Electrocompaniet is first and foremost a high-end manufacturer specializing in large, heavy amplifiers. Although the company has recently shown that they master the art of making multi-room speakers . With the amplifier ECI 6DX MKII, the manufacturer has taken it all out, where the goal has been to pack as much quality from the more powerful preamplifiers and …
The easiest way to get better sound in your headphones is to buy a headphone amplifier. Even affordable headphones can suddenly sound much better. Exactly how much money to spend depends on how good sound you want, and of course what kind of headphones you have. The cheapest headphone amplifiers are not powerful enough to …
For many, serious is high-end, whether English, American, German or Norwegian. Few people think of Japan as a country where high-end producers are flourishing. But that is only partially true. Japan has a long tradition of exotic amplifiers in particular, and they came from the most unlikely manufacturers. For most people, Yamaha is synonymous with …
If you want the best possible hi-fi sound from as few components as possible, Teac has a very interesting solution, in the form of the compact network player NT-505. With Teac NT-505 you get all the audio sources you can dream of in one and the same box. Here you get digital conversion of almost …
In the childhood of gramophone records, it seemed as if the record companies were allowed to make record players with their name on them. It was a natural consequence of the companies wanting to sell records. Then people needed gramophones, and as intended, so done. Today, it is completely unthinkable that the record companies themselves …
Sometimes it’s nice to have moderate expectations. Like when you visit a new restaurant for the first time. Or travel to a place you have never been before. Everything is new and exciting, and it is easy to be pleasantly surprised. That’s about how it was with Technics SL-G700 CD player. Which, let me be …
Actually, it’s a little startling that this player is so good. Not for that, the Technics SL-1200G and the expensive SL-1000R are fantastic turntables in their price ranges. But I did not think that this would be so damn good. If you look at the Technics SL-1500C, it is reminiscent of a ribbed SL-1200G. The …
One only needs to take a quick look at the cabinet of the DAC Tambaqui from Dutch Mola Mola to realize that this is expensive. Such wavy curves are not cheap to mill out, and are only made with really expensive products. In other words, we are in the high-end segment, and the price is …
You’re forgiven for not thinking of Yamaha as a turntable manufacturer. Most of Yamaha’s players never saw land in Europe, and therefore amplifiers and receivers have a much larger place in the consciousness of European consumers. But what many do not know is that while other Japanese manufacturers willingly competed with American and European turntable …
The sound is as one would expect from a massive monster amplifier. Powerful, dynamic and vibrant, almost physical, and with extreme goosebumps. But there is no monster amplifier in the room. Instead, it is barely visible from the couch. Even the remote control is not as expected. Like the amplifier itself, it is minimalist, shiny …
Until now, Marantz has not been among the major investors in digital amplifiers with streaming. And this despite the fact that the twin company Denon launched the power system Heos several years ago. It is only in the last couple of years that Marantz has implemented the Heos system in some of its amplifiers. With …
The doubt disappeared after the first two or three songs. After that, it was a pure Tour de Force for Rotel’s stereo amplifier in the resurrected Michi series. It happily sounds as good as the two 1.08 kW powerful mono stages in the same series, costs half and has enough power galore for most speakers …
The music flows out of the speakers and the warm, pleasant sound spreads like a dawning summer day around the body. At the same time, a small stone, smaller than a pinhead, is dragged along deep grooves in a rotating vinyl record. The contact surface is so marginal that a small vibration can endanger the …
The silver-gray cartridge from Audio-Technica is in a price range where Moving Magnet cartridges are more common. Since this is a Moving Coil cartridge, it has two disadvantages compared to an MM cartridge. The entire cartridge must be replaced when the pin is worn out. The pin cannot be replaced. And it delivers low 0.35 …
Most people who have one, or have owned a turntable, have heard of Ortofon. The 100-year-old company has been making cartridges longer than most. The angled Concorde cartridge, which has stood on thousands of DJ players, is among the best known. This one, The Ortofon MC Quintet Red, is made for discerning ears, and is …