05.2019

05.2019

April 30, 2019 | No Comments

Obstacles! You readers don’t know how hard it is to sort through all the great hi-fi gear these days. There are numerous obstacles in my way. Glenn just came into my office and proclaimed- “You won’t believe what I just found!” I’m thinking, he found a Mac MR78 in mint condition, or a pair of Maggie Tympani 1-Ds that don’t need to be rebuilt. Nope. Glenn went on. “My house was built in 1977. One of the toilets is beige. I’ve never been able to find a matching seat. I went to Ace to buy the lights for the elevator
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04.2019

04.2019

April 2, 2019 | No Comments

Bob Carver Crimson 275 Power Amp: $2750 (75×2, 7h, 14w, 9.5d, 19 lbs) The new Bob Carver Crimson 275 tube power amp is now here! It is made in the state of Washington. It has a five year warranty which includes the tubes themselves! Who else warranties tubes for more than a few months? Crimson 275 sounds almost exactly how you would expect it to. It sounds tubey, warm and has many layers. It’s quite enveloping. Do you want to appreciate the nuances of a human voice? A guitar? A piano? That’s what Crimson 275 is designed to communicate. The
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03.2019

03.2019

February 28, 2019 | No Comments

NAD C275BEE Power Amp $1300 (150×2, 6h, 17 1/8w, 15d, 33 lbs) This fantastic power amp has been back ordered for months. With the array of great gear NAD makes, this CLASSIC SERIES two channel, class AB power amp sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. They have spent their resources making other “more hip” products and have just caught up on C275BEE. If you’re after a battleship of a power amp at an affordable price, think CLASSIC NAD. Further, C275BEE can be bridged and delivers 330w per chassis, monoblock. This AB amp harkens back to a day where power amps
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01.2019

01.2019

December 29, 2018 | No Comments

  NAD C658 Preamp/Streamer/DAC $1500 Due by Jan 7 is NAD’s new Swiss Army Knife which I predict will REDEFINE the preamp product category. It does so much, so well, that we just have to shake our heads at how lucky we are to be audio addicts in 2019! Here we go- hold on tight! It’s a stereo preamp with cutting edge DACInputs include MM phono, two sets analog RCA inputs, two OPT inputs, two Coax inputs.Ouputs include XLR out (YES!!), analog RCA out, and sub RCA out. It’s also A STREAMER!That’s right. C658 basically has a Bluesound Node 2i
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12.2018

12.2018

December 1, 2018 | No Comments

Brand New! GoldenEar Triton Reference 1.R $6000 Per Pair, (54h, 8w, 16 5/8d, 92dB SPL) We are very excited to share that GoldenEar has just introduced a second speaker to its Reference Series. Triton Reference 1.R has just arrived! T 1.R is the same size as the classic Triton 1. But T 1.R has the improved components of its bigger brother, GoldenEar’s Triton Reference Flagship ($9000 Per Pair). T 1.R brings the technology and luxurious cosmetics of the T-Ref to a lower price strata. With superior tweeter, midrange elements, subwoofers, power amp and cabinet construction, Triton Ref 1.R shares the
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