Month: January 2024

UK-based Chord is poised to release the new Ultima Integrated (€8500) in September or October. Chord’s first new integrated amplifier in some time, it incorporates elements of the company’s Ultima P3 preamp and Ultima 6 power amp and utilizes Chord’s latest dual feed-forward error correction, said to reduce the noise floor by at least 10dB.Read moreRead more

Despite the ton of equipment from Burmester and others shown in the photo, the YG Acoustics set-up I heard involved just two speakers and a single control module. That’s because the company’s Vantage 3 Live active loudspeaker system ($65,600/pair), which contains amplification by Bel Canto as well as optimized DSP, a digital preamplifier, and aRead moreRead more

William Duncan (right), who lives relatively close to me in Sammamish, WA, has been after me for a while to hear Laufer Teknik Product’s new offerings. Finally, the opportunity arrived at AXPONA. Sharing the room with John Siau of Benchmark Audio (left), Duncan and Laufer Teknik Products showed The Note ($32,500/pair), a line array speakerRead moreRead more

This year’s Royal Rumble PLE is just a few weeks away in Tampa, FL, at Tropicana Field. However, there is one former star who won’t be participating in the Men’s Royal Rumble match.   For the men’s bout, Cody Rhodes, CM Punk, Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Lashley, and Drew McIntyre have already declared. There were rumorsRead moreRead more

L'actrice Emilie Dequenne s'est exprimée sur Instagram pour expliquer son éloignement des plateaux. Elle révèle être atteinte d'un cancer rare et partage un texte touchant, combattif et plein d'espoir, alors que se tient le mois Octobre rose. L’actrice Emilie Dequenne, révélée par les Frères Dardenne avec Rosetta, annonce être atteinte d’un cancer rare et avoirRead moreRead more

Malgré les sommes parfois astronomiques injectées par les studios pour leurs films, il arrive que la sanction au Box Office soit absolument dévastatrice. Au point de couler les entreprises qui les ont créés. Voici trois exemples. Il arrive régulièrement qu’Hollywood mutile voire tue les films, aidé en cela par des producteurs pas franchement respectueux desRead moreRead more

WOODBRIDGE, NJ — A Woodbridge man admitted in federal court Jan. 9 to filing two false tax returns, following a criminal investigation against him done by the IRS out of their Newark field office. The Woodbridge man is Thomas Kohutich, 34. He pleaded guilty to two counts of subscribing a false tax return, in 2018Read moreRead more

You may have now read as much German as I dare put into print, but you’ll likely read far more about Voxativ’s revamp of its first loudspeaker, the formerly discontinued, single 8″ driver Ampeggio loudspeaker (€25,900/pair), in the coming months. “People kept asking for it,” Voxativ owner Inès Adler told me. “We’ve learned a lotRead moreRead more

This story originally appeared at InnerFidelity.com Continuous Improvement Hi again, fellow headphone investigators! The article I had originally planned to be Episode #15 was shelved and replaced by #16: The Smoking Gun. Since then, the LCD-4s which I reviewed have been replaced by Audeze because at some point they were damaged—no one knows where orRead moreRead more

Before this past spring, Alexander Chaika made his living dancing, tumbling and teaching. But once Russia invaded Ukraine, he joined the Ukraine army and was rushed to the front. “The country was in danger,” he said through an interpreter. “There was no thought on my part that I wouldn’t join and do the right thingRead moreRead more