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It’s here. Yet as John Darko and I opined in a recent podcast, for many it could be a matter of too little, too late. What am I on about?… |
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For a moment, let’s dream of the impossible: a 100wpc DC-coupled single-ended single-stage amp of 20dB voltage gain which combines a tube and transistor… |
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German reader Horst checked in. “Hello Srajan, another week, another mysterious tweak. It seems like… |
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Recent news report that Spotify’s Premium subscription tier is finally rolling out CD resolution streaming. Until now the best the service offered was ‘very high’. That’s not Swahili but Swedish for 320kbps… |
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The press release: The new research programme with the Onera Aerospace Acoustics Laboratory focuses on the study of plane wave propagation… |
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Hagen² passes on high… |
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Is mo betta? John Darko recently tackled the 1-or-2 subwoofer question for himself… |
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Controlled ringing x mass damping? In audio, dispatching mechanical noise follows three main routes… |
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The devil lives in the details, cleanliness is next to God. Confused yet? Then riddle me this… |
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Baby killer! That’s not what my Zoom caller said. But she might as well have. She informed me that a friend of hers had… |
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In upscale wrist watches, complications are cause célèbre and coin cramps. The model that put Swiss watch brand Urwerk on the map was the 103, a wandering hour complication with… |
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You’ll have learnt of the pincer attack in history class. Rather less bloody is its application in hifi… |
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The emailer was Simone, my contributor in Italy. He’d been contacted by Dragan Solaja to review his new 300B amp. The question was… |
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What comes beyond double dipping? I don’t know… |
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Where does the high in high-end end?… |
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I thought I’d said what I had to say… |
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In the wake of this year’s Munich HighEnd show, Berlin colleague John Darko… |
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Drive-by shooting the MOC YouTube style… |
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The Munich Marriott has for years already hosted the alternate Hifi Deluxe show… |
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Like any other bloke and blokine not attending Munich’s HighEnd show, I canvassed sundry online reports… |
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Raidho subs. Applying 10µm diamond coats to ceramic 8″ and 10″ drivers… |
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Welcome to sub.urbia? If that’s where we want to live… |
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Monaco. It’s what Italians call Munich. It suggests palm trees, sun and luxury yachts… |
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Each year our industry experiences a morning-after moment. It comes after the… |
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Premium speaker cabinets used to come from Denmark. Today some of the geometrically most complex cabs come from China… |
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Talking to a US maker the other day, I learnt that their business is down 50%. This is not due to tariffs levelled on parts making their product more expensive. It’s primarily due to buyers… |
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Synchronicity is when the same idea occurs to two people in two different countries… |
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As first reported by my Berlin colleague Ralph Werner of fairaudio.de, ATE of Germany will expand their RMD for Ring Mode Driver tech from automotive and aerospace applications to our high-end space… |
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After the just concluded Axpona show, Stereophile published a video of PS Audio’s new product reveal. In it a visitor asks… |
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The term Ripole is short for Axel Ridthaler dipole as the man who patented… |
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Despite ever-mounting evidence to the contrary, it’s what in some minds the four letters SMPS… |
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To be honest. I don't know about you. Whenever someone prefaces a sentence with these three words, I automatically wonder. Was everything they said until then untrue? It reminds me of a wealthy friend… |
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Say Cees, please? You know of course that I’m low profile at the moment. But every now and then I still feel the need to do some R&D. Writing this email was actually triggered by … |
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Ravenous. Dear Srajan, wishing you and Ivette a wonderful New Year. Purely for self gratification, can I ask whether you have plans to review that Raven speaker… |
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Wide.Bass? “Happy New Year with my best wishes to you, Ivette and that pretty cat of yours. I just checked on your site and saw three upcoming reviews where smaller widebanders combine with separate woofer enclosures…” |
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With the incoming US administration’s threat—shiny promise to jingoists—of seriously high tariffs on Chinese imports… |
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The now defunct online ‘zine Stereomojo enjoyed spilling dirty little secrets to suggest that their coverage was more unbiased and honest than… |
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In praise of small dreams. Today’s headline is a nod at one of my favourite Jan Garbarek albums. Its gorgeous less-is-more minimalism parallels our feature’s hardware focus. The concept is simplicity itself. If our actual not imaginary needs are really a teapot tempest not category 5 hurricane, we can hit peak performance with far simpler smaller cheaper kit… |
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Dawid Grzyb’s recent review of Audio Reveal’s Hercules DAC on Hifiknights.com is an interesting exposé which however misses… |
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Mad about Mads Buchardt who just launched his top ~4K/pr monitor? With Danish-made cabs in finger-joined 19mm to 28mm solid wood, a 1″ Danish ScanSpeak soft-dome tweeter in a waveguide, 6½” Danish Purifi woofer, 2 x 6½” Dansk-designed custom SB Acoustic rear-firing passive radiators, Danish Jantzen cross coils and Superior Z-Caps, Argento posts… this ambitious E50 effort pulls no punches on build or parts quality. |
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I don’t know him from Adam. If he was a she, would we say Eve?… |
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Canada’s Polynice & Antigone are members of the same ‘secret’ society that hosts equivalent products from Akiko, Shunyata and Synergistic. They’re all power distributors whose three secret… |
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We’ve come across it recently with Kinki Studio cables becoming Exact Express. We’ve seen… |
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Doing the sums. Dim sum is the tastiest of the lot. The lump sum is a single payment rather than… |
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It was ticking to countdown. Come June 10th, the floodgates burst. Reviews of… |
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My Zoom chat with an industry veteran took an unexpected turn when I asked about… |
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Benno Baun Meldgaard. We’ve come across his name as the founder/designer of… |
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Gamer changer. It’s what an email from the UK’s Definitive Audio said about the balanced-power conditioners from Estonia’s Audes. They certainly changed the game for… |
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I recently became aware of two Spanish brands which until now… |
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The MOC convention centre on the Lilienthaler Allee in Munich is where… |
