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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 -
2014 high-end audio highlights - and all that!
|At the end of a year, it’s customary to look back on the past 12 months and look forward to what’s coming in the next 12. Audio is generally a slower moving stream than many ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: EJ Sarmento of Wyred 4 Sound
|Wyred 4 Sound is an overnight success. And as with many good overnight successes, it’s actually taken many years to achieve that status. The company is at the forefront of what is fast becoming one ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins CM6 S2
|To me, the Bowers & Wilkins 805 is the perfect balance of loudspeaker technology with a bit of art thrown in, coupled with the sort of size that makes them not so large they become ...read more -
MQA - It's about time!
|Last week, Meridian Audio announced a wholly new music format, Master Quality Authenticated, or MQA. This is not one of those ‘here is a new toy truck, go play with it!’ press launches; instead this ...read more -
Sonus faber Olympica II
|We can dance around this, but the Sonus faber Olympica II represents the right answer to an increasingly important question in audio: Can we have style AND substance? The usual answer is to dismiss anything ...read more -
Primare NP30
|The Primare NP30 is perhaps a mark of just how fast network technology is spreading through audio now. Not because it is a ‘me too’ product – far from it, in fact – but because ...read more -
Burmester 101
|The standard audio industry autumn roll-out of shows and factory visits had a strange, unexpected side-effect. It made me understand something fundamental about the Burmester 101 integrated amplifier, and Burmester products in general. You see, ...read more -
Tsakiridis Devices Aeolos Super Plus integrated amplifier
|It’s easy to make a cheap valve amp today. It’s a lot harder to make one that’s cheap, good, and built on this side of the planet. And yet, somehow, Tsakiridis Devices manages to design ...read more -
Classic Albums: Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
|Frank Zappa might not be your run-of-the-mill rock star. He was not one for recreational pharmaceuticals. As a teenager, when his contemporaries were listening to Bill Haley & His Comets, Zappa was paying attention to ...read more