This is a user review of the Mark Levinson No.28 preamplifier. Despite bearing the Mark Levinson name, the design was made after Madrigal had bought out the Levinson brand and design rights. It also explains the change of the model number designation from “ML- xx” to “No. xx”.
Shortly after receiving the StereoKnight Silverstone B&R passive magnetic pre-amplifier that I reviewed positively recently, its bigger brother the Enigma 1.0R arrived. The much larger box the delivery man brought to my front door gave the game away re the difference in size between the two pre-amplifiers; the Enigma is at least twice as big. […]
Track Audo Isolators – It’s in the Construction Quite a few months back, November 2010 to be exact, I was sent a number of items, from relatively new company Track Audio to review. Among these items were a pair of speaker stands the Precision 600’s which ended up as a pair of Precision 700’s, as […]
Despite the much reduced size of last March’s Audio World 2011 show at the Park Inn, Heathrow, London there were still new brands to be discovered and one such was StereoKnight, an American company based in Germantown,Tennessee where they make a comprehensive range of pre-amplifiers, one integrated amplifier (so far) the S40 and one mono […]
This is a user report of the Swiss made Nagra two-track portable tape machine, the model IV-S (sometimes referred to as the model 4 – S, the ‘S’ denoting “stereo”) as used in a domestic audio set-up. As I don’t have another working tape machine with which to compare it, apart from an elderly Ferrograph […]
Le Trio Joubran – Majâz (2007, Harmonia Mundi, RANDANA RAND 002) Le Trio Joubran are three brothers: Samir, Wissam and Adnan, descendents from a Palestinian family of oud (a North African and Middle Eastern pear-shaped fretless lute) makers and players going back four generations. Their mastery of the oud is singular and so is the harmony and […]
Introduction and confession I like integrated amplifiers, you know where you are with an integrated and by using one you remove two levels of potential difficulty you have with a pre-amplifier and power-amplifier combination; namely compatibility between the pre and the power (unless they are from the same brand and even that does not guarantee […]
One area of audio debate which can be guaranteed to set off wars is that of whether audio cables make any difference and even more so can a mains cable alter or improve the sound of a component it is hooked up to. Well I guess it will be no surprise to those that know […]
This is the first review by 22 year old Jason Herzl and I want to offer him a very warm welcome to Adventures in High Fidelity Audio. Jason is a college student on a very tight budget and as he puts it ‘this has caused me to become quite savy in the “cheap-and-cheerful” Hi-Fi arena’ This […]
Firstly I owe Simon Bennett of Absolute Analogue an apology. He sent me several packets of Bright Star Audio IsoNodes to both try and write about quite a few months ago. Sadly prior reviewing schedules, work commitments and life issues have got in the way but as they say ‘better late than never’. My thanks […]