Swiss legends Yello have been a trailblazer for innovative music for 40 years. The duo is highly regarded as pioneers of electronic sounds and sampling technology. They are known in particular for creating a truly unique electronic, yet organic soundscape that serves as a benchmark for music creators worldwide. In order to achieve this one-of-a-kind sound world, Boris Blank – Yello’s musical and technical mastermind – relies on the absolutely precise studio monitors made by PSI Audio.

October 20, 2020

MELCO N100 > Music Streamer & Server

…One of two space-saving half-width models (along with the higher-performing N10), the N100 includes the same class-leading Melco features and high-performance sound quality as its range siblings.

October 13, 2020

Gold Note IS-1000 LINE > without phono stage

All-in-OneAmplifier Hi-Res HiFi MQA Multiroom Network Tidal Qobuz Deezer Roon-ready Spotify Stereo Streaming

The Gold Note IS-1000 is an outstanding all-in-one system of the high-end class. This Gold Note 1000 series solution combines an amplifier with a streaming client, D/A converter and a phono preamplifier. Gold Note now dispenses with the latter in the new Gold Note IS-1000 LINE.
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October 6, 2020

AUDIOLAB 6000N PLAY

What Hi-Fi? Awards 2020 winner.

Had Einstein still been alive today, we could just picture him drawing up his next quantum physics theory while listening to the Audiolab 6000N Play

Audiolab’s first standalone music streamer would certainly have fitted Einstein’s philosophy that a ‘simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone’ – aesthetically, the 6000N Play is as unassuming as hi-fi streamers come, with a screen-less, largely unadorned chassis that gives nothing of its vast network talents away.READ MORE

September 29, 2020

MAGNEPAN LRS > Reviews

STEREOPHILE > When the song ended, I was speechless. I could not imagine a million-dollar system playing it any better.

Conclusion
Does Magnepan’s new LRS loudspeaker “make everything else sound like it is coming out of a cereal box”? Maybe. It definitely sounds boxless. And surely its levels of microscopic detail, accurate timbre, and pure-water transparency are unprecedented at anywhere near $650/pair.

Could the Little Ribbon Speakers become a new classic, like the old Quads or the ageless BBC LS3/5a? Perhaps. It has the right personality. Highly recommended.

– Herb Reichert | Jul 18, 2019

September 22, 2020

The First-ever Reference Class SU-R1000 Integrated Amplifier

Developed to Further Expand Technics’ Sound Experience

1 September, 2020 – Technics unveiled its first Reference Class integrated amplifier, SU-R1000. The Reference Class products are developed in pursue of Technics’ insatiable desire to deliver ultimate sound quality to customers, and they offer premium musical experience the Technics brand is known for. The SE-R1, Technics’ first Reference Class stereo power amplifier introduced in 2014, featured many new and original digital technologies such as LAPC (Load Adaptive Phase Calibration) for realising ideal impulse response and JENO (Jitter Elimination and Noise-Shaping Optimisation) Engine for achieving high-quality, high-precision PWM signal conversion with minimum jitter. READ MORE

September 15, 2020

GOLD NOTE DS-10 D/A processor

I felt like I’d just been offered a choice of 31 flavors of Baskin-Robbins ice cream topped with up to 57 varieties of Heinz ketchup, 57 condiments, and 47 brands of coddled cream. My head began to spin, my stomach churned, and my mouth grew very dry as I read that Gold Note’s DS-10 ($2995) was a “chameleon DAC” with 192 setup options that enable it to “completely blend in with different music genres, giving the listener the opportunity to adapt the behavior of the unit to the music playing, to one’s stereo system and, most of all, to the listener’s taste.”
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September 8, 2020

TECHNICS SL-1000R Turntable Superlative Accomplishment

One company that has returned to the fray, after several decades of quiescence on the vinyl front, is Technics, the Japanese firm that was once an omnipresent force in turntable design and widely viewed as the progenitor of direct drive. Now, under the stewardship of its parent company Panasonic, it’s once more offering a number of turntables at different price points, with the direct-drive SL-1000R at the top of its lineup, what Technics calls its “Reference Class.” The ’table features a separate motor controller, and can be customized to accept up to three tonearms. READ MORE

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