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FiiO’s SR11 Desktop Streamer $99 

FiiO’s SR11 Desktop Streamer Aims To Challenge the WiiM Pro Plus for Only $99 What we like about the SR11 is the promise of better sound quality than any smart phone connected wirelessly to your home system for under $100. FiiO has proven to be very good at developing affordable products that deliver a lot of performance for less and the SR11 could be a cost-effective way to add hi-res streaming…

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Qln Signature Loudspeakers $24,000 Review

Waters on the Hardware: Qln Signature Loudspeakers (5th generation) On the other hand, these are not bass-heavy speakers. They aren’t designed to thump you out of your chair and make the walls rock. That’s not to say that they are weak. Hardly. You can get as much sound as you’d ever need from these. They’re enough to fill even large listening rooms or studios.No, these speakers are…

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Burmester 111 mk II Streamer/Server/CD/DAC/Pre Review

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T+A PSD 3100 HV Streaming DAC/ £14,900 Review

https://www.hifinews.com/content/ta-psd-3100-hv-streaming-dacpreamp On the other hand, I couldn’t choose between the PSD 3100 HV’s two DSD filters when listening to Christian Grøvlen’s recital of Bach’s ‘Chromatic Fantasia And Fugue… BWV 903’ [2L; DSD256]. Frankly, the performance here was so compelling that I was reluctant to interrupt it by picking up my smartphone… The rise and decay of the…

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Triangle Borea BR08 Review

https://www.hifichoice.com/content/triangle-borea-br08 No less importantly, it demonstrates that the Triangle is usefully sensitive as the 50W of the Brio is more than enough to drive it to any level you might want to achieve in a normal room. The rest of testing takes place on the considerably more powerful (and expensive) Cambridge Audio Edge A, which delivers some commensurate gains to the…

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1968 Pontiac Firebird - Interior Restore with Stealth Audiophile Stereo

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Final Audio Reveals New D7000 Planar-Magnetic Headphones $3499 Review

Final Audio Reveals New D7000 Planar-Magnetic Headphones with Enhanced Technology The D7000 is designed to strike a balance between the detailed highs of planar-magnetic drivers and the dynamic lows typically found in other headphone types. Listeners should expect clear vocals, nuanced strings, and a smooth overall sound. Constructed from lightweight aluminum-magnesium alloy, the D7000 offers…

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IsoAcoustics Gaia Isolators

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SPL Phonitor SE $1199 Review

https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/spl-phonitor-se As the Mahler symphony builds we note the pleasing sense of space in the Phonitor’s presentation and its ability to avoid sounding cluttered. It helps that details are crisply rendered with little in the way of blur or vagueness when it comes to defining the leading edges of notes. This is particularly praiseworthy at low frequencies where the SPL…

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Mola Mola Lupe irresistible vinyl amplification Review

https://www.soundstagehifi.com/index.php/reference-components/1861-recommended-reference-component-goldenear-t66-loudspeaker Other musical selections Philip played demonstrated again the T66’s balanced sound and ability to reveal details. The sonic characteristics that Philip discerned in the T66 were also revealed in our measurements. The on- and off-axis frequency-response plots, from the bass…

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Bowers & Wilkins Gorgeous 700 Series Signature

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Magico M7

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HiFi Rose RS150 Review

https://www.hifichoice.com/content/hifi-rose-rs150 So much more than just a beautifully designed component showing others the way to go, the RS150 back ups the stunning aesthetics with a performance to match. Regardless of whether it’s employed as a player or DAC the supreme levels of richness and detail not only make the slight softness on some material easier to over look, but also underline…

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Tekton Design Perfect SET 15 Loudspeakers $2705 Review

Tekton Design Perfect SET 15 Loudspeakers One important point about the footers. If you choose not to use any footers, maybe because you will use some other isolation device under the speakers, you need to either get ¼-20 bolts to screw into the footer inserts or find some way to seal the inserts. They extend all the way into the cabinet, and if they aren’t sealed they become very noticeable…

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Marten’s Coltrane Quintet Speakers $190,000

Marten’s Coltrane Quintet Speakers Promise Extraordinary Performance For Those With Very Deep Pockets We have no doubt that the Coltrane Quintet sounds great based on a brief observation in our High-End Munich 2024 Show Report. However, the market is getting very crowded in the ultra-high-end speaker category and we wonder how this trend is sustainable over the long run given a lot of…

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Hegel New H190V Integrated Amplifiier Review

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HiFiMAN’s Mini Shangri-La Electrostatic Headphone System is Only $2,300?

HiFiMAN’s Mini Shangri-La Electrostatic Headphone System is Only $2,300? The matching all solid state amplifier eschews the transformer that commonplace models use to boost low voltage output but invariably distorts details and sound quality as a whole. Instead, the Mini Shangri-La voltage is directly sent from the power output transistors for a path that is clean and uncluttered.Rounding out the…