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Bristol Sound & Vision 2015 - Part Two
|The Bristol Show is the hot spot in audio’s cold and wet late February. Numbers were up this year and although sales were slightly lower than last year’s record-breaker, a lot of that came down ...read more -
Making a Statement
|Naim Audio has been building audio electronics since the 1970s. So, it knows a thing or two about handling the products it’s building. But when you move into making an amplifier of the size, scale, ...read more -
Bristol Sound & Vision Show 2015
|The Bristol Show (more formally, The Sound & Vision Show) runs at the tail end of February at the Marriott City Centre hotel near Bristol’s Cabot Circus development. Now in its 27th year, the show ...read more -
EAT E-Flat turntable and tonearm
|One of the big problems in 21st Century audio is a lack of long-term memory. A good product may have a life-cycle stretching a decade or more, but just a few short months after it’s ...read more -
Headroom Show
|Over the last two days in January, West London became the nerve centre of all things headphone-related, as the new Headroom Show descended on Chiswick’s prestigious Metropolis Studios. While the two studios, two control rooms, ...read more -
Russell K Red 100
|Russell K loudspeakers is the brainchild of Russell Kauffman, a man well known in the UK audio world. Russell has been involved in many of the country’s best-known loudspeaker brands in one capacity or another ...read more -
Hegel H160 integrated amplifier
|On its website, Hegel says of its new H160 integrated amplifier, “Connect whatever you want and make it sound as good as it can”. I think Hegel might not have had any idea just how ...read more -
Resolution Audio Cantata Music Center/m100/Pont Neuf system
|When first I proposed this test, I was keen to see the new Resolution Audio Cantata m100 amps, but thought we’d sideline the Cantata ‘Music Center’ CD-streaming-USB-DAC-preamp. The Cantata Music Center is far from old ...read more -
Crystal Cable Arabesque Minissimo standmount loudspeaker
|The Crystal Cable Arabesque Minissimo could be thought of as ‘The Little Loudspeaker that Could’. In the Arabesque Mini of a couple of years ago, Crystal Cables moved away from the all-glass floorstanders design of ...read more -
Walls of Sound
|The Walls Of Sound system does not lend itself to a normal review. It’s an in-wall system, designed with stereo parameters – rather than home cinema impressiveness – in mind. The ‘designed for stereo’ part ...read more -
B.M.C. Audio CS2 integrated amplifier
|A few issues ago, we raved about the B.M.C. Audio BDCD 1.1 CD player/transport and DAC1 DAC/preamplifier. We liked these products because they represented some of the truest aspects of high-end audio as it used ...read more -
CES: Highlights from everywhere else!
|There are no right ways for reporters to divide up a show like CES. There are only variations on the theme of ‘wrong’. Everyone needs a specific ‘beat’, but whether you divide the show by ...read more -
Postcards from Las Vegas (part one)
|CES is the annual hub for consumer electronics. The world’s technology makers, sellers, and press are all assembled together for a week in early January, to paw over the latest (and occasionally greatest) consumer electronics ...read more -
AVM Inspiration CS2.2 system
|Back in the late 1970s, the music centre (as it was once called) was the popular choice among non-audio enthusiasts. This was a time before ‘small’ and ‘minimal’ were the orders of the day, so ...read more -
CES 2015 preview
|Audio is not the slow-moving stream it once was. The rate of change has stepped up considerably of late, and there will be many products and concepts shown at this year’s CES. We get dozens ...read more