[ remusic Libretto HD affair ]

An Italian webzine remusic famous for making non banal reviews of electronic equipment with decent use of music samples and keeping focus on the performance rather than tech talks took an affair with Human Audio’s remarkably beautifully looking LIBRETTO HD CDP

Despite of the high marks given to company’s ECO and environmental friendly approach they said a lot about Libretto’s playback quality, truly giving justice to its high capabilities.

Please have a look at the high-lights we quoted bellow, but also do no hesitate to explore the link to read full review and see beautiful pictures showing LIBRETTO in its full glory .

… ” It has been said a lot of times, maybe too much, but there is no other way to say it: at last a CDP that does not play digital. Compared with a good analog set-up gives justice to the qualities of the digital, giving that emission naturalness so rare in more technological players…..”

Quick metaphors and final recap

 “Fluency of the sound message, precise but palpable detail, completeness of the ranges, no listening fatigue, etc., etc. Compared with CD players traditionally fed, the Libretto has won definitely, excepted for the apparent dynamics and velocity of the transients and for the mass and the immanency of the low frequencies. These statements need for explanation, though. We are entering the mystic/misty of the “idiophile” reviewer.

 Velocity, dynamics, transients are different for sure but, to better understand each other, the feeling is that the Libretto, like few other great Hi-Fi machines, does not “chase” the sound but propose it with the right timing. Sometimes is appears even dilated, but this “time dilatation” is a symptom of a great introspection of the sound message, of wide percept dynamic excursion and a distinctive mark. Many CDP with traditional power supply seemed more ready in some passages, but with an absolute reduced dynamic excursion. In other words, with the Libretto you can hear a bigger difference and distance between pianissimo and fortissimo.

Dimension and physicality of the bass: here is the energy that decays as there were a hint of energy reduction in the sustaining of these frequencies. I am talking about nuances, of course. This happens also in the more agitated rhythms, where the intelligibility is constant, but the impact drops a bit.

 In synthesis, the Libretto is a CD player where the last grip maybe is missing, where the articulation is privileged with respect to the impression, but where everything else has been done from a good to an excellent way.

 Maybe I am intellectually fascinated because I intellectually adhere to Human Audio design intentions. The fact is that for me the Libretto is one of my reference sounds in a worldwide Top Ten.”