You can read Stereophile's review of the HP1 here.
In honor of what would have been Joseph Grado's 100th birthday, the HP100 SE blends the company's rich heritage with contemporary design. "Although Uncle Joe left us 10 years ago, he will always be a presence at Grado Labs," says John Grado, CEO and nephew of Joseph…
The updated MK2 versions replace the previous DAC501 and DAC502, improving upon their predecessors with advanced DAC chips and upgraded circuitry. The result is said to be a notable improvement in transparency and openness.
Weiss’s proprietary discrete…
My reporting at this year's event is going to be logistically different from prior years. Instead of taking place at one venue, this year's edition is being held at two neighboring, parking-lot-sharing venues. These include the usual one, the Westin Toronto Airport, and, joining it, the Holiday Inn…
At the heart of the system was a two-channel, 250Wpc, fully balanced, MM/MC phono-equipped, dual-mono Marantz…
I’d never heard Nagra and Harbeth paired together before, so who knew they’d make such a perfect pair? Or a perfect trio if you squeeze in the Nordost cabling between them. Not I. But when I heard what this combination could do, I thought, “Where have you been all my life?”
The system consisted of Harbeth’s Monitor 40.3 XD ($27,000/pair) being fed by a bevy of Nagra gear, including a pair of…
I’m tempted to write in my report on the Charisma room that the sound of its demo was full of charisma! It wouldn’t be a lie, but I know it would sound forced and insincere, wordplay meant to be clever but that would ultimately sound lazy and induce a cringe-reflex in the reader.
So, I’ll stick with a more sensible approach. Charisma Audio is both a dealer of products made by other companies from around the world and a manufacturer known for its low-output MC cartridges designed by company owner and chief designer Bernard Li, who was helming the exhibit. The…
The thing is, I’d never heard this particular model, which, since 2023, was in its Generation 2 version, along with its stablemates in the series…
Each speaker was composed of five individual cube-shaped enclosures stacked together in a column, with the enclosure in the middle housing a 3″ beryllium compression driver—I call that one the “eye of the…
I heard that same unparalleled sense of musical…
Nagra…