High Fidelity Magazine | Published: 4 February 2017 Text: Wojciech Pacula; Translation: Andrzej Dziadowiec REVIEW The E-600 is the follower to Accuphase’s flagship integrated amplifier, the successful E-560. The manufacturer decided to change the name from E-five-hundred to ‘600’ to mark the amazing progress they managed to achieve. The new naming scheme is to symbolize […]
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Written by Al Griffin | Created: 01 February 2017 If you followed our live coverage of the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show on SoundStage! Global, it should come as no surprise to hear that CES 2017 was a disappointment for the high-end audio industry. While other media outlets waffled concerning the merits of CES — or
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by Chris Martens | Jan 24, 2017 In a break with past practice, where Hi-Fi+ coverage efforts at CES and other shows have been both exhaustive and, to be honest, exhausting (as is, “Man, that’s a lot of gear to cover in not enough space…”), Editor Alan Sircom and I decided to narrow things down a
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by John Archer | December 22, 2016 from Techradar. At first glance, the Q Acoustics M4 soundbar doesn’t exactly look like the stuff of home entertainment dreams: It lacks the glamorous design of many of its 2016 rivals. It only manages a 2.1 speaker count at a time when we’re starting to see soundbars now offering
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As has seemingly become the case with each new product introduction, there was once again just so much great press from CES this year. Audiophiles (both the press and attendees) were simply blown away with Sandy’s demo of the new Triton Reference Tower. Here are a few excerpts and snippets from some of the
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That Sinking Feeling by Neil Gader | Jan 13th, 2017 CES 2017 and its often-fractious relationship with the high end might very well be encapsulated by the Bob Dylan lyric, “It’s not dark yet, but it’s gettin’ there.” The decline in exhibitors at the Venetian (as many as thirty to forty by some estimates) was striking. Not
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by Jonathan Valin | Jan 11th, 2017 I have some good news and some bad news about CES 2017. The good news—and it is good news—is that the sound at this year’s rendition of Viva Las Vegas was considerably better than it’s been in years past. The bad news—and it is very bad—is that there
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By John Atkinson Posted: Jan 18, 2017 “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 www.stereophile.com/content/crystal-cable-arabesque-minissimo-diamond-loudspeaker “>October issue, than I had to eat my words. Only days after that issue had gone to press, Magico’s
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by Alan Sircom | Jan 06, 2017 New product launches in the audio sector have moved from January to May, and this year’s CES shows just how big that change is. Despite this, there were some exciting new products seen for the first time, many of which will likely come to dominate the high-end market in 2017.
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(January 5, 2017 – Stevenson, MD) In 2014, GoldenEar introduced the Triton One to great acclaim at the Las Vegas CES. Then, the Triton One launched into the marketplace, thrilling listeners and reviewers alike, while achieving stupendous and previously unheard-of sales velocity for a loudspeaker in its price range. And, of equal importance, the One
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