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The Copland CSA is a well-equipped and impressively capable amplifier. Copland is one of the unsung talents of the high-end hi-fi industry.

Despite being in business for almost 40 years, the company has rarely grabbed the limelight. But that has more to do with the way the brand operates than the quality of its products. This small Danish company only makes a limited range of electronics often valve based and goes about its business in an understated manner. Its products' life cycles tend to be fairly long, and new introductions are rare and done without much fanfare. As far as features go, this integrated could be all the amplifier most music fans will ever need.

At its core is a hybrid electronic design, which uses a single double triode valve in the line stage feeding a high power MOSFET power amplifier section.

The result is a solid W per channel into an 8ohm load that rises to a healthy W as impedance halves. Those figures suggest that the CSA will be able to drive most speakers to serious levels in all but the largest of rooms.

For vinyl fans, a phono stage suitable for moving magnet or high output moving coil cartridges sits alongside single-ended three and balanced XLR one line-level inputs. Unusually for an amplifier of this type, Bluetooth in aptX HD form is on the menu. Add a 6. It makes class leaders such as the Rega Aethos and Naim Supernait 3 sound a little uneven in comparison. It has a spacious presentation and renders an expansive soundstage. The presentation remains stable, too, even when the piece becomes demanding or volume levels rise.

This amplifier is all about clarity. It excels in the subtleties and displays a level of finesse and sonic sophistication that puts us in mind of far pricier alternatives. The presentation is nice and open, even in an album as densely produced as this.

If you value rhythmic coherence and dynamic punch above all else, its rivals move ahead. Our view of the amplifier stays positive whether we use the digital or analogue inputs. The phono stage is good too. Overall, the CSA offers an excellent alternative to the established class leaders and has an equally convincing, but different, blend of attributes.

Read our guide to the best stereo amplifiers. Read our Rega Aethos review. What Hi-Fi? Our comprehensive tests help you buy the very best for your money, with our advice sections giving you step-by-step information on how to get even more from your music and movies.

Everything is tested by our dedicated team of in-house reviewers in our custom-built test rooms in London and Bath. Our coveted five-star rating and Awards are recognised all over the world as the ultimate seal of approval, so you can buy with absolute confidence.

Read more about how we test. Home Reviews. Cons - No display - Needs care with headphone matching.

 

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The speakers reproduce music exactly the way it was recorded, with solid bass, clear midrange, and sparkling highs. The built-in analog and digital inputs allow you to directly connect to any music source, and the built in Bluetooth interface provides a seamless wireless connection to any phone or laptop computer. The setup flexibility of the Transparent Zero active speakers provide an all-in-one musical solution to virtually any home requirement.

The wireless remote control makes use with a TV a breeze, with better performance than a comparably priced soundbar. If not, why bother. The T0 brings audiophile sensibilities to small, affordable, and convenient everyday use. Great bass, clear mids, sparkling highs, holographic imaging, and amazing dispersion are the magic behind the experience. Bluetooth is the standard for wireless streaming from your handheld or computer, and aptX offers near-CD quality with simple ease of use.

Listen to your favorite artist from Amazon Prime, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, or any of the hundreds of choices at your fingertips. Connecting is a breeze thanks to the Bluetooth control buttons on the wireless remote. Your music, your way. Take control of your music with the Transparent Zero full-featured wireless remote control.

Select the source you want to listen to, set the volume, adjust the bass and treble, or put the speakers into Bluetooth pairing mode, all from the comfort of your favorite listening position. The remote control makes the T0 the ideal addition to a TV, with much better performance than competing soundbars. The analog input allows direct connection to your phone, phono preamp, or other device.

The multiple connections give you flexibility while ensuring an obsolete-proof design. Purchase knowing you have years of happy listening ahead. The result is full range sound that is unprecedented from such a small system. Transparent Zero speakers have an impressively flat frequency response curve. When measuring how well a speaker faithfully and accurately reproduces the sound as it was recorded, the flatter the frequency response curve, the better. In any other lesser speaker one would expect that to result in messy, sloppy, farty bass—but NOT here, these are as tight and clean as can be.

These also really seem to love it when you give them the beans. In my experience they do tend to take a little getting used to though. Curiously they sound better the longer you listen to them. Hopefully sometime I can pick up their bigger brother the T1e and give those a whirl as well.

They are as beautiful today in every way , as the day I took them out of the box. I did 3 months of online due diligence trying to find the perfect set of speakers that would transform my work environment.

