2015 - Stereo Times

Arcam FMJ A19 Integrated Amplifier and CDS27 SACD Player/Network Streaming Player

July 25, 2015

I remember the first time that we held a party at our house and I put my reference system on full display for some of me and my girlfriend’s friends and family. I was [Read More]

HIGH FIDELITY CT-1 ULTIMATE REFERENCE PHONO CABLE

July 21, 2015

“Only twice in my life have I recorded a Bach suite. In both cases, I cannot forgive myself – I acted rashly. Now, I must pluck up courage and record all the Bach suites…” [Read More]

Bybee Room Neutralizers

July 21, 2015

The advertising on the TweekGeek website says that Room Neutralizers (hereafter RNs)—rather unprepossessing rectangles of quarter-inch-thick, laminated ABS plastic approximately 2” by 6” with a 6” pigtail of wire sticking out the [Read More]

ATC Model SCM 19 loudspeaker

July 13, 2015

For those of you who don’t know Acoustic Transducer Company, better known as ATC, is an old loudspeaker company that has been around for about for nearly forty-years. Best known for their powered monitor loudspeakers [Read More]

Exemplar Audio eXeption Interconnects

July 13, 2015

It is with some satisfaction that I can say that the Exemplar Audio eXeption interconnects ($349/meter RCA, $399/meter XLR) are outstanding, especially the balanced/XLR cables. As you can see, there is really nothing [Read More]

Classé Audio Sigma SSP and Sigma AMP5

July 10, 2015

“Amid the chaos of that day, when all I could hear was the thunder of gunshots, and all I could smell was the violence in the air, I look back and am amazed that [Read More]

Music Technology’s Oppo BDP-105 Modification

June 30, 2015

I stumbled across the Music Technology (MT) modded Oppo BDP-105 by shear chance. I had no idea that the mod even existed until a recent visit to Music Technology for a ribbon tweeter replacement [Read More]

Dolby Atmos: New Dimensions in Sight and Sound

June 29, 2015

While working out the details of my upcoming review of the KEF R300 stand-mount loudspeaker, the good folks at KEF (US) alerted me to an event that is the subject of this preview: the [Read More]

Elliott Studio Arts Model 66-001p Stereo Preamplifier

June 29, 2015

When shopping for a new audio component, we hope to be swept away by it’s looks, operation and the veils it removes. We love it when there’s a marked improvement in sound, something tangible [Read More]

Gobel High End: A Visit to their Munich Factory

June 23, 2015

The steady growth and magnitude of Munich’s High End show made my attempt at hearing everything I had intended to exhaustive and futile. Even with two cameras in hand, there simply wasn’t enough time to [Read More]