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Music Interview: John Challenger, Asst. Director of Music, Salisbury Cathedral
|John Challenger is the Assistant Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral. You don’t get to do that job unless you are uniquely passionate about both the music and the sound it makes within that 800-year-old ...read more -
conrad-johnson ET6SE preamplifier
|There has been something of a rationalisation in the conrad-johnson line-up of late. While the brand has never been guilty of having a vast range of electronics, the current line-up of three preamps, three power ...read more -
AURALiC VEGA G1 network streaming DAC
|I’ll be the first to admit it – Hi-Fi+has covered a lot of AURALiC products in recent years. Even though this is my first review of the brand’s products, practically every product the company has ...read more -
Merrill Audio Element 118 mono power amplifiers
|Merrill Audio is a relatively small company with a relatively big idea. It’s out to make the best and most uncompromising audio amplifier electronics out there. The Element 118 mono amps are just one example ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer - Cloney Audio, Dublin, Ireland
|In Ireland, there is one audio store that – above all – has come to represent all things ‘hi-fi’ and that is Cloney Audio. Cloney Audio opened for business in 1966 when Noel Cloney returned ...read more -
How to spend over a million bucks in Lisbon
|I had barely unpacked from Munich after High-End 2019 when it was time to nick off to Lisbon in Portugal for a spot of ultra-high-end listening. Lisbon is a beautiful city, but this was one ...read more -
Lumin X1 music streamer
|Lumin sprung out of nowhere a couple of years ago. The Hong Kong-based brand was initially dismissed by the audio industry’s xenophobes as some kind of a rip-off of a well-known popular streamer from the ...read more -
Munich High-End 2019: A tale of two Magicos
|Our coverage of audio shows is now more commonly placed within the confines of the magazine itself, rather than published online. However, the short-form show report doesn’t fully represent some important aspects of audio that ...read more -
Chord Electronics Étude stereo power amplifier
|From the get-go, Chord Electronics’ amplifiers pushed the technology envelope. The company was making amplifiers with switch-mode power supplies when every other audio brand had barely even heard of a switch-mode power supply. That ability ...read more -
YAR Y-der loudspeakers, B-yond amp, Feeld platforms, YAR cables
|Let’s start with that name; it’s not an acronym. Everyone in the audio world is so programmed to see the letters ‘A’ and ‘R’ together and assume they have a meaning that one of the ...read more -
Questyle CMA400i headphone amp/DAC
|Good audio products are hard to find. However, that cuts two ways; there’s the “to find your prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs” aspect that suggests there are a lot of mediocre ...read more -
Finite Elemente Ceraball, Cerabase, Cerapuc isolation products
|I’m not a big fan of the Rocky franchise, but you can’t help but admire the protagonist’s tenacity in those movies. Life throws more than a few rocks at the lead character and he just ...read more -
Stax SRM-T8000 energiser
|Every Stax ‘earspeaker’ is an electrostatic design. Every electrostatic needs a specialist, dedicated high-voltage amplifier (Stax calls it an ‘energiser’). Stax makes more top-end earspeakers than it does energisers, so there’s call for a really ...read more -
Audio Research Reference 10 line preamplifier
|At the start of the decade, Audio Research announced a strictly limited two-box line preamplifier to celebrate 40 years of the brand. The Reference Anniversary model was only available during 2010, but it became the ...read more -
Isotek EVO3 Nova power conditioner
|It’s easy to get this a bit mungled up. IsoTek make a product called the Nova One, which is a single £1,500 power outlet filter from the company’s Mosaic range. Delete the word ‘One’ and ...read more