The Tannhäuser Gate / Positive Feedback | Moonriver Audio 404 Review from John Marks 11/2020

“It sounds more powerful than 50 Watts. It was also very dynamic, from the smallest gradations of chamber music, to large-scale orchestral works. However, I think that the most important characteristic is the coherence of the sound. I don’t want to use the word “smoothness,” because that might give the impression of rounded-off highs. The highs are not rounded off. And that’s certainly not what the designer intended, because the small script word “fågelsång” on the front panel means “birdsong.” There is a very organic “togetherness” to the sound. Both in the time domain, and in the frequency domain. After one of the listening parties, one participant remarked that it was a true measure of how great an audio product the Moonriver 404 is, that nobody really had any comments to make about it. They just listened to it, and enjoyed the music.

To sum up: Highest Recommendation”.

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