LA4 and AHB2 Review - Drew Gagliano, The Audio Beatnik
LA4 - "Sonic Integrity" "From top to bottom, the design of the LA4 was meant to do one thing; preserve the sonic integrity of the material that pa...
LA4 - "Sonic Integrity" "From top to bottom, the design of the LA4 was meant to do one thing; preserve the sonic integrity of the material that pa...
DAC3 B - "Wonderfully Transparent" "With DAC, preamplifier and power amplifier, Benchmark knows how to build a bridge between the professional se...
AHB2 - Driving Selah Cali4 Speakers - "Room of Distinction" "I ended up visiting this room more than any other room at the show. I couldn’t help ...
HPA4 - "At the Top of Your Must-Audition List" "If you are looking for a preamplifier/headphone amplifier that you can live with happily for a lon...
AHB2 - "Breaks New Ground ... Gets My Strongest Recommendation" "The AHB2 easily outperforms the DIY Hypex NC400 I had tested before which used ...
AHB2 - "The Power Amps are Fantastic." "I use them as mono blocks due to my power hungry speakers." "I hear clarity, precision and an openness in ...
DAC3 B, LA4, AHB2 - Driving Martin Logan ESL 11A Electrostatic Speakers 197 Rooms - Benchmark Room Makes the Audio Beatnik "Top 3" "The overall so...
AHB2 - "Sounds the Most Like Live Music" "Aleksandar Radisavljevic used this American amplifier as his reference during R&D of the Raal Requis...
Stereophile's editors chose 10 products to receive their top award, the "2018 Product of the Year - Editor's Choice Award". Two Benchmark products ...
AHB2 - Top 3 Finalist - "Amplification Component of the Year" The competition in the amplification category was very tight. There was a two-way t...
"In my September 2018 column, I wrote of my discovery of miniDSP's U-DIO8, which converts multichannel data fed to its USB port to eight S/PDIF or...
LA4 - "Best of RMAF 2018" "RMAF 2018 was really good, with significant numbers of attendees, and more new-product introductions than I remembered ...
DAC3 and AHB2 - System Review DAC3 - "Better than 21-Bit Performance" "John Atkinson's measurements corroborated Benchmark's claim that the DAC3 i...
AHB2 - "Class A Recommended Component" - 2018 - Power Amps 'Class A' is Stereophile's highest classification for recommended components. Very few...
AHB2 - "Ideally Suited for Hard-to-Drive Speakers" The Benchmark Media AHB2 showed the highest level of audio performance in all metrics. Despite ...
AHB2 - "Tightness, Accuracy and Punch" "The most identifiable positive trait (there are many) of the AHB2, and that is low end control. Tightness,...
HPA4 - "The Best Sounding Line Amp I've Yet Heard" "The Benchmark HPA4 is the best sounding line amplifier I've yet heard." "It's innovative appro...
DAC3, AHB2, ESL 11A - "A Well-Curated Sound System" "That’s what Benchmark Media had put together in Chicago for AXPONA this year in room 670 at t...