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In my small listening room (10.5' W by 13.1' L by 8' H), I never felt that the JoLida FX 10 lacked power—not with the PSB Alpha B1s, and certainly not with the vibrant-sounding, high-sensitivity (92.5dB) Klipsch B-20s—but I did get the sense that music wasn't fully articulated. The highs lacked air, the mids some delicacy and voluptuousness, the bottom impact. That said, I always enjoyed music while the FX 10 was in my system. It was only in comparing it directly with other amplifiers that I remembered what I was missing. Such is life.
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JoLida Inc., 10820 Guilford Road, Suite 209, Annapolis Junction, MD 20701. Tel: (301) 953-2014. Fax: (301) 498-0554. Web: www.jolida.com.
NAD Electronics International, 633 Granite Court, Pickering, Ontario L1W 3K1, Canada. Tel: (905) 831-6555. Fax: (905) 837-6357. Web: www.nadelectronics.com.
Newk's Time was the third of four albums that Sonny Rollins recorded for Blue Note, and it's the second reissued by Music Matters Jazz, the audiophile house that does up the Blue Note classics right, each title mastered at 45rpm and spread out across two extremely quiet slabs of vinyl. MMJ has already released Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1. That leaves Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 and Night at the Village Vanguard (itself a 2-volume album). I hope they put them out too at some point. If they do (does this need to be said?), get them all.
Rollins was signed to Blue Note in 1956–57, one of several…
The subject of the e-mail was “boobsheadphones.” Inside, a simple question (“Can you tell me if these are real?”) was followed by a link to an interesting YouTube video.
Dear reader:
I’m more of a leg man, but I sure hope they are real.
My advice? Squeeze them and find out.
Stephen
I don’t really know what to say about this, so I’ll just quote the press release:
The role of an High End amplifier is to reproduce the music, all the music.
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Practical stereo for the home began in the late…
But that's more a view of the trees than of the forest. All of the DHC-80.2's basic and advanced functions have been improved over the DTC-9.8 originals, from video processing using the HQV-Reon-VX processor, to audio processing with the latest versions of Audyssey MultEQ XT32, Dynamic EQ, and Dynamic Volume. Is anything missing? Not that I can tell.
To assess the DHC-80.2's basic audio quality, I did my initial auditions via its multichannel analog inputs and, for digital sources, prior to EQ with Audyssey. Regular readers of this column may recall that the DTC-9.8's sound through its…