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Components

True Life Audio SSP-1 Preamplifier and SSA-300 Monoblock Amplifiers | REVIEW

May 2, 2021 Panagiotis Karavitis 6

Before we get to True Life Audio, I would like to tell you a story. Once upon a time there was this handsome young prince doctor busting his cojones working for the local health system […]

Headphones

Review: HiFiMan Susvara headphones, assault on the state of the art

February 24, 2018 Panagiotis Karavitis Comments Off on Review: HiFiMan Susvara headphones, assault on the state of the art

This is not for the faint of heart, or wallet. If you think headphones have reached overwhelmingly high prices spare your time and don’t read this review. You have been warned. Walking down the Munich […]

Occasional Magazine

Metaxas Ikarus integrated amplifier review

January 27, 2018 Panagiotis Karavitis 3

This is an article that first appeared in our new online PDF, downloadable magazine The Occasional last fall in it’s inaugural edition. We’ll be rolling out articles from it over the next week in anticipation […]

Digital

Review: Nagra HD DAC; or, Closing the gap between digital and analog

October 30, 2016 Panagiotis Karavitis 5

There is not much to be said about Nagra Audio that has not been said already. The company goes back six decades, when Stefan Kudelski, a young talented engineer born in Poland but due to […]

Analog

Going analog without breaking the bank

August 3, 2016 Panagiotis Karavitis 4

Going analog, without breaking the bank This is what I currently use as front end: A Garrard Classic 401 idler drive turntable, bought new old stock, fitted on a massive Baltic birch plywood plinth, sitting […]

Components

Review: Devialet Expert 200 and 400

November 21, 2015 Panagiotis Karavitis 7

Devialet Expert, a new breed of amplifiers There has not been another single product capable of making such a fuss in the world of high fidelity like the Devialet line of amplifiers … for ages it […]

Analog

Review: iFi Audio Micro iPhono and iDSD

May 9, 2015 Panagiotis Karavitis 8

During last summer I was given the opportunity to bring the iFi nano DSD on vacation with me. Despite the moderate size this little DAC-headphone amplifier managed not only to put a smile in my […]

Loudspeakers

Review: ENIGMAcoustics M1 Mythology speaker and Sopranino super-tweeter

February 1, 2015 Panagiotis Karavitis 4

The Sopranino There are various ways to launch a company. ENIGMAcoustics hit the scene a few years back with a blast an acuto sfogato, the first ever passive planar electrostatic super tweeter. In music, the term […]

Analog

Analog Bliss part II: the Ikeda Sound Lab 9 TS Moving Coil cartridge review

July 19, 2014 Panagiotis Karavitis 1

By Dr. Panagiotis Karavitis As recently as a couple of decades ago, just about everyone involved in the audio biz gave the turntable a farewell salute. Sales dropped rapidly and historic names like Micro Seiki, […]

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