The company says the copper caps lower second- and third-harmonic distortion, with a 20dB reduction in the latter. The enclosures are described as lighter, stiffer, and smoother than prior Giya models; in the G3 Cu and G4 Cu the tapered tubes now sit within the main enclosure, yielding a simpler profile consistent with the G2 and G1 Spirit.
The series comprises four four-way, five-driver models: Giya…
The design targets clean, controlled low frequencies in small spaces. A sealed, portless cabinet is specified to avoid port noise and resonances, while opposing drivers leverage the benefits of force-canceling to reduce cabinet vibration and distortion.
Compact dual-opposed subwoofers suit living rooms and two-channel systems. The small footprint format favors placement…
Positioned as the next step for the company’s Trajectum platform, Ossetra adds a redesigned power supply said to cut noise and boost both dynamic and continuous output power. Increased output-stage current aims to drive practically any load, and the full-bridge topology keeps the signal path fully balanced from input to output.
Mola Mola cites new discrete class A gain stages…
I was in Seattle last February to take part in one of the popular "Music Matters" events promoted by retailer Definitive Audio. Definitive's Mark Ormiston and Craig Abplanalp and their crew really know how to produce a memorable evening for both their customers and the manufacturers who fly in to demonstrate their gear. I was there to talk about . . . guess what?
Rather than fly home the next morning, I stuck around for a few days to do some serious record shopping.
My friend Shane Buettner, former editor of Home Theater magazine and currently…
Jazz people often hear about the vitality of the Netherlands jazz scene. But if they are American jazz people, they may not hear a lot of evidence. So We Could Live is the evidence.
The leader, bassist Zack Lober, is actually from Montreal. He holds a master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music and had a 14-year career as a sideman in…
Once I was satisfied that the unit I received…
My oldest aural memory is my mother singing nursery rhymes to send me off to sleep. After that, it's vinyl records. Being the third child, I benefited from a constant stream of audio-related hand-me-downs, starting with a 1960s kiddie phonograph and a pile of well-worn records from my older brothers. Aside from welding my consciousness and pleasure sensors to recorded sound, those records formed a common reference root for me, my older brothers, and my younger brother, even though our births spanned 11 years. We all spun the same or similar records when we were…
The EM/IA 103 SUT
As I mentioned earlier, this Dream was inspired by watching Jana Dagdagan's YouTube video. It was also inspired by my brothers from the Fraternal Triode Lodge, Jeffrey Jackson of Experience Music (EM) and Dave Slagle of Intact Audio (IA), who recently introduced the EM/IA 103 SUT, a copper-wired, nickel-cored step-up transformer designed specifically for use with Denon's DL-103 (footnote 6).
I smiled as Brother Jackson explained. "This Pelican-cased package consisting of a hand-wound nickel-cored EM/IA SUT ($1500) with a hard-wired cable leadout, a denuded…