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FRANCO SERBLIN ACCORDO ESSENCE - REVIEW
They played beautifully with the single-ended Lyric Ti 100 MkII (20 watts), with an expanded soundstage, beautiful midrange, and soaring highs in my medium-sized room at medium volume. The Air Tight ATC-1 preamplifier/ATM-1 amplifier (36 watts) combo extended low-end weight and gravitas while providing exceptional midrange tone and texture, and nicely extended highs.
ACCUPHASE E-700 INTEGRATED - REVIEW
The E-700 is built to a standard of excellence not seen in most brands, Japanese or other. I consider it a cost–no–object work at an affordable price (for some). Not for me, certainly, but if you’re looking for the multipurpose heart of a traditional higher-end two-channel system, this brawny beast from a time–honored marque might just be your ticket to a better-quality listen.
BOENICKE AUDIO W11 SPEAKERS - REVIEW
The Boenicke W11SE speakers are very special products. Sven Boenicke is clearly an accomplished and thoughtful man in the way he conducts his business and in the way his philosophies inform his designs. The W11SE was one of the most accurate, distortion-free speakers we have had in our systems to date.
ANTICABLES LEVEL 6 SPEAKER WIRE - REVIEW
To apply my now familiar reductionist approach to this red versus white debate, the crimson Level 4.2 FLEX sound like good quality audio, while the fancier white wires draw you into the music, more involving; deeper, better and far more enjoyable. Ultimately, the importance of cables depends on your system's resolution, room acoustics, and listening skills.
HIFIMAN SUSVARA UNVEILED - REVIEW
There’s a new headphone in town and word is it’s the fastest in the west and so gosh darn clean and distortion-free, that headphones of all types, even electrostatics, are fleeing town in droves. Well, I should know. I’ve spent the past several months with this new fangled headphone and it is something special.
FERN & ROBY RAVEN III - REVIEW
The Raven IIIs are amplification-flexible—they play with 8 watts all the way up to, I’m told, 400 watts. This, given its other traits listed below, makes it a reviewer’s dream. And especially for a reviewer/audiophile/music lover who does not listen to loud, bombastic music, or who has attached his reference stereo system to his television or movie projector…just saying.
BORDER-PATROL SE-i DAC - REVIEW
The BorderPatrol SE-i DAC is a true gem that hides its wondrous capabilities beneath a simple, clean, unadorned facade. To look past it though is to look past the tattered, dirt-crusted Van Gogh at a garage sale, posing as nothing more than an amateur's well-intentioned, paint-by-numbers, work. Don’t do that. [Really!]