What the press says about SteinMusic
REVIEWS
Since 40 years, we have been developing products with one goal:
to make music as natural and lifelike as possible.
On this page, you will find selected opinions from the international audio press on our loudspeakers, accessories and acoustic solutions – independent, critical and extensively evaluated.
Read how renowned magazines describe our products and why many reviewers keep SteinMusic components as a permanent part of their reference systems.
H2
The Absolute Sound / Jonathan Valin
„… when Stein set up the Harmonizer System in my digs, it somehow changed the soundfield in many of the ways he claimed it would, adding more air and space to the soundstage, smoothness to timbres, and bloom and dimensionality to images, while also just generally better disappearing my loudspeakers.“
Positive Feedback / Dave Clark
“Don’t consider them a tweak, but a necessary component for your system. One that will allow you to fully realize what your music can sound like. Holger is really onto to something here… something really wonderful.”
Positive Feedback / Bob Levi
“Once engaged, prepare yourself for the performance to come to life in your room like never before. In my opinion, there is nothing on the market even close to the importance and usefulness of the Harmonizers.”
Enjoy the Music / DR. Bill Gaw
„The best piece of equipment I've reviewed this year is actually …the Stein H2 Harmonizers.“
Enjoy the Music / Wayne Donnely
“The audible evidence that the Steinmusic Harmonizer system is a superior room conditioning product is inarguable, and the ability to achieve a glorious-sounding listening room without the need for those big ugly traps and diffusers cinches the deal!”
Stereo Times / Ron Cook
“I am so flabbergasted by what the Harmonizers do that I can’t imagine any system – no matter how good – that would not be significantly improved by them.”
Stereo Times / Mike silverton
"With the SteinMusic Harmonizers and accessories in place, my room took on a new sense of dimension and life. The music became more engaging, more present, more vivid, with greater depth and resolution than I had ever experienced before."
Stereotimes / Clement Perry
“The H2, in my opinion, is nothing short of breathtaking.”
Audiodrom
“The Steinmusic H2 system is … beyond any description. …the Steinmusic devices have the power to transform the listening space to the point you’ve never dared to dream of.”
Highfidelity.pl
„Turning H2 on smoothed edges, made the presentation bit darker, but it also improved three-dimensionality of phantom images, and increased richness of the sound.“„Influence on sound … is obvious and undoubtedly positive.“
Fidelity Online / Jochen Reinecke
“Well, and what then happened after switching on at my home was – please don’t say anything now! – was surprising: Increasingly subtle, but over the next few hours actually audible and noticeable, the listening room seemed to transform into a kind of “protected zone” within the baselines formed by the harmonizers. The sound image seemed clearer, more direct, better spatially sorted, it seemed to grow, but without being artificially distorted.”
Image Hifi – November 2022
“The stage opens up and the listening room feels like it’s been atmospherically cleaned.”
The perfect interface
Analog Planet / Michael Fremer
“Don’t bother with that. “The Perfect Interface” produced an increased transparency, blacker backgrounds but especially transient precision that was easy to hear don’t ask me why that should be but it was easily audible.”
The Absolute Sound / Jonathan Valin
“How a piece of varnished Japanese paper can consistently improve the sound of a vinyl record riding atop it is beyond me. All I can tell you is that it does—that the very thing that makes many LPs sound like LPs, like mosaics made of individually recorded bits and pieces, is replaced by something that makes those bits and pieces seem more like interrelated parts of a sonic whole.“
Positive Feedback / David W. Robinson
” I stood there thinking, “Huh! Really?” I had been expecting an effect that was quite subtle; instead, a certain openness and rich organic sound caught my ear. LP after LP, I was quietly pleased at the result. It didn’t seem to matter what genre of music; the Perfect Interface wrought a real step forward.”
An Aussie Audiophile
“This thing has a sense of bringing the music out of the record to a whole new level.”
Stateline Phono
Positive Feedback / Bob Levi
"The Stein Music Stateline Phono 2 Signature, paired with its separate power supply, delivers an impressive musical performance that will captivate listeners regardless of their musical taste. It offers flexibility and sound quality rarely found at this price point.“
U-Audio
“The Stateline Phono 2 impresses with its warm tonal color and remarkable ability to reproduce spatial sound, making the listener feel as if they are back in the recording studio.”
Aventurin 6 Cartridge
Stereophile / Michael Fremer
There was no "woody warmth" whatsoever, and no hyper-edginess. Top-end extension was fully extended, approaching the "crystalline" yet still natural, and the bottom end was generous and impactful."
Enjoy the Music / Wayne Donnelly
“I have not heard anywhere near every great phono cartridge, but I have heard several that are even more expensive than the Stein Music Aventurin 6. I have never heard a cartridge I would prefer to it. Highest possible recommendation!”
High Fidelity / Wojciech Pacula
“In short – this cart offered a very rich, highly enjoyable performance.”
Positive Feedback / Robert H. Levi
“I have owned many, many cartridges, and have enjoyed LPs for over 50 years. The Aventurin 6 is the best MC yet in every parameter that my ears know."