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The McIntosh MVP901 Audio Video Player, the McIntosh MX122 A/V Processor, and the McIntosh MC205 Five-Channel Solid-State Amplifier are some of the brand’s coolest home theater components. Iconic McIntosh meets the 21st Century! The McIntosh MVP901, MX122 and MC205 have some surprises up their sleeves. McIntosh fans will definitely want to check them out!
The Focal Sib Evo Dolby Amos Speaker System does the almost impossible - a big speaker room filling sound with small drivers. This is not an easy engineering feat, but for small to medium size rooms the Focal Sib Evo Speaker system offers 5.1.2 sound with a deep low end and those important height channels without cutting up your ceiling.
The Brennan B2 is a new, unusual, and I think, a rather useful kind of product. The Brennan B2 can be thought of as kind of a personal jukebox… insert your CDs into its built-in drive, and the Brennan rips them to an internal hard drive, catalogs them, and makes them available for playback.
Some guys get sweaters, others get ties. But my wife is pretty amazing and this year, she went and got me the Cambridge Audio CXA60, an amp I have lusted over since it was released. Woo-friggin’-Hoo!!!
Emotiva’s Airmotiv T2 towers and C2 center channel speaker are very impressive, competing favorably with products costing far more. Despite their industrial looks, the Emotiva Airmotiv T2 and C2 speakers not only excel at home theater, but the towers are some of the most articulate stereo speakers around. Two eight-inch woofers in each cabinet can energize large rooms at high volumes while producing such deep bass that a subwoofer may not even be needed. The air-motion-transformer tweeters are clean and extended without sounding strident. This level of performance at such a low price is rare.
Solis Audio has got you covered. The Solis Audio SO-8000 Stereo Bluetooth Vacuum Tube Audio System is a 17 W vacuum tube stereo system that combines sophisticated looks with retro styling and great sound. It is designed to be a plug and play affair getting you enjoying all of your favorite music quickly with no fuss.
The Prism Sound Callia brings professional engineering to HiFi in a big way. The Callia has a solid set of features, bulletproof build quality and exceptional sound.
The Astell & Kern KANN is a feature packed high end digital audio player with superb sound and will drive just about any headphone
The KEF LS50W (“W” for wireless) is a fully active set of bookshelf speakers based on KEF’s award-winning LS50 compact reference monitors. For an extra $700, the $2199 LS50W looks to add a ton of value and performance, including dual-mono bi-amplification, wireless streaming, upsampling D/A converters, full DSP controls, a dedicated app, and a remote control.
The Meridian Reference Two Channel Power Amplifier 857 is an expression of power and design that embodies the company’s philosophy. In short, it is their statement amplifier. With a reputation for quality, and leading the vanguard for what state-of-the-art is in the audio world, the Meridian 857 is both pure and powerful.
Audio Research Corporation has been making tube amplifiers since 1970, when they were founded. Putting that into perspective, I was an eighth grader when this Minnesota-based company started shipping its products.
The HIFIMAN RE-800 IEMs are some of the best headphones I’ve ever listened to. They have the laser sharp focus, detail and resolution only a single driver headphone can deliver, but has bass performance that shames many multi driver IEMs.
AURALiC seems to go all out in revamping the company’s ARIES wireless streaming product family with the ARIES G2. Introduced last year in May 2017 at High End Munich 2017 event, the ARIES G2 has been available for sale in the US since December 2017. The features and specifications of the ARIES G2 are nothing short of excellent. Read on the review to know more about the performance of the product.
The Mytek Liberty DAC and Headphone amplifier was assessed with Sennheiser HD-600 Headphones while being run via USB-2 in WASAPI push-mode from a dedicated Windows PC.
Any fan of Parasound Audio gear knows all too well the “JC” moniker in their Halo line stands for John Curl. Before joining Parasound to work with founder Richard Schram, John Curl became legendary for his Vendetta Research SCP-2 phono preamplifier. About 200 were produced, all were hand-built.
With both balanced and single-ended outputs, an almost limitless number of configurations to suit just about any cartridge needs, and an improved input stage for less noise, the Pass Labs XP-17 Phono Preamplifier packs a tremendous offering of features and performance in its $4,300 price tag.
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