Category: Digital Audio/CD Players

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]

Reference Audio Mods PS Audio Ultralink III Digital to Analogue Converter

February 28, 2008

  UltraLink, Ultrasmooth, Ultra-affordable   February 2008        My favorite room at last year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest was that of Reference Audio Mods (RAM), a company of audio tweakers. In my show report, [Read More]

North Star Design – Model 192 DAC & Transport

June 30, 2007

North Star Design – Model 192 DAC & Transport Stylish Good Looks and Musical Sounds To Match   June 2007          When I received a call from my friendly editor Dave Thomas (DT) asking [Read More]

Reimyo DAP 77 Digital-to-Analogue Converter

June 6, 2007

Reimyo DAP 77 Digital-to-Analogue Converter New and Improved   June2007   So Many DACs, So Little TimeOver the years I have auditioned and owned a fair number of DACs and single-box CD players. Some upsampled, [Read More]

Bel Canto DAC3

April 9, 2007

Bel Canto DAC3 Digital at its finest   April 2007      My relationship with Bel Canto began years ago when I read a glowing review of their DAC1 on a web site. At the [Read More]

The Esoteric SZ-1

February 2, 2007

The Esoteric SZ-1 SACD/CD par excellence   February 2007     The Chicago TriangleOne of my favorite places to go and listen to live music in Chicago is “Andy’s for Jazz” in the trendy River North [Read More]

The Pioneer Elite DV 79AVi Universal Disc Player

January 16, 2007

The Pioneer Elite DV 79AVi Universal Disc Player Can A Do-It-All Video Player Deliver the Musical Goods?   January 2007            It doesn’t take unusually acute perception to realize that reasonably priced 2-channel CD-only players [Read More]

The Opera Audio Reference 2.2 Linear CD player

January 7, 2007

The Opera Audio Reference 2.2 Linear CD player Achieving Consonance   January 2007       I reviewed the more modest CD 120 Linear from Opera Audio by Consonance for The Stereotimes a little while ago [Read More]

Accuphase DP-67 CD Player

December 21, 2006

Accuphase DP-67 CD Player A leader in design, excellence in execution   December 2006   Getting my foot inside the door Accuphase has long been somewhat of a curiosity for me. For as long as [Read More]

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