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Gramophone Dreams #94: Sparkler Audio S515t CD transport, Beyerdynamic DT...
I am a lucky person. I've been writing monthly audio columns since 1992, and the chief benefit of that privilege has been that each month my mind is free to visit distant shores searching for exotic...
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Gramophone Dreams #88: TEAC VRDS-701T CD transport
It's the late 1980s, and I'm soldering tube amplifiers on a plywood bench. I decide on a whim that it's time to break down and buy a CD player to supplement the Dynaco tuner and Dual cassette deck in...
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Hegel Music Systems Viking CD player
The pleasures of reviewing a new CD player reside in its light weight, compact dimensions, and, most of all, its ABC-simple installation: no cartridge to mount, no stylus to break, no step-up trans...
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AVM Inspiration CS2.3 CD receiver
In the 1960s, my dad gave me a Panasonic receiver with two cube speakers, just in time for the advent of FM stereo radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. Out of the blue one night, he just walked in with...
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Jay's Audio CDT3-MK3 CD transport
They say a jack of all trades is the master of none. While this expression is typically used to describe people, it also works for machines that play 5" optical discs. The Compact Disc was launched in...
View ArticleTwo Follow-Up Reviews: Benchmark DAC3 B & Rotel DT-6000
Stereophile's March 2023 issue includes two follow-up reviews of high-performance digital playback products: the Benchmark DAC3 B D/A processor; and the Rotel Diamond Series DT-6000 DAC Transport (a CD...
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Pioneer CLD-V710 Laser Karaoke CD/CDV/LD player
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Three May Issue FollowUp Reviews
Michael Fremer wrote about the Paradox phono preamplifier in the March 2022 Analog Corner, Jim Austin reviewed the CH Precision D1.5 CD/SACD player/transport in March 2022, and Herb Reichert included...
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Cyrus CDi-XR CD player
In the 1990s, I was a globetrotter, interviewing musicians in diverse locales for several publications. My habit when arriving in London was to hit the duty-free shops for Cuban Montecristo cigars,...
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CH Precision D1.5 SACD/CD player/transport
There's a school of thought that maintains that among all hi-fi components, the D/A converter is easiest to perfect or come close to perfecting. Just make sure that every sample is converted...
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Three December 2020 FollowUps
Three products are the subjects of lengthy followup reviews in the December issue of Stereophile: MBL's Noble Line N31 CD player-D/A processor, the GoldenEar BRX loudspeaker, and Alta Audio's Alyssa...
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California Audio Labs Tercet Mk.III CD player
At $1295, the Tercet Mk.III represents a step up from CAL's $750 Icon, which I enthusiastically recommended back in April 1990 (Vol.13 No 4, footnote 1). Externally, with the exception of a wider and...
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Bow Technologies ZZ-Eight CD player
"Something's coming, I don't know what it is, but it is gonna be great!"Tony, West Side Story While the Sharks and the Jets rumble in the consumer electronics playground, knife-fighting for supremacy...
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Luxman D-105u CD player
The $1200 D-105u, the top of Luxman's CD-player line, is novel in its twin-triode vacuum-tube amplification in the analog output stage. This configuration is said to provide high linearity with low...
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Denon DCD-2560 CD player
My first CD player was a Denon DCD-1800, the grandpappy of 'em all. It was big, clunky, and sounded like, well, you can read back issues to find out what it sounded like. But I was living in a...
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Quad Artera Solus integrated amplifier/CD player
The Quad Electroacoustics Ltd. Artera Solus is a multifunction audio component that was designed to look smart on top of a bureau in a living room or office. It comes with a thick, removable...
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Métronome Technologie AQWO SACD/CD transport and D/A processor
In an era when polar opposites compete as absolutes, it can be a challenge to acknowledge the different and equally valid ways in which audiophiles approach musical truth. But the reality is that our...
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Tandberg 3015A CD player
Tandberg of Norway has a rather ambiguous corporate image among audio perfectionists. Long considered to make some of the best tape-recording equipment around, the firm has never been seen as a leader...
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Gryphon Ethos CD player-D/A processor
What kind of creature is this? Gryphon Audio Designs' new Ethos ($39,000)pronounced EE-toss by its Danish manufacturersis marketed as a CD player and digital-to-analog converter. It's decidedly au...
View ArticleSumo Axiom CD transport & Theorem II D/A processor
Making digital audio sound good appears to be a much more difficult job than its developers first realized. When digital audio was in its infancy, there was a tendency to think that digital either...
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