Articles
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Munich High End 2018 – Part One
|So much hi-fi, so little time. That’s what it feels like on day one at Europe’s biggest gathering of the high fidelity clans, and to make matters worse they all have a press launch on ...read more -
Cary Audio DMS-500 music streamer
|The last time I had a Cary Audio product in the system it was a valve amplifier. Cary still builds a lot of valve designs to this day, but the North Carolina-based company also makes ...read more -
Hegel H190 integrated amplifier
|Will there come a time when everything is in one box and that isn’t a compromise? If you look at some of the bigger names in the business this looks like the way the market ...read more -
Rotel RCD-1572 CD player
|We all got very excited when the compact disc came along, the scratch resistant, jam-proof “perfect” medium for the first digital music format, but it seems that the gloss has well and truly worn off ...read more -
Innuos ZENith SE Mk II music server
|Noise. That’s what’s wrong with digital audio reproduction. Yet how could this be? CD introduced the silent background, the hiss free ‘inky blackness’ that allowed the music to stand out. But it didn’t... it just ...read more -
STST Motus II turntable
|If you judge your books by their covers you’d not be inclined to give this German turntable a second glance. The STST Motus II looks like yet another solid plinth design with a medium mass ...read more -
CAAS Elysian preamplifier and mono power amplifiers
|It works like this: you get into hi-fi in your teens/twenties, toil away at a decent job for twenty or thirty years, and then realise that life is finite and that if you’re ever going ...read more -
Kimber Kable Hero-cu interconnects and 8TC loudspeaker cables
|Much like journalists across the globe, hi-fi reviewers are always keen to pontificate about the pros and cons of the latest must-have piece of kit. We’re always hungry for novelty! But out in the real ...read more -
Aurorasound VIDA phono stage
|It’s not just the distance or the cultural differences that gives Japanese audio hardware its exotic appeal. It’s a combination of that nation’s hard-earned reputation for attention to detail with the general impression that they ...read more -
PMC twenty5.26 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Formula One is, on the one hand, a magnificent waste of money and resources, but on the other, it’s a hot-bed of technological advances, which trickle down into the vehicles that we mere mortals drive. ...read more -
Emily Barker: A Sweet Kind of Blue
|We’ve talked to Emily Barker before in these pages and in 2013 she told us about her last solo album Dear River, a collection of songs about her native Australia. She has worked on a ...read more -
Jeff Rowland Design Group Capri S2 preamplifier
|I wonder if Jeff Rowland ever read EF Schumacher’s popular tome Small is Beautiful, a guide of sorts to the benefits of keeping a business small, a state of affairs that many audio manufacturers have ...read more -
Plinius Hiato integrated amplifier
|I’m not sure if it’s the climate in New Zealand or the Lord of the Rings effect, but if the Plinius Hiato is anything to go by, they like to go large down under. The ...read more -
ELAC Uni‑Fi FS U5 Slim floorstanding loudspeaker
|Not only is white the new black, but speakers are getting skinnier. The pressure to be thin is not limited to us humans, it seems. That appears to be the ethos behind ELAC’s Uni-Fi Slim ...read more -
Phison A2.12 stereo power amplifier
|It’s pronounced like ‘bison’ because it’s a combination of the founder’s forenames; Philip and Sonny, and they’re Danes. But you can tell that from the understated elegance of the Phison design, of course. There are ...read more