GEM Dandy Polytable Signature Turntable and Sorane TA-1L Tonearm Review
George Merrill is one of a handful of people in the world who are truly experts in turntable design. He’s been designing turntables for...
George Merrill is one of a handful of people in the world who are truly experts in turntable design. He’s been designing turntables for...
Audio-Technica is a name that’s been around in audio for a long time. This review covers their new moving coil AT-ART9XA and AT-ART9XI...
You can spend a lot of money cleaning your vinyl records if you want, with vacuum or ultrasonic machines costing more than $1000. While...
Jelco, short for the Ichikawa Jewel Company LTD, is probably the largest, oldest, and most accomplished tonearm manufacturer you’ve never heard of. The c...
The Chord Electronics Mojo DAC is one of the best-regarded portable DACs around right now. It can decode just about any format, DSD included.
The Chord Mojo is one of the most well-regarded portable DACs around right now. It can decode just about anything, DSD included. It also uses a custom...
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 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.
PrismSound is a UK based digital audio manufacturer known best for their professional recording hardware used in recording studios around the world.
The Pass Labs INT-250 may just be the best integrated amplifier in the world. If you’re an audiophile who wants the best, but also wants a simple...
HiFiMan has become one of the most well regarded makers of headphones around. Their products, designed by Dr. Fan Bian, are sold both manufacturer direct and by resellers around the world.
The OPPO Sonica DAC is a state of the art, fully balanced DAC using Sabre’s top of the line 32 bit DAC chipset, implemented with excellent...
The Rogue RP-1 is a superb value, providing everything you need in a stereo preamplifier and nothing you don’t. This is a superbly designed, excellent sounding preamplifier that doesn’t have a thing wrong with it.
The Pass Labs XA30.8 is a seemingly “low power” amplifier that one of the most uncompromised, cost no object amplifiers ever made at its power output level. It offers stupendous performance that the 30 WPC specification cannot hope to describe.
The Rotel RC-1590 preamp and RB-1590 power amplifier are at the peak of the price-performance curve for stereo hifi separates. They offer excellent sound quality, loads of features, power to drive almost any loudspeaker in almost any room, all for a (relatively) modest price.
Chris Groppi is a radio astronomer and electrical engineer working as an assistant professor at Arizona State University. He received his Bachelor's degree in astronomy from Cornell University in 1997, and his Ph.D. in astronomy with a concentration in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona in 2003. He studies how stars and planets form, and designs and builds millimeter-wave and terahertz receivers for radio telescopes. He became interested in HiFi during high school the first time he listened to a real high-end system (B&W 801s with Mark Levinson electronics). His first system in college was a Headroom headphone amplifier powering Sennheiser HD 580s, and graduated to a real HiFi system in graduate school. His first love has always been 2-channel audio, although his current system has added home theater capability.