Myths and realities of the most beloved and controversial class of audio amplification.

Part two | Results and consequences

Part one | Introduction and technique

Parallel article on testing filters in parallel.

Part two | Goals and achievements

Part one | Premises and path

Second part | Audiophile's paradise

Part one | The loudspeakers that didn’t exist yet

Audiophile myths and technical realities - Second part

Audiophile myths and technical realities - First part

Among audio power amplifications only class D will remain, if not a higher one.

The past, if it is still valid, can be updated.

Copyright: our editors introduce themselves. Welcome to Rajko Marcon Quarta.

ReMusic interviews the designer, Roberto Borgonzoni.

Quick questions to the master of a fast succeeding brand.

The Bequadro are the Italian loudspeakers of the moment: let's deepen ...

Discovering the rationale for the choice of BFA hybrid circuitry.

HighResAudio remains true to its philosophy of top-quality offer.

Italian newcomers to the conquest of Hi-Fi: ideas are not lacking.

Through this project I wanted to create my own library of reference recordings which could be used to help develop the ultimate playback system.

Welcome to a new ReMusic's collaborator: audiophile and engineer. Besides, he is been working to develop a new technology applied to the amplification.

I will put at disposal of the webzine my expertise of photographer, hoping to offer to the readers always more interesting images.

I judge the devices for their performances but I am not satisfied if they are not thought, designed and made in order to justify their price.

The unstoppable entrepreneur and designer behind the successful companies Polk Audio, Definitive Technology and GoldenEar Technology.

Keep well in mind that when we set all these elements, our aim is the result of several targets, sometimes conflicting.

An amazing event to enrich one’s own cultural baggage of experience, both musical and audiophile.

In other words Max Micelli, an Electronic Engineer who has been living for more than twenty-five years in and of audio playback.

How to close in a project that summarizes Zingali’s impulses and yearnings of his professional activity in the last thirty years.

The archetype of the DYIer, always with his mind in air-wiring, unusual tubes and assorted music.

ReMusic has had the double chance of meeting Vivid Audio, a young company founded in 2004, that can boast an unique history, by place of origin, South Africa, and by the noble pedigree of designers and people in charge.

Always bigger, always more involving, always more High End... Also this year our couple in black has gone from room to room in the most important worldwide sectorial show to find out the best of the best.

I can’t hide the positive opinion that I have always expressed towards Bartolomeo Aloia’s designs and creations...

ReMusic’s Company is always increasing. The new collaborators arrive at a cosy place where they can pleasantly share their audiophile passion: ReMusic editorial office.

New resources in ReMusic. The enthusiasm grows for frank and straightforward collaborations. We find the machines whereas the reviewers test them with the highest possible intellectual rigour.

Melomaniac, Exhibitory, Negationist... Cast the first stone who doesn't recognize himself in one typology of audiophile.

We think that all the connection cables are passive components behaving in an active way.

Welcome to a new, young, digital collaborator, totally committed to headphones.

The traditional appointment with T.H.E. Show has allowed us, also this year, to notice how much commitment is dedicated to the conception of a balanced and well performing audio system.

Walking along the corridors of the Venetian Tower hosting the CES 2014 dedicated to the High Performance systems shows, without any doubt, that the waved crisis of hi-fi doesn't exist.

The Bose 801 represent a revolution. The reflex sound and no more direct was a bolt from the blue for everybody.

I think that sharing and collaboration are essential vehicles of growth and knowledge. Hence, all my designs are largely documented and made public.

Listening, Seeing, Experiencing. The best words to describe the Munich High End 2013. Four days, as usual, very tiring but exciting.

I like very much experimentation and I am open to any kind of setup. I like comparisons and I respect other people's opinions.

The succession of tracks is a crescendo of dramatic alternation, because dramatic are the differences in the recordings. The system as an overall - since it is impossible to notice the contribution of the single elements - is extremely revealing.

Maybe the Top Audio Show in Milan will be cancelled or postponed. For sure, it has to "reinvent itself", as always does the Hi-Fi enthusiast, the only one who "will never die".

Every audiophile knows and appreciates DaVinciAudio Labs’ achievements.

And everybody will mourn from today its founder and promoter, Peter Brem.

