Category: Digital Audio/CD Players
The Laufer Teknik Memory Player 64
January 1, 2010
[April 2012] – Six years ago, I marveled over the world’s first high-end computer-based CD transport called the Nova Physics Memory Player. I went to great lengths explaining to fellow audiophiles that this [Read More]
The Lindemann USB-DAC 24-192: The Gestalt of listening
January 1, 2010
The Lindemann USB-DAC 24/192 The Gestalt of listening The Gestalt concept I’ve owned more than twenty five automobiles since first acquiring a driver’s license. All of those autos have been German designed and engineered except [Read More]
Bel Canto VBS1 Virtual Battery Supply and DAC3-VB
December 7, 2009
Bel Canto VBS1 Virtual Battery Supply and DAC3-VB The Truth and nothing but… December 2009 One ordinarily doesn’t begin writing a review before the product being reviewed is in hand. But in this case that [Read More]
Neko Audio’s D100 Digital to Analogue Converter
October 23, 2009
Neko Audio’s D100 Digital to Analogue Converter Little Cat Feet Oct 2009 Little Cat Feet The Neko Audio D100 is a 16-bit and 24-bit, 44.1kHz – 192kHz, dual PCM1794A chip, passive transformer-based digital [Read More]
Wadia Digital 381i CD Player
June 1, 2009
Wadia Digital 381i CD Player Diggin’ Digital June 2010 Then…When I first got serious about high-end audio in the late 80’s, my system was still anchored to a turntable; probably one of [Read More]
Classé Audio CDP-502 Reference Disc Player
January 28, 2009
Classé Audio CDP-502 Reference Disc Player Elegance For The Eyes And Ears January 2009 I have to begin this little treatise by admitting up front that I have long admired the designs of [Read More]
Zero One Mercury CD/HD player
December 10, 2008
The Future’s Now! December 2008 Life with the Nova Physics Memory player, around these parts has been grand. In the time I’ve owned it, I’ve not met anyone who has heard it and [Read More]
THE ABBINGDON MUSIC RESEARCH CD-77
July 7, 2008
THE ABBINGDON MUSIC RESEARCH CD-77 OLD SCHOOL DIGITAL IN THE MODERN WORLD July 2008 Say what?! Digital is new technology, right? It can’t be “old school” already can it? A lot can [Read More]
EMM LABS CDSA SE CD/STEREO SACD PLAYER
March 10, 2008
EMM LABS CDSA SE CD/STEREO SACD PLAYER March 2008 “Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.”Leonard Bernstein [Read More]
The Raysonic CD-128 Underwood Hifi Level 2+ CD player
February 29, 2008
The Raysonic CD-128 Underwood Hifi Level 2+ CD player A Sonic Ray of Musicality February 2008 Like a major league baseball scout, Walter Liederman’s got an eye. Eschewing the sacred cows of the [Read More]
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