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Fundamentally, it's a large, powerful integrated amp that delivers a claimed 150W RMS per channel into 8 ohms or 300W into 4 ohms. In addition, it offers lavish Japanese 'battleship' build quality, a built-in digital conversion, plus an excellent MC/MM phono stage. But what really sets the SU-R1000 apart is the role digital plays in the design. Technics' Chief Technical Officer, Tetsuya Itani, calls this a 'full digital amplifier' rather than just regular Class D. While it does feature a switching output stage, it works in the digital domain throughout, without the need for a traditional DAC.-..

Get off my lawnFull disclosure: I own one of those jam-packed, gee-whiz components. My upstairs system consists of Estelon YB speakers powered by a Hegel Music Systems H120 integrated amplifier–DAC. It’s a great little amp and the high-quality DAC receives digital signals via USB from a Logitech Squeezebox Touch, so I’m taking advantage of all the H120’s features. The H120 makes sense for its current usage. It sounds great and works perfectly with my crusty Touch streamer that might as well be coal-powered, given the speed with which computer technology has advanced since I bought it.-----The ..

Inside: it's solidUnder the hood of the ATC CD2, the playback mechanism is a model specifically adapted to Hifi and not a computer model. Note the presence of a toroidal power supply transformer of significant dimensions. The conversion is provided by a 32-bit/768 kHz type AKM chip ( AK4490EQ ). The output stages are of symmetrical topology, all in surface components and, what is more, discrete since with real transistors, without op amps.The ATC SIA2-100 is advertised for 2 x 100 watts into 8 ohms. The internal layout of its circuits is surprising. The power stages and their power supplies ar..

The new SU-GX70 streaming amplifier is the first Technics product since the brand revitalization in 2014 with a HDMI ARC port. There has been strong demand for high-quality amplifiers allowing easy integration of a TV into the home hi-fi system for superior sound without the hassle of a complex multichannel system. Consequently, this new amplifier realizes very high sound quality at the HDMI ARC connection by using the parent company’s (Panasonic) comprehensive experience of video signal treatment, allowing the full potential of the noise and distortion-free sound generated by Technics’ propri..

It's huge! Why am I gushing like this? I don’t normally gush. But it’s relevant to this review. For a short time, I slid my Bryston 4B3 back in place of the H30A, and the system promptly lost some of that magic. Don’t get me wrong! The Bryston is a superb amp, one I’ll likely keep until my wife feeds me to the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba (she tells me she’ll do this if I get unmanageable in my later years). But over the review period, I came to cherish the Hegel’s ability to juice up the realism, to pull me more deeply into the musical performance. I think it would be news if the Hegel ..

April 13th, 2023 - Renowned hi-fi brand Technics has refreshed its beloved SL-1500C record player with an elegant new finish that will seamlessly complement any décor style and fill homes with the warm, authentic sound of vinyl. Now in beautiful matte white, the SL-1500C-W sees the brand’s beloved turntable updated for 2023, while retaining the innovative sound technology that Technics has driven forward since it unveiled the world’s first direct-drive turntable over fifty years ago. Sublime elegance, precisely designedDeveloped at the request of vinyl lovers yearning for a design-oriented, fr..

With the V5 Elektra, IsoTek presents a new mains filter that offers complex, efficient current optimization and high-grade overvoltage protection at an attractive price: In favor of optimum performance, the current optimizer has six slots, each with its own filtering and precisely dimensioned: two outputs are for high-wattage amplifiers and four outputs for Source devices designed. If more is required, the System Link also enables simple modular expansion. We tested what the V5 Elektra does in terms of sound.-----ConclusionAs IsoTek's new entry-level model in the line filter portfolio, the V5 ..

The most striking aspect of the Lumina’s performance was its replication of dimension, distance, and soundstage. It made large acoustic spaces more present and reverberantly alive. The acoustics of a symphony hall shimmered with air movement. Perspective was expanded rather than flattened. On a disc like the Rutter Requiem the vast chorale seemed to glow, creating a thick reverberant field suspended in the voluminous air of the Meyerson Symphony Center. During musical rests I could catch the chorus individually and collectively taking breaths.-----Similarly, Lumina RCA and XLR interconnects us..