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LTA Z10e - REVIEW
The LTA Z10e is, perhaps, one of the most versatile integrated/headphone amplifiers on the market today. It is certainly the most versatile headphone amplifier that I have ever come across. And it will align beautifully with all headphones types and technologies—Dynamic, Planar, Electrostatic, and even IEMs! The Z10e will bring to them all a profound naturalness and musicality, an air-filled-spaciousness, and a transparency that is, in my experience, astonishing!
THE STAX SR-007A - REVIEW
The STAX SR-007A is exceptional! They do that thing that electrostatic earspeakers do with transparency—they bring it like no other headphone technology can (planar, dynamic driver)—and they marry that transparency to incredible musicality, free of distortion in all its forms. Suffice to say, that transparency, clarity, speed, soundstage are all next-level plus with the SR-007A. Further, the STAX SR-007A weaves a naturalness and a coherency across the frequency spectrum, coupled with all of its other talents, that induces, as mentioned above, a quasi-conscious ecstasy. Lastly, the SR-007A doubles down on what its sibling provides and will draw you quickly down that road of no-return-electrostatic-musical-bliss.
SHANLING M8 DAP REVIEW
The Shanling M8 is an extraordinary “Portable Music Player” more detailed and extended than the DX220 AMP1 MkII, more musical and engaging than the Cayin N6II/A01, and it is as powerful as some desktop systems (and more transparent). The iBasso and the Cayin are both quite stellar, highly rated DAPs, the M8, however, is on another level altogether in what it brings to the rendering of one’s music.
IBASSO DX220/AMP1 MK II REVIEW
We were initially going to review only the iBASSO DX220 as aligned to the AMP9—a tubed module wherein there was great consensus that it would fall within our “sound niche.” But then we took a cursory listen to the iBASSO DX220 with the prix fixe AMP1 Mk II card with several headphones/IEMs, well, ‘it was on!’
ROSSON AUDIO DESIGN RAD-0 REVIEW
The Rosson Audio RAD-0 once removed from its hardened-plastic, flight container, dis-embedded from its tightly sculpted, foam sheath, its single-ended cables affixed, and then allied to the iFi Pro iDSD was nothing short of phenomenal! Had they even been broken in?!