAND
do not know if, perhaps, I have masochist inclinations, but I cannot refrain from what I do. It is naïve, but I believe that if I hear, learn or use something that makes listening to music more...
View ArticleREVIEW: Transrotor JUPITER – turntable | GERMANY
ny turntable consists of few main elements: chassis, platter with main bearing, motor and tonearm with cartridge. These are just few elements but the possible combinations are many. Each of the is...
View ArticleREVIEW: Norma Audio Electronics REVO SC-2 + PA-150 - preamplifier + power...
ithin 18 months after my review of integrated amplifier IPA-70B by Italian manufacturer Norma, nothing really changed for them – they still make extremely solid and good looking products that give me...
View ArticleREVIEW: Linnenberg VIVACE 2 | UNISONO - digital-to-analogue...
innenberg Elektronik offers thousands of products and most of them come from the Far East. China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan quickly conquered a market segment that seemed to be reserved for DIY...
View ArticleKRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY: Meeting No. 101 | ROSSINI IN CRACOW – the dCS Rossini...
hen you kneel, it is hard to keep your head up. When you want to see what is going on around you, you have to stand up sometimes. However, this is really difficult indeed when something literally...
View ArticleREVIEW: Chord Electronics DAVE - digital-to-analogue converter/preamplifier |...
n May the 14th 2015, together with other press representatives, we participated in the first official presentation of D/A Converter that its manufacturer, Chord, described as: „the most advanced DAC in...
View ArticleREVIEW: RT Audio Design ORPHEUS MkII - power amplifier | BULGARIA
tanding out is an advantage. Every manufacturer, businessman and salesman knows that. Audio manufacturers realize that too. Even though many audiophiles claim to be very open-minded when it comes to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Pro-Ject RPM-5 CARBON – turntable | AUSTRIA/CZECH REPUBLIC
PM (also rpm) is short for: Revolutions Per Minute. When used to describe a turntable operation it defines a speed that record should be played with: 33 1/3 rpm, 45 rpm or 78 rpm (a long time ago there...
View ArticleREVIEW: KBL Sound ZODIAC - analogue interconnect + speaker cable + power...
pecialized cable manufacturers usually offer their products, both analogue and digital, grouped under line names. Individual lines differ with conductors, cable geometry, finish, packaging, price and...
View ArticleREVIEW: CLONES audio 25iR - integrated amplifier | HONG KONG
unjoe, the owner of CLONES audio, left his well paid job of a graphic designer to take on his life's true passion - audio. He is not the first as there were others before him like Silvio Pereira of...
View ArticleREVIEW: Audio Alto DMI 3H - integrated amplifier | SLOVENIA
'll elaborate on that later but let me start with information that products by Slovenian company Audio Alto are custom made – to be exact they are made to satisfy first of all needs and expectations of...
View ArticleKRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY, Meeting #102: MSB TECHNOLOGY SIGNATURE DATA CD V –...
he shadow of our previous encounter had been looming over this meeting. Before, we tested the dCS Rossini Compact Disc player. There were no fist fights, but our opinions of the tested device were so...
View ArticleCOVER REVIEW: NAIM Mu-so Qb - wireless all-in-one system | ENGLAND/CHINA |...
I can proudly say that my assessment of the original wireless, all-in-one Mu-so system by Naim was pretty accurate. I reviewed it for „Audio” magazine and wrote back then: I wouldn't believe it if I...
View ArticleREVIEW: TechDAS AIR FORCE III – turntable | JAPAN
ideaki Nishikawa-san - once a Micro Seiki's designer today TechDAS’ - during the High End Show in Munich in 2015 (HERE) presented his latest and least expensive creation, a turntable called Air Force...
View ArticleREVIEW: Furutech FA-13S | FS-15S | FP-TCS21 - interconnect | speaker cable |...
lmost all Japanese companies offering audio cables use the conductors produced upon their orders by the biggest Japanese "cable" manufacture, Furukawa. The company was flexible enough to produce cables...
View ArticleREVIEW: Audio Tekne TEA-2000 – phonostage | JAPAN
t happened only once before that "High Fidelity" tested the same product twice. It was the Nagra's PL-P preamplifier, that was firstly reviewed in our issue No. 19 (November 2005, see HERE), and later...
View ArticleREVIEW: Acoustic Revive RCA-1.0 Triple C-FM (1.8x1.4) | POWER REFERENCE...
t seems that „High Fidelity” was one of the first magazines in the world, and surely outside Japan, that received Acoustic Revive cables based on PC-Triple C copper and published such a review (No....
View ArticleFEATURE: A kingdom for a horse, i.e. MASTERING ACCORDING TO JACEK GAWŁOWSKI...
he world of mechanically reproduced music, not including mechanically powered instruments, is divided into two domains: one is connected with recording music, the other one – with playing it. The...
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