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Dynaudio Emit M20 standmount loudspeaker
|Dynaudio is in its 40th year, with a product range that includes speakers for cars and pro audio alongside all manner of domestic designs. The Danish company also expanded into wireless technology back in 2012, ...read more -
AudioQuest DragonFly Red and DragonFly Black DACs
|AudioQuest has been making the DragonFly portable DAC since 2012. The DAC’s appearance hasn’t changed much, but it’s been through two iterations, and now there are two new models vying for your readies. Up until ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 803 D3 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Most loudspeaker companies tend to take an evolutionary approach to product development; they use the same basic design and refine it over time, a bit like a BMW 3 Series car. This is what B&W ...read more -
McIntosh C52 preamp and MC301 mono power amplifiers
|McIntosh has been around for so long that it must be viewed in the home market in much the same way that the British view Quad. Both have been around seemingly forever and have a ...read more -
Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Esprit SB
|The turntable range from Pro-Ject now extends to 23 models, so it’s no wonder that when a new one comes along, it can wind up with a rather unwieldy name. The Debut Carbon Esprit SB ...read more -
Rothwell Signature One phono stage
|Andrew Rothwell has been quietly beavering away in the business for decades, but he has maintained a low profile in keeping with many of the smaller British brands. I call it ‘stealth marketing’ and frankly ...read more -
COS D1 digital converter/preamplifier
|If one were to judge this particular book by its cover it would not be hard to come to the conclusion that an awful lot of effort and expense had gone into the casework and ...read more -
Primare PRE60/ATC SCM150 ASL system
|Not all component combinations are predictable. Sometimes you find an amp and speakers that despite coming from different schools of audio thought seem to gel in ways that few would have expected. On this occasion, ...read more -
Lampizator Lite 7 digital converter
|Lampizator is not your average audio electronics company. It’s chief designer Lukasz Fikus is very forthright about what is and isn’t important when it comes to building the best gear. When it comes to the ...read more -
DALI Epicon 8 floorstanding loudspeaker
|There aren’t very many loudspeaker companies that do in-depth research and build their own drive units in this business. DALI is a rare exception, and one that has been making some impressive technological breakthroughs in ...read more -
Luxman C-700u preamp and M-700u stereo power amplifier
|Luxman long had more cachet than many rival Japanese audio brands. It sits in a relatively underpopulated strata it shares with Accuphase, positioned above the mainstream of Yamaha, Pioneer, etc., but more widely known than ...read more -
Robert Wyatt interview
|The Canterbury Scene was not just the place where Paul Messenger (mis)spent his youth, it was a musical movement of the 1960s that resulted in some of the most original British bands of the era. ...read more -
Benchmark AHB2 power amplifier
|Benchmark made its mark on the audio fraternity in the late 2000s with the unusually compact, yet full featured, converter and preamplifier... the DAC1, the latest DAC2 incarnation of which I reviewed in these pages ...read more -
System Feature: Naim Audio NAC-N 272 network preamplifier and ATC SCM40 active floorstanding loudspeakers
|It seems that we live in an age where less (in the way of audio equipment) is seen as more (in the domestic acceptability sense). Linn has been using this approach and has honed almost ...read more -
Computer Audio Design CAD 1543 MKII Digital converter
|When Scott Berry brought me the first incarnation of his CAD DAC, I chided him for only including a USB input and not having a removable mains cable: it seemed like single-minded madness. But the ...read more