De Dave gaat al een tijdje mee in het assortiment van Chord Electronics. Veel liefhebbers hebben al mogen genieten van deze fantastische DAC. Nu heeft ook Hans Beekhuyzen deze DAC geprobeerd in een leuke video! Eerst als losse review en een tweede review in combinatie met de Chord Electronics Hugo TT M-Scaler.
Alpha Audio heeft de LAB12 Pre1 voorversterker (€1.785,-) en DAC1 Reference (€2.999,-) aan de tand gevoeld en beloond met een “Highly Recomended”.
De Conclusie: “De Lab12 pre1 en dac1 reference zijn allebei no-nonsense producten die een positieve indruk hebben nagelaten. De dac1 reference heeft zelfs een vooroordeel bij ons weggenomen want hij klinkt open en neutraal en dat zagen we niet aankomen. De pre1 is een heerlijke voortrap met een sublieme volumeregeling. Hij biedt een open venster op de muziek en de mooie soundstage krijgt u er gratis bovenop. Als u kan leven met de beperkte features dan haalt u met de Lab12 pre1 en dac1 reference twee absolute toppers in huis. Ze zijn dan ook, om het met een cliché te zeggen, highly recommended!”
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“Furutech NCF wall socket and Pure Power 6E NCF
Dragging myself from my set (extremely hard) in order to provide you all with an episode of an audiophile. I have been playing with Nagra (see pics) for a while. Extremely happy but the upgrade bug kept raising its ugly head. So I went to listen to a Zanden 3000 mk2 preamp (to replace my Nagra Jazz), dreaming about a second hand pair of Zanden 9600s to replace my Nagra Classic Amp. Went to listen to the Zanden preamp and it was great: bigger sound, deeper soundstage. Great in every sense. But out of my reach financially. Still I wanted to do something, anything, you all know the feeling. So… what isn’t expensive and would still give me some improvement. Enter the Furutech NCF rhodium wall socket. At 265 euros a no brainer. Ordered the thing found a nice gentleman to install it and…. Was totally shocked! Lower noisefloor, more detail, more more more. But, even though I would never consider going back, there was a presence which curbed my enthousiam a bit… there was some definite “upfrontness” in the sound. As said, not enough to have regrets but still…. The improvement (in the detail department) led me to think more about the “power department”. I had read about the Pure Power 6E NCF and even though it was out of my reach right now, I wanted to hear it. Fortunately enough, I could listen to it in a super high-end store in the Netherlands, AudioLife in Buren, run by a team of enthusiast audiophiles. I described my experience here: https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/first-impressions-furutech-pure-transmission-power-6e-versus-vibex-granada-powersplitter.27486/#post-558000
But listening in a shop is not the same as listening at home. Fortunately, I was offered to test it at home. So home I went, taking a PP6ENCF along with the cheapest NCF power distributor (e-TP609E NCF), four NCF boosters and two TP-TCS31 power cables. At home, in went the mighty Elrod Master Diamond and the two Furutechs went to the Classsic Amp and MPS (feeding the Nagra Jazz and CDP). At this moment I have to make a confession…apart from looking forward to the experience… there was also some fear. What if the PP6ENF would also show the upfrontness of the wall socket (which, but the way, has decreased a lot by now), what if it would all be too much? I was told the unit was well broken in, but still… Well, there was only one way to find out, push the play button. And then….. nothing. Nothing?! No spectacular sound, no audio nirvana, no nothing. My brain did not compute… what happened?!? After the first five minutes of shock, I noticed how I heard things I had never heard before: increased soundstage, increased resolution, byebye noisefloor. The best sound ever but not in the way I expected. I have been playing for three days now, eight hours each day (the unit has to go back at the end of this week). Totally awed and for the first time in a long while, having the feeling, YES this is it!. But what was the initial shock? It was the fact that this thing is like Switzerland: totally neutral: every frequency was given the same attention. The improvement was from top to bottom. It is also like Switzerland in that the view is as if you were standing on a mountaintop in clear sunny weather, spectacular! No, Shakti, this will not turn your Wilsons into Magicos hahaha. But I guess you are already extremely happy using the first version of the Pure Power. So what is next? Well the Zanden dream is over, I will buy the PP6ENF, as soon as funds allow it. It gives me all I want. Will it end the upgrade virus for ever? No of course it won’t (I am a man ánd an audiophile, thé recipe to do silly things). But it will end the search for quite a while. The Furutech Pure Power 6E NCF, boring to perfection, the end of the search for spectacular sound because, without knowing it, it is already here. What can I say, if you feel the upgrade bug, the need to spend money in a big way, do yourself a favour: borrow the PP6ENCF, it will probably do more than a new amp etc. If you look at my photograph, you will see the unit in the middle, and that is where it belongs: in the middle, delivering its unassuming magic to every other component. The fact that is also looks exquisite helps of course. If I were a rapper I would buy a big chain and wear the Pure Power around my neck haha (and ruin my back).” – Wim Hendriks.
