The July Stereophile will include my Follow-Up report on the Joseph Audio Pulsar loudspeakers; the same Pulsars Michael Fremer raved about in his full review. Before I submitted the review, Jana Dagdagan and I made a live binaural recording/video to accompany my written report so you, the reader at home, could experience the exact same …
One of the recurring themes of this column has been my search for servers that will support the playback of high-resolution multichannel files with DSP for speaker/room equalization (EQ), as well as the format conversion and downsampling that are often part of those processes. Because most EQ software is PCM-based, format comversion is needed to …
Looking at the Digital Link II’s build quality and circuitry, it’s hard to believe that it can sell for $499 at retail. The Digital Link II shares the same appearance as PS Audio’s SuperLink and UltraLink processors, but has a 4″-shorter chassis. The ¼”-thick front panel uses PS Audio’s familiar touch-sensitive switches that turn the …
During the four years that I’ve reviewed for Stereophile, I’ve had the privilege of evaluating products from some of the world’s best-known audiophile companies: Audio Research, Bel Canto, CH Precision, dCS, D’Agostino, Dynaudio, EMM Labs, Jadis, Krell, Nordost, and Wilson, among others. But one long-standing manufacturer whose exhibits at audio shows invariably inspire ecstatic reports, …
Blood, Sweat & Tears began as Al Kooper’s dream of a rock band with horns. By the time he realized the concept—on the band’s 1968 debut, Child Is Father to the Man—it had become much more: an engaging hybrid of New York soul, Greenwich Village folk, and innovative jazz arrangements. With producer John Simon at …
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Click:safe and fast shopping agent Click:香港a貨哪裡買 Woo Audio’s Jack Wu was in person to debut his new Woo Audio WA23 Luna amp ($9000), which he paired with Abyss’s new semiopen-back Diana TC planar headphones ($4495). The WA23 Luna is a single-ended triode design that can serve as a headphone amp or a preamplifier. Power ratings …
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Technics, an arm of the Japanese giant Panasonic Corporation, has long been a major player in the hi-fi world, even if, in some recent decades, it stayed below the radar. In the 1970s, analog-centric audiophiles particularly praised the Technics SP-10, the world’s first direct drive turntable. Created by Matsushita engineer Shuichi Obata in 1969, the …
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