Articles
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Weiss Medus DAC
|Weiss has long been at the forefront of digital audio technology. It was the first company I recall making a DAC equipped with a Firewire input for the Mac computers that were used as a ...read more -
SME Model 15A turntable
|Not a lot seems to change at SME’s HQ in the picturesque town of Steyning, West Sussex. Men in white coats have been building high quality turntables and arms there for so long that several ...read more -
PMC twenty5.22 standmount loudspeaker
|For the vast majority of music lovers the rectilinear shape of a loudspeaker is what defines its purpose; a box with square corners and round drivers is a speaker. So when PMC launched the twenty ...read more -
Onix DNA-50 integrated amplifier
|Cast your mind back to the heady days of the 1980s, an era of bright clothes, dubious haircuts, and even worse synth-driven pop. However, the 1980s also saw the birth of the indestructible compact disc ...read more -
Cyrus Audio One integrated amplifier
|This Cyrus has been a long time coming. When Cyrus launched its flagship X300 power amplifiers, I recall mentioning that the cast alloy case – one that has adorned virtually all Cyrus products since the ...read more -
Roksan Audio Blak integrated amplifier
|2016 was a tumultuous year. Musicians fell like flies and voters confounded pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile for Roksan, it closed the year in the hands of Monitor Audio. Roksan co-founder and ...read more -
Gold Note Giglio turntable with B-5.1 arm and Donatello Red cartridge
|In the oft-parochial world of audio, some good brands can go almost unnoticed. So it is with Gold Note: the Italian company commands a strong reputation in many parts of the world as a ‘stem ...read more -
Transfiguration Proteus cartridge (again)
|I’m not saying that Transfiguration cartridges are like buses, but no sooner have you reviewed one than another comes along, often with the same name! Clearly, Seiji Yoshioka who designs the Transfiguration cartridges can’t stop ...read more -
Pathos Inpol Remix MkII HiDac EVO integrated amplifier
|This product – I hesitate to use the word amplifier because it’s a lot more than that – may have a name that reads like a compilation of dance floor anthems, but that name is ...read more -
Rockna Wavedream DAC
|Rockna is a Romanian company that started just before the millennium with a pair of monoblock amplifiers, but its founder Nicolae Jitariu is something of a digital wizard. Jitariu has done design work for Goldmund, ...read more -
Covert Technologies Plato Class A ripping music server
|A lot has happened with the Plato all-in-one streamer, recorder, and amplifier since the last one came my way nearly a year ago, not the least of which is the company has changed its name ...read more -
Lindemann Musicbook 25 DSD media player
|Lindemann is a German manufacturer that started out in fairly conventional fashion building integrated amplifiers and loudspeakers in 1993. By the turn of the century, the company had added a CD player and a phono ...read more -
Vivid Giya G4
|The day after these little Giyas arrived designer Lawrence ‘Dic’ Dickie was off to Durban in South Africa to set up a test and measurement facility in Vivid’s new factory. But the company was not ...read more -
Innuos ZENith MkII music server
|Portugal is not a country that gets on the audio map very often so it’s great to find Innuos, a company with a Portuguese founder and an assembly and distribution base in that part of ...read more -
Vivid B1 Decade standmount loudspeakers
|It’s anniversary time again, this time for Vivid Audio, which celebrated its 10th birthday recently. To mark the occasion, designer Laurence ‘Dic’ Dickie went back to the first speaker he created for the company: the ...read more