Franco Serblin, the unforgettable founder of Sonus Faber, passed away. He will surely be missed. And also his achievements that have marked the history of the modern Italian Hi-Fi worldwide.

Roberto and Silvia's tour de force in the booths of the biggest western show dedicated to consumer electronics, Hi-Fi included.

With product lines from top entry level to high-end, Gold Note designs everything by itself, from the screw to the package, for a catalogue that goes from the cartridges to the loudspeakers. Let us discover together an authentic Italian excellence.

T.H.E. Show is a strategic commercial decision by who wants to keep in contact "out-and-out" with the enthusiasts of the true High-End.

In the previous reviews, we said that our passion does not pertain to a reproduction of the "real" musical event. The so-called "playback" music refers to a representation instead.

I like "risky writing", with the presumption of moving who reads. I consider the predictability of an article a failure for the writer himself. Risky writing means going against the fallacies and the hearsay, which are inertias hard to budge.

Verdi is the musical interpreter of the Italian Risorgimento. No, Verdi is not a revolutionary, at least not in the current sense of the term. Verdi pertains to Risorgimento and to Romanticism.

Our best systems are Transcendental Systems. They are capable of involving to the point that it is impossible, also for the most enthusiastic lunatic, to linger on the improvements and on the fine-tuning that a system always requires.

ReMusic has taken the opportunity of knowing this label more in depth.

The Sternen Hotel, near Bern, Switzerland, has an unexpected collection of mechanical and automatic musical instruments that are well functioning and listenable during the guided visits.

The LP covers have always been “bigger” than necessary. We are talking about the perceived size, not just the material size. They expressed something else. They said who you were.

An impartial advice. Listen to live music when you are still alive.

I want to draw the enthusiasts’ attention on a type of devices that, unfortunately, are not widespread among the most demanding audiophiles as they should be.

The improvement at the listening and the psycho-emotional well-being I felt, have pushed me to deepen the topic of the Schumann Resonance, that I consider interesting far beyond our audiophile ambitions.

The brand of the violin and the harp, which pays homage to Leonardo’s achievements, sets the goal of great talent and striving simplicity: ambitious in the project, but linear and essential in the realization.

Gone a year ago, Apple’s co-founder has bequeathed a huge fortune that also the audiophiles can share: it is time to make the most of it and go on.

Finally revealed how to run-in and make rightly dynamic the most famous isodynamic panels: word of Roberto "DeTerminator" Borgonzoni.

The mechanical limit of the world’s most famous isodynamic panels has always been a big flaw that has hampered the diffusion of this kind of speaker, but nothing resists to our Roberto Borgonzoni...

The Leonardo Bros., Aldo Zaninello and Daniele Coen, designers of the Leonardo Speakers, speak openly of their creations: ribbon loudspeakers capable of 20 real Hz.

Digital Media Players: their coming from the computer world seems to hamper the “old style” audiophile. Let us see how Max Research Interface can be more user friendly.

An unconventional tonearm indeed, Dr. Hedgebeth's Sonority Tonearm deserves a review, the first for a world premiere.

It is not always true that by changing a component with a “better one” the system will improve. Sometimes a downgrade is better than an upgrade. Even if the average enthusiast does not tolerate it.

A new section that treats and defines completely our method of testing and reviewing the devices.

I dare any manufacturer or distributor of top audio devices to provide me – and to provide us – with their best apparatus. Word-of Executive Editor.

Many enthusiasts consider the means of reproduction as “iron pieces” or agglomerates of electronic components. In my opinion, they are in strict union with the emotions I receive from music. Due to their strong symbiosis, it happens that very often I could not identify the limit between the two.

Tonearm and cartridge are made for each other. Let us find out how they can be matched under a scientific point of view.

The best rooms in the biggest European sound kermesse of this year. Wideband and multi-way, multinational brands and musical ateliers, from high efficiency to the more muscular amplifications. Live here again the strongest emotions experienced by ReMusic's team.

I have always been very fond of music and of any device to reproduce it. After many tests with the electronic gears of the main brands, I have decided to switch to DIY.

I personally think that the critics should have the job of divulgate quality. This action, if carried out correctly, represents something more than mere information.

In a famous aphorism, Friedrich Nietzsche states that “without music, life would be an error”. I truly believe that.

