Tester

                                                                                       

Märken: KEF    Bonnec    CHORD Electonics    CYRUS    Rega   

                 The CHORD Company    Goldring   vitaaudio  DevilSound

                 M2TECH

                                                          

Tidigare Tester Länk till tidigare tester 2009 och bakåt 

 

KEF - Muon högtalare

KEF Muon - hi-fi news

   

"the Muon sets new standards in the neutral and yet unmistakably tuneful and emotive reproduction of music, regardless of its colour, creed or genre."

 KEF - Reference högtalare

KEF Reference 207/2 - BILD & LJUD hemma

 

"..som ofärgad och neutral musikförmedlare är detta en av de bästa högtalarna jag hört, och sammantaget den bästa av dem alla. I prisklassen. Har man plats - och råd - är Reference 207/2 en av de absolut bästa referenshögtalarna som finns. Och det bästa av allt är att den aldrig blir tråkig att lyssna på." Lasse Svedsen BILD & LJUD hemma JUNI/JULI 2009.

 

KEF Reference 207/2 - hifi+

"KEF's Reference speakers have long been underrated and underappreciated, but don't let that fool you. The 207/2 establishes a new benchmark for floorstanders at this price level, combining useable bandwith and a manageable load with superb musical coherence and timing. For once, the term "Reference is not being abused..." 

     

KEF Reference 205/2 - hifi+

 

KEF Reference 201/2 - Stereofile     

          

"What I also couldn't have anticipated was how much, ultimately, I responded to the Reference 201/2 Signature. It's a truism that no transducer is perfect, but the 201/2 Signature is an absolute gem—if not flawless, then damn close."

  KEF Reference 201/2 - SoundStage

   

"KEF’s Reference 201/2 is a different breed. The 201/2 is not only one of the most innovative, versatile, feature-rich, and finely constructed stand-mounted speakers I’ve reviewed, but it’s also the best-sounding as well."

"Furthermore, I don’t know of a speaker priced less than the 201/2 that offers the same collection of strengths, even among the many socalled "giant-killers." As a result, the 201/2 can stand tall among the best of the current stand-mounted speaker designs, and it puts KEF back on the map as a leader in applying advanced technologies that result in better-sounding loudspeakers. The big British brand name of my youth is back, and based on my experience with the 201/2, it's better than ever."

KEF - XQ Series högtalare

KEF XQ40 - ÅRETS BÄSTA Högtalare Toppklass 2008-2009 

  

KEF XQ40 - EISA AWARD 2008-2009                      

 

                                       

KEF XQ20 - the absolute sound sept 2009 

  

 

 

KEF - iQ Series högtalare

           

KEF - iQ50 hifi+

 

"KEF's iQ50 floor-stander isn't the first choice for the money, it's the only." Issue 64, 2009

KEF - iQ50 HI-FI CHOICE

   

 "Cute compact floorstander has the latest Uni-Q driver which delivers fine spacious imageing, a sweet treble and good consitency across a large zone. Fine overall tonal balance." HI-FI CHOICE, January 2009

KEF - C Series högtalare 

 

KEF - KHT Series 5.1 högtalare

KEF KHT2005.3 - What HIFI

  

KEF KHT3005SE - Ljud & Bild hemma 2009

  

KEF KHT3005SE - What HIFI

 

 

                                                                                                     

 

CHORD Electronics - DAC

CHORD Electronics - Indigo WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

   

"In our experience rarely has digital, and compact disc in particular, sounded as good as it does here"

CHORD Electronics - QBD76 hifi+

 

CHORD Electronics - QBD76 WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

  

CHORD Electronics - QBD76 HiFi World

 

CHORD Electronics - Chordette Gem WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

  

CHORD Electronics - Chordette Gem HiFi & musik

 

CHORD Electronics - CD spelare

CHORD Electronics - Red Standard WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

 

"Chord doesn’t do half measures. The Red Standard is about as visually spectacular as CD players get. Little else on the market can compete with this player’s extravagant contours and precision build. It’s the disc-loading method that’s likely to get the most attention. The transport is angled and the domed lid, hinged at the bottom, is manually closed over the disc. It looks dramatic but it’s a pain to use. There isn’t enough clearance around the CD to allow proper access, and the angle of the transport feels wrong when taking, or placing, the disc. Chord knows there’s an issue; it has included instructions on how to remove the CD cleanly.

