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Mark Levinson (born December 11, 1946) is an American audio equipment designer, recording and mastering engineer, and multi-instrumentalist musician. He was formerly married to the actress Kim Cattrall.
Mark Levinson is an American high-end audio equipment brand established in 1972 by eponymous founder Mark Levinson, and based in Stamford, Connecticut. It is owned by Harman International Industries, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.
Discover details you’ve never heard before in songs you’ve listened to a hundred times. Explore Mark Levinson. Discover a new standard in wireless sound, wherever you choose to listen. Music reproduction so flawless it sounds like the artist is right there with you.
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Price is naturally the elephant in the room with us as we unbox the No. 5909. It’s their most obvious talking point – before you’ve heard them, at least. They carry a price tag twice as heavy as that of the five-star AirPods Max and Beyerdynamic Amiron Wireless and roughly three times more than the Sony WH-1000XM5 and their Bose, Sennheiserand B&W ...
While there’s more to most products we test than their specification, you’d expect a pair at this price to tick the right boxes – and the right boxes the No. 5909 do indeed tick. Wireless connectivity comes in aptX Adaptive and LDAC flavours, which are essentially the best-quality Bluetooth codecs currently in use. Qualcomm has come up with a next-...
Their design panders to both use cases – hefty and padded enough to enjoy for hours at home, yet also glitzy and compact enough (the cups can fold flat) to take out and about. Perhaps dubiously resembling AKG’s Quincy Jones-endorsed N90Qmodel from years previous, their red anodised aluminium frame, metallic painted ear cups (in red or black) and le...
That an unremarkable button is the first and last of our criticisms gives you a strong hint at the answer to the question we posed at the beginning of our review: can wireless performance ever be so good as to justify such an expense? Again, the No. 5909 need to perform substantially better than the class-leading crop of cheaper competition – and t...
As alluded to previously, the Mark Levinson No. 5909 aren’t necessarily replacements for a wired set-up you’re happy with. A laptop feeding a Chord Mojo 2 DAC connected to Grado SR325x wired headphones offers greater all-round sonic sophistication and finesse. But for anyone who is after the convenience of wireless without sacrificing toomuch sound...
Dec 22, 2022 · Meet Danial Shimiaei, the director of engineering at high-end brand Mark Levinson. On our recent visit to the impressive Harman Luxury Audio site in Northridge, California, we got a chance to talk to Danial about his journey in audio, his taste in music and what makes the Mark Levinson brand so special.
We have an interesting talk with Mark Levinson. A man that doesn't really need an introduction. We talk about Daniel Hertz and the new C Wave Technology.
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Nov 10, 2020 · The eccentric audiophile, whose name became synonymous with high-end sound, began his music career as a stand-up bass player with jazz pianist Paul Bley; a career that doubtless informed...
