CanJam NYC 2019: Headphones & Personal / Portable Audio
CanJam Global, the world's premier headphone audio show, returns to New York City February 16th and 17th at the New York Marriott Marquis in the heart of Times Square. Featuring over 100 of the headphone and portable/personal audio industry's leading brands in over 30,000 sq ft. of exhibition space, CanJam NYC 2019 will showcase the latest products and innovations.
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Goldmund Prana Active Wireless Floorstanding Speaker
Goldmund Prana, meaning 'life force' in Hindu, is a universal sea of energy that infuses and vitalizes all matter. The Prana flagship wireless loudspeaker also pays tribute to the company's engineers who worked hard to design this exceptional piece Goldmund's Prana speakers are fully constructed in the highest quality aluminum. Their sleek and contemporary look match with any color.
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Crystal Cable Now Offers Duet Series Jumper Cables
Crystal Cable wants to help you take high-end sound along with you with their new Duet stereo and balanced portable audio cables. Innovation, development and striving for perfection lie at the core of every challenge Crystal Cable takes on. Not only do they see challenges in the hi-fi products Crystal Cable creates, but also in the market we create them for.
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Audio Research's New Headquarters & Production Facility
Audio Research, one of the oldest continually operating manufacturers in American audio, is proud to announce the opening of an all-new headquarters and production facility. Requiring a substantial investment, the new facility is custom-designed for Audio Research's unique and specific needs relating to production, training, service, engineering, and listening.
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Gold Note PST-10 And PST-1 Turntable Power Supplies
Gold Note is introducing two new inductive linear power supplies designed for all Gold Note low voltage powered turntables. These new products are said to significantly increase the sound quality of Gold Note turntables when used within your stereo system. The Gold Note proprietary filters used for these units allow eliminating all the possible electrical pollution coming from the AC power system and shielding the turntables from electro-magnetic interferences.
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Australian Hi-Fi Magazine January / February 2019
Celebrating 50 Years Of Gear And Music Reviews
This issue of Australian Hi-Fi Magazine celebrates their 50th birthday! The magazine's founder, Gary Cutler, tells tales of the teething issues delivering Volume 1 No 1, and what came next. There's also a show report where Part II continues their report on the Australian Hi-Fi & AV Show that took place in Melbourne plus many audiophile gear and music reviews.
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AXPONA Celebrates 10th Anniversary April 12th To 14th
Calling all audiophiles, music lovers, vinyl collectors, audio engineers and musicians, AXPONA (Audio Expo North America) will be open April 12th through 14th at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center. Attendees will enjoy three jam-packed days of incredible sounds, technology, presentations, design, and the very latest products in the industry.
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NAD M10 Hi-Res Streaming DAC With Integrated Amp
NAD's Masters M10 ($2499) combines the company's state-of-the-art amplification with digital music playback and streaming features to make it an all-in-one solution. NAD's HybridDigital amplification features the 100 Watt per channel stereo (300W into 4 Ohms) Hypex nCore amplification stage that has been well-received by audiophile worldwide.
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Being Obsessed With Music
Plus world premiere reviews and much more within this issue.
Editorial By Tom Lyle
When I first rejoined the audiophile community around 1989 after a ten-year hiatus, the two largest audiophile magazines in those pre-internet days were "digest-sized". My friend and I used to joke that it was small to make it so one could slip a copy in one’s smoking jacket when not reading it.
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Simple Steps To Improve Your Home Studio Listening Environment
The most important area that gets overlooked in most home studios.
Article By Bobby Owsinski
Probably the single most important area that gets overlooked in most home studios is the listening environment. While it's possible that you can get lucky with a balanced, even sound by just setting up a couple of nearfield monitors in your room without thinking much about it, usually that's not the case.
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FiiO M3K Portable Music Player
A mighty mite!
Review By Gary Alan Barker Of Headphone.Guru
The FiiO M3K brings to mind my first mp3 player. It was about the same size, though it lacked any kind of display much less a GUI, and it fitted a 10 Meg SD card (rather than a micro SD card) and it was called an mp3 player because it couldn't play anything else mostly because a single wav file would be larger than its available storage. Things have come a long way since that first player...
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World Premiere Review!
Chord Electronics Symphonic MC Phono Preamplifier
An ability to transfer the Gestalt of the music.
Review By Tom Lyle
The first thing one might notice in regard to Chord's Symphonic Moving Coil (MC) phono preamplifier is its eye-catching appearance. At least that's the first thing that I noticed, even though by now I should be accustomed to this: I've never seen a Chord component that uses a rectangular 17" wide cabinet.
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Goal Zero Yeti 400 Lithium Portable Power Station
Battery power comparo with Goal Zero Yeti 400, PS Audio DirectStream Power Plant 20 (P20) and Stromtank S2500.
Review By Tom Lyle
I've always been a proponent of some sort of power conditioning for one's high-end audio system. This is because no matter how "good" the power coming from your wall receptacle might be, unless your locale power company has set up a transformer in your yard, you are not only sharing power with many others, the power that you are using has traveled quite a distance before it finally arrives at your home.
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World Premiere Review!
MarkAudio-SOTA Viotti Tower
Completely at home within the modern environment.
Review By Clive Meakins
Back in June 2016 I reviewed the MarkAudio-SOTA Viotti One, this was the launch speaker produced by the company. Mark Fenlon – the chief designer – has been creating loudspeaker drivers for years and is now a big part of the MarkAudio-SOTA which is a collaboration between Steve Chen's SOTA Acoustics and MarkAudio Loudspeakers. I was most impressed with the Viotti One, the initial flagship product.
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Schiit Jotunheim Balanced Desktop Headamp / Preamp And Lyr 3 Hybrid Headamp / DAC / Phono
Configurable balanced and unbalanced desktop headamp, phono stage and stereo preamp.
Review By Jeremy R. Kipnis
The names Mike Moffat (Theta Digital) and Jason Stoddard (Sumo) are legendary in high-end audio circles. Both have been determined engineers seeking the highest musical fidelity from their circuit designs and playback efforts, utilizing both analog and digital components; near-on over 38 years now. But you may have missed their combining forces, nearly 10 years ago (in 2010) in the form of a new company featuring plenty of Schiit...
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Pass Labs XP-12 Preamplifier & XA30.8 Stereo Amplifier
Impressed by Pass Labs' INT-60 integrated amplifier, Kevin Fiske decides to check out the XP-12 and XA30.8 pre-power combo.
Review By Kevin Fiske
Having much admired the Pass Labs Int-60 integrated amplifier, which combined one-box practicality with a refined Class A performance that made it well worth Audio Excellence status, I subsequently asked the UK distributor if I might try a Pass Labs A30.8 power amplifier. With a stereo output of nominally 30W/ch, it had more than enough grunt on paper to drive my relatively efficient speakers (and quite a few less efficient designs besides).
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Line Magnetic 218ia Vacuum Tube Stereo Integrated Amplifier
A single-ended triode integrated amplifier for everyone!
Review By Paul L. Schumann
Back in the 1990s, there was an explosion of interest in single-ended triode (SET) amplification. This was spearheaded by two great Japanese designers, Hiroyasu Kondo of Audio Note and Nobu Shishido of WAVAC. Both men designed and built stunning SET amplifiers that were just as much works of art as electronic components.
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