It was time well spent! When I listen to them I can close my eyes and can point to where the players of every instrument is sitting on the stage in front of me. It is like being at a live concert in person. When I listen to my favorite classics, a tear rolls down my cheek!

Thank-you guys at Vanatoo and hats off! Thank-you, thank-you! For such small speakers the T0s sound incredibly natural with just the right amount of detail and stupid good bass that hits the sweet spot between not being over done and bloated like a lot of small bluetooth speakers and still surprisingly strong. Transients come from several feet to the side of each speaker and form at times a soundstage that is wider than deg. When properly set up the soundstage height and depth is also mind boggling.

In addition to that both transients and the center image have an incredible 3D quality to them with a lot of space around them. The center image in the meantime is so realistic you feel like you can reach out and strangle the vocalist. That paired with the myriad of customization settings and remote control makes these suckers probably the best deal in the entire audio market. And that is really my only complaint with these.

They are so good you have to spend several orders of magnitude more money on a full sized system to beat these at least in terms of throwing a massive holographic sounding soundstage. Every single person on planet Earth should own a pair of these even if you have a more impressive full size system.

These are hands down the best desktop speakers ever considering their size and price to performance ratio. Only thing I can come up with would be very smart design decisions coupled with a DSP amp thereby bypassing the phase distortion and efficiency loss inherent in passive crossovers because I have spent s trying to replicate how your speakers image in a larger living room system to no avail and its getting a bit frustrating.

I know designing and manufacturing a new product is expensive particularly one with larger parts. But please for the love of all that is holy, or rather saving me from years of tinkering and book learning to DIY something, make a bigger stand mount speaker or even a tower!

My desktop audio system has been my primary listening equipment, other than some excellent headphones powered by an external DAC and amplifier, from JDS Labs. Truthfully, the Transparent Ones quickly became my go to equipment.

Exemplary reviews, ratings and trust in the Vanatoo company, I purchased a pair of these remarkable speakers. I use the Transparent One Encore pair on 30 inch pedestal stands, about 18 inches away from the opposite wall from my desktop and Transparent Zeros.

I love and use both of the models but am enthusiastically enjoying the sound of the Encores. Soundstage is amazing, as the speakers all but disappear, when playing a good quality stereo recording. I love hearing sound stretching wider than and above the speakers. Music seems to float, with excellent instrument and vocal placement.

That holds true for all frequencies, with the resultant sound much bigger than the speakers. Plenty deep for my office, bass is tight and detailed, thanks much to the passive radiators, on the rear of the speakers, to enhance quality. Vocals, both male and female are astonishingly real sounding, most often positioned above the speakers.

I opted for the cherry finish and the speakers are beautiful and very solidly built. I really appreciate the generous inputs available… USB, coaxial, optical, analog and good bluetooth.

The speaker audio settings available is amazing. Even the easily removable speaker grills are impressive, as when re-mounting them, magnets firmly and precisely snap them into place! The very functional remote control is user friendly and contains controls for seemingly every adjustment parameter. The Transparent Zeros are perfect and amazing desktop speakers. Highly recommended! Note: the Encores have been used by many satisfied purchasers as desktop speakers as well.

Very powerful and no need for an external sub! I cannot speak highly enough of these. I absolutely love and highly recommend them! I just purchased the Vanatoo Transparent Zeros. I had read the reviews. I thought the Zeros would probably work for my desktop sounds.

WELL… that is an understatement. The zeros are just outstanding. Sound is clear. Sound is detailed. Excellent frequency response and range. Imaging is first rate. The quality of the bass is simply stunning for such a small speaker. Again… the sound is stunning. However, after many years of heavy use, they finally gave out. A few years ago, I remembered listening to a review of the Transparent Zeros by Joshua Valour and began researching them further.

The reviews I found are consistent. I purchased a pair and set them up, about 40 inches apart, on my desk and paired them with a Klipsch RSW on the floor. All I can say is WOW, the sound was pure magic right out of the box using the recommended setup instructions which automatically set the crossover for the subwoofer. I love music. I am not an audiophile. I just know when the music sounds like it should.

When the box came I o pened it and starting with the packaging I was impressed. I was up and listening in less than 10 minutes. The speakers are elegant and the sound blew me away: Rich, crisp room filling distinct and transporting. I am not an audiophile, I did not know what to expect, but I do know when it sounds right.

