4/12/2023 0 Comments T a musicplayer review![]() ![]() The Music Receiver could very well be the poster boy of integration: its single box provides an astonishing number of features, controls, and connectivity options.įounded in 1978, T+A Elektroakustik, a manufacturer of speakers and electronics, takes its initials from "Theory and Application in Electroacoustics," and is highly respected in its home country, Germany, for its engineering expertise. The Music Receiver’s small, jam-packed case contains an amplifier, a preamplifier, a CD transport, an FM tuner, a high-resolution DAC, a tape loop, and a Streaming Client board, the last of which allows it to receive digital music files and Internet Radio stations over a wireless local area network (W-LAN). Which brings us to T+A Elektroakustik’s E-Series Music Receiver ($4200 USD), which T+A calls an "all-purpose machine." And indeed it is. Indeed, in recent years there has been a resurgence of integrated audiophile products. However, separates take up a lot more room, require more cables and power cords, and don’t always perform better - though the high end generally disfavors integrateds, they’ve never completely disappeared. Like the Handy Housewife Helper, integrated products of all types are claimed to do many things, but often don’t do any one thing particularly well. As time went on, many audiophiles shunned such integrated components. ![]() Only later did manufacturers begin producing multifunction components such as the integrated amplifier and the receiver. When hi-fi first came of age, in the 1940s and early ’50s, all components were "separates": each box performed a single function. Many audiophiles forget that high-end home audio did not begin with such all-in-one components. How did it work in practice? Well, not so great, at least for a very nervous, camera-shy Ralph. Remember the Handy Housewife Helper, that all-in-one kitchen gadget from "Better Living through TV," a 1955 episode of The Honeymooners? As part of their latest get-rich-quick scheme, Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton make a commercial hawking the device as "the chef of the future," claiming that it will open cans, uncork bottles, core apples, scale fish, drive screws, cut glass, sharpen scissors, even remove corns from feet. ![]()
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