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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 -
Bowers & Wilkins PM1 Loudspeakers (Hi-Fi+)
|With its Nautilus tubed tweeter cradled on the top and shiny livery, this compact standmount looks distinctly like a miniature 800 series design, an 808 perhaps. But the PM1 shares only one component with its ...read more -
Mark Levinson No.53 Monoblock Power Amplifiers (Hi-Fi+)
|The Mark Levinson website has all the usual sections alongside one called ‘gear’, click through and you get to the Harman International Merchandise Store where you can buy a number of Levinson branded garments and ...read more -
MSB Technology Platinum Signature DATA CD IV & DAC IV (Hi-Fi+)
|When I reviewed MSB’s last Platinum transport and DAC, the mkIII iteration of these components, I spent a paragraph bewailing the gulf between their appearance and their sonic capability. It used to be acceptable to ...read more -
Quad II Classic Integrated Amplifier (Hi-Fi+)
|The original Quad II mono amplifiers must be one of the most popular pieces of vintage audio going, they command high prices when condition is good and they continue to give remarkable service for a ...read more -
Classé CA-M400 Mono-Bloc Amplifiers (Hi-Fi+)
|Just as the cars of the world are being downsized in engine terms and having every last ounce of power extracted from them in an attempt to appease the carbon religion, amplifiers are slowly but ...read more -
Rega Isis CD Player/DAC & Osiris Integrated Amplifier (Hi-Fi+)
|To say that it was a shock to discover that Rega had created a high end CD player and amplifier is an understatement. After all, Rega is a bastion of affordable, no nonsense hi-fi. It ...read more -
PMC Twenty.24 Loudspeakers (Hi-Fi+)
|When PMC launched the twenty series back in September last year company co-founder and designer Pete Thomas said that the range aims to maximimise musicality through minimising coloration. Which doesn’t seem all that revolutionary, but ...read more -
Brinkmann Bardo (Hi-Fi+)
|There’s an interesting piece on the Brinkmann website which tells us a lot about the way Helmut Brinkmann’s mind works. In essence it explains how Helmut noticed that the tiny screws that adjust the cantilever ...read more -
Esoteric E-03 Phono Stage (Hi-Fi+)
|You have to hand it to the Japanese, no one builds electronics like they do. The attention to detail, the finish the fit and the feel of high end kit from that island nation is ...read more -
PMC PB1i Floorstanding Loudspeaker (Hi-Fi+)
|[This review originally appeared in issue 65 of Hi-Fi Plus magazine, which is published in the U.K.] Design in East Germany during the GDR was as marooned as the lizards on the Galapagos islands, the ...read more -
JPS Labs Aluminata Interconnect Cable (Hi-Fi+)
|It’s considered good form in Hi-Fi+ to review a whole ‘loom’ of cable as a single entity; interconnect, loudspeaker and mains cables as one. There’s good reason for this – it gives a more consistent ...read more -
Ayon Audio CD1 CD Player (Hi-Fi+)
|Ayon represent a new breed of hi-fi manufacturer, one that designs its products in Europe and manufactures them in China. The economics of the arrangement are very hard to beat; man hours on that side ...read more -
Monitor Audio PL100 Loudspeaker (Hi-Fi+)
|For relatively old lags like myself the Monitor Audio name will forever be associated with its charismatic founder Mo Iqbal, a larger than life character whose favourite catchphrase was ‘gold domes matey’, a reference to ...read more