REVIEW: Kaiser Acoustics KAWERO! CHIARA –...
his type of companies is usually referred to as a "family firm." In the picture further below to the right you can see four members of the Kaiser family: Hans Kaiser (right) with his sons Florian,...
View ArticleREVIEW: GoldenEar TRITON SEVEN - Loudspeakers | USA
uring interview for “Forbes” Sandy Gross asked himself a question: „Why have you founded your third company instead of just retiring?”. And he answered: I think I'm a serial entrepreneur. I simply love...
View ArticleREVIEW: Tenor Audio LINE 1/POWER 1 - Linestage...
enor Audio, a tiny Canadian manufacturer that has merely a few products in its lineup, is best known for its hybrid amplifiers with a solid state output stage that works as a buffer instead of...
View ArticleREVIEW: Questyle CMA800R (x 2) - Headphone amplifier | CHINA
ot that long ago products coming from China were regarded as chip and mostly offering a mediocre quality (at best). And that „label” was used not only in regard of audio products but all of them. Since...
View ArticleREVIEW: Pro-Ject CD BOX RS + PRE BOX RS DIGITAL -...
he start of July was pretty much insanely hot in Poland. It wasn’t quite your 40ºC Turkish or Spanish summer, but to the inhabitant of a Central European country used to mild temperatures in summer and...
View ArticleREVIEW: OPPO HA-1 + PM-1 - D/A Converter/headphone...
PPO is one the most unusual manufacturers in audio industry (audio-video to be exact). A few years back, 2009 or 2010 they introduced their first multi-format player called BDP 83. They had started...
View ArticleKRAKOW SONIC SOCIETY, Meeting No. 94: Dirk Sommer &...
t is hard to say what it is about the vinyl to make the technology that was thought to disappear some twenty years ago still very much alive. It is put down to the culturally embedded presence of the...
View ArticleREVIEW: Ultrasone EDITION 5 – Headphones | GERMANY
In a year 2003, a not so widely known German company called Ultrasone launched the Edition 7 headphones. It was a limited edition of 999 units. That the company was little known is an overstatement so...
View ArticleREVIEW: Fonica VIOLIN - Turntable from POLAND
he turntable is a relatively simple mechanical design. Its task is to spin the platter with a vinyl disc in an appropriate manner, i.e. at a predetermined speed. The rotational speed should be...
View ArticleREVIEW: Rogoz Audio 3RP1 BALANCING BOARD SYSTEM - anti-vibration...
t was with great pleasure that I unpacked the newest isolation board from Janusz Rogoz, which is marked as the 3RP1/BBS. Large and heavy, employing the BBS (Balancing Board System) and nicely done, it...
View ArticleREVIEW: Zontek + Linnart ZONTEK + P1 - Turntable + phonostage...
hat do AdFontes and Zontek have in common? Quite a lot actually. First of all both are Polish brands. Secondly, I know that both owners, Mr Andrzej and Mr Paweł know each other – the former supported...
View ArticleREVIEW: Linear Audio Research IA-120H - Integrated amplifier...
've been trying to remember how long have we known each other with Mr Eugeniusz Czyżewski and I've realized it's been 12 years already. The Pracownia Elektroniki Przemysłowej ORLIK, as Mr Czyżewski's...
View ArticleREVIEW: Closer Acoustics EVA - Loudspeakers from POLAND
ou have to be some sort of audio freak to create speakers like Eva. Usually they build first pair for themselves, than for their family and friends and finally, providing all goes well, they start to...
View ArticleREVIEW: Abyssound ASP-1000 + ASX-2000 - Preamplifier + Power...
he pictures that accompany “High Fidelity’s” review of the ASX-1000 amplifier show that it is a fairly large, not to say massive, unit. Short of putting the amplifier directly on the floor, I seated it...
View ArticleREVIEW: G•LAB Design Fidelity BLOCK - Integrated amplifier from...
ew audio brands emerging on the market have become an everyday experience. Each year I come across new brands, names and designs, the same with new ideas for a product. Less often, one can say...
View ArticleREVIEW: YBA PASSION PRE 550 + PASSION AMP 650 - Line Preamplifier + Power...
BA started in 1981 with one amplifier and one preamplifier. There were companies with even more humble beginnings. Let’s take QA/12P for example – a power amplifier from the company later known as...
View ArticleREVIEW: HiFiMAN HE-560 – Headphones from USA/CHINA
ast few years belonged to planar-magnetic headphones. Oppo chose the same technology for its cans which was sort of confirmation for fans of this technology that this was the right way to go. So far in...
View ArticleREVIEW: Vermöuth Audio BLACK PEARL - Speaker cable from INDONESIA
ost of Poles realize that there are two countries in Europe who's flags are a combination of horizontal white and red strips. One of them is Monaco with red stripe above white one, and the other is...
View ArticleREVIEW: PTP Audio SOLID9 + Audiomods SERIES FIVE Turntable from NETHERLANDS +...
here are certain inventions, technologies and design ideas that should have disappeared long ago, and yet stubbornly cling to existence. They are only preserved and cherished by people who see some...
View ArticleREVIEW: Acoustic Revive RCA-1.5TRIPLE C-FM + SPC-2.5TRIPLE C-FM -...
n 1986, Professor Atsumi Ohno of the Chiba Institute of Technology in Japan, a respected inventor and scientist, after years of research proposed an innovative method of producing a copper wire with...
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