Als je de plaats hebt, ontdek je in de JBL L100 Classic een luidspreker die anders is dan de mainstream. Gecombineerd met de juiste versterker is het een plezier om naar te luisteren, zowel voor grote orkestrale werken, rockmuziek als – toch wel – elektronische genres zoals triphop. Net vanwege dat unieke karakter zouden we je aanraden om, als de kans zich aanbiedt op een luistershow, even te gaan zitten en wat langer te luisteren. Misschien word je er wel nostalgisch van.
Jamie Biesemans, HiFi.nl
De JBL L100 staat inmiddels in onze winkel te spelen en willen je graag uitnodigen om eens langs te komen om te luisteren. Wil je iets meer weten over deze luidspreker? Dat kan! Hier één reviews om een indruk te krijgen over deze klassieker. Veel leesplezier!
…know that the Stabi R comes from a very different place, one that goes for naturalness of sound, and follows the ethos laid down by the late Harry Pearson decades before Kuzma made its first turntable. You feel drawn to well-recorded, unamplified sounds in a natural acoustic, hence the reaching for those ancient Proprius recording. The Stabi R has the power to shock, as long as your records are up to the task.
HiFi+
De Kuzma Stabi R is onlangs uitvoerig getest bij HiFi+ magazine met lovende woorden. Wil je de hele test lezen? Klik dan hier.
De Destat III heeft het label “Recommended ” gekregen van HI-FI Choice (UK). De Destat III kan volgens HI-FI Choice veel problemen van “vinyl lovers” oplossen. Met de DeStat III kun je namelijk al je kabels, DVDs, CDs, SACDs, en meer, demagnetiseren. Zeker bij droog en warm weer is dit hard nodig. Daarnaast is hij handig te gebruiken en is hij heel erg effectief.
Kom het zelf een keer bij ons in Buren de Destat III proberen!
Op de valreep van 2017 is er nog een review van de Aurender A10 in de Stereophile. De conclusie:
“If the Aurender A10 is not the CD player of the 21st century, it’s certainly a viable 21st-century successor to that less-than-perfect source. That the A10 provides a single front-end solution for playing digital music in far more formats, sourced from far more platforms, than the designers of the CD ever envisioned makes it a most tempting proposition for those with limited space and budgets, or who consider a pile of boxes and cables the work of the devil. Whether or not the A10 will end up on your shelf will depend, in large part, on your sonic priorities. Those who tend to listen to music while multitasking, or who don’t spend hours on end sitting undisturbed in the sweet spot, need not hesitate.”
Lees hier de hele review!
Vanaf de buitenkant lijkt er bijna geen verandering te zijn met de gewone Merging+NADAC. Totdat je een apparaat als een IPad aansluit.
“The Merging+Player with an iPad is suddenly transformed into a complete digital hub and all your music is hanging from that hub. This comes because the program Merging itself used to drive the original NADAC is replaced by Roon, and the big feather in the Merging+Player’s cap is full Roon-ready capacity. Without the ‘+Player’ part, this is a very fine DAC, but with it, it is a complete and extremely potent audio server.”
Door deze verandering is het mogelijk om je computer aan de kant te doen!
“With the computer out of the way, the Player takes on the role brilliantly. Like all good Roon-related products, it will run around your network (from a virtual perspective) to and music stores and shares, and will blend this with your TIDAL account seamlessly.”
