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Aqua La Scala digital converter
|There are several ways of skinning the proverbial digital rabbit and turning it into a tasty analogue stew. The most popular one is to use a chipset from one of a small number of large-scale ...read more -
Neat Acoustics Iota Xplorer floorstanding loudspeaker
|We first saw Neat’s Iota as a cute compact loudspeaker that anyone could live with and grow to love. It then became the Iota Alpha, which is a bit bigger but still diminutive, and does ...read more -
Black Rhodium Overture/Polka/Stream cables
|In pro audio the answer to the question what’s the best cable? Is “the one that is the right length to make the connection.” In domestic audio, as we know, it’s not quite that straightforward! ...read more -
Chord Electronics DAVE DAC/SPM 1050 MkII stereo power amplifier
|I think it was Krell that got the ball rolling on heavy duty chassis construction for audio. Many have picked up this ball since the 1980s but no company (in the UK at least) has ...read more -
Exposure XM5 integrated amplifier
|Way back in the day when Exposure were the only real competitor that Naim had in the UK, both companies made a lot of half width black boxes. They were all ugly and, in the ...read more -
Rega Aphelion MC cartridge
|Rega published a book last year, an autobiography of sorts that charts the oft challenging history of the company and its products; they called the book A Vibration Measuring Machine (reviewed inHi-Fi+ Issue 149).This tells ...read more -
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