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Belles Power Modules Reference Series 350A Version 2 Amplifier Review
I met Dave Belles, owner and designer of Power Modules, earlier this year in at the 2011 AXPONA show in Atlanta. Mr. Belles is not exactly an unknown in the audiophile world: He has been designing...
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Behold APU768 Preamplifier and BPA768 Amplifier Review
If in life one is fortunate, true passion will find its way in. Whether it is music, art, cooking, love or any number of activities we participate in, these passions are the reward for the...
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Roksan K2 System Review – Kandy CD Player & Integrated Amplifier & K2 TR-5...
Sweet Sweet Kandy I have long maintained that it makes a lot of sense to consider the system as a whole rather than gambling on individual components. What do I mean by gambling on individual...
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Electrocompaniet ECI-5 MkII Amplifier Review
Electrocompaniet is a company that has a special place in my personal HiFi history. This Norwegian brand of electronics has been around for about 40 years. As many of you know for many years, I...
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Trends Audio BA-10 Bi-Amplifiers With SA-10R Speakers Review
Trends Audio is based in Hong Kong and has been making affordable, small, and very nice-sounding gear since 2006. Now living in Hong Kong, I appreciate the need for smaller systems and Trends Audio is...
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ASR Emitter I Exclusive Amplifier Review
It has been my privilege to have owned or even reviewed some great integrated amps; including a couple from a McIntosh and a couple from Creek, the Joule-Electra VAMP, the Electrocompaniet ECI 5MkII,...
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Wells Audio Akasha Stereo Amplifier
The review of the Akasha Stereo Amplifier from Wells Audio didn’t even last two weeks. It didn’t need to. I had heard enough; enough of everything a solid state amp is supposed to be to crown it the...
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Jones Audio PA-M300 Series 2 Solid-State Monoblock Amplifiers Review
Simplicity is a lovely concept, and an easy one to speak of in generalities, but oh, so hard to execute! Even the simplest life form known to man is mind-bogglingly complex, having an elegance and...
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Merrill Audio Veritas Monoblock Amplifier Review
I was first introduced to the offerings of Merrill Audio by Laurence Borden, our Executive Editor. He learned of the Veritas amplifiers at an audiophile gathering in his neck of the woods somewhere in...
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Pass Labs XA200.5 Monoblock Amplifiers Review
At this stage of my reviewing career, I should be a touch jaded and a bit blasé about reviewing another solid-state amplifier offering. After all, as a result of stone cold luck, my reviewing resume...
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Wells Audio Innamorata Stereo Amplifier Review
I remember the days when I used to scour listings of used gear looking for that “world class” component being sold for a song. I sought something that was respected and well known enough that if it...
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First Watt SIT-1 Mono Power Amplifiers Review
The First Watt SIT-1 is a single-ended Class A monoblock power amplifier that uses a single transistor, no feedback, and no output transformer. Let me just start the review by saying two things....
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Musical Fidelity V90-DAC & M1PWR Amplifier Review
It is difficult not to get carried away with excitement when you have an encounter with a wonderful sounding audio component, especially when it is affordable. If the sound is engaging it is easy to...
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Musical Fidelity M6 500i Integrated Amplifier Review
I love finding unexpected pathways to performance, that is, methods that have potential to outperform expectations. Some are so unexpected that few audiophiles would try them because of the foregone...
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D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum Integrated Amplifier Review
D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum Integrated Amplifier This had been a pretty sleepy summer. I spent more time with my two boys for which I am eternally grateful but I feel I have lost a bit of...
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Pass Labs XA30.8 class A stereo amplifier Review
Pass Labs XA30.8 class A stereo amplifier In my review of the First Watt SIT-1 mono-blocks, I said, “If you’ve been an audiophile as long as I have, Nelson Pass is probably nearly a legend to you. I...
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Pass Labs Xs 300 Dual Chassis mono amplifiers Review
Pass Labs Xs 300 Dual Chassis mono amplifiers This review is about the fabulously over-the-top Pass Labs Xs 300 monoblock amplifiers – although how can you even call them “monoblocks” when each channel...
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Pass Labs XP-20 Preamplifier and X600.5 monoblock amplifiers Review
Publisher’s note: This Review was originally submitted for publishing in March, 2014, but somehow was overlooked. With apologies and thanks to Doug Schroeder, the author, for his insightful work and...
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Pass Labs X260.5 Class AB monoblock amplifiers review
I have heard so many wonderful things about the products from Pass Labs, that I was very intrigued, to say the least. I have heard from many sources, that their products sound excellent, are very well...
View ArticlePass Labs XA30.8 class A stereo amplifier Review, Part II
Pass Labs XA30.8 Review, Part II: “Driving the Quad ESL” I shared in Part I of the Pass Labs XA30.8 review that the reason for getting the stereo amplifier in was because I knew I had a pair of Wayne...
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