April High-Performance Audio
Review Magazine
This month we've finalized our Florida International
Audio Expo 2024 show report, while we're still adding to our Southwest Audio
Fest and Montreal Audiofest show reports. Be sure to check back often for
updates! Roger Skoff's editorial How To Buy A Violin... Or Something Like That
talks about supporting your local high-end audio / audiophile dealers. Gear
reviews this month includes the Yin Yang Labs Graphametric Paralyzer, Subatomic String Tuning Device Review,
and the not-to-be-missed Exotic Automobile Manufacturer Offers 'The Audiophile Car'!
If you haven't guessed by now, it is April Fools Day and we enjoy making a bit
of fun towards various things music, industry, and exotic sports cars too.
Actual high-end audiophile equipment reviews this month includes the amazing Aric Audio Super 300B SET vacuum tube stereo power amplifier, FiiO's fantastic M17 portable desktop-class music player, RSX Benchmark Series cables and
more!
---> April 2024 High-Performance Audio Review Magazine!
Avantgarde Acoustic Duo XD Hornspeaker
Review
Blow Up! – With the Duo XD, Avantgarde Acoustic shows what horn technology and a perfectly matched active woofers... are able to do to the sound.
Review By Matthias Böde
Yes, you have read the measurement results
from our lab correctly (in case you checked them): For 94 decibels of sound
pressure at a distance of one meter, this speaker needs just 0.07 Watts of
power. Seven Watts would be somewhat normal, 0.7 Watts already a sensation –
but 0.07 Watts reads like a typo. It is completely true though! This is made
possible by the large horn at the top end of the Duo XD, coming from the
specialist Avantgarde Acoustic, based in a small town in the Odenwald mountain
range in southwestern Germany. This horn is connected directly to the amplifier
without any intermediate crossover and visually symbolizes the phenomenal
efficiency with its huge opening of 67 centimeters.
--->
Avantgarde Acoustic Duo XD hornspeaker Review.
Gryphon Audio Essence Preamplifier
And Essence Stereo Power Amplifier Review
Blown away by an amazing musical performance!
Review By Tom Lyle
The
Gryphon Essence preamplifier and Gryphon Stereo power amplifier are gorgeous
looking and beautiful sounding Danish high-end audio components. Those who can
afford either or both of these components will not only enjoy stellar sound
quality but most likely will also be able to enjoy the fact that they are the
epitome of audio equipment that has a look and "feel" of luxury goods. Gryphon
founder Flemming E. Rasmussen was responsible for the stunningly beautiful
exterior of the rather large (and heavy!) Gryphon Essence preamplifier and
Stereo Essence power amplifier. Good looks and operational refinement are
especially true of the Gryphon Essence preamplifier. Its weighty
infrared metal remote was only one indication of this Danish audio manufacturer's
recognition of many audiophile's appreciation of the intangibles that are
available on many preamps.
--->
Gryphon Audio Essence preamplifier & Essence Amplifier Review.
Montréal Audiofest 2024 Show
Report
(Updated 03/29)
Canada's Montréal Audiofest 2024 Event Coverage
The Salon Audio Montreal Audiofest
2024, scheduled from March 22nd through 24th, will bring together over 5000 visitors who
desire seeing, touching, and listening to over 300 brands of high-performance audio products
all under one roof. As the largest show in Canada, you may experience
the very best audio/video industry manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in Canada.
Within each listening room, exhibitors are elated to share their passion for music with you by demonstrating some of the world's best sound systems from
$5000 to $500,000. Montréal Audiofest is celebrating its 35th edition
in 2024 and remains the must-attend event for audiophiles and music lovers.
---> Montréal Audiofest 2024 Show
Report.
Southwest Audio Fest 2024 Hi-Fi Show
Report (Updated 03/28)
SWAF's 2024 high-performance premium audio event coverage.
The Southwest Audio Fest
(SWAF) arises from the partnership of Gary Gill (Capital Audiofest) and Lou Hinkley (Pacific
AudioFest / Daedalus Audio) and their success with the Pacific Audio Fest event, which is destined to be an annual event for high-end audio in the Pacific Northwest serving the entire Pacific
region. We are pleased to announce a new industry-operated show for another underserved part of the
country... the Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas in Texas.
The show promoters worked for over two years to secure a contract with an amazing event hotel,
which is very safe, family friendly, and great weather in March too!
Both Gary Gill and Lou Hinkley are confident that this show will grow and the Anatole has all the room
a premium audio event needs.
