My experience
The Auralic Vega G2 case is built like a tank, pretty heavy, with an attractive satin black finish and has a great industrial design. The display is large, showing in high resolution and attractive. It nicely displays the volume level, sample rate and filter settings.

The Auralic Vega G2 offers DSD512 and the sound quality of the VEGA G2 is engaging and entertaining with its numerous features and inputs. The presentation of the Auralic Vega G2 DA converter is pretty large, has quite some depth and has a bit of a forward presentation. Overall a great DAC, produces excellent results, which you for sure are able to enjoy!

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The Auralic Leo GX case is built like a tank, pretty heavy, with an attractive satin black finish and has a great industrial design.

The LEO GX makes the sound pop out of the loudspeakers. Instruments in particular, become very vivid and noticeable in the room. It brings a presence and solidity to everything you play, making it more real and convincing than you expect from reproduced audio. It also feels like it enhances dynamics, not really in a loudness sense, but more with an increase in contrast between loud and quiet notes, so more in the sense of an increase in dynamic range. The Auralic Leo GX also brings more energy in the presentation, dark backgrounds and therefor strong contrasts and lots of detail.

Auralic Aries, Vega 2 and Leo GX as a complete set puts all in another league. As a complete setup they are a true match!

My experience
The Auralic Aries G2 case is built like a tank, with an attractive satin black finish and has a great industrial design; clean and ultra-modern, has four fixed buttons, which are beautifully recessed into the front panel and comes with a beautiful colour display on which the Aries G2 shows album art, track title, time and play/pause.

The Aries G2 is a statement wireless streaming transporter from Auralic that is among the best in its class in terms of features and sonic performance.

The total Auralic Aries G2 is in new condition but has unfortunately a small dent on top.

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The GoldenEar Triton Five, though very affordable, are very nice passive speakers of a higher class. They are wonderfully universal, have a very decent appearance and they can actually play any music genre, recording quality and even electronics. They play with ease and liveliness and have a round, colorful and cultivated sound. The bass can be described as very good, pretty explosive and nicely accurate. The Triton Five is attractive and, above all, pleasant. If you are looking for cultivated listening to anything and at any time, then the Triton Five are for you.. they add warmth, fluffiness, volume and power and a sense of depth. Although the pillars are relatively slim, they do not suffer from a lack of dynamics. Their expression is lively and impressive and the overall dynamic is impressive and engaging. 

Their transparency of reproduction is very good, the sound is big, the stage is impressive and have the talent to play anything.. What do you want more 🙂

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A beautiful silver design, amazing sound reproduction, easy to use and former top model; The Aurender W20.

Engineered to deliver both superior sound quality and convenience, the Aurender W20 enables digital to analog converters to perform at full potential by outputting a bit-perfect audio signal with virtually no jitter or noise. For the best convenience in browsing and playing music, the Aurender App is packed with features that make playing and managing high resolution music collections a breeze. The Aurender W20 is one of the few music servers to support external word clocks and dual-wire mode AES/EBU used by many reference digital-to-analog converters to separate transmission of left and right channels for better fidelity!

The Aurender W20 and former top model is a highly recommendable device that offers great value, is very cleverly designed, has a great intuitive functionality and a slick user interface, made for high residual value and comes with three banks of LiFePO4 batteries alternately power audio components and recharge. This completely isolates audio components from ground noise and also eliminates jitter and distortion incurred in converting AC to DC.

Highly recommended! This W20 has the 2x 6TB storage capacity.

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Magico Mini II… Back in the time an Iconic High-end milestone… Lots and lots of raving reviews!

The Magico Mini II Look absolutely amazing; a beautiful design of solid Aluminium and Birch ply…definitely a cost no object speaker design. The Mini II’s enclosure is constructed from Baltic Birch plywood and is super stiff. The speaker’s front baffle is made of a very thick slab of aircraft grade aluminum, exquisitely machined and curved. Every part of the design is executed to a very high standard. The Mini II come with the beautiful matching designed speaker monitor stands. Each speaker/stand combo weighs 90kg and every aspect of the design is tweaked to the max. Simply gorgeous and true art pieces in your living/listening room!

The finest two-way mini-monitor and the best dynamic loudspeaker, whispers from the past..  The Mini II is full range and much more than any two-way monitor speaker, total coherence, low distortion, high resolution, breathtaking clarity, natural tone color, excellent dynamics, space filling sound staging, near life sized imaging, exceptional transparency and disappearing second-to-none.

On top surprising enough, they act far more like good conventional three-way speakers, except for the lowest bass.

Colourless and seamless from top to bottom, with exceptional extension in the bass, phenomenal reproduction of timbre and texture in the midband, increased smoothness and neutrality in the treble, astonishingly hard hitting dynamics and wide dynamic range for a two-way monitor speaker.

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The Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage became the pinnacle of Franco Serblin’s work at Sonus Faber.

Franco Serblin was inspired by the form of a musical instrument when developing the Stradivari. The Sonus Faber Stradivari became one of the world’s iconic great loudspeakers, with a very high musical potential, elegant sounding and a highly sophisticated Italian design. The construction and external design of the Sonus Faber Stradivari Homage really does credit the manufacturing company; Italian elegance, grace design, superb material use with a beautiful finish. High end in every sense of the term. Special techniques used for making violins Sonus Faber has created a fine speaker that has become very unique and iconic.

A dynamic speaker with panel virtues, great sense of scale, realistic soundstage reproduction, openness, clarity, transparent, dynamic, good power and bass control, punch and slam and a focus that is able to rival the finest point sources. The resolution and transparency are consistently very high over the whole range, natural balanced midrange, powerful but also delicate with lots of air, smooth, decently fast, well timed and reproducing a very lively presentation. 

If you are looking for a special designed beautiful iconic Italian masterpiece with lots of soul and quality, playing music in a very seductive way, then don’t think twice… 

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The TAD-CR1 MK2 is considered by the audiophile world as one of the most successful compact three-way loudspeakers on the market.

This concerns the TAD CR1 MK2 version and replace the TAD CR1 speakers. One of the most amazing “monitor” speakers I have heard. Close your eyes and you forget the music coming out of a speaker and no way they sound like monitor speakers. The TAD CR1 MK2 sound like full-grown floor standing speakers. A beautiful experience. The TAD Compact Reference(CR) MK2 takes full advantage of all of the top-level technologies that went into the flagship models. A compact size, point-source sound of super high quality that will make you forget about the existence of the speaker. Its extraordinarily resonant sound will surely exceed your expectations and provides strength and uniformity for smooth superior performance. The flagship TAD Reference One MK2 gained the wholehearted trust and respect of many of the world’s top artists and engineers and listening to the TAD CR1 Mk2 will definitely make you experience this trust and respect.

Once in your home they will not leave ever again…

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The Spectral DMA 360 mono’s represent a breakthrough for Spectral’s electronics and for the design of solid-state in general. The DMA 360 have no identifiable character or coloration. They have very wide dynamic capabilities and the overall dynamics exceeds macrodynamic resolution of any amplifier.

The DMA 360 have no noticeable electronic noise, are simply dead quiet in operation and you won’t notice the mono amps are on when they are in your system. There is no electronic haze or glaze over any part of the sound spectrum, exposing amazing dimensional images with its reproduced sound space. These mono amps have for sure something seductiveness. 

Their greatest strength lies in its power reserves; super ease and effortlessness. Because the DMA 360 is such a powerhouse (not in size or weight), it can handle the reproduction of complex musical material with big ease. Very engaging and super fun to listen to these very fast powerhouses in your system.

The Spectral DMA 360 are fully serviced and restored into new condition.