$2995
Ray Samuels
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
German Physiks with Zorin, an+di and YS-Audio
an+di tweeter
Zorin TP-S5A turntable with Music Reference air-tonearm
an+di preamp and poweramp, using mil-spec technology. an+di is an German brand, designed by an former FM Acoustics engineer.
an+di cables
YS-Audio reference one preamp and phono stage
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Widea Lab’s Audio Renderer
Widea Lab is a young Korean company. The company says they’ve got some strong candidates for US distribution and will also be selling via Amazon. Their first product, the Aurender (short for Audio Renderer; $5700), is a digital music server utilizing a customized Linux OS, linear power supply, and storage for over 5000 lossless and uncompressed CDs. It offers coaxial, optical, and AES/EBU outputs and can be controlled using a clever iPad app which displays album art, all useful metadata, and, on first glance, even seemed friendly to classical music.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
EAR Yoshino DAC
£4000
The DAC boasts a digital to analog converter with low jitter clock and enhanced operation. The DAC accepts up to 24/192 digital input from USB, coaxial SPDIF and Toslink SPDIF inputs. Immediately upon returning to the analog domain, the audio signal is passed to EAR's propreitary analog filter. The audio is output from a transformer-coupled ECC88 tube line output stage as in EAR pro audio equipment. This allows true floating balanced output as well as identical quality unbalanced line out by RCA connectors. The maximum output is 5 volt, which means it can drive directly any power amplifier of any type, with analog volume control that can be controlled by remote handset. This claims accurate, clean smooth sound, yet detailed, open and dynamic, lacking the overly-crisp, a musicality of many highly-regarded digital to analog converters. Avaialble in chrome or black aluminium finish
Specifications
- DAC chip: 24 BIT Multilevel Delta Sigma Conversion.
- 1 x USB Interface
- 2 x 75 Ohms Coaxial S/PDIF
- 1 x Toslink Optical S/PDIF
- RCA 5V rms single ended
- Balanced XLR; 5V rms XLR pin 2 positive
- Valve Compliment: 2x ECC88 / 6DJ8
- Output Impedance: < 60 Ohms (balanced or single ended)
- Recommended Load: > 600 Ohms (balanced or single ended)
- Harmonic Distortion: < 1%
- Frequency Response: 20Hz – 20KHz
- Dimensions: W 435mm, D 320mm, H 95mm
Friday, July 1, 2011
Goldmund Metis D/A Converter
The Metis D/A Converter in short:
- 2 Alize 6
- Inputs: 1x USB 1x Coaxial 1x Toslink
- Outputs: R/L