Computer Audio Design’s (CAD) Scott Berry firmly believes that reducing unwanted high frequency noise in a hi-fi system audibly improves the system’s sound quality. To that end, Berry has pioneered a portfolio of highly effective solutions to the problem, including the new Ethernet Control. Chris Baillie puts it to the test for online magazine Pursuit Perfect System. Continue reading “An essential audition”: Pursuit Perfect System reviews CAD’s Ethernet Control
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“Network hygiene matters”: Roy Gregory upgrades his digital music experience with CAD’s Ethernet Control
Launched in early 2024, Computer Audio Design’s (CAD) Ethernet Control is designed to reduce unwanted high frequency noise on the Ethernet network connection in audio and video equipment, thereby improving the performance of streaming-based and file-replay systems. Roy Gregory puts it to the test alongside a duo of competitors.
MBL 101E among The Absolute Sound’s ‘15 Most Significant Loudspeakers of All Time’
“Over the years our editorial staff has hotly debated just which loudspeakers have had the greatest impact on high-end audio,” says US magazine The Absolute Sound in its recent ‘Ultimate Directory of High End Loudspeakers and Cables 2024’ issue. The result of that debate is a definitive list of 15 Most Significant Loudspeakers of All Time, which includes German MBL’s 101E.
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DS Audio launches new ‘third generation’ entry-level optical phono cartridge: the DS-E3
PRESS RELEASE: Japanese optical phono cartridge pioneer DS Audio continues to narrow the gap between game-changing performance and affordability with the new entry level DS-E3 model, featuring the company’s ‘third generation’ of optical cartridge technology.
Kerr Acoustic is among first tech brands to adopt new EU ‘Digital Product Passports’
As reported in a recent article in Forbes magazine, British high-end audio company Kerr Acoustic is leading the way in adopting new technology aimed at enhancing a product’s traceability and accountability, improving the company’s environmental footprint while providing greater accountability to customers.
Kerr Acoustic wins a third Product of the Year Award in Scandinavian press for K200 loudspeaker
A mere two years after launching into the Scandinavian marketplace, British company Kerr Acoustic has won its third Product of the Year Award from Norwegian audio magazine Stereo Pluss. Following last year’s Awards for the K300 and K320 models, this year it’s the turn of the new K200 standmount.
“Deck of delights”: Hi-Fi News reviews Clearaudio’s new Concept Signature entry-level turntable
Clearaudio’s entry-level, plug-and-play Concept turntable package has been a multi-award winner and bestseller for more than a decade. Now, the Concept’s whole concept has been given a ‘Signature’ makeover. “Clearaudio has played a blinder,” says Hi-Fi News.
Hi-Fi Choice is “entirely engrossed” in the performance Exposure’s 3510 preamplifier
British brand Exposure Electronics’ 3510 series of components shares many design elements with the company’s top-of-range 5010 series. Behind the series’ minimalist design lies a sonic performance that’s easy to get drawn into, with no fear of fatigue, as Hi-Fi Choice discovers in a recent group test of selected preamps.
Stereophile reviews DS Audio’s DS-W3 optical cartridge system and applauds the company’s contribution to the industry
Michael Trei of US hi-fi magazine Stereophile figures that over the past 50 years, he must have installed “well over 1,000 phono cartridges” so it’s safe to say he knows a good thing when he hears it – and he hears it in DS Audio’s DS-W3! Equally impressed by the ethos of the company as he is by the performance of its products, Trei opts to dig a little ‘behind the scenes’ to discover more about the genesis of DS Audio’s pioneering optical cartridge system and its vision for the future.
“A revelation”: The Absolute Sound reviews DS Audio’s DS-W3 optical phono cartridge
“While we’ve grown used to a parade of game-changers in digital audio, analog is a different story,” writes Jonathan Valin in the April issue of US audio magazine The Absolute Sound. “There haven’t been many radical developments in the world of vinyl”… until, that is, DS Audio’s reinvention, and ongoing envelope-pushing, of the optical cartridge. The DS-W3 is the latest such example. Continue reading “A revelation”: The Absolute Sound reviews DS Audio’s DS-W3 optical phono cartridge
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