Author: mevart.melody
WOW, what an incredible review by renowned French Magazine Haute Fidelite on the 866! We were also awarded the prestigious Reference certification which is usually only awarded to products at $35,000+. Thank you very much. Also a big thanks to our French distributor Aphrodite’s Melody for all of their support and helping set this up. We are so proud of what we have accomplished with the 866 and really appreciate the thoughtful review. A few excerpts from the review (thanks to Google Translate) “The Boulder 866 is unquestionably on the podium of the best integrated on the current market. Developed…
YG Acoustics is pleased to announce an exclusive partnership with Cambridge Acoustic Sciences (CAS) to develop innovative loudspeaker technologies, both to launch a range of new models and to continue the evolution of the existing YG Acoustic products. Founded in 2002, YG Acoustics is recognized as one of the most prominent companies in the high-end audio industry, a pioneer whose technical advancements remain unmatched. YG Acoustics has a strong heritage of breakthrough technological innovations, such as our patented BilletDome tweeter, as well as other advances including ViseCoil, BilletCore, ForgeCore, DualCoherent, ToroAir and FocusedElimination. These, combined with world-class, in-house precision manufacturing…
By Jeff dorgay It’s no secret that I am a big fan of Nagra products. I can’t hide that from you and keep a straight face. But the admiration is for a good reason – they make fantastic products. Having been to their factory several times now, the team at Nagra is a group dedicated to excellence in every aspect, from design through final build. And their heritage is second to none. Some American customers bristle at the classic form factor of Nagra Classic components, but I love the simple, compact elegance they offer. Not everyone wants a massive rack…
Honoring Tradition by Paul Seydor | Aug 06th, 2020 SME’s new model is the latest turntable-with-tonearm package from a company whose long and honorable history makes one regret the adjective “iconic” has been so preposterously overused these last many years. As over a half century of innovative design and standard-setting precision in engineering and manufacturing lie behind this new product, it is worth tracing its lineage. SME stands for the Scale Model Equipment company, a British firm founded in 1946 by Alastair Robertson-Aikman to manufacture precision models for the exhibition and model-engineering trade. An opera lover, AR-A, as he was affectionately…
By Ketan Bharadia March 27, 2020 Nagra’s first hi-fi product set sky-high standards Swiss-brand Nagra was founded back in 1951. Over the years it has built an enviable reputation for cutting-edge portable tape recorders for the film, broadcasting and security industries, picking up multiple Oscar and Emmy wins for technical excellence on the way. Fittingly, the brand name translates to ‘will record’ in Polish. It wasn’t until 1998 that Nagra launched its first hi-fi product, the PL-P preamplifier. Back then, it retailed for around £5700 ($9500), pretty much at the top of the tree as far as stereo preamps were…
by Anthony Cordesman | Aug 31st, 2016 This review focuses on the new generation of Transparent Audio interconnects and speaker cables. It also, however, almost has to begin with a description of the problems I’ve encountered over the years in dealing with “wires” as passive but important components. Thus it is as much description of a voyage of discovery in seeking out the best interconnects and speaker cables as a review of a given set of products. The Sequel to Joyce’s Ulysses: An Audiophile’s Cable Odyssey Several centuries ago, I wrote some of the first comparative cable and interconnect reviews published…
Wes Phillips | Jun 3, 2019 | First Published: May 1, 1995 “They cost WHAT? A hahahahahaaa!”Nothing is more guaranteed to amuse non-audiophiles than the subject of high-end cable pricing. “I’m sorry. I don’t mean to laugh at you, but…bwah ha ha haaa!” Who can blame them? Even in the hi-fi camp, there are those who are convinced that wires are no more than hideously expensive tone controls. “Hmmpf, cackle. Snort!” Others hold that, differences in resistance, capacitance, and inductance aside (footnote 1), the whole high-end cable market is just an exercise in mass self-delusion. “Really, how much are they?” Regular folk,…
By: Jason Kennedy Wednesday, April 10, 2019 It’s been a while since I lived with an MSB DAC, but I have very happy memories of those occasions when one was left in my care in the past. The company has always been at the leading edge of digital technology with several firsts to its name and some very ambitious products in its range, of these the Discrete DAC is the least expensive. If you look at the price at the bottom of this page it will give you some idea of the altitude that MSB’s engineer/owners Jonathan and Daniel Gullman…
Written by SoundStage! Hi-Fi Editors Created: 01 July 2020 Located in South Thomaston, Maine, Rockport Technologies is a boutique audio manufacturer known for the tremendous attention they pay to every detail of their loudspeakers. As revealed in a SoundStage! Shorts video featuring president Josh Clark, every Rockport speaker is thoroughly checked before leaving their shop to ensure that its finish is flawless; its acoustical output is listened to and measured, and its crossover is tweaked, until its sound duplicates, as closely as possible, the sound of that model’s prototype. Rockport is not a high-volume manufacturer. Last December, Jeff Fritz reviewed…