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  REL S/3 slight return

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  Nicholas Ripley

  | Jul 25, 2014

  I finished my review of the £1,299 REL S/3 subwoofer (http://www.hifiplus.com/articles/rel-s3-subwoofer/), when two things happened. These happened soon after the review was printed, but are worth a revisit. First, while changing nothing on the system ...

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  Album review

  Classic Album Sundays: The Cure - Disintegration

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  Ms Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy

  | Jul 25, 2014

  Although The Cure were lumped in with Goth Rock and had a sea of powdered skin, thick black eyeliner and raven-haired heads undulating at their live shows, they never became a parody of themselves. The ...

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  Equipment+

  Web Exclusive: Arcam irDAC digital converter

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  Alan Sircom

  | Jul 25, 2014

  We’ve been running very late with some of our more value-led reviews, in part because things that are easy to lift tend to get moved out of the way when hernia-inducing high-end products get hefted ...

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  Blog

  Why do bad things happen to good systems?

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  Alan Sircom

  | Jul 25, 2014

  As audiophiles, we have all experienced this. Despite all our care, attention, and diligence, that textbook high-end supersystem just sounds flat, drab and uninspired. You might have spent years building it, months tweaking it, and ...

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  Blog

  First Listen: AURALiC GEMINI 2000 headphone amp/DAC/stand

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  Chris Martens

  | Jul 25, 2014

  AURALIC’s GEMINI 2000 and 1000 products were first drawn to my attention, if I remember correctly, last October at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest 2013. At the time, the products were in their final pre-production ...

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  News

  First Listen: HiFiMAN HE-560 Planar Magnetic Headphones

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  Chris Martens

  | Jul 21, 2014

  Several months ago I received, as did a handful of headphone-minded audio journalists, a review pair of HiFiMAN’s latest HE-560 headphones. But, less than 24 hours after the headphones arrived, I got a message from ...

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  Equipment+

  Norodst Valhalla 2 cable system

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  Alan Sircom

  | Jul 19, 2014

  Nordost has put a lot of faith in mechanical tuning recently. The company discovered that a cable’s mechanical properties (including its physical length) are vital to in its sonic performance. The results of this investigation ...

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  Equipment+

  iFi Nano iDSD portable DSD DAC/headphone amplifier

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  Chris Martens

  | Jul 19, 2014

  Have you ever wondered what would happen if a high-end audio manufacturer with a reputation for sonic excellence applied itself wholeheartedly to designing affordable electronics for personal audio applications? As it happens, that very question ...

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  QUAD ESL 2812 electrostatic loudspeaker

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  Chris Thomas

  | Jul 19, 2014

  After much dropping of hints I was offered the chance to spend a couple of months living with the latest Quad Electrostatic speaker, the 2812. Many years ago I owned three different pairs of the ...

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  iFi Nano iCAN portable headphone amplifier

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  Chris Martens

  | Jul 17, 2014

  In high-end audio, context can be everything. Directly following this review, I have also prepared a review of iFi Audio’s Nano iDSD portable DAC/headphone amplifier, in which I observe that the iDSD can be a ...

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