Mel Martin

Magnetar UDP800 Universal Disc Player Review

Mel Martin

>A company new to our shores, Magnetar, is offering the UDP800 universal disc player which should delight fans of the now discontinued Oppo players and audio and videophiles with shelves full of completely obsolete music and video format discs like DVD-Audio or Kodak Picture CD. But besides playing the older formats, the UDP800 is up to date with 4K-UltraHD playback, Dolby Vision, and HDR 10+, and it can play media files with H265 and H264 support.

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LSA VT-150 80 WPC Power Amplifier Review

Mel Martin

It seems tube amps, power amps, and headphone amps are back in the ‘almost’ mainstream. I haven’t heard a high-quality tube power amp in many years, but my ears feasted on this new amp from LSA, an 80 watts per channel behemoth that puts out glorious-sounding music for not a lot of money. In fact, it’s competitive in price with high-quality solid-state designs.

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Focal Bathys Wireless Hi-Fi ANC Headphones Review

Mel Martin

With all the headphones out these days is there anything truly new? I think there are with these new headphones from Focal called the Bathys. It’s a wireless headphone, so nothing new there, but it can also be a wired headphone. OK, nothing new there either. We’ve had wired headphones since the 1940s at least. It also sports noise reduction, but there are plenty of headphones with noise reduction too.

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Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2 Active Noise Cancelling Headphones Review

Mel Martin

When Bowers & Wilkins offers a new headphone people take notice, and the latest in the B&W catalog is the Px7 S2 Active Wireless Headphones with noise canceling. It sports new drive units, some unique geometry, new microphones for use with cellular phones, and improved noise reduction. It’s slimmer than their previous offerings, made of new materials, and is said to excel at the reproduction of high-resolution music

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