Innuos Statement Music Server | Review
Filed Under: Things that shouldn’t matter Staring at the Innuos Statement (website), a $13,750 dedicated computer audio server, I’m reminded of a long-ago period in the [...]
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McIntosh Labs launch new MS500 Music Streamer and MCD600 SACD/CD Player
Binghamton, New York is a very busy place based on the number of announcements that come across my desk regarding McIntosh Labs product launches. The most recent salvo fired [...]
Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: Bryston meets with Sonus Faber
Sonus Faber is an Italian loudspeaker brand with a storied history, and designs which have been lauded as timeless classics. Bryston is an award-winning Canadian [...]
Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: McIntosh Labs and YG Acoustics
Walking into this room at the Vancouver Audio Festival was a bit like turning the fairy tale Beauty & The Beast into a visual audiophile metaphor. Scoping out the massive [...]
Vancouver Audio Festival 2018: Devialet energizes with Bowers & Wilkins
Some think they’re beautiful, others feel they emulate what artificial intelligence will look like in the far future. I’m in the former camp, and have always [...]
AXPONA 2018: Sunday morning coming down
It was dark, and it was cold, and the faint morning light seeping through a crack in the curtains of my hotel room was grey, and did nothing to prompt me to throw them back, [...]
Aqua Hifi to premiere Discrete R2R DAC module for La Voce S3 at AXPONA
I love Italy, and I love the sound of older DAC chips, and also R2R ladder DACs, but I’m part Italian so I guess I come by the first part naturally, the second has [...]
Magnepan 30.7 Demo Event at Hifi Centre
Somnambulists. A lot of them. Walking in circles, and randomly bumping into each other. That’s what the Magnepan 30.7 demo event at Hifi Centre in Vancouver would have [...]
Periodic Audio introduces Nickel Headphone Amplifier
Periodic Audio makes a terrific set of inner ear monitors at very reasonable price points. Roger Skoff and I awarded their Be IEMs an Alfie Award at the LA Audio Show. And [...]
MQA: A fresh take – why the big labels are converting their catalogs
There has been much interest in MQA of late and on some audio forums it seems quite a topic of controversy as well. So I thought I would do some digging on it in advance of [...]
