Larry Greenhill

And Now For Some Audio Jewelry
CES 2017
Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 10, 2017  |  1 comments
Jewelers Philippe and Mathieu Tournaire add 18-karat bands of gold at each end of the Utopia's headband, and each is set with three 1-karat diamonds in square, triangular, and round shapes, representing the three stages of life: the past, the present, and the future.
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The Naim on Display
CES 2017
Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 09, 2017  |  0 comments
Naim Audio first displayed their monolithic flagship Statement amplification system at the 2014 CES; this year it was present in a static display…
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Air Tight's New Monoblock
CES 2017
Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 09, 2017  |  0 comments
At CES 2017, Japanese manufacturer A&M Ltd. announced the expansion of their Air Tight amplifier line with the ATM-3211 all-triode, 120W monoblock ($72,000/pair).
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Live vs Recorded with Audionet and YG
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Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 09, 2017  |  0 comments
In the YG Acoustics-Audionet suite, the sound on playback of Jake Shimabukuro's ukulele wizardry came closer to matching his live performance than in most rooms, perhaps as a result of the excellent match between the Audionet Max monoblock amplifiers and YG Acoustics Sonja XV loudspeakers.
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Heisenberg, Certainly
CES 2017
Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 09, 2017  |  0 comments
The Heisenberg—Audionet's largest and most powerful monoblock amplifier—was on display in a portion of the suite shared with YG Acoustics…
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Stromtanked!
CES 2017
Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 09, 2017  |  5 comments
In the D'Agostino exhibit, pure AC power was fed to the Progressive monoblocks by a Stromtank independent power source ($30,000): a 276-lb enclosure in which a 16-cell Lithium phosphate battery pack stores up to 4000W, ultimately to be converted to pure-sinewave AC.
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Jake Visits Wilson and Nagra
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Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 09, 2017  |  2 comments
During visits to the suite, I also heard Jake Shimabukuro's ukulele playing, which was outstanding, and then a recording of his performance played back over the Nagra HD monoblocks…
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The Mark Levinson Turntable
CES 2017
Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 09, 2017  |  0 comments
Mark Levinson's engineers partnered with VPI's Mat Weisfeld (seen above) to develop the Mark Levinson No.515 turntable. The platter is belt-driven and the speed-control electronics are housed in a metal case under the 'table…
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D'Agostino Progression Monoblocks
CES 2017
Larry Greenhill  |  Jan 08, 2017  |  1 comments
Rated at 500W into 8 ohms, the Progressions function as a voltage source, doubling the power with each decrease in load impedance, resulting in 1000W RMS into 4 ohms and 2000W RMS into 2 ohms…
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Bryston BDA-3 D/A processor
Digital Processor Reviews
Larry Greenhill  |  Nov 23, 2016  |  8 comments
In the February 2010 issue of Stereophile, I reviewed Bryston's first standalone digital-to-analog converter, the BDA-1 ($1995). Five years later, Bryston released the BDA-2, which replaced the BDA-1's 24-bit/192kHz Crystal CS-4398 DAC with a pair of AKM DAC chips in balanced mode. In a February 2016 Follow-Up (footnote 1) I reported that the BDA-2 deepened and widened the BDA-1's soundstage, among other performance gains.
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