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Rega Aura phono stage
|In these days when amplifiers (and pre-amplifiers) often have line-only inputs, there are several ways of dealing with a phono cartridge, and indeed several types of phono cartridge. Ignoring specialist devices like strain gauge and ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 603 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Try guessing the price of this decent size loudspeaker, and I’ll warrant you’ll overestimate it by around 50%. Certainly £1,250 does seem very modest in view of the complement of eight drive units, two floorstanding ...read more -
Node Audio Hylixa stand-mount loudspeaker
|Node Audio is a brand-new operation that’s both radical and unusual. Situated a few miles south of Cambridge, Node shares an advanced manufacturing facility with a hi-tech engineering company. Its two key principals are Ashley ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 floorstanding loudspeaker
|At £3,300 per pair the 702 S2 is a very clever loudspeaker indeed. On the one hand, it replaces the top model from the CM-series. On the other, it trickles down much of technology from ...read more -
Ophidian Prophet P1 standmout loudspeaker
|The topic of this review is a quite small but surprisingly heavy two-way speaker from an operation that’s actually based in the Wirral, just across the water from Liverpool. The P-series is a relative newcomer, ...read more -
Messenger's Masterpieces
|I might be well stuck in the past myself, but I am not entirely unaware of the devices that today’s youthful consumers use for music listening. The £70 Frankenspiel FS-1 is just such a device. ...read more -
PMC Twenty.26 floorstanding loudspeakers
|PMC’s Twenty.26 is the fifth and latest stereo pair in PMC’s mid-price Twenty series, and appears to have a concept and numerous elements in common with the much more costly fact.12. However, many of those ...read more -
Nightingale Concentus CTR2 loudspeaker
|I’ve heard the Nightingale described as an Italian variation on the panel theme. Like classic panels, it’s a dipole design, though it differs from most current models in using conventional moving-coil drive units, and housing ...read more -
MonoPulse Model S
|MonoPulse is one of Britain’s smaller speaker makers, but it has been around for more than a decade, has a very distinctive range of speakers, enjoys a steady demand (especially from Scandinavia), and seems perfectly ...read more -
Acoustic Insight FocalStage loudspeaker
|If you’ve not heard of Acoustic Insight before, that could be because the brand used to be called Aurousal; a name I thought quite amusing, but which also apparently attracted some criticism. I suspect I’m ...read more -
Best of the Best - Vertex AQ
|I guess Hi-Fi+ first appeared in early 1999. That’s about as far back as I can date any material that I wrote, and I seem to recall contributing to the first (and subsequent) issues. Some ...read more -
Morgan Audio RMS11 Active Loudspeaker (Hi-Fi+)
|The Morgan Audio RMS11 is a compact stand-mount loudspeaker. More important is the fact that it’s also an active loudspeaker, and that simple adjective separates it out from the overwhelming majority. Active drive is a ...read more -
Anthem Statement M1
|A year or so back I purchased a pair of monoblock power amps. Each has a solitary output PX4 triode valve, originally introduced in 1929, and each amplifier was reputed to deliver around 3.5W. Needless ...read more -
Backes und Müller BMline 25 loudspeaker
|I first heard of Backes und Müller (usually abbreviated as B&M) way back in the mid-1970s. The original B&M speaker was indeed very interesting and technically radical, using an electrostatic sensor system to provide the ...read more -
Kaiser Kawero! Chiara loudspeakers
|The carrier refused to collect the Chiaras, claiming that they were ‘too heavy’. A standmount ‘too heavy’? I found this difficult to believe. However, the Editor stepped into the breach, somehow managing to struggle the ...read more