Articles
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Audio Research Reference DAC Digital Media Bridge
|If ever there were a sign that the wind has changed direction, its when an established brand with a reputation for building excellent – if slightly conservative – products decides to jump on the latest ...read more -
Van den Hul 3T The Rock Hybrid (Hi-Fi+)
|Van den Hul has had a bit of a tough time in the UK over the last few years. Once king of the cable hill with numerous manufacturers using its products in and outside of ...read more -
Constellation Audio Virgo preamplifier and Centaur power amplifier
|When Constellation Audio first appeared at CES three years ago, I was not the only one to be taken aback by the quality and style of the casework. However, I was the first to say ...read more -
Alacrity Audio Caterthun Classic
|It’s an iron age Scottish hill fort apparently. What this has to do with a company based in the south of England or the two-way speaker that has taken the name is not clear, but ...read more -
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Isotek EVO3 Genesis
|Power conditioning has got itself something of a bad rap in the UK. It seems to be big in the US, because they only have 110 volts to work with and the flimsiest looking plugs ...read more -
Rega RP6, Naim SuperUniti and Focal 1028Be system
|The co-mingling of Naim and Focal last year came as something of a surprise to many in the industry. How could two brands whose identities are so closely aligned with their places of origin coexist ...read more -
Metrum Acoustics Hex digital converter
|Scale doesn’t always count in this business. Sure, the bigger companies have the marketing clout to get their products the widest exposure, and some of them have the R&D facilities to do things that small ...read more -
Black Rhodium Tempo interconnect and Samba loudspeaker cables
|How do you get from a twist to a twirl to a samba? Not at your local Latin dance club, unless you are in Black Rhodium’s hometown of Derby perhaps, and following the cable naming ...read more -
Linn Kiko Network Audio System
|In these difficult days for the quality end of the audio industry, you can no longer get by on a glorious past. Ask people out in the real world what constitutes a decent sound system ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Hi-Fi+ Visits CAD (Computer Audio Design)
|Last year I reviewed the CAD 1543 DAC, the first product from a new company that made a deep impression on me and remains one of the most revealing converters available. In February, CAD (Computer ...read more -
Guru Junior Loudspeaker
|At the Bristol show in February the Guru distributor had pictures of a girl ‘chillaxing’ with a pair of Guru Junior speakers under the slogan ‘Swedes have more fun’. I guess if Ingmar Bergman had ...read more -
Best of The Best - Vivid Audio Loudspeakers
|Looking back at the mountain of products that I’ve reviewed since Hi-Fi Plus was launched does not make it easy to pick one that could be said to have had the greatest impact on the ...read more -
Cyrus Stream X2 Digital Streamer (Hi-Fi+)
|The Cyrus Stream X is the base model in a range of four, which has recently been upgraded to version 2 status. This means that they are fully up to 24/192 speed and can deliver ...read more -
Sound & Vision, 2013 (Hi-Fi+)
|BRISTOL, ENGLAND: The audio industry’s annual migration west to the Marriott Hotel in Bristol has become the most lively and entertaining show on the British circuit.read more