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Jeff Rowland Aeris DAC + PSU premium
Adding the brand new Power Storage Unit to the Aeris DAC provides a major upgrade.
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Meridian Ultra DAC premium
Meridian's DACs were usually assigned a number such as 606, 563 and 818. And now there is the Ultra DAC. Purely on appearance it is hard to see the differences with the 818 but soundwise it is immediately clear that this DAC deserves more than just another number.
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HFA Audio Setup History 20 – Secondary Setup – March 2016 to May 2016 premium
After completing the wall construction work, my new setup lasted only 3 months...
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HFA Audio Setup History 21 – Secondary Setup – May 2016 to August 2016 premium
Martin Logans, like any dipole speaker, need lots of space around them The listening section of my secondary listening room is only 4 meters wide, but with careful positioning of the speakers I have been able to get excellent bass out of them with seemingly ruler-flat response, much better in that respect than in the […]
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Meridian 818v3 – MC200 – DSP 5200 SE premium
For the first time, there are a pair of active Meridian DSP speakers in my listening room, along with an 818v3 Reference Audio Core and a Media Core 200. This makes for some very interesting comparisons.
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13 March 2016
HFA Audio Setup History 19 – Secondary Setup – February 2016 to March 2016 premium
After completing the construction work it was time to reposition the Apogees The Duettas and associated equipment were moved into position and with anticipation I sat down on the listening sofa, only to be overwhelmed with bassy room modes. Of course I could have known. With the initial sofa placement smack in the middle of the room […]
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13 March 2016
HFA Audio Setup History 18 – Secondary Setup – Construction work Dec 2015 to February 2016 premium
After being unhappy with the placement of the listening sofa, some more construction work was in order… This is what the secondary setup looked like end 2015: a nice, cozy place to listen to music and watch TV. To make this setup possible I had already removed several walls. Still, I was unhappy with the […]
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7 February 2016
HFA Audio Setup History 17 – Secondary Setup – August 2015 to February 2016 premium
This system's sound was surprisingly good considering that the speakers are so close to the rear wall and the listening seat is pretty close to the speakers.
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HFA Audio Setup History 10 – Bedroom Setup premium
Bedroom system – before the room was to be combined with the cinema room, computer room and hallway The bedroom double-functioned as 2nd TV room at the time. Pretty unneccesary really, but I still had the TV as a leftover from the previous house so I went and installed it in the tiny bedroom. Like […]
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Jeff Rowland Aeris DAC premium
The brand's first entry into the digital world
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Meridian Control 10 Sooloos control unit premium
Discovering the original Sooloos experience.
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Meridian MS200 premium
Meridian Sooloos endzone for only 725 Euro!
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AudioAanZee Ultra Flow Music Server premium
An affordable music server with a sublime user interface that challenges the best that I have heard. Interested? You should be!
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18 November 2012
Music Server Placement and the influence of Network Cable and Switches premium
Even a music server turns out to be sensitive to its placement
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14 October 2012
CD Mechanism Masterpieces – Meridian premium
Meridian have made quite a few excellent digital products and their 500 series players are all real classics
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9 October 2012
CD Mechanism Masterpieces premium
Remember when CD players were built immaculately and used heavy, smoothly operating CD mechanisms?
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26 August 2012
Aurender S10 Music Server premium
High End integrated Storage and Music Playback System without DAC.
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Meridian 818 DAC/Pre/Network Player premium
The very best Meridian Sooloos Streaming Audio.
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Meridian 808.3 Signature Reference CD player premium
Sooloos products had me hooked right from the start
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Meridian Sooloos MD600 and MS600 premium
After being so enthusiastic about the MC200 and almost having purchased one, I decided to first review its bigger brothers.
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Meridian Sooloos Media Core 200 premium
Combination of Sooloos server and endpoint in one neat and compact package.
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12 August 2011
HFA Audio Setup History 07 – Serious Streaming premium
While my Levinson 390S was away for repairs, I had an Ayre CD player on loan, and once again tried a bunch of Marantzes. This time not just any Marantz though: after concluding that the CD80 was nice enough as a transport but not great as an integrated player and trying the ancient CD74 and […]
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11 October 2009
Meridian 508.24 CD Player – Quick Impression premium
A very different animal from the 506-24!
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11 October 2009
Meridian 507 CD Player – Quick Impression premium
Very natural and neutral player with plenty detail and pace.
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11 October 2009
Meridian 506.20 and 506.24 CD Players – Quick Impression premium
Very relaxed, fluid and creamy sounding players.
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Legacy High-End CD Player Comparison – part 1 premium
Wadia 861, Meridian 508.24, Krell KPS20i, CEC TL1x and Audiomeca Enkianthus X.
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18 May 2009
The hidden setup menu of the Meridian 508.24 CD player premium
This apparently simple player secretly has some fine tuning abilities hidden in its configuration menu.
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14 June 2008
Meridian 606 DAC – Quick Impression premium
Even though this was a reference comboplayer, I was disappointed by its sound.
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14 June 2008
Meridian 602 CD Transport – Quick Impression premium
A Beautiful Classic Even though this was a reference combo-player, I was disappointed by its sound. The transport uses a Philips swing arm mechanism which is usually a guarantee for musicality but in this case, I found the transport-dac combo decidedly gray and lacking vitality. Sure, there was no grain, hardness or other nastiness to […]
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