Jason Victor Serinus

PranaWire Scores a Touchdown
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 13, 2015  |  0 comments
I'm referring to the company's new PranaWire Linebacker XE ($12,500), an in-line passive power filter with what it's designer, Joe Cohen of The Lotus Group, calls two stages of passive filtering materials and a "super enhanced" ground plane.
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Transparent Audio for a New Generation
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 13, 2015  |  2 comments
Transparent Audio's new Gen 5 (Generation 5) family of cabling supersedes their MM2 line. With resonance control and network technologies derived directly from their year-old flagship, fittingly called Magnum Opus, Gen 5 includes new cable, new networks, and new network enclosures.
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Hardwired for Newcomers
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 13, 2015  |  0 comments
Transparent also introduced the colorful, entry-level Hardwired brand, which is designed to satisfy the wants of newcomers to the fold.
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T+A Elektroakustik's new Cable Line
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 13, 2015  |  0 comments
With the assistance of Jochen Fabricius, who designed T+A's new cable line, I learned that T+A's Speaker Hex ($1600/3m pair) uses new Rhodium contacts, and contains six cores of stranded wire that are twisted for low inductance.
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Furutech's New Flagship Power Cable
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 13, 2015  |  0 comments
Scot Markwell of Elite AV Distribution proudly displayed Furutech's top-of-the-line Nanoflux power cable ($4395/1.8m, almost 6 feet). The cable's wire is coated with Nanofluid, microscopic gold and silver suspended in squalene oil that fills in tiny gaps between wire crystals to improve performance.
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Headphone Cable from Wireworld
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 13, 2015  |  0 comments
Larry Smith (left) and David Salz (right) of Wireworld have every reason to smile. Not only have they entered the headphone cable market with four levels of Nano cables for headphones and portables, and stand prepared to market a Starlight CAT7a media network cable ($TBD) that claims higher transmission speeds for streamed music and video, but they've also come out on top in a recently published cable listening comparison test.
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Three New from Nordost
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 13, 2015  |  0 comments
Nordost has just crossed the audiophile–musician border with their first Pro Audio products, the Ax Angel guitar cable ($250/3m) and Ax Angel power cables for keyboards and guitar amps ($200/1m).
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New Cables from Viola Audio Laboratories
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 13, 2015  |  0 comments
With a major nod to ZenSati, who designed the cables, Viola Audio Labs' president and technical director Paul Jayson happily displayed the company's new cable line.
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Meet the Hi-Res Music Creators
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 11, 2015  |  3 comments
For the second consecutive year, Hi-Res Audio made a major statement on the main floor of the Venetian Hotel via a large Ballroom exhibit and star-studded panels. I took in "Meet the Hi-Res Music Creators." Moderated by recording engineer Maureen Droney (pictured fourth, going left to right), Senior Executive Director of the Producers & Engineers wing of The Recording Academy (the Grammy people), the panel consisted of four major engineers who record multiple genres in hi-res.
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HDTracks Moves Ahead
CES 2015
Jason Victor Serinus  |  Jan 11, 2015  |  3 comments
Meetings were frequently in progress when I glanced at the HDTracks booth in the Hi-Res Audio Workshop ballroom. Every time I take a look at the company's site, it's loaded with new releases from everyone from The Who and Eric Clapton to Anna Netrebko and a host of Grammy 2015 nominees. It was great to see David Chesky again, even though he kept mistaking me for tenor Jonas Kaufmann. I should be so lucky.
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