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Raidho D-1.1 standmount loudspeaker
|I loved the original Raidho C1. It had a winning combination of low-impact cabinet size, wonderful build quality, and interesting in-house driver designs, all integrated into a satisfying whole. Musically, it grabbed my attention right ...read more -
Audioplan Kontrast V floorstanding loudspeakers
|I wonder to what extent my own personal taste influences me when I write about a product. It would be great to be able to come to each and every review with a mindset free ...read more -
Meet Your Maker special: What changes were made to the dCS Vivaldi 2.0?
|How Does It Work? After oversampling and digital filtering, the audio is re-encoded as five bits of noise-shaped data and passed to the Ring DAC™ Board. Here the five-bit binary data is mapped onto the ...read more -
dCS Vivaldi 2.0 digital playback system
|The full four-box dCS Vivaldi system embodies what high-end digital audio should be all about. It is complex, beautifully made, endlessly functional through its myriad of connection options and of course, very expensive. Unlike so ...read more -
ELAC Debut B5 standmount loudspeaker
|It may not have escaped your attention that high-end audio has gone slightly mental. The desire to listen to recorded music in the home has been with us for a long, long time now but ...read more -
The Thomas Treasury
|Down at this end of the audio food chain I don’t get to see a vast array of audio products flowing through the house. I have heard no cheap DACs and have a seriously uninformed ...read more -
Melco/Exogal/Vitus/Estelon system
|As a reviewer I crave change and am always expecting to hear something that just might tell a different musical story. It’s even more intriguing when it comes with solid recommendations and takes the shape ...read more -
Stillpoints Apertures acoustic panels
|Many years ago, I decided that my ear and brain were the best acoustic treatments sound could get. The thing with acoustic treatments in general is that dealing with one area often merely shifts the ...read more -
Naim mu-so
|Back in the 1970’s Naim Audio was the outsider; the hair-shirt amplifier manufacturer so beloved of the then nascent ‘Flat Earth’ school of audio. Today, despite some fairly considerable changes to both the company and ...read more -
Estelon Extreme
|I would say at the outset that, generally, I am not a fan of big speakers. Over the years, I have heard too many installations in homes and recording studios where big bandwidth systems have ...read more -
Aurender W20 music server
|As I was one of the last people on Earth to buy a CD player, on purely personal musical grounds, I could never be accused of being an early adopter where new technologies are concerned. ...read more -
Vitus Audio SCD-025 DAC/CD player
|I have been an admirer of Vitus Audio equipment ever since I heard the original SS-010 Class-A integrated amplifier about eight years ago. There was something so complete and finely balanced about the musical performance ...read more -
QUAD ESL 2812 electrostatic loudspeaker
|After much dropping of hints I was offered the chance to spend a couple of months living with the latest Quad Electrostatic speaker, the 2812. Many years ago I owned three different pairs of the ...read more -
Estelon XC Loudspeaker
|For me, trying to capture the essence of any audio component can only be done through musical description. But as I have said in this magazine many times, we listen to systems and not individual ...read more -
Estelon XC standmount loudspeaker
|For me, trying to capture the essence of any audio component can only be done through musical description. But as I have said in this magazine many times, we listen to systems and not individual ...read more