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VPI Avenger Turntable
|Ever-presents are a rarity in audio systems – and are almost unheard of in those systems used by reviewers. Yet ever since I graduated from an LP12 in the early ‘80s, first VPI’s turntables and ...read more -
Simaudio MOON 860A v2 Power Amplifier
|Some products and some companies are just noisy – literally, metaphorically or euphemistically. Others are calmer, quieter and altogether more understated. For the last couple of decades, Simaudio has been consistently responsible for some of ...read more -
Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby Grand Reference loudspeakers
|There is a perplexing and occasionally bizarre dichotomy that exists at the heart of audio fashion and, by extension (or perhaps as a result of) reviewing. The products that get the most attention seem to ...read more -
CH Precision L10 line-stage preamplifier and M10 twin-chassis power amplifier
|You might well think we’re getting pretty good at this hi-fi thing. After all, we’ve been at it a while and, reading the press, you could easily conclude that, as the parade of ‘latest, greatest’ ...read more -
Raidho TD1.2 Standmount loudspeaker
|You reach a point in the track ‘Trans-Am’ (on the album Sleeps With Angels) when Neil Young’s guitar takes solo flight, a coda rather than a middle eight, the emotional release valve for the steady, ...read more -
PureLow LO Subwoofer
|It’s not often that you come across something genuinely new in audio. From contra-rotating turntable platters to tangentially correcting headshells it’s all been done (or at least attempted) before. In one sense, the same is ...read more -
Living Voice Auditorium R25A floorstanding loudspeaker
|Longevity is an increasingly rare commodity when it comes to audio equipment. The lifespan of high-end digital products can be measured in months, while product revisions are seemingly now an annual event – or in ...read more -
Gershman Acoustics Grande Avant Garde Loudspeaker
|Gershman speakers don’t look like other loudspeakers – but surprisingly often, other loudspeakers come to look like the Gershmans. Estalon’s striking XB caused a stir when it was first launched a few years ago – ...read more -
Computer Audio Design Ground Control-Reference grounding box
|When it comes to audio, it seems to be hard to get majority agreement on anything, but the one exception to that rule is the broad concept that less is (generally speaking) more. But even ...read more -
Blue Horizon Professional Rack System
|It is truly remarkable how segmented the practice of hi‑fi has become. From the obsession with individual product reviews to the narrow assumption of silver bullet solutions, from the digital arms race to the one ...read more -
ENGSTRÖM ARNE integrated amplifier
|ENGSTRÖM’s minimalist, high-performance and high-end valve amplifiers have some surprisingly human names; the ERIC and LARS power amplifiers, the MONICA preamp, and these are now joined by the ARNE integrated amp. With the exception of ...read more -
CH Precision A1.5 two channel power amplifier
|Steve Earle’s ‘Copperhead Road’ opens with a monster chord that sounds like a something big and very dead, crashing to the floor of the studio. It’s the sort of heavily compressed thud to send a ...read more -
VTL TL-6.5 Series II Signature line-stage and S-200 Signature power amplifier
|“Making tubes user-friendly”; so runs the VTL tag-line. For once it’s a sentiment that’s more than just marketing speak, one that’s embedded in the very form and substance of these amplifiers. Indeed, at first glance, ...read more -
Exposure XM CD Player
|While BOGOF has an undeniable ring to it, BOGTF is just so much better – even if it is unpronounceable. That might have stood in the way of the wider advertising industry, but it hasn’t ...read more -
Audioquest Niagara 7000 power conditioner
|Walk the corridors of any recent hi-fi show and you’ll have noticed a creeping, almost insidious presence, the first visible evidence of a (not so quiet) rise in audio’s dark side: mains conditioners, and chief ...read more