http://thehifijournal.com/beta/rss/rss.xml Thehifijournal RSS Feed en-us Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:00:22 UTC Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:00:22 UTC http://dateraw.com/thehifijournalnew you@youremail.com you@youremail.com you@youremail.comnotesttest Power cables: do they or don?t they make any difference? This is always a question that causes a mass debate with opposing sides getting quiet worked up and usually ends in a heated exchange of unpleasantries. I am sure that whatever our findings are here we are not going to please everyone. Our approach is going to be the same as it would be for any other product that we review by using a controlled environment and by listening to the results. . Based on the Atlantic coast of western France, Cabasse has a long and distinguished history full of innovation and Gallic flare. The founder, George Cabasse hails from a very gifted lineage of master craftsman dedicated to the pursuit of musical excellence. While his family history has been in the design and manufacture of stringed instruments, George?s obsession with perfect musical reproduction took him down a slightly different path. . The audiophile is now in a fortunate position where technology can make this process considerably easier... enter the XTZ audio analyzer. For the very reasonable sum of ?249 you can purchase a very useful piece of equipment that could well transform your system.. Manufacturers have tried myriad ways to reduce the visual impact the loudspeaker has on the environment: from the choice of multiple veneers even to disguising them as large vases. Revolver hopes it will succeed where so many others have failed and deliver a relatively discreet option without compromising the fidelity of the performance. . Bath based hi-fi retailer, Cool Gales, celebrated its 5th anniversary on Saturday 15th May 2010 with a gathering of dedicated hi-fi aficionados at the Bath & County Club, a plush retreat in the heart of the historic city of Bath, Somerset, UK.. I came across Brilliance about 4 years ago when they came to prominence by winning an award from a well known magazine for their entry level cable. Here we are looking at the company\'s interconnect range spanning 3 models from ?83 to ?500.. The High End show is hosted in the M.O.C. in Munich providing a shop window for a wide range of hi-fi manufacturers, ranging from some of the biggest companies in the business to some of the smallest, most eclectic audio pioneers.. The MFV3s are well built, conventional looking, floorstanders with the drive units arranged in a D?Appolito configuration, (The tweeter is set between the twin bass-mid units in a vertical array). The high quality Cherry wood of the review samples was beautifully finished with the pair being veneer matched showing great attention to detail. . We have lots of exciting reviews in the process of being written so please check back over the next week. Amplifiers from Creek and ISEM Audio. Loudspeakers from Icon Audio, Cabasse and Audio Epilog, Media devices from Bit perfect and benchmark, phono stages from Edwards Audio, Leema and Clear audio and balanced power from Russ Andrews as well as their Clarity pro Coherence unit. . The arrival of a DAC from Naim was inevitable, and designs have been on the drawing board in Salisbury for quite some time. However, the company saw no reason to produce a stand-alone converter when the only potential feed for it was a CD transport: why, it reasoned, move the DAC a cable-length away from the source of the data, re-engineer the player to include a second output, and suffer poorer performance just so the DAC could be in a separate enclosure? It made no sense, so Naim stuck to its . nonadult