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Second P.S. Audio NuWave Phono Converter Brings Some Sonic Relief
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 18, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  7 comments
A second NuWave Phono Converter sample arrived the other day and after swapping the two back and forth a few things became sonically obvious. One is that the second sample was not as hard, bright and mechanical-sounding as the first one. And the other was that like the first sample, the second NuWave's lower midrange and bass were less than fully fleshed out.
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Can I Have My Money Back?
"Geek Squad" Road-Rage Madness!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 17, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  47 comments
So I'm driving back from Washington D.C. where I'd gone to install an Etna cartridge in an AMG Viella turntable for a friend. His politics are 180 degrees diametrically opposed to mine. In fact, he's a consultant to "those people". But you know what? Politics stops for me at the lead-in groove.

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Phono Preamp Reviews
Phono Preamplifier Voting Results and Files Identified!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 15, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  39 comments
On January 2nd analogplanet.com posted five 96/24 bit files, each containing the same minute’s worth of John Williams’ “Liberty Fanfare” performed by the National Symphonic Winds conducted by Lowell Graham excerpted from the album Winds of War and Peace originally issued in 1988 on Wilson Audio Specialties Records (W-8823) and used with permission.

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CES 2014
International CES 2014 Wrap-Up
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 15, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
This year's CES wasn't one for the record books, though plenty of records were played and that was good. From the main convention site to the Venetian to T.H.E. Show at the Flamingo, the show was rather lackluster and attendance was off, mostly due to cold weather flight disruptions.
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CES 2014
820S Power Supply Takes Your Evolution 610LP or 810LP Phono Preamp Over the MOON
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 15, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
That's the claim made by simaudio for the Moon 820S power supply, which can be added Evolution products including the 610LP and 810LP as well as the 650D and 750D DAC/CD transports and the company's 740P preamplifier.
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CES 2014
Pear Audio Blue Turntables Have Familiar-Looking Design Elements
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 15, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
Seeing these Pear Audio Blue turntables in the Audio Skies room produced both surprise and familiarity. Surprise because it was a three-turntable line I'd neither seen nor heard of and familiarity because certain design elements looked like they had been lifted from the late Tom Fletcher of Nottingham Analogue fame.
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CES 2014
Clearaudio Puts Fully Balanced, Current Drive Moving Coil Phono Preamp In Head Shell or Tonearm!
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 12, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Clearaudio Introduced the Absolute Phono, a compact, fully balanced, current-based moving coil phono preamplifier built into the head shell of the line's linear tracking tonearms or into the arm tube Clearaudio's pivoted arms
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CES 2014
Rogers High Fidelity Adds a Tubed Phono Preamplifier to its American-Made Lineup
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 12, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments
Warwick, NY-based Rogers High Fidelity introduced the striking-looking and sounding PA-1A MM/MC phono preamplifier.
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CES 2014
AMG Introduces the Teatro Moving Coil cartridge
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 12, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
AMG's new Teatro moving coil cartridge is an international collaborative effort, combining a machined, two-piece Tiodize Type III Titanium body manufactured in America and a Japan-sourced generator system, featuring separate coils for each channel said to increase separation (most cartridges have two coils mounted on a single former).
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CES 2014
Zanden Debuts Model 120 Solid-State LCR Phono Preamplifier
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 12, 2014  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Osaka, Japan-based Zanden Audio added a third phono preamplifier to its line with the $7,500 Model 120, a solid state LCR RIAA design using Jensen dual tap step-up transformers with 60dB and 71dBs of gain and input impedances of 36 ohms and 470 ohms respectively.
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