HIFICRITIC Vol 16 No 3
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July to September 2022
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CHRIS KELLY GETS TO GRIPS WITH THE FLAGSHIP RANGE FROM ACOUSTIC ENERGY, IN THE FORM OF THE £2400-A-PAIR AE509 FLOORSTANDING SPEAKERS. HIS VERDICT? THIS REALLY IS A ‘MUST LISTEN’ DESIGN
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KEITH HOWARD TAKES AN IN-DEPTH LOOK – AND LISTEN - TO AN UNASHAMEDLY UPMARKET HEADPHONE AMPLIFIER FROM CHINA, COMPLETE WITH A CHOICE OF INPUT AND OUTPUT STAGES – INCLUDING VALVES!
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UK DIGITAL AUDIO SPECIALIST DCS HAS APPLIED THE LATEST APEX DAC UPGRADES TO ITS ROSSINI STREAMER/UPSAMPLING DAC. MARTIN COLLOMS SAYS IT’S A TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE, AND MAKES THIS RESPECTED PRODUCT EVEN BETTER
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NO OTHER AMPLIFIER LOOKS QUITE LIKE THE RA 180, THE FIRST VENTURE OUTSIDE THE NETWORK PLAYER ARENA BY SOUTH KOREAN COMPANY HiFi ROSE, WITH ITS ‘PARTS BIN RAID’ STYLING. BUT AS ANDREW EVERARD DISCOVERS, WHEN HE LISTENS, THERE’S METHOD IN THE APPARENT MADNESS
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The use of colour to enhance images – be they graphs or photographs – is nothing new. You’ve probably seen it used in the hi-fi context in spectrograms to represent signal amplitude in two- dimensional plots of time (on the horizontal axis) versus frequency (on the vertical axis).
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THIS DANISH HEAVYWEIGHT AMPLIFIER PACKS A LOT OF WATTS INTO A STYLISH PACKAGE, BUT DOES IT PULL ITS WEIGHT ON SOUND QUALITY? CHRIS FRANKLAND FINDS OUT
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