In the just-published November issue, US audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound recommends a selection of world-leading audio components in its annual Buyer’s Guide. Once again, MBL’s superb high-end range features heavily, with eleven products highlighted in the 2024 edition.
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Top ten: The Absolute Sound’s annual Buyers’ Guide highlights its latest hit-list of Clearaudio turntables, cartridges and accessories
Each November, US audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound showcases a selection of the world’s best audio components in its annual Buyer’s Guide. In the just-published 2024 edition, German brand Clearaudio remains at the leading edge of all things analogue with a raft of highly recommended turntables, phono cartridges and accessories.
“The best gets better”: The Absolute Sound is bowled over by MBL’s flagship 101 X-Treme MkII Radialstrahler loudspeaker system
“I’ve never heard anything like this before!” declares Jonathan Valin on first listen, despite having lived with the MkI version of MBL’s Radialstrahler loudspeaker system for four years. “The MkII isn’t just a little different sounding than the original. It is astonishingly different sounding – and astonishingly better.”
New from Furutech: NCF Clear Line-RCA & -XLR passive signal line optimizers
PRESS RELEASE: Furutech’s Clear Line range was first launched in 2020 with the NCF Clear Line AC optimizer, a compact device designed to instantly enhance the quality of your system’s power supply. Now, the new NCF Clear Line-RCA and -XLR extend the range, honing in on the quality of your system’s signal line.
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“The sound of silence”: The Absolute Sound reviews Computer Audio Design’s GC1.1 and GC-R Reference Ground Control
“For over a decade my mantra has been to get grounded,” writes Jacob Heilbrunn in US audio magazine The Absolute Sound’s October issue. Heilbrunn has gone to far greater lengths that most to lower the noise floor in his audio system, seeking to reduce the ground resistance to as close to zero ohms as possible. So in reviewing Computer Audio Design’s (CAD) Ground Control units, could there be any further ‘ground to gain’?
David Denyer PR | The hi-fi specialist 