Interesting news/reviews/deals from the portable audio market
The Sub $1000 Spotlight: required reading for those in the iPod generation who want to take their audio-geekness to the next step. Three carefully selected speaker/amp combos and a few notes that will help you choose wisely and avoid spending much. (If you’re going to read only one audio-related article this week, this should be [...]
We’ve got a thing for modestly-priced Hi-Fi gear, so we were in for a treat when we took notice of Outlaw Audio’s RR2150 stereo receiver over at SonicFlare. This is a two-channel 100W receiver that sounds good, looks good and has a multitude of features: USB and phono inputs, an FM/AM tuner and a subwoofer [...]
A list of songs to check if you’ve got a high-end audio gear: there are some picks with which I don’t agree, but still, a good starting point.
Why a music collector does what he does: words of wisdom from Volkher. The two last paragraphs are not to be missed (and man, do they hurt…).
Review: Metronome Technologie Kalista: if you were looking for a device that makes CDs sound as good as vinyl, this is yours for the humble price of $23,000.
Going audiophile as painlessly (for your wallet) as possible.
Gotta love the title.
Apparently you can match a NEC MultiSpin 6Xe (_e_ stands for “external”) CD-Rom drive with a nice digital-to-audio converter (or DAC, for short) and with the help of Canare Digi-flex Gold Digital cable have a killer combo that rivals CD players in the $3K area.
NEC’s drive, which we choose because it has [...]
Up until now, if you were a true audiophile chances are that you relied on your iPod dock’s line-out to get that clean audio signal. If you’re picky though, you know that there’s still some loss of quality due to the path the audio signal has to follow. The Red Wine Audio guys worked up [...]