The Plinius Kaitaki preamplifier has an MSRP of $6500. For $650 more you can get an internal phono stage added. It features a gorgeous, brushed metal chassis with blue accents and a massive remote control.
The Orchard Audio PecanPi+ is an audio streamer with a built-in DAC and headphone amplifier. It’s all housed in a simple black box with a single knob on its face
The good people at Pro-Ject have sent me a Pro-Ject Phono Box S3 B phono preamplifier and a Pro-Ject X2 B turntable to review. The “B” at the end of those model names indicates that they are part of Pro-Ject’s new True Balanced Connection line of components.
The good people at Pro-Ject have sent me a Phono Box S3 B phono preamplifier and an X2 B turntable for review. The “B” at the end of those model names indicates that they are part of Pro-Ject’s new True Balanced Connection line of components.
HIFIMAN has released its first new desktop amplifier/DAC in ten years, the EF400. It is versatile and sounds very good with many kinds of headphones and devices with USB output.
The EF400 uses HIFIMAN’s new Himalaya R2R DAC, which uses an array of highly accurate resistors for a “ladder” method of conversion. This DAC supports the common PCM signal with a maximum 24-bit resolution.
The Naim Uniti Atom Headphone Edition (HE) combines several functionalities previously found in standalone components into a single relatively compact and network-capable device.
The Orchard Audio Starkrimson Stereo Ultra weighs only fourteen pounds yet it can output 500W into a 4-Ohm load. It does this with a new kind of transistor base...
The Meier Audio Corda Soul is a great many things in a single box. It is also at the top of the line of headphone-related components designed and sold by Meier Audio.
Gene Hopstetter has been collecting records since 1981, when he walked into a record store and spent all of his allowance money on every AC/DC album he could find. In the mid-1980s he worked as a stock-boy in a neighborhood hi-fi emporium, which is when his obsession with sound quality began. He has always had a record player and vinyl in his life. Gene was born and raised in New Orleans, where music and food were invented. In the 1980s and 1990s he was active with two university radio stations, KLSU in Baton Rouge, and WTUL in New Orleans, where he got involved with local music promotion and album production. He earned degrees in Creative Writing and Journalism from LSU, which he somehow manages to use in his current career as an IT professional. When he is not listening to music, reviewing components, or updating his collection on Discogs, Gene enjoys restoring vintage Garrard turntables and cleaning LPs with his ultrasonic cleaner. His most prized vintage hi-fi components are a pair of McIntosh MC30 tube amps, a Garrard 301 cream grease bearing turntable with two tonearms, and a Thorens TD124 turntable. Gene is also interested in contemporary developments in hi-fi, such as Raspberry Pi DACs and streamers, amplifiers with Gallium Nitride transistors, and phono preamplifiers with digital output.
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