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,…
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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…
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…
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 Jeff Fritz Created: 01 December 2019 High-end audio gear can get expensive, but the meaning of expensive depends on the context. For the sake of SoundStage! Ultra, I put most equipment in one of two mental categories: house money and car money. In the US, the median price of a home is $236,100 (all prices USD); the average transaction price of a light vehicle is $37,577. I used to review house-money gear, and these days many manufacturers make loudspeakers priced in that category. But most folks can’t afford a second home; it’s fair to say that you must…
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Herb Reichert | Jun 2, 2020 My most cherished intangibles—love, beauty, glimpses of higher realms—enter my awareness only after I prepare my psyche to receive them. Extended bathing, lighting candles, making tea, and preparing food are ritual work forms that prepare my senses to accept both pleasure and illumination. In like manner, collecting LPs and storing them properly, setting up turntables, aligning cartridges, and cleaning styli are ritual actions that prepare me for the high moments of focused musical pleasure only a black disc can provide. The black-disc high moments I am about to describe were inspired by my turntable guru and…
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