exaSound Audio Design will premier their new new Delta Music Server (starting at $2999) at the Florida Audio Expo in Tampa this weekend. Featuring an Intel i9-9900 8-core CPU for heavy-duty DSP processing and upsampling with Roon, this unit operates silently to not interfere with your listening room's noise floor. High-performance hardware and exaOS lightweight operating system facilitate streaming to virtually all USB DACs and Roon-supported audio devices. Roon Core delivers intelligent management of music content stored on hard drives, NAS, and from streaming services Tidal and Qobuz.
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Atascadero, CA (01/30/20) – EJ Sarmento, President and Founder of Wyred4Sound – and Glass Audio America, LLC. EJ Sarmento – President and Founder of Wyred 4 Sound, is pleased to announce the formation of Glass Audio America, LLC for the purposes of manufacturing a complete line of Vacuum Tube and other products under exclusive license... Read More »

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Scott Wasser says the Roku Smart Soundbar may not be for everyone, but it's great for anyone shopping for a fantastic media streamer and simple two-channel (or 2.1) soundbar at the same time.

I met up with Dave Cope of Old Forge Marketing and Old Forge Studio at the California Audio Show (CAS) in July 2019.  Dave is the US importer for Pure Audio, a line of audio equipment amplification from New Zealand. After listening in the room Dave had set it up it was very clear to [...]

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Wyred 4 Sound Licenses Bob Carver Corp.; Forms Glass Audio America
EJ Sarmento, President and Founder of Wyred 4 Sound, is pleased to announce the formation of Glass Audio America, LLC for the purposes of manufacturing a complete line of vacuum tube and other products under exclusive license from The Bob Carver Corporation. Production of these new products will be in Mr. Sarmento's newly expanded facilities in Astacadero, California. Frank Malitz will continue his base of operations in Chicago, Illinois. Earning multiple Product of The Year Awards spanning over a decade, Wyred 4 Sound is an innovative company that prioritizes engineering excellence while pinpoint focusing on long-term reliability and class leading value. Seen here is a rendering of the new Glass Audio America Bob Carver 2180i (target price of $4000), which is a 180 Watt per channel integrated amplifier that will be introduced at the Florida Audio Expo February 7th through the 9th in Tampa, Florida.
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Also read Benny Goodman’s Kingdom of Swing, Part 1 of 2 Combos, Maturity and Legacy In the late 1930s the innovative Swing combos of Benny Goodman http://www.jazzhotbigstep.com/45801.html (1909-1986) shaped a new small-band Jazz format.  His trios, quartets and sextets introduced sophisticated combo jazz to a broad popular audience.  Goodman did for clarinet what Louis Armstrong [...]

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The circuitry of the AGD amps use Gallium Nitride FET transistors which offer much faster reaction (rise time) to signal input than traditional silicon MOSFETs. He called them GaNFets, and until recently they were only commonly used in high frequency military applications such as radar. Designed and manufactured by International Rectifier (IR), a legend and pioneer in the power electronic industry that among other things, made possible the revolution of PCs and Notebooks with the invention of the power MOSFTs. IR, the oldest and the last independent American company in power electronics, was acquired in 2015 by Infineon (Infineon is a German manufacturer with 40k employees and annual sales around $6B.) He knows them well because he helped design them.
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Do cables make a difference? That is a question I get asked quite often, and it is a question that Audiophiles have debated since the beginning of time. I am not going to directly answer that question in this review because it does not matter to me. The way my headphone system is set up,... Read More »

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Many of today’s vented subwoofers and full-range tower speakers offer port plugs for sealing the cabinet and making them behave like sealed speakers. But this does not result in a true acoustic suspension system, which is quite a different animal altogether from a merely “sealed” speaker. Let’s explore the difference between acoustic suspension and sealed and see if today’s designers aren’t missing an opportunity to make some great products.