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Munich High End 2017 – Amplifiers
|The usual parade of vast extravagances in audio electronics seemed more subdued than usual this year, and – while there were a few experiments in pushing the frontiers of price-tag technology – this year, the ...read more -
Burmester 099 line preamplifier
|There are two current schools of thought when it comes to high-end audio. The first is a series of regular changes to the line (the Mk I becomes the Mk II and so on), and ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Introduction and trends
|With the changes in dynamic at CES, Munich High End has become the main event on the audio calendar. The show – running this year from the 18th to the 21st of May at the ...read more -
Lavardin Model ISx integrated amplifier
|One of my last real jobs in audio was to let down what would become Lavardin. I was working in a well-known audio retailer at the time, and we already had more than our fair ...read more -
dCS announce Vivaldi One digital player
|Editor's Note: The UK press were given an exclusive preview of the dCS Vivaldi One, in the run-up to the Munich High End show, but were under strict embargo not to divulge details until the ...read more -
Avantgarde Acoustics Zero - Teil Aktiv loudspeaker
|We collectively missed the boat when it comes to the clever Avantgarde Acoustics Zero XD, a fully active, complete system built into two loudspeakers. We missed the boat on this because when it was launched, ...read more -
Exclusive Munich Preview: Nordost QKORE grounding system
|Sometimes we as journalists are privy to items way prior to their launch. Such is the case with Nordost’s QKORE trio of ground units. I was told about these at CES this year, but was ...read more -
A Tale of Two Cities
|We’ve been holding out on one of the two recent launches, in part because our counterparts over at The Absolute Sound covered the Sonus faber launch so well. But the recent launch of the new ...read more -
Markaudio-Sota Tozzi Two standmount loudspeaker
|A small loudspeaker has the advantage of being almost a point source. It’s one of the great advantages the UK audio industry exploited to its fullest extent from the 1960s onwards. But there’s a great ...read more -
Hegel Röst integrated system amplifier
|Hegel Music Systems has come up against the Law of Unintended Consequences with its new Röst integrated amplifier. The flexible, easily networkable, white-fronted integrated amplifier came as a result of direct requests from the iChummy ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Neat Acoustics
|250 miles north of London, near where the Yorkshire Dales meet the North Pennines, is the delightful Teesdale town of Barnard Castle. The town’s largest employer is the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKlein. With a team of ...read more -
Copland DAC215 headphone DAC/amplifier
|There are two distinct avenues for headphone amplification today – either buying a product from a brand with a well-established reputation for making headphone-based products, or from a brand that makes traditional two-channel audio that ...read more -
Music First Audio Classic Headphone Preamplifier
|Music First Audio is a British company best known for making a range of high-performance passive magnetic preamplifiers. It has recently branched out to make phono stages with active gain stages. The new Classic Headphone ...read more -
Arcam rHead headphone amplifier
|The audio business is a bit creepy: it suffers from mission creep and price creep. Brands start out with good intent and a fine product at a fair price, but then slowly begin to add ...read more -
Nordost Sort Kone, Füt, and Lift
|We’ve often discussed Nordost in terms of a complete, systemic, and systematic approach to audio, but that message sometimes gets lost against the company’s complete, systemic, and systematic approach to cables and power. In fact, ...read more