RMAF 2019 Show Report
Enjoy the Music.com's Rocky Mountain International Audio Fest (RMAF) 2019 show report celebrates our sweet 16 years of covering this popular high-end audiophile event. Our exciting show coverage is now live and features many new products. We also feature many RMAF 2019 educational, and informative, seminar videos too! Check back often as we continue to update our RMAF 2019 show report.
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Win FiiO's M9 Hi-Res Audio Lossless Music Player!
Enjoy the Music.com is honored to join with FiiO for our September 2019 contest. You could win a FiiO M9 portable Hi-Res Audio portable music player valued at $299.99! FiiO's M9 Hi-Res Audio portable music player can handle everything from lossy MP3, OGG, and WMA to true lossless FLAC and WAV files for those who desire the very best in high-resolution music playback.
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ZeroHedge Posts About Vinyl Outpacing CDs
ZH down-talks vinyl, backlash ensues.
Popular online financial and political website ZeroHedge just posted an article titled "Vinyl Records Set To Outpace CD Sales For The First Time In 30 Years, Even Though They Suck", and the comment sections is filled with their longtime readers who push back on the less-than-positive article about the sound of vinyl LPs. Within magazine Rolling Stone it says, "Vinyl records earned $224.1 million (on 8.6 million units) in the first half of 2019, closing in on the $247.9 million (on 18.6 million units) generated by CD sales....."
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MartinLogan MDA Series Switching And Room Correction
MartinLogan is pleased to announce the new MDA Series of distribution systems featuring their MDA8 and MDA16 ($1999 and $3499 respectively). With the ever-growing popularity of whole-house and outdoor audio systems, the challenge of unlocking the performance potential of sound has only increased. Web-based setup, digital inputs, equalization, matrixing, plus room correction capabilities and all within one chassis. Anthem Room Correction (ARC) and bass management further extends the capability of their MDA series.
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Aaron Weinstein 3X3 Audiophile Edition Hi-Res Music
What if you were presented the same album recorded three different ways – different microphone techniques, and different microphones? The performers and performances remain the same, but, the means used to capture their performances change. Do you feel like you'd know going in what you like best? Aaron Weinstein 3X3 Deluxe Audiophile Edition gives you the opportunity to explore this very concept. Recorded in a single day in a Brooklyn church, this intimate band of three Jazz musicians perform an album of beloved instrumental standards captured three different ways.
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Bryston Launches Their BDA-3.14 Multi-Function DAC
Bryston has introduced their BDA-3.14 ($4195) multi-function DAC that adds an array of impressive features to the much heralded BDA-3 DAC platform. The BDA-3.14 is said to delivers the performance and build quality music aficionados have come to expect from Bryston. Bryston's BDA-3.14 offers streaming capability via a built-in music player that delivers access to network-connected storage and USB drives as well as streaming music services.
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The Long View On Cables
Audiophiles are divided as to whether cables are snake oil or nirvana.
Article By David Schwartz, Member Of Gotham Audio
Last year, members of Audio Syndrome, a Long Island based audio club, got into a discussion about cables. They had all read a series of articles by Belden engineers Galen Gareis and Gautam Raja, on audio cable design. One of the club members looked into the cost of the Belden Iconoclast cables designed by the authors. He found them to be quite expensive.
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High Style In High-End Audio
You don't need to be an Audiophile OG to chill with a sense of style.
Editorial By Steven R. Rochlin
Have been taking photos of audiophile gear for many decades, and am always impressed by the creative flow of many designs. Below are a very small sampling of the incredibly talented engineering and design by a variety of high-end audio manufacturers.
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Copland CTA 408 Vacuum Tube Integrated Amplifier
A tube amplifier in disguise.
Review By Dr. Phil Gold
It has been seven years since I reviewed the Copland CTA 506 Power amp which I liked very much at the time and is still available today. From my 2012 review of the CTA 506: The Copland CTA 506 combines classic design with the latest developments in vacuum tubes to create an impressive and attractively priced power amp that seems equally at home across musical genres. It stands up well against the other power amps – tube and silicon based – that have been through my listening room.
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Best Of 2019 Blue Note Equipment Awards
Enjoy the Music.com celebrates the best hi-fi gear of 2019!
Enjoy the Music.com, high-end audio's celebrated online site since 1995 and a leader in providing industry news, gear reviews, and show reports, is pleased to announce our Best Of 2019 Blue Note Awards. Enjoy the Music.com's Best Of 2019 Blue Note Awards celebrates the many great achievements by audiophile manufacturers within the high-end audio and Hi-Res Audio industry.
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Melco N10 Music Server And PS10 Power Supply
Enveloping sound that activates all my audiophile senses!
Review By Tom Lyle
By now, the music server shouldn't be a foreign concept to most audiophiles. When servers first began to be a part of our digital front-ends, all that most audiophiles wanted and needed were designers to provide a convenient way to play their music files. Since then, enough research and development have gone into designing and building music servers that there are now plenty of options available at many different price points. Today, the name of the game is sound quality. Melco has upped the ante by providing not only a perfectionist audio module, but one that has its own outboard power supply connected to it in order to increase the level of sound quality.
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Backert Labs Rhumba Extreme 1.3 Preamplifier
A neutral presentation that excels in micro dynamics and harmonics.
Review By Dean Cacioppo
In my humble opinion, the two most under appreciated aspects of high-end audio are room acoustics/speaker placement and the preamplifier. These are the unsung heroes of the best sounding audio systems in the world. Speakers are generally front and center - kinda like a quarterback for a great football team. The power amplifier and the speakers complete the final circuit in audio reproduction, so the matching of the power amp and the speaker is crucial.
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