“The Aeon 2 is a timely update to the Aeon Flow, which proved to be so impressive back in [a review in issue 435],” says Hi-Fi Choice. It offers “impressive bass, detailed soundstaging and supreme comfort.” Continue reading “Open and shut case”: Hi-Fi Choice recommends Dan Clark Audio’s Aeon 2 Closed headphones
Hi-Fi Plus Editor’s Choice Awards 2020: Kronos Pro reference turntable
In which Hi-Fi Plus editor Alan Sircom “found the Kronos to be one of the quietest turntables he’d ever heard” and concludes that it “joins a very small, very illustrious set of turntables that do it all and do it well.”
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Hi-Fi Plus Editor’s Choice Awards 2020: Raidho TD-4.8 – an “exceptional” floorstanding loudspeaker
“These speakers act as remarkable monitors,” says Hi-Fi Plus editor Alan Sircom. “Everything the artists and engineers recorded is presented with seemingly no attenuation. If this was the known benchmark both in and out of the studio, we’d never hear a compressed recording again, because that compression would be immediately and patently obvious.”
Hi-Fi Plus Editor’s Choice Awards 2020: Townshend’s Seismic Isolation Podium
Townshend Audio has been making products that break the link between speakers and ground-borne vibration since the 1990s. The brand’s Seismic Isolation Podium adds just 2cm to the height of a loudspeaker, but adds considerably more to its sound quality. Reviewer Jason Kennedy “couldn’t quite believe the improvement in coherence and timing it wrought, and the extent to which the sound is able to escape the boxes. Then there’s the bass, which is suddenly incredibly articulate, three-dimensional and powerful.”
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Hi-Fi Plus Editor’s Choice Awards 2020: Magnepan’s .7 planar loudspeaker
“Proof that big, high-end sound can come out of more affordable loudspeakers, just as long as they aren’t boxes!” says reviewer Eric Neff of Magnepan’s “innovative” Magneplanar panel design, which uses a two-way quasi ribbon drive unit configuration to make a loudspeaker that looks more like a screen than a speaker.
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Hi-Fi Plus Editor’s Choice Awards 2020: Exposure XM5 integrated amplifier
For Exposure’s compact XM series of hi-fi components, the awards just keep on coming. The XM5 integrated amp is “a design for all seasons” that’s “ideal for smaller loudspeakers and smaller rooms”.
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Hi-Fi Plus Editor’s Choice Awards 2020: Computer Audio Design’s CAT audio transport wins again
“The most engaging to-die-for sound I’ve had the pleasure of hearing for some time,” says reviewer Jason Kennedy of the Computer Audio Design CAT (or Computer Audio Transport). “The CAT is obviously a superb digital source and one of the finest I’ve yet encountered… you want to use it all the time because it’s so quiet and revealing.”
We need to talk about room acoustics
For some reason it seems that we audiophiles don’t talk much about room acoustics. Which is curious, since we’re constantly obsessing about the control, damping and isolation of pretty much everything else from connector cables and the component parts of a cartridge, to the feet of our speaker stands. But what of the effects of arguably the biggest component, the largest instrument, in the room – the listening room itself?
Here at David Denyer PR, we found ourselves with an acoustical challenge and, in having to work our way through it, came to realise the very real significance of room acoustics.
Read all about the challenge, how it was effectively resolved and how it inspired us to revisit our entire listening room set-up, on our blog at thereeltoreelrambler.com/2020/05/21/we-need-to-talk-about-room-acoustics
“Ingenious, impressive…”: StereoNet gets up close and personal with Dan Clark Audio’s Aeon 2 open and closed headphones
“In my book, these are perhaps the finest planar headphones available for the audiophile on the go right now,” says Jay Garrett, editor of online magazine www.stereonet.co.uk. And, “having the option of closed or open-backed variants is a really smart move, I think.” Continue reading “Ingenious, impressive…”: StereoNet gets up close and personal with Dan Clark Audio’s Aeon 2 open and closed headphones
Magnepan’s new high-end ‘appetizer’ – the uber-auditionable LRS loudspeaker
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If you’re looking for an easy and affordable way to enter the realm of Magnepan’s superb flat panel, planar magnetic loudspeakers, then look no further. The new Magneplanar LRS (‘Little Ribbon Speaker’) is just your ticket.
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