The Union Jack will also be available on Rega’s affordable RP1 and RP3 models.
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Jason Victor Serinus also mentioned that Rega has released their popular RP6 turntable with a new Union Jack finish. Here’s a closer look.
When Jason Victor Serinus arrived at High End Munich 2024, he found the scale and scope of the show to be truly impressive, as you'd expect from the world's largest two-channel audio expo.
Room reports are now posting, so check our homepage for more coverage.
Jason Victor Serinus has already discussed the products shown by Gingko Audio, but here’s a closer look at VPI’s Traveler turntable with Gingko’s Cloud 9T vibration-control platform ($349) and dust cover ($279).
Can the Cloud 9T squeeze more performance from the Traveler? Can the dust cover protect the Traveler from meddlesome cats? Perhaps a Follow-Up is in order.
Joint Digital Components of the Year
Okto DAC8 Stereo streaming D/A processor (1203; reviewed by John Atkinson, February 2021, Vol.44 No.2 Review)
Grimm MU1 music streamer ($10,000 w/o internal storage; reviewed by John Atkinson, March 2021, Vol.44 No.3 Review)
Finalists (in alphabetical order)
Accuphase Dg-68 Digital Voicing Equalizer ($24,000; reviewed by Jason Victor Serinus, August & December 2021, Vol.44 Nos.8 & 12 Review)
Antipodes K50 server ($15,000; reviewed by Jason Victor Serinus, October 2021, Vol.44 No.10 Review)
ExaSound…
Stereophile often subjects products that have been reviewed to further coverage: sometimes because there was an aspect of performance that needed further investigation; other times because there was a controversial finding. Three recent followups concerned the Ayre Acoustics EX-8 2.0 Integrated Hub amplifier that Ken Micallef reviewed in the November 2021 issue; the Accuphase DG-68 Digital Voicing Equalizer that Jason Victor Serinus reviewed in August 2021; and the Zesto Leto Ultra II line preamplifier that Ken Micallef reviewed in February 2021.
When I measured the sample of the Ayre EX-…
Saturday November 26, Canadian high-end store Audio Excellence (661 Chrislea Road. Unit 1, Vaughan, Ontario, Canada L4L 8A3) is holding an all-day event featuring Bill McKiegan, president of Dan D'Agostino Master Audio Systems. Bill will be presenting the new Progression Mono amplifiers (above). Jason Victor Serinus is working on a review of these amplifiers, to be published in the spring of 2017.
Saturday is always the most crowded and intense day of any show. Ensuring that we were fully up to its demands (pictured L to R), PS Audio's Paul McGowan, Stereophile and AnalogPlanet's Michael Fremer, Stereophile's Jason Victor Serinus, Joseph Audio's Jeff Joseph, and PS Audio's Terri McGowan discovered themselves in a common sweat, occupying every elliptical trainer in the Renaissance Schaumberg's spacious gym.
Last week, at Seattle dealer Definitive Audio's 12th Music Matters, there were six different systems being demonstrated. With the inevitable craziness of such a well-attended event, I wasn't able to get enough footage for each room to have its own standalone minute. I therefore compiled shots from each room to give you a visual overview. For a complete breakdown of each system, please see Jason Victor Serinus's coverage of Music Matters 12 .
Amplification Component of the Year
Audio Note Meishu 300B Tonmeister Phono Integrated Amplifier
($15,740; reviewed by Ken Micallef in Vol.46 No.2 review)
Finalists (in alphabetical order)
Ayre VX-8 Power Amplifier ($6800; reviewed by Ken Micallef in Vol.46 No.10 review)
Benchmark AHB2 Power Amplifier ($3499; reviewed by John Atkinson In Vol.46 No.1 review)
Dan D'Agostino Momentum M400 MxV Monoblock Amplifier ($79,500/Pair; reviewed by Jason Victor Serinus in Vol.46 No.6 review)
HiFi Rose RS520 Streaming Integrated Amplifier ($3695; reviewed by Rogier…
Amplification Component of the Year
Boulder Amplifiers 2150 monoblock power amplifier ($99,000/pair; reviewed by Michael Fremer, February 2017, Vol.40 No.2 review)
A quick spin through the archives at Stereophile.com will show that, for whatever reason, very-high-power solid-state amplifiers don't often take our top honors in this category: the last time that happened was in 2011, when we honored the Classé CT-M600/CA-M600 amps. Yet the Boulder 2150 monoblock isn't just any high-power amplifier: This 220-lb beast delivers 1000W into 8 ohms, and every one of those watts is…