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KingRex T20U & PSU MKII System with John Blue JB3 Loudspeakers Review
KingRex is a Taiwanese company specializing in compact computer-based home stereo systems using Class T amplification. Like the Trends Audio System, KingRex seems ideally tailored to computer desktop...
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Pass Labs Xs 150 Monoblock Amplifiers Review
Introduction On a recent Friday afternoon, a brown UPS truck rolled up to my door with a delivery. While this in itself is not an unusual event at my house, things began to get a bit surreal when the...
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Line Magnetic 219IA Integrated Amplifier Review
Line Magnetic is an intriguing brand out of Mainland China. The owner of the company has for many years been restoring Western Electric amplifiers, loudspeakers, and drivers and operating as an OEM...
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Audio Note UK IZero Integrated Amplifier Tube Amplifier Review
Audio Note UK often takes flack from the peanut gallery on internet forums for their very high priced audio components. Many of us who live on things called budgets view $100,000+ components as crazy...
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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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Rogue Audio Sphinx Integrated Amplifier Review
Rogue is a small but well known American audio company that is known for building affordable all-tube components. They have grown into a true high end company with products like the Apollo dual mono...
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Sophia Electric’s Royal Princess 300B Vacuum Tube Review
If you are a regular reader of Dagogo you know of my love for the sound of the Western Electric 300B vacuum tube. My Wavac EC300B is decked out with two NOS WE 300Bs, two NOS Sylvania 6L6GC driver...
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Channel D Pure Vinyl Music Server Software and Seta Phono Stage and Lynx Hilo...
In my recent review of the Sanders Sound Model 10c speakers (interested readers may also want to read my interview with Roger Sanders ), I mentioned that the one perceived weakness was a mechanical...
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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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Melody Valve MN845 Monoblock Power Amplifier Review
Earlier this summer I first wrote about the wonderful Melody Valve P2688 vacuum tube line stage. As I had mentioned, accompanying the P2688 on the long journey to South Florida was a pair of Melody...
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Rogers High Fidelity PA-1A Phono Preamp Review
The phono preamp is not the sexiest component in the system, at least as far I’m concerned. A little bit of a front-end component, kind of a middle of the pack component, it suffers from a touch of an...
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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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PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium HP power amplifier Review
PrimaLuna DiaLogue Premium HP power amplifier Review International union–a confluence of four countries for the sake of high-end audio Question: What do you get when you have Dutch, Chinese, American...
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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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Electra-Fidelity A3-500 300B monoblock amplifiers Review
Electra-Fidelity A3-500 300B monoblock amplifiers I first met Tony Chipelo at the 2014 California Audio Show. He was sharing a room with Fritz Speakers and it was the best I had heard the Fritz...
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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...
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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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Kingsound KS-H3 Headphones & M-20 Headphone Amplifier Review
Kingsound KS-H3 electrostatic over-the-head headphones The gushing regarding “all that” headphones is at a fever pitch lately, I thought as I read Arnie Nudell’s review of the Audeze LCD-X...
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