Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson

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Are You Being Served?
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 09, 2008  |  0 comments
Naim has created a separate line of music server products that will be marketed independently of its component distribution system. On display at CES2008 was the DigiLinX compatible six-stream NaimNet NS01 Music Server ($6200), which has an internal ripping drive, a 400GB RAID 1 array, so data is secure.
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Basically Better
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 09, 2008  |  13 comments
Meridian has completely redone its Signature Reference 808 CD player, now the 808.2 ($14,995). "We've changed its drive, drive navigation software, power supply, DSP, and clocking and buffering. I'd like to say that the only thing we've retained is the case, but we've improved that, too," said Bob Stuart.
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Empirical Audio's Pace-Car
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 09, 2008  |  0 comments
Empirical Audio's Pace-Car Reclocker ($1100—2300, depending on number of clocks installed) is designed to reduce the jitter of any source to "inaudible levels." Empirical's Steve Nugent said the device is primarily intended for USB, WiFi, and network devices such as the Sonos and Squeezebox. "The pace-Car is inserted between source and DAC, it can either provide a master clock to the source or accept the source's data stream and 'bracket' the rate of the stream. No modifications to the source are required."
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NFS Goes Green
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 09, 2008  |  7 comments
In what has become a tradition, Anton Dotson (aka Buddha on the Stereophile forum) and Michael Alazard set up a room at T.H.E. Show as NFS Audio (Not For Sale), which they describe as "a chill out zone for people tired of the show's relentless grinding down of the human spirit."
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Tweaked Air
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 09, 2008  |  5 comments
Pictured are Dotson, Alazard, Jon Iverson, and Wes Phillips in the specially "tweaked" air molecules.
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I Am Legend!
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 09, 2008  |  1 comments
T.H.E. Show at the Alexis Park reminded us of the new Will Smith movie—the infrastructure was intact, but there were few signs of life.
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Berkeley Audio Design Associates' Alpha DAC
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  1 comments
"You know," Alon Wolf told us. A lot of what you liked about the sound of my music server was the Pacific Microsonics Model Two DAC I was using. But that's no longer manufactured, this is even better and only $5000."
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PS Audio's Memory Link
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  0 comments
The PS Audio Memory Link ($1695) is a CD/DVD/RAM drive. It's a mechanical player (ie, it still spins the discs), but it has an unusually large cache. Conventional players have caches of around 8–16MB, the Memory Link has a 64MB cache. Why is this better?
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Lyngdorf Server 1
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  0 comments
The Lyngdorf Server 1 is a music and video server had us drooling. Lyngdorf, of course, loves to keep signals digital until the last millimeter, building DACs into their active DSP-driven loudspeakers. The Server 1 sounded great—there was just one problem: It isn't available. Yet.
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Audio Space's DAC-1
CES 2008
Wes Phillips & Jon Iverson  |  Jan 08, 2008  |  1 comments
Audio Space's DAC-1 US ($3000) is a hybrid tube/Mosfet DAC with a difference.It has two pairs of RCA analog outputs: One deriving its signal from the tube DAC; the other taking its signal from the discrete Mosfet DAC.
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