“MISSING?”
“Yes.”
When I dropped off my turntable at In Living Stereo for repair, six months had passed since the late-night tonearm cable-splitting calamity. I had totally forgotten the extent of damage committed to my Rega P1. To my memory, only a pin had to be resoddered to the cable, as I had told Steve when I dropped it off.
“Lemme see what I can do with it,” Steve put me on hold for a week.
…
The amps (and preamps) keep coming.
McIntosh Laboratories is back in the act with a limited-edition revival of the MC275 tube amplifier, the original of which was produced from May 1961 through July 1973—one of the longest model runs in hi-fi history.
New companies devoted to tube gear keep cropping up—in recent years, America's VAC and Cary and Canada's Sonic Frontiers. The same thing appears to be going on in the UK. The pages of British magazines are filled with new tube gear.
I was talking with a few dealer friends. It's not the old farts—…
"That's the one."
"Best amp you ever owned," I said. "Thirty years of hi-fi, Larsik, and I'm afraid it's all been downhill since your Mac 275."
Lars erupted with one of his strange Scandinavian snorts.
"I didn't know you spoke Danish, Lars," I continued innocently. "Well, here it is—a new Mac 275, with updated components and a few changes in circuitry. Balanced as well as single-…
Why do speaker manufacturers produce such insensitive speakers, requiring muscle amps that don't sound nearly as good as one of these tube amps with a 300B? Why can't more…
I don't care. I have never paid to download or stream anything, and I probably never will. My priority is to get the most from the several thousand CDs I already own. As cheaply as possible, without "adopting" anything, early or late. Yet I love…
Description: Solid-state D/A converter with asynchronous USB and S/PDIF data inputs. Sample rates handled: 32–192kHz (S/PDIF), 32–96kHz (USB), both at up to 24 bits word length.
Dimensions: 3.75" (95mm) wide by 1.7" (40mm) high by 6.7" (170mm) deep
Serial number of review sample: Not noted (Tellig); SDY0367 (Atkinson & measurements).
Price: $379.
Manufacturer: Musical Fidelity Limited, 24-26 Fulton Road, Wembley, Middlesex, England HA9 0TF, UK. Tel: (44) (0)20-8900-2866. Fax: (44) (0)20-8900-2983. Web: www.musicalfidelity.com. US distributor:…
To measure the V-DAC II (serial no. SDY0367), I used Stereophile's loan sample of the top-of-the-line Audio Precision SYS2722 system (see www.ap.com and the January 2008 "As We See It"; for some tests, I also used my vintage Audio Precision System One Dual Domain analyzer.
Unlike the original V-DAC's S/PDIF input, which was limited to 96kHz, the V-DAC II's input operates at sample rates from 32kHz up to a maximum of 192kHz. The Macintosh USB Prober utility identified the product as the "Musical Fidelity V-DAC 24/96," but no serial number. USB Prober…
I first met Enzo in the early 1980s. While he played an important role is establishing US high-end brands in Europe—his company, Audio Natali, founded in 1959, distributes Audio Research, Krell, Dan D'Agostino, Transparent, VTL, Ayre, Wilson,…
Abercrombie is of the Jim Hall school of jazz electric guitar: low-key, single-…
For the adventurous music lover who craves new, unusual sounds—stuff that might challenge, that might delight, and that will certainly expand your mind—and for the audiophile who primarily uses a computer as a source, Diogenes is an online heaven.
And don’t let the name scare you away. Diogenes isn’t all noise, though there is a lot of that. You…