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Auditorium 23 Hommage Cinema loudspeaker
It's no secret that deputy editor Art Dudley is an anachrophile (footnote 1). After expounding on the virtues of vintage audio gear in his October 2016 Listening" column, he spent no fewer than seven...
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Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 90 loudspeaker
Bang & Olufsen's BeoLab 90 is not a loudspeaker to take on lightly. Though its size49.33" high by 28.9" wide by 29.4" deepand weight (302 lbs each) meant a major disruption of my listening room,...
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MartinLogan Masterpiece Renaissance ESL 15A loudspeaker
I prefer and have owned electrostatic speakers for most of my audiophile life. Depending on your point of view, this makes me either the most qualified or the least appropriate writer to review...
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Snell Music & Cinema Home THX reference system
When I requested the Snell Music and Cinema Reference System for review, plus the new Snell Type A Music Reference System for evaluation, little did I know what I was letting myself in for. I lost...
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Magico S5 Mk.II loudspeaker
"Dammit!" No sooner had I praised small loudspeakers while dismissing large speakers as potentially having "large problems," in my review of the Crystal Arabesque Minissimo Diamond in the...
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NEAT Acoustics Iota Alpha loudspeaker
Reviewers of high-fidelity gear are a trend-sniffing, topology-bandying bunch. When four of our kin gathered last November over lunch, during the 2016 New York Audio Show, the high-end chatter flew...
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Larsen HiFi 8 loudspeaker
I wouldn't normally begin a review of an imported product with generalities about the culture from which it sprang, but this isn't just any imported product. It's a Scandinavian loudspeaker, and...
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New England Audio Resource NEAR-50M loudspeaker
New England Audio Resource's NEAR-50M is a cyborg: metal innards in a wooden body. It represents NEAR's top statement in the firm's Metal Diaphragm Technology speaker line, which features the...
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Unity Audio Signature 1 loudspeaker
For anyone who wants to be up to date on all the audio products available in North America, Audio's Annual Equipment Directory is an indispensable source of information. (So is the publication you're...
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RSL Speedscreen II loudspeaker
RSL is the house brand of a California chain of retail stores, Rogersound Labs, that is part-owned by the leader of the RSL loudspeaker-design team, one Howard Rodgers. (Rogersound Labs also owns the...
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Focal Sopra No.3 loudspeaker
When it comes to Focal loudspeakers, I've been a lurker. For decades now, their demonstrations at audio shows have been memorablea highlight was when, several years ago, I got Focal to play a powerful...
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DeVore Fidelity Orangutan O/93 loudspeaker
John DeVore names his speakers after primatesapes, to be specific. Something to do with a family member being a zoologist. John once worked at a hi-fi retailer in lower Manhattan. Now, as president...
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DCM Time Frame TF1000 loudspeaker
It is almost ten years since I last heard a pair of DCM loudspeakers, the Time Windows made famous by writer Peter Aczel in the first incarnation of his magazine The Audio Critic. The "Time"...
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TDL Studio 1 loudspeaker
TDL is part of ELAC, one of the most successful OEM drive-unit manufacturers in the UK, particularly renowned for the 1" aluminum-dome tweeter that they make for Monitor Audio, Acoustic Energy, and...
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Wilson Audio Specialties Alexx loudspeaker
Having discontinued the MAXX3 loudspeaker ($68,000/pair in 2009, when I reviewed it), Wilson Audio needed to plug the resulting gaping hole between the Alexia ($48,500/pair) and the Alexandria XLF...
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Bang & Olufsen BeoLab 90 loudspeaker
Bang & Olufsen's BeoLab 90 is not a loudspeaker to take on lightly. Though its size49.33" high by 28.9" wide by 29.4" deepand weight (302 lbs each) meant a major disruption of my listening room,...
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MartinLogan Masterpiece Renaissance ESL 15A loudspeaker
I prefer and have owned electrostatic speakers for most of my audiophile life. Depending on your point of view, this makes me either the most qualified or the least appropriate writer to review...
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Snell Music & Cinema Home THX reference system
When I requested the Snell Music and Cinema Reference System for review, plus the new Snell Type A Music Reference System for evaluation, little did I know what I was letting myself in for. I lost...
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Magico S5 Mk.II loudspeaker
"Dammit!" No sooner had I praised small loudspeakers while dismissing large speakers as potentially having "large problems," in my review of the Crystal Arabesque Minissimo Diamond in the October...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NEAT Acoustics Iota Alpha loudspeaker
Reviewers of high-fidelity gear are a trend-sniffing, topology-bandying bunch. When four of our kin gathered last November over lunch, during the 2016 New York Audio Show, the high-end chatter flew...
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