Product Reviews
.jpg "Review: Moon i-1 Integrated Amplifier")
For a company that manufactures some spectacular-looking and completely individual products (the CD5.3 CD player and i5.3 dual mono integrated come immediately to mind) Moon seems to have been playing it safe of late: obviously by intention, hence the ‘Classic Series’ moniker that attaches to the Moon i-1.
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.jpg "Review: Musical Fidelity 750k Power Amplifier / Supercharger")
Although it’s technically just a variant of a conventional power amplifier (indeed it can be used as a power amplifier if you like), Musical Fidelity refers to the 750k (and the 550k) as a ‘Supercharger’ because its raison d’etre is that it should be added to an existing audio system to ‘turbo-charge an existing power amplifier, rather than to replace your existing power amplifier.
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.jpg "Review: Paradigm Reference Studio 10v5 Loudspeakers")
When I first peeled the grille from the front of the Studio 10 v5, my heart sank a little, because I immediately saw the gold-coloured bullet at the centre of the cone and thought that Paradigm had started building bass/midrange drivers with pole-pieces that extended through the cone, eliminating the dustcap and exposing the voice-coil gap. I am not a fan of this particular design...
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.jpg "Legend Acoustics Small Red Isobaric Loudspeakers")
The Small Red aims at offering much of the considerable sonic qualities of the Big Red sans DEQX in a smaller passive single-box stand-mount package. What a challenge!
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.jpg "Review: Sonique Diamond 550 Loudspeakers")
Most Australian loudspeakers are not actually ‘manufactured’ in Australia. Sad but true. For at least the last twenty years this has been because there have been no large diameter high-quality bass or midrange drivers made in this country since Plessey/Rola shut up shop in the early 70s…
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.jpg "Review: Audio Research DAC7 DAC")
Sonically the Audio Research DAC7 will revitalise your source material with its extended treble, its smooth and resolute midrange and its powerful bass register. When a venerable company such as Audio Research Corporation releases a new product, audiophiles, the industry—and even competition—should prick up their ears.
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.jpg "Wilson Audio Sasha W/P Loudspeakers")
Wilson Audio’s new Sasha WATT/Puppy has some mighty big shoes to fill.
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.jpg "Review: KEF iQ30 Loudspeakers")
One great benefit of the Uni-Q geometry used in the KEF iQ30 is that both the bass driver and the tweeter have almost exactly the same dispersion pattern or, as KEF frames it, ‘matched directivity’, so as a listener moves off-axis, the high frequencies are attenuated at almost the same rate as the bass/midrange driver, so tonal balance is correctly maintained even for listeners sitting ‘way off to one side.
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.jpg "Review: Marantz PM7003 Integrated Amplifier")
The PM7003 is very similar to the highly-awarded PM7001KI in that it, too, uses completely symmetrical circuitry, and benefits from the use of Hyper Dynamic Amplifier Modules (HDAMs) which use current feedback rather than voltage feedback to enable greater dynamics, particularly when the amp is driving speakers whose impedance drops below their nominal value.
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.jpg "Review: Elac FS207.2 Jet Loudspeakers")
Many audio companies like to highlight their long and glorious histories, but few can hold a candle to Germany’s Elac, which traces its history all the way back to April 15, 1908.
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