I highly recommend these speakers to anyone who loves listening to music. They are perfect in every way. I first came across these at the Axpona audio convention years ago. I was walking by the Vanatoo room and heard the clarity and sound bellowing out from the door. I sat and listened for a while and was blown away. I got them for Christmas and they sound even better than I remember! I searched the internet for the best desktop speakers. Something that was not too large for a true desktop application more in line with near field listening and found the typical recommended speakers to be of the bookshelf type that overpowered my setup and did not aesthetically fit my needs.

   

 

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Music streaming services are now the main medium through which many of us listen to music. Spotify is set to join that crop later this year with its Spotify HiFi tier, too. But what about hi-res audio by which we mean above CD quality? The first service to offer hi-res streaming was Qobuz, followed by Tidal and, more recently, Amazon. Our favourite music streaming service , Tidal launched its now-established Tidal Masters hi-res library four years ago, and it uses MQA technology to make it possible.

So what is MQA audio? How has it helped hi-res streaming become a reality? And what other music listening experiences is it behind? MQA claims its tracks use a similar bandwidth to that required for CD-quality streams. You will need compatible hardware, such as a music streamer or portable music player, or software such as the Tidal desktop app, to decode the MQA files. And this is no pie-in-the-sky promise; the hardware is available. And, now we're some years into its existence, there's plenty of it.

As for hi-fi kit, MQA compatibility is only going one way — up. If you don't have any of the above hardware, then you can still play Tidal's "millions" of Masters tracks through the Tidal desktop, Android and iOS apps, which can decode and play them through your, say, phone or Macbook. However, the only way to entirely unpackage an MQA file for playback, and therefore give you a more accurate representation of the file, is by pairing the app with a MQA-compatible product as listed above that takes the decoding process away from the software the Tidal app.

With major music labels such as Universal , Warner Bros and Sony Music offering music in MQA, we wouldn't be surprised if more music streaming services got in on the action too. Deezer announced a partnership with MQA back in September , but all has gone quiet on that front since. And if you're looking to play such purchased files through a PC or laptop, dedicated desktop music player software, such as Audirvana and Roon , also support MQA.

In , MQA channelled this experience into a new format — The Masters Sessions — through a partnership with one of its hardware partners, Bluesound. These sophisticated audio soirees comprise live concerts, streamed in MQA studio quality, to over esteemed audio dealerships around the world, played through each dealer's Bluesound MQA-enabled audio players.

The initiative is still young — only a few sessions have been hosted so far — but there are more to come! YouTube channel using MQA tech. Rumours have long since suggested Apple is planning to deliver hi-res audio through Apple Music , but we aren't holding our breath. Instead, we've established an effective if not particularly elegant workaround on how to play hi-res music on your iPhone. Could Apple one day use MQA and deliver hi-res music?

It seems unlikely in the near future, but, as goes the expression, never say never. One thing's for sure, for anyone with an interest in audio quality, MQA is a technology that demands to be heard.

Want to know more? Head over to the MQA website here opens in new tab. Listen to the What Hi-Fi? Becky is the managing editor of What Hi-Fi? During her eight years in the hi-fi industry, she has been fortunate enough to travel the world to report on the biggest and most exciting brands in hi-fi and consumer tech and has had the jetlag and hangovers to remember them by.

In her spare time, Becky can often be found running, watching Liverpool FC and horror movies, and hunting for gluten-free cake. Becky Roberts opens in new tab. See all comments 7. I believe that many other Tidal users are figuring out this too. Probably the easiest way is through Tidal's desktop application.

Just make sure that your sound output settings are bit and 96kHz. The Tidal mobile apps don't encode MQA-files, so with them you will need an encoder. With Apple airplay, bluetooth or HEOS, you are limited to 44,1 kHz, so if you want to move the sound to your home studio, you will still need to figure out a way to get the sound from the encoder to the AWR. The DACs I would leave to hifi-enthusiasts.

What Hi-Fi? It is more nonsense from Bob Stewart. MQA has been proven to be lossy, adds ringing to the file, not takes it away, Is not higher that 48KHz as the supposed 3rd unfold is just oversampling method, pays Bob Stewart and his ilk a small amount for every part of the chain MQA is used on, sounds better because the file is db louder than a same FLAC version of the file. MQA also adds a watermark, which hasn't been turned on yet, but as soon as it is one will have to pay more to play the files.

MQA is all about squeezing the end user while giving nothing in return. This is there little bait and switch game. I really won't be desperate for an MQA device now.