With the New Record Doctor X, Your Vinyl Cleans Up Nicely! Suddenly, Miller’s right hand “pops”—or pulls the bass strings away from the fretboard and quickly releases it, snapping it back into the board—and drops into a blazing thumb-slap fest! Williams joins in with loud cracks of his snare in four/four time as the crowd cheers and claps, with Sanborn and Grolnick leading, as Miller holds court with his sizzling solo. Then, the rich, resonant, and bright tone of Sanborn’s alto sax’s melodic wail cuts through the drums, bass, percussion, keys, and guitar to take the lead. One of the gems on ..read more

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https://www.analogplanet.com/content/axpona-preview-analog-audio-design-tp-1000-reel-reel-tape-player Some additional company background now. Analog Audio Design was founded by Christophe Martinez in France in 2020. An engineer with extensive experience in electronics and firmware who worked on flight simulator design for 25 years, Martinez also had previous association with the Mulann Group, the French industrial conglomerate that “currently holds all the knowledge and the processes for high-quality magnetic tape that originated in Europe,” and owns the (all one word) RecordingTheMasters bran ..read more

https://www.stereophile.com/content/arcam-radia-a25-integrated-amplifier The original 1953 Columbia mono disc produced an exceptionally dense, life-like sound that intensified the effect of the Budapest String Quartet in delivering this soul-stirring performance. That old black disc is gone, but the hi-rez remastering (24/192 FLAC, Columbia/Qobuz), played through the Denafrips Terminator Plus DAC into the A25’s analog input, made exceedingly smooth, instantly engaging sound laced with tone that was more saturated and tempo-keeping that was more toe-tapping than expected. Playing Op.1 ..read more

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Stenheim Alumine Two.Five Loudspeaker Review However, if you need something more conventional to get your bass fix, and include a great woman’s voice in the bargain, listen to Jennifer Warnes’ cover of Leonard Cohen’s track “Way Down Deep” on her The Hunter album. The Stenheim Two.Five does a remarkable job of mixing her voice and the deep, textural percussions. Imaging from the Two.Five with an incredible “wall of sound” is sublimely fulfilling. Of course, this led me to pull up Leonard Cohen, the man himself. In My Secret Life is a beautiful melodic song from his Ten New Songs album from 2 ..read more

Technics SU-R1000 reference stereo integrated amplifier Review The first system of Accurate EQ Curve accomplishes the feat of a high-gain low-pass filter by first digitizing the incoming analog signals via a 32-bit 768kHz Asahi Kasei Microdevices AK5572EN A/D converter, which is capable of suppressing bit loss at the bottom-end via a 40dB low-pass filter in the analog realm, at the same time elevating signal-to-noise ratio of high frequencies in high accuracy. After that, the reconstituted analog signal is then sent to the Crosstalk Canceller that is tasked with creating a high precision sou ..read more

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https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/meze-audio-empyrean-ii If Meze aimed to make the new Empyrean II the most neutral and insightful headphones at this price then it has failed. These headphones have certainly moved in that direction but we think excellent rivals such as the aforementioned Austrian Audio The Composer do those things better. But that doesn’t mean we’re disappointed. Regardless of music genre, we still find the Empyrean II a pleasure to listen to. They have a more overt sonic signature than the likes of The Composer, sounding richer and full-bodied and for the most part easier goin ..read more

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