Articles
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Acoustic Solid Wood Round MPX turntable
|A visit to the High-End show in Munich, Germany feels like being assaulted by the sheer range and variety of turntables. What’s more, between German brands in particular, there’s lots of competition to produce the ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins Formation Duo active stand-mount loudspeakers
|It’s been almost three years now since the Munich High End Show when the audio world discovered that Bowers & Wilkins had changed hands. Long-time owner Joe Atkins had sold to a Californian entrepreneur with ...read more -
FinkTeam Borg floorstanding loudspeaker
|There are two types of loudspeaker designer: those that come up with a loudspeaker design and create a whole company around it, and those who take a more ‘hired gun’ approach. Often, the skill set ...read more -
Naim Supernait 3 integrated amplifier
|You can chart the rise and fall of source popularity by looking at the variations in the three iterations of the Naim Supernait. The original version of Naim’s largest integrated amplifier launched in 2007 with ...read more -
Tellurium Q Ultra Black II RCA cable and loudspeaker cable
|There is nothing like telling the uninitiated that cable makes a big difference to sound quality if you want to elicit a “Shut up! Are you mad?” response. Even for those within the fold, the ...read more -
Cyrus 82 DAC/QXR integrated amplifier
|You can usually tell what a product is from its name, an LP12 plays LPs or ‘vinyls’ (spit), a CD17 played CDs and a NAP 300 is a (Naim) amplifier. Cyrus takes a different approach ...read more -
DiDiT DAC212SEII DAC & AMP212 power amp
|Small is Beautiful was EF Schumacher’s advice to the world in 1973 and it seems that many of us have taken up the idea and started to make artisan gin among other things, some of ...read more -
Naim NDX 2/XPS DR Music Streamer and PSU
|I used to wonder why Naim persevered with DIN connections when the rest of the audio world had given up on them decades ago. They’re not particularly nice things and must be a pig to ...read more -
Marantz PM-KI Ruby integrated amplifier
|Editor’s Note: This review was commissioned and originally published before Ken Ishiwata’s recent departure from Marantz! I thought I was doing well to get 30 years under my belt in this business but Ken Ishiwata ...read more -
ATC SCM100SE floorstanding speaker
|Acoustic Transducer Company (ATC) has been making drive units and loudspeakers since 1974 and building a fan base in the hi-fi market for the performance quality of its systems for over two decades. Modelled on ...read more -
Stirling Broadcast LS3/5a V3 stand-mount loudspeaker
|There can be few more iconic loudspeakers than the LS3/5a. Designed by the BBC in the early seventies for use as a outside broadcast monitor it has been licenced by all manner of companies over ...read more -
Leema Sirius digital music streamer/server
|Leema missed a trick when choosing the name for this their first digital streamer/server. It seems clear to some of us that it should have been called the Leema Prima Streamer. As it is the ...read more -
Russell K Red 120 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Russell Kauffman has been in this industry for as long as I can remember; he has worked for Bowers & Wilkins, Morel, and was a regular on Paul Messenger’s legendary blind listening tests in the ...read more -
Arcam SA20 integrated amplifier
|Arcam has been through a turbulent few years. In 2012 it became a subsidiary of Canadian conglomerate JAM Industries whose main fields are pro audio, music, and lighting. Five years later Arcam was bought by ...read more -
Audiovector QR5 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Audiovector is a company that gets a lot of coverage but still doesn’t get the recognition it deserves! I guess some of that is because there are still a lot of Danish speaker makers and ...read more