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Transfiguration Phoenix S MC cartridge
|When a hi-fi company, or any company for that matter, doesn’t have a website today, you can draw one of two conclusions: it hasn’t got around to making a website, or it doesn’t need a ...read more -
Roksan K3 CD player
|For Roksan’s latest K3 electronics range, head honcho Tufan Hashemi chose a rather different style of finish to grace the front panels. It seems he’s bored of the matte black and brushed silver that is ...read more -
Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum
|The Rogue Audio logo includes a silhouette of a bird that I am told is a raven, the largest member of the crow family. This was chosen because the raven is an intelligent bird that ...read more -
Cabasse Stream Source
|Cabasse is renowned for making loudspeakers with multi-concentric drivers, its ultimate creation being La Sphere, a spherical loudspeaker with four drive units on the same axis. Until very recently, the company was owned by a ...read more -
Meridian Audio DSP7200SE loudspeakers
|Meridian is not your average hi-fi company by any means. It has always been technologically advanced, a state of affairs that became apparent to the world at large when MLP or Meridan Lossless Packing was ...read more -
Atoll IN200 integrated amplifier
|The French audio brand Atoll began building electronics in the late 1990s, which was a tough time to carve out a niche in the audio marketplace. Simply surviving the last decade and a half means ...read more -
Egglestonworks Nico loudspeaker
|I have to say I was surprised when Egglestonworks announced the Nico and Emma speakers it was to unveil at CES this year. They seemed almost affordable. Not a state of affairs that one associates ...read more -
Pure Audio Phono preamplifier
|Pure Audio sounds like the sort of name that we all must have heard before, yet it turns out that this is only because it’s such an obvious brand name. The surprising thing is the ...read more -
Computer Audio Design CAT computer audio transport
|Two years ago, Scott Berry unleashed his 1543 USB DAC on this unsuspecting music nut. It made quite an impression. Rarely has such a hairshirt product come my way; a converter with one input, a ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Azur 851D & 851W
|Cambridge Audio may no longer operate in the collegiate city that gave the brand its name, but the product design and engineering is still very much British. Now based in Bermondsey in the heart of ...read more -
Vivid Audio Giya G3
|The curvy Vivid Giya G3 loudspeaker is a smaller version of the Giya G2, itself a Giya G1 ‘mini-me’. And at CES this year, the company showed a Giya G4 and it’s even smaller. If ...read more -
Astin Trew Concord DAC 1 digital converter
|There are only so many audio engineers in the world, so some names keep cropping up. It’s in the essential nature of the engineering psyche that self-promotion and marketing go against the grain, so these ...read more -
Cyrus Audio Lyric 09
|Cyrus Audio is no stranger to UK readers, but its half-width ‘singing shoeboxes’ sometimes struggle to make their mark outside of the British Isles. This, coupled with the significant changes in the type of product ...read more -
Linn Akubarik
|The original Linn Isobarik was once the top dog on the flat earth. If you had a pair, driven by a Naim six-pack and with a fully loaded LP12 at the front in the 1980s, ...read more -
Electrocompaniet ECM 2
|While we could spend our disposable income on family holidays or outings to restaurants, we audiophiles have a habit of diverting unreserved funds toward new bits of hardware to enhance our listening pleasure. And it ...read more