I was thirteen when I started to listen to my brother’s 45 rpm using a tube Lesa turntable. The world at that time was less hasty and I was so eager to listen.

Electronic passions. I got fond of this world when I was a child and made out of my grandmother’s old radio a custom model. It was something, considering my age, wasn’t it?

IT expert and ERP consultant, but also fond of live events: ReMusic welcomes and introduces a new collaborator with his expertise in the digital and its mysteries.

Which is the criterion that measures the likelihood that a partner or wife will approve the purchase of expensive electronics products and their permanent entrance in the listening room? It is the WAF, Wife Acceptance Factor and only a Lady can speak of that…

You waver over one of the most paradoxical and unconventional systems existing today. So far, a champion of the Esoteric Masterpieces.

My first collaboration with Suono magazine dates back to 1992. Then I wrote for Fedeltà del Suono and now it is time for my own webzine, ReMusic.

The overall manufacture of the LuxSapienti’s system is aimed, as I have supposed, exclusively to the sound outcome and completely beyond the conventional standards.

Only one sound exists…the real one. Everything that detaches itself from this concept is just a surrogate, a subjective idea that does not respect the nature of things. I try to listen, without ears and mind…but with all myself, giving to the sound my entire soul.

Music, in whatever form, is not only a diversion, rather the vehicle by which men live, express and feel their own emotions.

A new series of articles about listening, description and fruition of the so-called "extreme" systems: you can love or hate them, but you cannot sit by.

I tend to privilege the analogue, but not prejudicially: the fact is that only the vinyl can convey particular vibrations. Nothing compares favourably with it.

A sparkle in the darkness. A sparkle that illuminates for a second the experience of someone who thinks he has listened to everything but, nonetheless, is still ready to marvel and get involved. A sparkle for the device, the loudspeaker or the component that has made us starting on the listening chair. This is Spark in the Dark, the first ReMusic Award.

Let us display which extent of inaccuracy can reach an Analogue-to-Digital or a Digital-to-Analogue converter. And how the digital systems can be compared to the analogue systems.

This is a technical piece: but you will not find any formula. Instead, we will try to demonstrate visually which level of imprecision can reach an Analogue-to-Digital or a Digital-to-Analogue converter.

The fact that the senses do exist is a real trouble. Especially for the audiophiles.

ReMusic is proud to publish an exclusive interview to Akira Nagai, President of Bakoon Products Co., Ltd. Japan, the man who developed the SATRI Circuit 25 years ago.

Recently, during the realisation of a documentary about Venice and its relationship with the music, I came across a very particular case of audio take. 

I must admit it. I was intimidated. One of the few woman entrepreneurs in hi-fi, Gabi van der Kleij, Mrs. Crystal Cable, was waiting for me. How could I absorb the impact of one of the biggest success by critique, public and commercial of the last years?

Great designers may have found big companies. Or they have been hired and motivated by great personalities.

Understanding gain structure can help you get the cleanest signal possible out of your system and avoid some nasty things.

All the machines are made for us, they express us, we think about them, we make them just to go where our body cannot go, but our mind does.

I am an empirical immune carrier of optimism and, like Diogenes, I pursue the conciliation between man and nature, thanks to the dependency on sensations and feelings, in the belief that every man is the master of his own destiny.

Last march Audio Point Italia, the Italian distributor of the Cessaro loudspeaker systems, made at S.I. Audio in Naples, the officially introduction of the Beta/I. ReMusic was not yet online, but it was there.

This collective signature can protect the anonymity of consummate technicians and professionals of the sector, as well as of enthusiasts and aspiring talented authors.

The approach to the music entails several and at time dissimilar "points of view" among the people involved.

I have always loved challenges and it is going to happen again. Thankfully, I gain full support from my patient wife, who understands and is behind me all the way in such a lucid foolishness… inside foolishness. To be an audiophile means to be a bit fool indeed. However, if you think to bring into life a website made by enthusiasts and dedicated to all the enthusiasts in the world, uh… well, this sounds like being crazy for real!

How to use our new website. It is dedicated to the means to reproduce music, from hi-fi to high-tech, passing through hi-end. You can also find out how, in the web, saying and doing are two different things and the programming is in between.