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Review: Bob’s Audio Devices CineMag SKY 20 Step-up Transformer

July 18, 2015

By Darryl Lindberg There are many ways to skin the audio cat in the quest for sonic bliss. Think about it: if we’re talking about sources, we have vinyl/tape/digital (CD, SACD, streaming, TBD); in electronics we have tubes/solid state/hybrid, as [...]

CAS 2014: Bob’s marvelous little Devices

August 27, 2014

CAS 2014 finally gave me a chance to talk a bit with the man in white lab coat, Bob Sattin of Bob’s Devices. Bob usually has a table in the big room at these events, but those rooms are usually noisy, steaming hot, packed tight with [...]

AXPONA 2014: Bob’s Devices and VPI

May 1, 2014

I’ve recently had a chance to fiddle about with one of Bob Sattin’s hand-wound legendary step-up transformers, the Cinemag 1131. That experience was, in a word, great. But it was also instructive — I learned, for example, that [...]

New On Kickstarter: Hagerman Cornet3 Phono Pre

March 25, 2014

Jim Hagerman of Hagerman Technologies has a lesson in high-end audio economics going on over at Kickstarter. Here’s the problem. Say you’re a “little guy” manufacturer. You want to fill an order and you’re not rich. So, [...]

An Analog Twist: Bob’s Devices 1131 Step Up Transformer Review

February 28, 2014

Bob’s Devices is a small operation run by one Bob Sattin, the man in the white lab coat with the words “Hear the Magic” embroidered in big red letters on the back. Maybe you’ve seen him at a local audio show? Bob makes and [...]

A God of War, Gone Rogue: The Ares Phono Preamplifier Review

December 6, 2013

“He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.” — Jonathan Swift Mark O’Brien is a tall, striking and rather unassuming figure at most audio shows. He seems almost bemused by all the fuss and bother audiophiles make over his gear, but [...]

CAF 2013: Bob’s Devices

August 2, 2013

Bob Sattin of Bob’s Devices has this great big white lab coat he wears around audio shows. It’s sorta funny, sorta serious, but the idea is that Bob is the guy that’s gonna fix your analog setup. Sort of. Say rather, he’s [...]