The anticipation of the iMac (2021) release is noticeably hanging in the air. The new iMac series will almost certainly jump to Apple’s new chipsets, making the 27-inch iMac (2020) the last Apple computer to use Intel processors. According to rumors, there may be some changes in the diagonal of the screen for the larger of the […] More
Rotel has announced updated versions of the A14 , RA-1572 and RA-1592 integrated amplifiers . All three “MKII” enhanced versions feature advanced components that the manufacturer previously only used to create Michi components . The A14MKII is the new flagship of the 14 series, based on its predecessor. The main difference of the new item was the DAC from Texas Instruments with quality support up to 32 bit / […] More
Entry-level turntable owners often face the cost of purchasing an external phono stage comparable to the price of the turntable itself. Nevertheless, there are inexpensive correctors on the market that will cost no more than $65, but at the same time will provide a noticeable increase in sound quality compared to the boards built into budget turntables. The only thing is that for […] More
German auto giant BMW has announced its plans for a new type of battery for electric vehicles. We are talking about solid-state batteries. BMW says it will develop solid-state battery technology suitable for use in production vehicles by the end of the decade. And the first demonstration electric car with a new type of batteries will be […] More
LG NANO 80 LCD TV is one of the 2020 NanoCell brand releases. Like all LCD TVs of this type (unlike their best-selling and highly acclaimed OLED 4K HDR TVs), it is equipped with an IPS technology. This implies wide viewing angles, but leads to a negative trade-off in terms of weak black levels and […] More
Over the fifteen years of its existence, Specialbit Studio has released a lot of casual games, mainly on mobile platforms, however, it is better known for its pen in a much more attractive and traditional genre of classic point-and-click adventure games – Angelo and Deemon… The project, released in 2019, left the best impression in […] More
As you probably know very well yourself, since last year there has been a shortage of components for the production of electronics in the world. And everyone suffers from this, regardless of size and nationality. One of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers, the Chinese company Xiaomi, announced that due to a lack of components, it had […] More
In the TWS headphone segment, the competition is pretty fierce. In April 2021, Huawei updated its FreeBuds lineup with another mid-range 4i model. We didn’t expect anything special from her, but the test turned out to be quite interesting. Design and construction The set of delivery of the headphones is quite traditional: these are the devices themselves, […] More
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) hosted an online briefing showing footage of the Ingenuity’s maiden flight. As planned, the helicopter rose to a height of 3 meters above the surface of Mars, hovered “in the air” for 30 seconds and sat back. The entire flight lasted approximately 40 seconds. “We made the first ever controlled flight on […] More
The Canadian company Bryston Ltd created the Bryston BR-20 with the goal of developing an analog preamp equipped with a quality DAC and high-definition streamer functions. The Bryston BR-20 features a balanced analog preamp architecture with a superior converter and streamer derived from the Bryston BDP series and is designed to be connected to any […] More
The Esoteric N-05XD network DAC preamplifier inherits the “Master Sound Discrete DAC” philosophy already implemented in the Grandioso D1X reference DAC . The novelty includes a proprietary discrete transducer, which, according to the company, “strove for the original master sound.” The device can be synchronized from an external 10 MHz oscillator. Esoteric N-05XD works with bitrates up to 32 bit / 384 kHz […] More
The British firm Tron Electric has created the Nemesis RIAA audiophile low-noise tube phono stage. Renowned for his meticulousness, brand leader Graham Tricker has tried to combine the orthodox tube ideology with ease of use and high sound quality. The scheme uses a minimum of parts located taking into account the shortest signal path. These are four D3a pentodes […] More