Good build and finish
Move away from this aspect of the Red’s design, and things take a massive step forward. Build and finish is as good as we’ve come to expect from Chord, and well up to the elevated standards of this price point. Take a look inside, and you’ll find unusual digital-to-analogue circuitry and filtering. Rather than simply taking off-the-peg number-crunching solutions from the likes of Burr Brown or Wolfson, Chord has used a novel approach comprising a 64-bit signal processing core and some sophisticated filtering. There’s even an adjustable buffer, which stores and re-clocks the digital data from the disc before passing it on to the number-crunching circuitry.

Let’s get digital
Unusually for an integrated player, the Red has digital inputs – AES/EBU and optical – so that external sources can make use of its internal DAC. It’s a good thing to do, because it’s a design of considerable sonic quality. How does the Red Standard sound? In a word: wonderful. This player resolves an exceptional amount of detail. Take a harmonically rich instrument such as the piano on Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, and the Chord reveals its multi-layered sound better than anything else we’ve heard at this price.
This disc spinner continues to impress with denser material such as Mahler’s 10th, particularly in the way it delivers subtle detail without clutter, and without compressing the acoustic space around instruments. You can add class-leading stereo imaging and wide-ranging dynamics to the list of plus points, too.

Enthusiasm in attack
Move onto music with more attack, say Timberland’s Shock Value, and the Chord responds with enthusiasm. Rhythms are delivered with purpose and the Red uncovers a range of textures in the sounds that even our reference Naim CDS3/555PS merely hints at.

Overall, we’re hugely impressed by this Chord player. If you’re lucky enough to be able to buy at this price level, make sure it’s on the shortlist."

  

CHORD Electronics - Slutsteg

CHORD Electronics - SPM650 STEREOPHILE

      

"The Chord SPM 650 is an impressive technological achievement. It produces a great deal of clean power from a compact, cool-running package that had no problem driving both the Wilson MAXX 2 and Hansen Prince V2 speakers"

"Its sound was cool, from top to bottom, with daringly fast transient performance, but never offended by sounding bright, hard, grainy, or etched on top. Its bottom-end performance was equally fast, controlled, and well extended."

"the SPM 650 is sure to produce an adrenaline rush, and you'll be hard-pressed to hear from it any sonic sins of commission." STEREOPHILE Mars 2009

CHORD Electronics - SPM1050 the absolute sound

 

"A relatively affordable design from England´s Chord, the compact SPM 1050 delivers 200Wpc and is all but unflappable when puched hard. Indeed, it likes it that way. It has terrific control and grip over speakers, delivers explosive dynamics as well as nuance, and is coherent across the band. Cool under fire, the 1050 never sounds forced or exaggerated." the absolute sound 2009 EDITORS´CHOICE AWARDS september 2009

CHORD Electronics - SPM1050 WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

 

"Few pieces of high-end kit are as well made as this Chord power amp. The metalwork is immaculate, and all the controls feel engineered to last decades. The SPM1050 sits midway into Chord's vast range, using some circuitry from superior siblings, though with compromises made in component quality to hit this price. And it's astonishingly fast and punchy, sounding more powerful than even its 200-watt per channel power rating would suggest.

The SPM1050 delivers an exciting and stable sound that's as happy with the gentle ramblings of Tracy Chapman's Let It Rain as it is with The White Stripes's Elephant at full volume. Clarity and the ability to keep composure on difficult material are additional highlights.

In short, Chord's power amp is a great product that need fear no rival."

