DEPARTMENTS
OUR FRONT COVER:
Lindemann’s fabulous
musicbook:25 is not
just a pretty face...
it’s also a fabulous
performer, as you’ll
discover when you
read the review on
page 80.Bel Canto REF500MB&W 802 D32QYGT #OR KƂGTLoudspeakers
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MUSICBOOK:25IS NOT JUST A
STREAMER...The answer willsurprise you!Audio News 6
Audiophile Recordings 100
Blu-Ray Reviews 102
Dealer Directory 104
DVD Reviews 102
Editor’s Lead-In 3
Esoterica 75
Jazz Track 98Hi-Fi Marketplace 105
High End 86
Rock On 96
Sound Bites 6
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Sound Travels 76
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ESOTERICA
76
SOUND TRAVELS
Tom Waters visits an audiophile who
loves technology and what it can bring
to his music enjoyment.86
MERGING TECHNOLOGIES
NADAC DAC
The many pleasures of DSD256—and
DSD128, for that matter, which I found to
be of equivalent excellence—were fully(^80) revealed via the NADAC.
LINDEMANN MUSICBOOK:
NETWORK MUSIC PLAYER
I can’t recall ever seeing a more
beautiful hi-fi component than the
musicbook:25. It’s elegantly small,
sculpturally rounded, and the deep
iridescent blue of the front panel is
al