The Gearhead

As audiophiles, we all have our test tracks. Those pieces we know so intimately that we use them to suss out differences between equipment and cables. Sometimes, it’s useful to have music for te…

The RA-6000 is full of useful functions, and a collection of buttons on its faceplate isn’t just appropriate, it’s appreciated. I don’t want to have to find a remote to use a piece o…

The word ‘balanced’ gets a lot of play in HiFi audio, and unsurprisingly the single word happens to mean a few different things across the hobby. Whether adjusting the “balance pot&r…

Weiss Engineering’s DAC502 reminds me of a speedboat. It’s got the right stuff in the right places, and dumps the extra weight to make racing form. It’s sleek, and boy is it honest.…

I’m a bit of an audiophile tweaker. And by that I don’t mean strung-out junkie, or worse, but I mean that I like to make tiny improvements all over my system, constantly, almost as if by i…