 

                                                                                                     

 

CYRUS -  nya Integrerade förstärkare

CYRUS 8 XP - WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

                                                        

CYRUS 8 XPd - WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

 

CYRUS 6 XP - WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

 

 

CYRUS - CD och transport

CYRUS CD8SE & PSX-R - hifi+

      

CYRUS CD8SE - WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

 

CYRUS CD6SE - WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

   

CYRUS CDxtSE & DACX - WHAT HIFI SOUND AND VISION

   

 

                                                                                                    

Rega - Högtalare

Rega RS1 högtalare - HIFI CHOICE May 2009

 

Ny högtalarteknologi i Regas RS diskanter

Rega - Skivspelare

Rega P9 skivspelare, Apheta MC pickup & Ios Riia steg - hi-fi news

  

Rega P3-24 med TT PSU motorstyrning - Bild & ljud hemma

 

Rega - Förstärkare

Rega Brio3 - the absolute sound

 

Rega Elicit - TONE audio

Rega Osiris - TONE audio

 

                                                                                                    

Årets produkter utsedda i tidningen WHAT HIFI 2009

CHORD - högtalarkabel & signalkabel

CHORD Signature högtalarkabel & Indigo Plus signalkabel- Highfidelity

  

 

                                                                                                    

 vitaaudio - monoklockradio, stereoklockradio med dockstation & stereosystem med CD och dockstation

vitaaudio - stereoradio med dockstation

 

                                                                                                            

M2TECH

   

"The overall sound of the hiFace/Sabre32 DAC combo is something quite special, especially when playing high resolution recordings. While Red Book recordings are reproduced in an exemplary fashion, queuing up a 24-bit/96kHz album such as those from HD Tracks just lends a naturalness and ease to the music along with more ambiance and other low level detail cues. The HRx releases from Reference Recordings are truly stunning and in my mind define what is possible. Listening to the HRx discs I can't do anything except listen, I am just sucked into the music and all the typical audiophile jargon no longer applies, the music is just so alive and present that it demands your full attention." EnJoy the music.com by Mike Galusha February 2010

                                                                                                                           

 

devilsound v2.1 DAC hifi+ issue 71 March 2010

 

UltraAudio.com  (Tuesday, 23 March 2010)
Rating:
"The Devilsound DAC is perfectly capable of delivering high-quality sound from a computer to most audio systems. It’s tonally accurate, has a satisfying degree of resolution, and reproduces musical subtleties with surprising nuance and focus, particularly in the midrange. What impresses me is that such an inexpensive device can get so many things so right."

Tone Audio  (Sunday, 03 January 2010)
Rating:
"It looks as if I need to get one of these. It really made listening on my vintage system a pleasure, and I’m even thinking about taking this on the road with my headphone amplifier when I have to travel; it’s certainly small enough. And not having to worry about batteries or AC adapters is a big plus when traveling overseas. For just under US$499, the devilsound DAC is a great piece of digital hardware. If you’re still holding out for a reason to use a laptop as a source, here’s the ticket. Highly recommended."

enjoythemusic.com  (Sunday, 01 November 2009)
Rating:
"Even when compared to a much higher-priced DAC, such as the Bel Canto DAC3, the Devilsound ranks very well. TheDAC3 has a blacker background with no hint of noise, as well as a slightly more dynamic overall presentation. But the Devilsound is its equal in terms of depth, soundstage width, and even low-level inner detail. I was especially impressed with how well the Devilsound matched the DAC3 in terms of three-dimensionality and imaging palpability. Well-recorded lossless music files retained all their spatial information when played through the Devilsound...If I were on an extremely tight budget, the inclusion of both USB and RCA cables with the Devilsound would probably push me in its direction."

positivefeedback.com  (Wednesday, 14 October 2009)
Rating:
"The devilsound DAC is a marvel in how close it comes to the bigger more expensive components. Music via the DAC is very, very nice indeed."

computeraudiophile  (Tuesday, 13 October 2009)
Rating:
"The DevilsoundDAC is certainly a must hear for many audiophiles. Sound quality and simplicity are surely strong points of this DAC...I've spent time with more than a few DACs below and well above this price. I think you'd be foolish not to consider the Devilsound when looking for a DAC under $1k. I promise you won't be disappointed..."