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Mark Levinson, Vienna Acoustics, Chord Company system
|Hi-fi, just like any other arcane (and borderline obsessive) activity has generated its own set of ‘rules’. One that pretty much everybody seems to agree on is that the shortest route to sonic suicide is ...read more -
JBL S9300 loudspeakers
|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 ...read more -
Audio Fidelity Improvement Flat record flattener
|As long as records have been stamped out of vinyl, warps and irregularities in their supposedly flat surfaces have been a problem – and devices claiming to deal with the issue are nearly as old ...read more -
Systemdek 3D precision turntable
|History is a funny thing. It can be positive – or it can be negative. Generally speaking, saying that you “have history” with someone, isn’t good. Nor is it a fixed or finite truth, famously ...read more -
Munich Preview Exclusive: Gryphon Diablo 120 Amplifier and Mojo S Loudspeaker system
|There may well be more than one way to skin a cat but there are only two ways to build a hi-fi system: by far the most common is to mix and match components in ...read more -
Stand Your Ground
|For years, one of the best-kept secrets in hi-fi has been that the single most cost-effective upgrade you can make to any system (regardless of price or ambition) is to provide it with a dedicated ...read more -
Revel Concerta 2 F35 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Shipping speakers to the UK might once have seemed as rewarding as carting coals to Newcastle, but the times they are a changing. Not so long ago the number of established, imported loudspeaker brands could ...read more -
Vienna Acoustics The Music floorstanding loudspeaker
|The more time you spend in and around the audio industry, the more apparent it becomes that some companies are noisier than others, forever trumpeting a new model, a new technology, or a ground-breaking advance ...read more -
Focal Sopra No.3 Loudspeaker
|Focal's elegant, striking, and strikingly different Sopra No.2 has quickly established a reputation as the sweet spot in the entire Focal range. Offering the right size, at the right price, with more than a hint ...read more -
conrad-johnson GAT Series 2 preamplifier
|For the last decade, high-end audio has been on a seemingly inevitable trajectory, its controls set for the heart of the luxury market sector, propelled by the twin impetus of soaring prices and the influx ...read more -
DS Audio DS-W1 Optical cartridge and equaliser
|Despite the total dominance of electro-magnetic pick-up technology – be it fixed or moving-coil in nature – there has always been a steady stream of alternative offerings or variations on the theme when it comes ...read more -
Audiomat Aria integrated amplifier
|Some things just work and one of them is the 25-30Watt, push-pull Class A tube amp, based around single pairs of EL34 output tubes. It’s a topology that’s been around since the year dot – ...read more -
Mark Levinson Audio Systems 585 integrated amp and DAC
|What’s more common than high-priced, heavyweight, high-end integrated amps? High-priced, heavyweight, high-end integrated amps that incorporate an internal DAC. You can argue about who was the first to offer a high-end integrated amplifier, aiming to ...read more -
Kuzma 4POINT 14 tonearm
|While many UK audiophiles are still struggling to come to terms with the notion of 12” tonearms that resolutely refuse to mount on their LP12s, those driving this particular arms race are already moving on ...read more -
Roy's Round Up
|We live in a world that seems to treat the terms “high-end” and “high-priced” as interchangeable. But they’re not, and nor should you ever accept that they are. High-end is all about attitude and thinking, ...read more