REVIEW: Tellurium Q STATEMENT | Interconnect + Speaker Cable | ENGLAND GOLD...
wonder if Geoff Merrigan, the owner and designer of the British company TELLURIUM Q, is having nightmares? The question seems to me to be all the more justified, since both him and his company have...
View ArticleREVIEW: Norma Audio Electronics HS-IPA1 | Integrated Amplifier | ITALY RED...
WORLD PREMIERE ORMA is a brand belonging to OPAL ELECTRONICS, which designs and builds electronic devices. The products of this Italian company based in Cremona are supposed to be a combination of...
View ArticleREVIEW: Mytek LIBERTY DAC | Digital-to-Analogue Converter | USA
ytek's products have never been large, nor have they been "glamorous" products. At least until the Manhattan model, whose front flashed like a diamond. Even it was, however, a deeply a pragmatic,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Crystal Cable THE ULTIMATE DREAM | Speaker Cable | NETHERLANDS GOLD...
his is a unique situation - the same company owns two cabling brands that are significantly different from each other. The manufacturer is INTERNATIONAL AUDIO HOLDING BV, and it owns two brands:...
View ArticleCOVER REVIEW: iFi Audio PRO iDSD | Digital-to-Analogue Converter | ENGLAND...
A WORLD PREMIERE his will be a long text. Very long to be honest. Pro iDSD is a unique device both for its manufacturer, iFi AUDIO, and for the market. iFi Audio is a part of the ABBINGDON GLOBAL...
View ArticleREVIEW: Top Wing RED SPARROW | cartridge/MM | JAPAN
t seems that almost every month the audio world learns about a new, usually high-end, brand. This is an illusion, but strengthened by the strong presence of these brands in the specialist press and at...
View ArticleREVIEW: 聖 Hijiri H-LSC „MILLION” SOPHISTICATED LISTENER’S CHOICE | power...
his is of course a coincident (although some say there are no coincidents) that when preparing a monographic article on the XRCD technique, I listened some of the discs using the Japanese TAD Compact...
View ArticleREVIEW: Final Audio D8000 | headphones | JAPAN
here are several certainties that define the last few years in the context of the audio world. It is above all a change in the way of music distribution, the transition from the selling albums to the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Black Cat Cable 3202 + 3232 | interconnect + speaker cable | JAPAN |...
t happens from time to time that a Japanese traveling in the world falls in love with a place or person and that's where he sets up his business. But for a Westerner to start a company in Japan - it's...
View ArticleTECHNOLOGY: BRIPHONIC – JUST THE BEST | record label/recording studio
WORLD PREMIERE | BLANK Japanese technical competence combined with in-depth devotion to a specific section of a given field have led to a situation where it is hard for the rest of the world to compete...
View ArticleTECHNOLOGY: PRAISE OF A (NON)FORMAT: XRCD. An attempted description | JAPAN
COMPACT DISC FOREVER! t is 2018, and we live in a time of nonphysical ways of transporting musical content. The basic channel of sales, presentation and promotion of music is currently the Internet and...
View ArticleINTERVIEW | THE EDITORS SERIES: YOSUKE ASADA, “Net Audio”/“Analog” | JAPAN
hen we published the first interview from “The Editors” series on January 1st 2012, I assumed that I might be able to carry out seven or eight more conversations (HF | No. 92: Srajan Ebaen |...
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