---> Southwest Audio Fest 2024 Hi-Fi Show
Report.
UK Inflation Rate Adds Vinyl LP Prices
The United Kingdom's Office For National Statistics has announced their adding vinyl LPs into their "Basket Of Goods And Services" that count toward inflation. According to their website, "New items are introduced to represent areas where consumer spending is significant or growing while items are removed where expenditure is low or decreasing. Some of the changes also help to rebalance the basket, adding items where we need to improve coverage or take items out where a type of product may be
over-represented.... This year, vinyl records have returned to the basket after a resurgence in their popularity. This is not the first time that vinyl has been in the basket of
goods...
---> UK Inflation Rate Adds Vinyl LP Prices.
audioXpress' April 2024 Issue
Editorial: Doesn't Look Like It
An Afternoon With Menno van der Veen
A High-Performance 60-Watt Class A Amplifier Part 1
Comprehensive AC Power Controller
Hearing And Audio Part 2 — Auditory Resolution
Earbuds And Hearables State Of The Industry
Microphone Array Beamforming With Optical MEMS
Unveiling The Impact Of Ear Canal Geometry
And Much More!
---> audioXpress' April 2024
Issue.
Hi-Fi+ March 2024 High-End
Audio Magazine
Editorial: Let's Talk About The Body Shop
Computer Audio Design £675 USB Control Giveaway
Magico M7 Floorstanding Loudspeaker
Aavik I-880 Integrated Amplifier
Technics SU-GX70 Integrated Networked Amplifier
McIntosh Audio Labs MA352 Hybrid Int. Amplifier
Fyne Audio F702SP Floorstanding Loudspeaker
Meze Empyrean II Headphones
Stillpoints Ultra ESS Equipment Support System
GIK Acoustics SlatFusor Room Acoustic Treatment
And Much More!
---> March 2024 Hi-Fi+ Magazine.
Yin Yang Labs Graphametric
Paralyzer Review
Superb mastering engineer quality, yet
wish the Talent knob was more effective.
Review By Steven R. Rochlin
Audiophiles worldwide have long
been looking for a way to enhance the enjoyment of their music. This has lead to
inevitable upgrades in various parts of their music reproduction system. This
piece will enhance the transparency of lesser recordings, or reduce them if you
are tired of hyper-reality. Like your system's transparency, the imaging can be
tuned to fine Zeiss-like focus, or into a blur. For those using older solid-state
devices or push-pull amplifiers, the harmonics know may be the key for those
looking for that zero feedback single-ended tube sound! For me, the most important adjustment the Yin Yang Labs
Graphametric Parlyzer can achieve is in adding real talent to those pop
music recordings.
---> Yin Yang Labs Graphametric Paralyzer
Review.
Subatomic String Tuning Device
Review
The ultimate in resonance tuning!
Review By Steven R. Rochlin
Many audiophiles worldwide are
firm believers in resonance tuning devices. While there are various theories
concerning how these products work, a new upstart company, Subatomic Conger
And Magic (S.C.A.M.) feels that all other companies have ignored the most important
aspect. Namely, in careful attention to the basic molecules at work within all
matter. For many years the scientific community has debated string
theory. As seen above, basic atoms are made up from other smaller objects.
Those smaller objects are said to adhere to what Einstein refers to as the unified field theory.
In fact this then new discovery decades ago began a 30-year crusade!
Both the strong and weak forces (gravity and
electromagnetism) were felt by Einstein to really be part of one grand underlying principle.
As the decades past and new scientists furthered his work, today we have a
better understanding of it all.
---> Subatomic String Tuning Device Review.
Exotic Automobile Manufacturer Offers 'The Audiophile Car'
Audiophiles no longer need to
hibernate at home!
Review By Steven R. Rochlin
For decades audiophiles have been stuck to
the confines of their homes to reach musical bliss. In these, usually, darkened
rooms they would toil away tweaking and tuning looking for the next nirvana. It
brings me great joy to announce the very first auto manufacturer to satisfy the needs
of audiophiles worldwide. This next generation vehicle will suit both those
looking for style and substance. It is no secret that home audio is doomed from
the beginning with lackluster alternating current. This problem is exacerbated with
the use of dedicated power lines, power filters, regenerators, and balancers.
The Audiophile Car, or TAC for short, removes this entire exercise by being 100%
battery powered!
---> Exotic Automobile Manufacturer Offers The Audiophile
Car.
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