COVERAGE: HIGH END 2013, MUNICH – audio show in Germany
Published: 4. June 2013, No. 109 363 companies from 35 countries More visitors this year – a whopping 16,159 5211 audio professionals (“trade visitors”) from 71 countries (18% more this year) Large...
View ArticleREVIEW: TotalDAC d1-Dual DAC - digital to analogue converter from France
Published: 3. July 2013, No. 110 If you think about it for a minute you will realize that there are two ways new companies might take, when entering market for the first time. The first one, I would...
View ArticleREVIEW: Tannoy DEFINITION DC10A - floorstanding speakers from UK/China
Published: 3. July 2013, No. 110 Tannoy speakers are manufactured in China. The vast majority of reviewers and especially retailers avoid the subject like the plague, fearing a reaction of potential...
View ArticleREVIEW: Raidho Acoustics D-1 - stand mount speakers from Denmark
Published: 3. July 2013, No. 110 Speakers’ specifications quoted by their manufacturers are very useful. Reading those supplied with the D-1 from Raidho Acoustic one can learn that they are two-way...
View ArticleREVIEW: Entreq POWERUS + CLEANUS + LYNXFEET + AC WRAP - power distributor +...
Published: 3. July 2013, No. 110 Small companies, like Entreq, to achieve some level of success, have to find some market niche for themselves. Finding a niche inside another niche, because after all...
View ArticleINTERIEW: Marja & Henk, 6moons.com - magazine reviewers from Holland
Published: 3. July 2013, No. 110 Marja and Henk are a couple writing reviews for the Swiss internet magazine 6moons.com by Srajan Ebaen. It’s quite a unique situation as specialist journalists and...
View ArticleREVIEW: Bakoon Products HPA-21 - headphone amplifier from Korea
Published: 3. July 2013, No. 110 In April 2013, Srajan Ebaen published a long and extensive review of the HPA-21 headphone amplifier from the Korean manufacturer Bakoon Products International (see...
View ArticleREVIEW (cover story): Naim DAC-V1 + NAP 100 - D/A Converter / preamplifier +...
Published: 3. July 2013, No. 110 The DAC-V1 D/A converter and the NAP100 power amplifier are the latest additions to British Naim’s Classic Series lineup. Complementing the UnitiServe network player,...
View ArticleTECHNIC: Why anti-vibration accessories have affect on sound? - a few...
omponents used for music reproduction (audio) are quite "specific" electronic devices, because during their design phase many more conditions have to be fulfilled than for electronics not intended for...
View ArticleREVIEW: Rogoz Audio 4SG50 + BW40MKII - anti-vibration platform +...
hat drew my attention in the name of the Rogoz Audio 4SG50/BBS anti-vibration platform, was the last part of the abbreviation. The letter-numerical symbol preceding it is so anonymous and tells us so...
View ArticleREVIEW: Symposium ULTRA PLATFORM | ROLLERBLOCK Series 2+/TUNGSTEN SUPERBALLS...
ymposium Acoustics has been present in Poland in the official distribution since 2009 and is still represented by the same company, audiofast from Lodz. I know it from many shows and presentations,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Monolith Audio - anti-vibration platform from Poland
Monolith Audio brand is a little enigmatic. The owners of this.pl Audio, a company owning this brand, eagerly share information about the design, but avoid disclosing much information about designers...
View ArticleREVIEW: C.E.C. ASB3545WF Wellfloat - anti-vibration platform from Japan
hile you're reading this text, the latest issue of Polish „Audio” magazine should be already available, containing my test of the Japanese C.E.C. (I should use from this moment on CEC abbreviation to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Divine Acoustics GRAVITY - anti-vibrations platform from Poland
am familiar with Divine Acoustics as a manufacturer of unique, very interesting speakers, with a wide front panel resembling an open baffle but with a classic cabinet sporting a midwoofer assisted by a...
View ArticleKRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY: Meeting #88 - Ken Ishiguro (ACOUSTIC REVIVE, Japan) in...
Published: 7. August 2013, No. 111 The meetings of the Krakow Sonic Society usually have the goal of identifying a problem, diagnosing it, comparing old and new products, records, and technologies. We...
View ArticleREVIEW (cover story): Finite Elemente PAGODE EDITION HD-09 | CERABASE COMPACT...
hen it comes to perfectionist audio or audiophilism, the opinions of people outside the audio industry who haven’t got anything to do with it or in other words don’t own high-end or at least sensibly...
View ArticleINTERVIEW: Masaki Ashizawa, Audio Note Japan – CEO (Germany)
Jürgen Saile: Ashizawa San, after the passing away of Hiroyasu Kondo you became president of the company. Audio Note Japan is a traditional company, but do we have to expect any changes now? Masaki...
View ArticleREVIEW: Revel PERFORMA3 F206 – loudspeakers from USA
t’s a revelation, truly a revelation! – says one of my friends whenever he is so deeply touched by a particular sonic aspect that he can’t sit still. ‘Revelation’ in this context means something...
View ArticleREVIEW: Ayon Audio SPIRIT III – integrated amplifier from Austria
t’s an interesting thing about numbers. All of them, obviously, but what I mean here is the numbers next to the names of audio components. In November 2010, Ayon sent out information about having just...
View ArticleREVIEW: Sonus faber OLYMPICA I - loudspeakers from Italy
ushing through the halls of the MOC exhibition center in Munich, trying to keep all arranged meetings with various people and to attend all expected showcases, I somehow missed the presentation of the...
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