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APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review
Based on my on-going evaluation of my own NWO-4.0SE, I think that Puremusic's review hits the nail right on the head, and provides a level of detail that is rarely achieved by product reviewers, either professional or users.I have be an APL custom... 
Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players
We are in the beginning stages of planning the next San Diego Shoot-out. The emphasis this time will be on comparing the best digital source from the last shoot-out (the APL NWO 3 Universal Player, which won going away) with a top of the line viny... 
Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players
As the author of this thread, and with the passage of a few weeks,I would like to make three retrospective comments.First of all, I want to thank all of you for your inputs, views and opinions. Unfortunately for me, almost immediately after my ori... 
Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players
In my posting, I mentioned that, after the blind shoot-out, we ran two additional listening test. The first was plug the APL directly into the wall, bypassing the power regenerator. The second was a head-to-head comparision of the Meitner and the ... 
APL NWO2.5 ?
With all this discussion of the number of different versions of the APL Denon 3910 there are out there, I think we should keep in mind that this indirectly illustrates one of the main advantages of doing business with APL. Alex's strategy has from... 
Review: Spectron Musician III Amplifier
As I said in my review, the Musician III sounded great out of the box and is continuing to improve. I'm not yet to 250 hours but am very pleased with the results to date. 
Review: Denon APl 3910 CD Player
Hi Brainwater. I agree with you assessment of the sonic advantages of the Philips SACD 1000. Over the past year I have owned two of them -- the first custom modified by Dan Wright and the second the APL SACD 1000 complete with Alex's new digital b... 
Review: Denon APl 3910 CD Player
My APL Denon 3910 has well over 200 hours on it, and without question it continues to improve. I have auditioned it in direct connect mode, as well as playing through my modified Conrad Johnson PV-12 tube preamp, and much prefer the direct connect... 
Review: Denon DVD - 3910 CD Player
The sonic performance noted in my review of Alex's Denon 3910 were most pronounced when the player was directly attached to the amp. Initially, I auditioned the Denon with my Conrad Johnson PV-12 pre-amp in the loop, and the tonal improvements bec...