Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson

Berkeley Audio Design Associates' Alpha DAC
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  1 comments
"You know," Alon Wolf told us. A lot of what you liked about the sound of my music server was the Pacific Microsonics Model Two DAC I was using. But that's no longer manufactured, this is even better and only $5000."
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Not For Sale!
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  0 comments
We were listening to Magico's fabulous V3s ($25,000/pair), which John Atkinson will be reviewing in the May issue, when we noticed a large music server. "What's that?"
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Oracle Thalia
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  0 comments
We glanced into Oracle's room to see what was new. We'd seen the Delphi, we'd seen the CD 1500 and CD 2500 before. "Nothing new?" we asked.
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Audio Space's DAC-1
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  1 comments
Audio Space's DAC-1 US ($3000) is a hybrid tube/Mosfet DAC with a difference.It has two pairs of RCA analog outputs: One deriving its signal from the tube DAC; the other taking its signal from the discrete Mosfet DAC.
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Lyngdorf Server 1
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  0 comments
The Lyngdorf Server 1 is a music and video server had us drooling. Lyngdorf, of course, loves to keep signals digital until the last millimeter, building DACs into their active DSP-driven loudspeakers. The Server 1 sounded great—there was just one problem: It isn't available. Yet.
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PS Audio's Memory Link
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  0 comments
The PS Audio Memory Link ($1695) is a CD/DVD/RAM drive. It's a mechanical player (ie, it still spins the discs), but it has an unusually large cache. Conventional players have caches of around 8–16MB, the Memory Link has a 64MB cache. Why is this better?
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Bolder Boulder
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 07, 2008  |  3 comments
We'd been told to check out Boulder's new music server, but that's not exactly what the $24,000 1021 Disc Player is. It's a CD player (with a few other formats "to be announced") that uses a computer disc drive to feed a one-minute buffer to "preserve the integrity of the audio signal delivered from the drive. "Also," confided Steve Rockwell, "the clock is about this far [pinches fingers together], so jitter is phenomenally low."
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Ahhhh, Music!
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 07, 2008  |  4 comments
We're stunned at how few exhibitors spend money for the larger rooms on the 35th floor of the Venetian, since they are so sonically impressive. Sumiko's room with the $28,000 SME 2012, $6000 Audio Research PH7, $10,000 Audio Research Reference 3, Audio Research Reference 210 monoblock amplifiers ($9000/each), and brand-spanking new $25,000/pair Vienna Acoustic Die Musik loudspeakers had us glued to the sweet spot.
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A Different Perspextive
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 07, 2008  |  1 comments
Sumiko had a new Pro-Ject turntable on display, the "approximately $2000" Perspex, which sports the new 9CC Evolution tonearm.
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Primare, oh oh, Primare, oh oh oh oh
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 07, 2008  |  0 comments
Sumiko was showing the $2495 Primare DVD110 DVD/CD player/reciever. It's a two channel unit with a class-D 102Wpc amplifier and a couple of features you don't see on most stereo components: a subwoofer and 1080p video outs.
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