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same for my Oto, always present since 1993…;)

Sant’Agata vs Ingolstadt….

for you is it sportier and therefore more engaging to drive, a car with a mid-engine or one with a front engine? and if both had the same horsepower, say 600? there is a logical and objective answer, but if users love 600 horsepower front-engine cars, what is wrong? what is there to prove? it...

Personally, I grew up with a tube amplifier. It was the first “serious” device I had, and it was the component that changed the way I listened the most in my life. In fact, it was the one that made me passionate about listening to music, and collecting hi-fi equipment. I confess that I would...

I asked this because at the time they were selling the classic Straight Wire ribbon, a flat geometry cable; I know that Mark Levinson had also produced some. Made up of many wires arranged in a parallel and flat manner. Even the ML was a flat copper foil. It looked like a belt! Then I lost sight...

about cables: maybe some of the experts can explain. I noticed that lately many well-known brands are marketing flat cables like these. Which are then left flat or grouped into multiple pieces of flat cable? why? why is this configuration preferred to circular section cables or cable braids?

well in the final bill there is everything. you cannot make a calculation that is based only on the result of the materials and components put together.. It doesn't work like that!! Otherwise at the restaurant you should get a fillet of beef for 6.50 euros plus potatoes for 0.36 euros, and a...

bravo, excellent choice. You will definitely find yourself well with SMSL. I bought three of them last year. I then kept DO300 and SU-1. When I look around and think about a system update, I then go and check the measurements taken, and I have never found a reason to replace them, except for...

I bought all the USB digitals from Amazon, there is a brand that has an absolutely fair price and constructions that seem well made. To the touch they seem to be built with good materials and the connectors seem precise.

absolutely: I saw them and I saw the tests. In fact, I am curious to try a discrete R2R for 170 euros! In truth, I have tried some R2R over time but the craftsmanship of the creations left me perplexed... if I could, I would give a little thought to a Holo: however, I prefer to invest that...

I will tell you that I do not know what to expect: the R2R have always been accompanied by the fame of the most 3D sound and naturalness. This is how the subjective world has always represented it. I have never had the opportunity to make good, somewhat serious comparisons. If this project is...

I'm also thinking about a small DAC for my second system. I'm not interested in balanced because the preamp is only RCA. I would be undecided between SMSL PS200 or, listen up, FIIO K11 R2R, yes I know what you think, but I like to play. I have the opportunity to try an R2R without investing...

Talking about poor engineering or poor quality control seems out of place to me. It happens in every sector and with any man-made device. Simply a component failure is enough to have a buzz. We don't know if it was an amplifier that has been around half the world between fairs and editorial...

Thank you very much as always for your reviews, very interesting. great devices, and once again with surprising performances for the age. Thanks as always for the internal photos of the devices, which I really like!! PS I saw that you live in Switzerland, who knows, one day we can't get...

Hi-fi store leftovers kindly donated. All stuff from years ago. I made myself a few pairs of speaker cables, bought the terminations and assembled them. I want to finish a pair of Straoght Wire Music Ribbons, the flat brown ones, new and never finished, just for the fun of it. On some, you can...

I have no idea either. What I know is that I tried, putting a small DDC Smsl, between computer and Dac, via HDMI cable. Used or not, to me frankly it seems the same in terms of sound. My point was to have a more modern output to the DAC, since my computer is more than 10 years old and that...

in general, so I have always read: i2S skips the receiver input and goes directly to the converter. Furthermore, while the USB cable also carries the current, i2S does not. Another problem that i2S should solve is when you have noise disturbances on the USB outputs that can be present in...

I don't feel like blaming only the devices. I reject the idea that designers are all incompetent visionaries. There are clearly devices or speakers that are better than others, that measure better than others, but even the poorest, if well implemented in the room with correct and not...

Pro-ject, Hegel, Primare, Gold Note, Moon, Perreaux…

it wants to be a different approach so I'm not looking for a neutral speaker. Mostly, since the new room is in the house, and not in the cellar like my main one, listening is almost always at low volume. Then maybe I don't like the new configuration after 5 days, so I don't want to invest too...