I used DRA Labs' MLSSA system and a calibrated DPA 4006 microphone to measure the TAD CE1TX's behavior in the farfield, and an Earthworks QTC-40 mike for the nearfield responses. The mesh that covers the coaxial drive unit can't be removed, but the measured behavior was taken without the grille covering the woofer.
Tad specifies the CE1TX's voltage sensitivity as 85dB/2.83V/m, which is 2dB lower than average; my B-weighted estimate was within experimental…
Nor was it the only sign I encountered. Many subways stops—even the airport—displayed large posters announcing the annual well-attended Munich High End audio show.
On Day 1 (Thursday) of the four-day show, the first of two Press and…
"People kept asking for it," Voxativ owner Inès Adler told me. "We've learned a lot in the 20 years since it was first issued, and have been able to optimize and specially tune the design. Yet we've managed to keep it at the same price it was two decades ago."
In an all-Voxativ system that also included Voxativ's network…
Heading the system was SteinMusic's new Topline Bob L Ultimate speaker ($247,500/pair), a 4-way…
The SD-025 Mk.II includes a new streamer board that supports gigabit network…
After working on projects for Classé and Bowers & Wilkins, Myers was hired by PS Audio, where he ended his tenure as senior analog design engineer. Myers recently joined Parasound (footnote 1) following the company's acquisition by David Sheriff.
Not all audio design engineers are themselves audiophiles, not even in the hi-fi space. But Myers…
The SourcePoint 10 loudspeaker from MoFi Electronics (footnote 1) is an interesting, even unusual design. Sized somewhere between a conventional standmount and a small floorstander (but intended to be used on stands), the SourcePoint 10's beefy cabinet is similar in size to my 1978 Spendor BC1, but the SP10's 10" coaxial driver, which utilizes Andrew Jones's "Twin-Drive high-flux neodymium magnet system," is all new. The SP10 is heavy—at 46.2lb, nearly as heavy as the somewhat larger DeVore Fidelity O/…
My first opportunity to hear the Triangle Antal 40th Anniversary loudspeaker (footnote 1) was in the context of my December 2022 review of the HiFi Rose RA180 integrated amplifier. Because of that amplifier's unique feature set—specifically, its incorporation of four amplification modules—I wanted to try it with speakers that could be biamped. Robert Schryer favorably reviewed these Antals in the October 2022 issue, and his review convinced me that I wanted to hear them. "The Antal 40's sonic balance is akin to…
Before offering a few modest observations about the music, life, and times of David Lindley, a man who never met a stringed instrument he couldn't master and who died on March 3, I'll make two points, both somewhat contrarian.
In the flood of obituaries and tributes that have appeared since his death at age 78, one reads ad nauseam that Lindley, a lifelong Los Angeles resident whose most productive years were the 1970s and '80s, "help[ed] shape the sound of West Coast soft rock," as Guitar Player's writer put it. While Lindley's impact on Jackson Browne,…