SHOW REPORT: HIGH END 2016 - exhibition in Munich | GERMANY
he original plan was completely different: the Old Pinacotheca (German: Alte Pinakothek - collections of paintings from the 14th to the 18th century), the New Pinacotheca (German: Neue Pinakothek - a...
View ArticleKRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY: meeting #103 - TARA Labs EVOLUTION SERIES
xpensive cabling systems have become something 'common' - both for you, the readers of "High Fidelity", and for us, the members of the Cracow Sonic Society. On one hand one might consider it a 'sign of...
View ArticleREVIEW: Trenner&Friedl OSIRIS – loudspeakers | AUSTRIA
siris is a small, free-standing loudspeaker made by the Austrian company Trenner & Friedl. It's not the most expensive in its offer, and still following all the basic design objectives of its...
View ArticleREVIEW: Haiku-Audio IOVITA - integrated amplifier | POLAND
ven though Haiku-Audio has just recently made its debut as a manufacturer of complete audio amplifiers, it has already become part of the perfectionist (i.e. audiophile) part of the audio industry....
View ArticleREVIEW: Exogal COMET PLUS - Digital to Analogue Converter | USA | RED...
n this particular case one word explains it all - Wadia (www.wadia.com). This iconic American brand for years has been synonymous with high-end digital source, as it specialized in Compact Disc...
View ArticleREVIEW: Ancient Audio A-3 - integrated amplifier | POLAND | RED Fingerprint
t may be hard to believe, but Ancient Audio's first products were relatively inexpensive hybrid amplifiers. It is particularly difficult to believe for those who associate this company with the top...
View ArticleREVIEW: TARA Labs EVOLUTION SERIES - interconnect | speaker cable | power...
he impact of tests in trade magazines is either described as none or of a sort that can change everything; it depends on whether or not the one who expresses such an opinion likes or does not like the...
View ArticleMUSIC: Polish Jazz - REMASTER 2016: vol. 0 | vol. 5 | vol. 13 | vol. 39 |...
hen the heads of Warner's headquarters learned of the sale of Polish Recordings, then - as Bartek Chaciński writes in the article Marka dużej wagi - they asked only whether it is a company that has...
View ArticleREVIEW: totaldac d1-single-mk2 – digital to analog converter | FRANCE
anguage is a very imprecise tool. But also thanks to it the evolution of apes resulted in an Aristotle, Michelangelo and Fangor. Still, however, we struggle with ambiguities, gaps, misunderstandings....
View ArticleREVIEW: Pro-Ject HEAD BOX RS + POWER BOX RS UNI 1 – headphone amplifier +...
he Austrian Pro-Ject company, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, with factories in the Czech Republic (turntables) and Slovakia (electronics), is also known outside our small domain. Thanks to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Kronos SPARTA + HELENA – turntable + tonearm | CANADA
t takes time for new solutions to find supporters, to settle in, so to speak. After some time they confirm their worth, they are simply widely accepted. It is even more difficult if they in any way...
View ArticleREVIEW: Aequo Audio ENSIS – loudspeakers | NETHERLANDS
vo Sparidaens, Concept Manager, and Paul Rassin, Marketing & Communications Manager, are members of a six person team of a Dutch company Aequo Audio that designed Enesis loudspeakers. It's the only...
View ArticleKRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY, meeting #104: KING CRIMSON on 7” PLATINUM SHM-CD | JAPAN
f one has to use the word "legendary" to describe a musician or band, then when applied to the King Crimson it would be relatively painless from where I stand. Founded in London in January 1969 still...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: EDGAR KRAMER | “Audio Esoterica” - “THE EDITORS” Series | AUSTRALIA
he audio domain is a field which combines a few spheres of human activity, i.e. music, the art of recording and reproducing it. The most important aspects of music reproduction are: technical...
View ArticleREVIEW: YG Acoustics CARMEL 2 – loudspeakers | USA
t already happened a few times before - a test that you're reading now is a result of several years of effort. For the first time I asked about the possibility of receiving one of the products for a...
View ArticleREVIEW: Pro-Ject RPM-9 CARBON – turntable | CZECH REPUBLIC/AUSTRIA
ne thing Pro-Ject can not be denied is their consistence. One has to be extremely patient over the years to constantly improve something, lay new models of the same, or slightly different, "blocks" and...
View ArticleREVIEW: C.E.C. DA0 3.0 - Digital to Analog Converter | BULGARIA/JAPAN
e had to wait a long time so that the flagship belt-drive transport of Japanese company C.E.C. (CEC) would finally be joined by equally sophisticated DAC. As long as I remember, that has always been a...
View ArticleREVIEW: Cammino H3.1 POWER HARMONIZER - power conditioner | ITALY
roducts for the power conditioning have their position in the audio world firmly established. Of course, not only here, they are equally important wherever the quality of power supply is particularly...
View ArticleREVIEW: Audionet ART G3 - Compact Disc Player | GERMANY
company, whose main sound sources are still players of 120 mm, digital optical discs nowadays is sort of a sensation. Yes, Audionet offers in addition also four "Network Components", but I have the...
View ArticleCOVER REVIEW: Reimyo DAP-999EX TOKU High Fidelity Edition - Digital to Analog...
he cover of the August edition of the “Stereophile” magazine is decorated with a photograph of the Moon by Simaudio Evolution 780D – a two-in-one converter and file player. It is a device which accepts...
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