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BAETIS AUDIO REVOLUTION X4 STREAMER - REVIEW
The Baetis Audio Revolution X4 brings a naturalness, an ease, and a sweetness to recordings that will have analog-lovers fully engaged while also providing the high-fidelity technicalities—soundstaging, resolution, transparency, detail retrieval, etc.—for those long wedded to the evolving digital audio world. The Revolution X4 is an outstanding digital streamer that I am certain believes itself to be a synthesis of both digital and analog.
BDI ELEMENTS WHEAT MEDIA CONSOLE - REVIEW
In the end, I have an aesthetically beautiful audio/media console in the BDI ELEMENTS WHEAT Console that comports itself beautifully in a MCM interior design motif. It houses my reference gear with exquisite care, provides sufficient room for it to breathe, isolates the gear via rigid construction, and it moves(!) to facilitate easy switching-out of gear.
LYRIC Ti 100 MKII INTEGRATED (SET) - REVIEW
The tone and timbre of the Lyric Ti 100 MkII brings both naturalness and spot on realism to bear with regard to, literally, any instrument it renders, in addition to accuracy. In this respect it is the place where natural and beautiful and high fidelity find great synergy.
THE DAN CLARK CORINA - REVIEW
For a long time, I had thought the STAX SR-X9000 as the ‘jewel in the electrostatic crown’ so to speak. I do not think about the STAX SR-X9000 that way anymore. Since reviewing the Dan Clark CORINA, I would be exceedingly happy to live with it instead. Bravo!
VIVID AUDIO KAYA 45 - REVIEW
The Vivid Audio Kaya 45s came in with little expectation from me. They sat patiently while the other in-house speakers were put through their paces. And when their turn came, well, they astonished and continue to astonish. Additionally, the Kaya raised the bar of performance and award citation for not only speakers but all other equipment as well. No small task. And this speaks to the profound abilities of the Vivid Audio Kaya 45.
SILENT ANGEL BONN NX AND GENESIS GX - REVIEW
If what you seek is the next level with regard to effectively diminishing jitter and its attendant troublesome gremlins to a state of dramatic unnoticeability (‘shake-free’), you may wish to look no further than the Silent Angel Bonn NX Network Switch and the Silent Angel Genesis GX Word Clock combo.
SHAKTI STONE AIR & ONLINE AIR STABILIZERS - REVIEW
Well, the short and sweet of it is that the Shakti Stone Air and On-Line Air work immediately and beautifully together. They took our electrostatic reference system to even greater high-fidelity heights than we could have imagined. The improvements can be summed up in a few words—more transparent and resolving, more natural, more musical. Once they’ve been placed in your system, I don’t believe you’ll want them to leave.