Greetings all,
I was able to get some 1x1 time with Stavros after the show wrap up to have him talk about the new Pandora Turntable without a crowd or during show hours. He discusses the development and the design philosophy and touches on the the Contendo II a bit as well.
Hope you enjoy!
Hello WBF Members!
We are proud to announce that after many years of searching we decided on Acoustic Fields as the gold standard of acoustic treatment to maximize system performance in small rooms.
This was a lengthy and difficult process of testing many different panels individually. We were...
Greetings All,
After many years of having only the local Lone Star Show in Dallas, Gary Gill and Lou Hinkley have joined forces yet again to launch the SXSW Audio Show. It will be March 15-17 at the Anatole Hilton in Dallas TX.
https://www.southwestaudiofest.com/
Who is planning to...
Hello Everyone,
I finally got around to doing a full run through of the updates of the latest release from Pink Faun for Stylus. Forgot to mention in the video the improvements in sound as I was focused on getting the features covered. There is a definite improvement in the midrange and...
Hello All,
About a week ago I hosted an Austin Audio Society Event where we took a single DSD track and broke it up into the following conversions from a single DSD file (DSF512):
*D = Dithering
44/16 D
44/16
44/24 D
44/24
44/32 D
44/32
88/16 D
88/16
88/24 D
88/24
88/32 D...
An Evening With Lyn Stanley
Date 08/26/2022
Time 7:00pm-10:00pm
Location: Georgetown TX. Exact address provided through email RSVP
“SPACE IS LIMITED. PLEASE RSVP! Email j@ibelieveinhifi.com for either7:00 slot or 8:00 slot"
JWM Acoustics and Believe HI-Fidelity are proud to welcome Lyn...
Been some time since I contributed, but this is well worth the wait. As many of you know we are pretty fanatical about analog. I have over 3k invested in setup tools from multiple protractors, microscopes, software, levels, etc to achieve the absolute maximum performance from any cartridge...
More questions I receive than any other is "How does the Aries Cerat Kassandra compare to ____ or ____? " Not too far behind this question is "how does Aries Cerat components scale mainly in the Kassandra Mk2 DAC"?
I happened to have a comparison demo arranged over the weekend that allowed me...
For your reading enjoyment....
“The Pink Faun 2.16X streamer is, sonically, as perfect a stereo source component as I have used...”
Stereophile 2.16X Review 2020
Enjoy the read!
"The Blue Dragon is enveloping. At its best, it is as if there is no LP, just the music "
https://www.dagogo.com/top-wing-seiryu-blue-dragon-coreless-straight-flux-cartridge-review/
Pink Faun had a few reviews this year and walks away in 2019 with the Upper Echelon award from Mono and Stereo
https://www.monoandstereo.com/2019/11/pink-faun-streamer-216x-review-part-one.html
I get asked more than anything in my lineup about the differences between the Kassandra MKII and XXX DAC. I often encourage my clients to write up a comparison to help those just like them make sense of the differences and give 3rd party perspective on the performance to make an informed...
Latest Vermouth Audio cable review!
See how the Vermouth Audio Reference XLR interconnect cable (1520 per meter) stacks up to the Skogrand Stravinsky ($26,000.00 per meter) interconnect cable. The results may surprise you...
Before I was able to kick off the weekend I paid a visit to @Billygxx because he finally found his connector for his Focal headphones. This was important because Stavros made a customer headphone jack/splitter to plug into each Achilleas 3 chassis monoblock in order to listen to his entire...
Greetings WBF members!
We are so unbelievably pleased to announce the that as of August 1st we will be distributing the Pink Faun Music Server in North America. We have been following a few brands, but on my last trip to Munich and many conversations with many potentials only Pink Faun...
Hello WBF Members,
Here is as many rooms as I could get to while doing business and getting s chance to listen to great systems while at the show. A lot of these will be both good and terrible as I took most of them on Thursday while it was slow. No setting changes on the camera just run and...
This could be an interesting topic of discussion/debate. I have found too many a customer leave tubes to go to SS for the sake of avoiding the dilemma of dealing with tubes.
Are they that much of an issue that you would be willing to sacrifice what you enjoy about the tube qualities for the...
Believe High Fidelity will have the Top Wing Blue Dragon in the Raidho room #434 and will also be showing the Etsuro Urushi Cobalt Blue in Larsen/Pnuance room #340 using the Aries Cerat ACSUT 1B Step Up Transformer.
Roaming Discogs for a select LP's. Decided to check and see what is the most expensive album in the world for sale is. Needless to say I am not surprised.
I am pleased to announce that Believe High Fidelity will be taking delivery of the 1st Etsuro Urushi Gold Cartridge ever produced. This baby is a dream come true and we can't wait to play some music on it.
The Cantilever is diamond
The Stylus tip is diamond
The Plate is Sapphire
The Housing is...
A few trade ins from clients that moved to Top Wing. All but the Bordeaux (USA only) will ship worldwide
Air Tight Opus S/N H078 - 4500
Cantilever and stylus has been disconnected from the cartridge so a rebuild would be required in order to use it. Even the cost to replace it would be a...
Recently published review of the Top Wing Seiryu at Soundstage Ultra. The Seiryu will be in the Gamut room 6018 for those attending RMAF
"....Part of me worries that I'm raving about the Blue Dragon a bit too much. Did it perhaps sound a smidge too cartoony? Did it exaggerate or editorialize...