Sound Magazine Greece
The ART is an excellent european player with a great construction quality and exemplary right sound, completely independent of different sound preferences of the listeners.

HIFI & Records Germany
That's impossible! One quarrels with the high-fidelity world, and in Bochum the phantasy of an audiophile dreamer is produced in series. ... Under the plain cover hides one of the best CD players at all, partially the ART even sets new standards. ... No need for long discussions - simply listen and be astonished.

Conclusion: Artists enrich our life, that's why we adore and love them, they say. The ART has gained this respect. Finally a holistic CD player in which both mechanics and electronics have attracted the same interest and suggested formerly unknown synthesis. Completely independent of the price ART is one of the three best CD players I know; in its price class ART cannot be beaten anyway.

STEREO Germany
... the ART with the extension V2 is really sensational. ... The new converter board of the ART is the heart of the device and constructed with so much nous, as no ten developers of digital hifi equipment in the world could manage.
...An additional SMD logic circuit removes the very last remainder of phase jitter before the D/A-converter itself processes the data... The first tone, a deep bass drum, shows where the crux of the matter is. The Audionet gives the drum profound black-
ness, volume and air. The energy lies in the frequency basement where it belongs. When the voice of the Norwegian singer (Kari Bremnes) rises, ART V2 gives her the third dimension: Height. The lady is standing. Upright.
... The voice has a bit more 'chest' and less 'throat', therefore appears more 'velvet' and sonorous.... Hearty congratulation to Bochum!
...Audionets updates ART plays outstanding live, light-footed and detailed, without a doubt a merit of the unprecedented jitter poverty of the D/A-converter. Laboratory record for the aliasing distortions, too...
Also, signal to noise ratio and quantisation noise set standards...a level difference between the channels was simply not detectable.
Outstanding * * * * *

HiFi PIAC Hungary
Dream team (together with SAM V2)

Stereoplay Germany
The Audionet inspires with nearly merciless sound. Like barely no other player it backs up drive and rhythm, precisely depicts spatiality and always keeps track even when playing complicated music pieces. With nearly infinite bass power the Audionet marks out its claim: Neither the Burmester nor the Phonosophie player were able to separate different instrument groups within big orchestras so clearly while simultaneously fixing the musicians in the recording environment.

Audiophile Germany
The Audionet ART V2 beat the desirable virtue of the Creek with even darker outlined bass and with more stable spatiality. The V2 was able to reproduce finest tempo variations, separate each tone in complex piano passages without losing anything of the floating sound of the wooden corpus.
Whenever dynamic elements in music had to be emphasized the ART V2 proved to be an expert, a master... It is a world-class player setting new standards in its league.

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