Two weeks ago I had the privilege of spending the weekend with Peter McGrath and John Giolas of Wilson Audio as we swapped out...
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Jim Merod has posted a review of the BSG Technology QOL Signal Completion Stage ($3995) at Positive Feedback. His conclusions:
“If, at any point in the audio playback chain, anomalous phase differentiation or phase incoherence is lessened, the resulting audio outcome takes on any or all of several audio virtues: expanded staging; increased timbral accuracy; clearer instrument separation; greater timing synchronization among sonic elements; and added spectral clarity top to bottom. I’m not going to assert that I’ve solved the puzzle of the QOL’s sonic wizardry, but my inclination in the face of the cheeky questions and challenges noted above leans toward speculations written under the influence of the QOLs dynamic musical textures as I listen to a mid-’50s Nat Pierce Nonet album on vinyl soon after being “wowed” by a previously unplayed 180 gram Japanese pressing of Miles Davis Sextet’s Kind of Blue as I get ready to hit “send” so I can call it a day by plopping a long out of print 1959 Bob Cooper-Bud Shank World Pacific vinyl on my Linn LP-12… Blowin’ Country (WP-1277) with Claude Williamson on piano (trumpet guru-Stu’s brother) and Chuck Flores on drums. ”
You can read the full review here.