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  Simaudio Moon 600I V2 Evolution Series integrated amplifier

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  Chris Thomas

  | Nov 15, 2018

  Many moons ago (yeah, I know), I was given the opportunity to review a compact little integrated amplifier from the Canadian manufacturer SimAudio. It was called the Moon i-3. Outwardly it was a completely no-frills ...

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  Monitor Audio Studio stand-mount loudspeaker

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  Alan Sircom

  | Nov 15, 2018

  Studio, by Monitor Audio, is a one-off design by the company, one of the last to spring from the pen (well, the pen on the tablet of the CAD/CAM computer) of Dean Hartley, who stood ...

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  Critical Mass Systems Center Stage2 anti-vibration feet

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  Alan Sircom

  | Nov 15, 2018

  Critical Mass Systems is well known for making some of the finest (and largest) high-end audio equipment support systems money can buy. So, it might come as something of a shock to discover that CMS ...

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  Dutch & Dutch 8c stand-mount loudspeaker

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  Jason Kennedy

  | Nov 15, 2018

  DSP in active speakers is not a new thing, but arguably until recently, it is not a technology that has realised its full potential. This was proved convincingly by the Kii Three that I wrote ...

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  Vivid Audio Kaya 45 floorstanding loudspeaker

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  Jason Kennedy

  | Nov 06, 2018

  While some markets like shiny white or yellow loudspeakers, the majority of the hi‑fi market appears to prefer rectilinear boxes with a wood veneer. It has ever been thus and only slowly will it change, ...

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  Totem Sky Tower floorstanding loudspeaker

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  Buzz Hughes

  | Nov 06, 2018

  Montreal based speaker manufacturer Totem Acoustic has always been closely identified with company president and chief engineer Vince Bruzzese’s ability to defy expectations for what can be accomplished with bookshelf monitor loudspeakers. Refreshingly, throughout Totem’s ...

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  Kii Three active loudspeaker system

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  Jason Kennedy

  | Nov 06, 2018

  Put Bruno Putzeys’ name into a search engine and you get plenty of results. He is ranked among such audio engineering luminaries as Nelson Pass and Siegfried Linkwitz, yet his name has yet to enter ...

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  Kuzma CAR-60 moving coil cartridge

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  Roy Gregory

  | Oct 31, 2018

  They say that nothing lasts forever and, judging by the standards of hi-fi fashion, that certainly seems to be true. How long did it take for diamond tweeters, suddenly the must-have audio bauble, to lose ...

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  Sonus faber Amati Homage Tradition floorstanding loudspeaker

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  Alan Sircom

  | Oct 31, 2018

  The long-running Homage series from Sonus faber pays tribute to the finest violin makers of the past with loudspeakers that look and sound fantastic. The Amati has long been the conventional top tower of the ...

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  Falcon Acoustics LS3/5a stand-mount loudspeaker

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  Alan Sircom

  | Oct 31, 2018

  There is almost no point in discussing some parts of this loudspeaker. The BBC-designed LS3/5a is the stuff of legend, and in our little world as well-known, as ubiquitous, and as popular as the original ...

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