av Daniel | apr 29, 2020 | Test
”There’s excellent control and grip, even with relaxed-sounding speakers such as the Sonus faber Olympica Nova V [reviewed next month] and while the MOON amps can’t quite overcome the strong sonic signature of these big Italian speakers, they do make...
av Daniel | apr 29, 2020 | Test
A final word must go to bass replay, as the cable truly opens this area up being variously lean and fast, but rich and thunderous when demanded. Low-octave content comes across as staggeringly honest, whether delivering tuneful bass figures from an accomplished...
av Daniel | feb 12, 2020 | Test
When it comes to high-powered tube amps, today it is VTL that set the standard against which the competition is measured. Look a little closer at their products and it is not hard to understand why; listen and it becomes more obvious still. It’s this ability to get...
av Daniel | feb 11, 2020 | Test
”On Leonard Cohen’s final album You Want It Darker, the Nyquist and Marconi created a wide and deep soundstage that allowed you to track each accompanying instrument carefully. The bass was deep, but always carefully delineated.” ”…the...
av Daniel | jan 16, 2020 | Test
Fatboy Gimbal and Unipivot Tone Arms ”To say that I was impressed with the Fatboy is an understatement. It has now found a permanent home in my system. The improvements realized across the board were well beyond my expectations” ”All I can say is...
av Daniel | dec 8, 2019 | Test
”Like the XV and Sonja 2.2, the Hailey 2.2 conveys a sense of extraordinary sonic transparency, meaning the speaker will show you low-level transient, textural, and spatial details in recordings that you perhaps never knew existed. Its low frequencies offer...
