E.A.T. (European Audio Team) is an Austrian firm, located in Wilfersdorf, with manufacturing facilities in Eastern Europe. The CEO is Jozefína Lichtenegger.
Pro-Ject is a manufacturer of turntable, amplifiers, speakers, and accessories, located in Mistelbach, Austria, with manufacturing plants in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They range in price from a few hundred dollars up to several thousand.
I recently obtained for review, a Pro-Ject RPM 9 Carbon turntable (MSRP: $2,499) with an Evo tonearm, Sumiko Starling MC phono cartridge (MSRP: $1,899), and a Pro-Ject Tube Box DS2 phono preamplifier (MSRP: $799).
Benchmark’s DAC3-DX DAC is designed for recording and mastering studios, but it is a great product for consumer use as well. Its clean, low distortion...
HiFiMAN’s Shangri-La electrostatic headphones break the sound barrier and took 20 years to develop. The headphones come with a pure Class A fully balanced headphone amplifier that uses 300B triode tubes in the output stage, producing a warm lush midrange that is simply beyond beyond.
Nearly 40 years ago, in 1982, the first CDs were released. It’s hard to believe it has been that long. I should know. I was there. Many of you were not even born then, and you may have never seen what CDs eventually replaced: Vinyl LPs. (It is ironic that LPs have come back with a vengeance, with sales increasing every year at an explosive rate.)
I remember when HDTV first arrived, and the information about high definition was that there would be two formats, 1280 x 720p (720 progressive) and 1920 x 1080i (1080 interlaced). 1080p (1080 progressive) is now the standard release resolution on Blu-ray discs...
OPPO’s latest player, the UDP-203, will play Ultra-HD 4K Blu-ray movie discs as well as 1080p movie discs. It also plays high resolution music, such as 24/192 and SACD. OPPO has released its latest player, the UDP-203, priced at $549 directly on-line from OPPO...
Icron markets an often-needed accessory called a USB Extender, which allows consumers to send high-resolution digital audio files up to 330 feet without signal drop-outs. Icron has introduced its latest USB extenders, the 4-port USB 2.0 Ethernet LAN Extender System...
Fluance utilized KickStarter to build a turntable with cartridge and built-in phono preamplifier that is priced below the competition and which represents a good entry-level unit for those who are just starting...
OPPO has just released their Sonica wireless wi-fi speakers. They sound terrific. You can get one and, because of the number of drivers, set the single speaker to play stereo, or you can get two of them, and set one to be the left channel and the other...
Pass Labs, one of the most prestigious names in audio, has launched a terrific headphone amplifier. It was only a matter of time before Pass Labs entered the headphone amplifier arena, and the HPA-1...
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus. John E. Johnson, Jr. founded Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity in 1994, shortly after publishing a hardcopy book of the same title. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity until 2022. John has been involved in audio and video for more than 50 years, having built radio transmitters, amplifiers, turntables, and speakers from scratch. He was also one of the founders of the Northern California Audio Video Association, now The Bay Area Audio Society.
John holds four university degrees, including a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, and has published numerous scientific books, along with dozens of scientific articles on biomedical research topics as well as imaging technology. He was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of two medical/scientific journals for 20 years. John holds several patents, including one on high resolution image analysis and one on a surgical instrument. He has been affiliated with NASA, The National Institutes of Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Stanford Research Institute, and The University of California at Berkeley. He is President of the consulting firm Scientific Design and Information, Inc., which is based in Redwood City, California.
John resides in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife and multiple kitties! His daughter, Cynthia, who was an integral part of SECRETS for many years, resides in San Francisco.
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