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  News

  Moon's Neo ACE – success is not the only reward

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  Hi-Fi+ Staff

  | Jul 20, 2017

  Moon's Neo ACE integrated streaming amplifier is a profoundly good product, a true audio Swiss Army knife with extensive digital and analogue functionality that makes it the one-box does-it-all amplifier of the moment. We thought ...

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  News

  Headphones & Personal Audio at the L.A. Audio Show 2017

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  Chris Martens

  | Jul 19, 2017

  The inaugural L.A. Audio Show 2017 featured an extensive HeadGear showroom, plus something new and valuable: namely, an XTREME HeadGear room reserved exclusively for top-tier models of proven performance capabilities. Since the L.A. Show followed ...

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  Equipment+

  RHA Audio DACAMP L1 portable high-res DAC and headphone amplifier

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  Chris Martens

  | Jul 19, 2017

  Those of you who have followed Hi-Fi+ over time know that we hold the Scottish firm RHA Audio in high regard as a manufacturer of sensibly priced high performance earphones, many of which have been ...

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  Equipment+

  Trilogy Audio Systems 906 phono stage

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  Alan Sircom

  | Jul 19, 2017

  We loved the Trilogy Audio Systems 907 phono stage when we tested it in issue 85. But it is a bit ‘spendy’. So when we saw the 931 headphone amp (a stripped down version of ...

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  Equipment+

  Benchmark Media Systems DAC3 HGC digital converter

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  Alan Sircom

  | Jul 18, 2017

  Benchmark Media Systems is one of the bastions of the new face of audio electronics. Benchmark was and is a pro audio brand at the forefront of the democratisation of the recording industry and audiophiles ...

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  Equipment+

  Weiss Medus DAC

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  Jason Kennedy

  | Jul 18, 2017

  Weiss has long been at the forefront of digital audio technology. It was the first company I recall making a DAC equipped with a Firewire input for the Mac computers that were used as a ...

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  Equipment+

  VPI Industries Prime Signature turntable

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  Alan Sircom

  | Jul 18, 2017

  When it was launched back at the end of 2016, the VPI Prime changed the game, proving to be one of the best turntables we’d heard at anything close to the price. So impressive, in ...

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  Equipment+

  SME Model 15A turntable

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  Jason Kennedy

  | Jul 11, 2017

  Not a lot seems to change at SME’s HQ in the picturesque town of Steyning, West Sussex. Men in white coats have been building high quality turntables and arms there for so long that several ...

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  Equipment+

  JBL S9300 loudspeakers

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  Roy Gregory

  | Jul 11, 2017

  Are you feeling musically emasculated, the result of a bass driver that’s barely bigger than a self-respecting midrange unit? Are you suffering musical malnutrition due to a lack of meat in your diet? Is your ...

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  Equipment+

  McIntosh Labs MB50 streaming audio player

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  Alan Sircom

  | Jul 11, 2017

  McIntosh is something of a law unto itself in audio. Few companies share McIntosh’s fan base, which have been fanatically loyal to the brand for decades, to the point where faced with the choice of ...

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