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darTZeel NHB-18NS preamplifier and NHB‑108 Model Two power amplifier
|Regardless of how much high-end audio you have heard, when you experience something exceptional, the music lets you know all about it. It might all start with a small spark of revelation. But it will ...read more -
Vitus MP-201 masterpiece D/A converter
|Masterpiece is a huge label to hang on any component, especially by the designer and manufacturer himself. But, over the years I have listened to and reviewed many of Hans-Ole Vitus’ products and doubted that ...read more -
dCS Bartòk Network DAC
|We are now well into what I might describe as the second-age of high-end steaming and dCS has completed its renaissance by discontinuing all its older models, leaving the company with three distinct product levels. ...read more -
Wilson Audio Tune Tot stand-mount loudspeakers
|If you are one of the lucky few who have a dedicated listening room where speakers can be situated in exactly the optimum place for your hot-seat enjoyment and cables can run where they will ...read more -
Vitus RI-101 integrated amplifier
|It’s interesting how having a high quality streaming capability and a Tidal account changes your style of listening. As a result, I have been on a bit of a retro kick recently and looking more ...read more -
Simaudio Moon 600I V2 Evolution Series integrated amplifier
|Many moons ago (yeah, I know), I was given the opportunity to review a compact little integrated amplifier from the Canadian manufacturer SimAudio. It was called the Moon i-3. Outwardly it was a completely no-frills ...read more -
dCS Rossini – MQA updates
|This is the review I was beginning to wonder if I would ever write. Back in 2015 Alan Sircom wrote a very comprehensive take on the then-new dCS Rossini CD/DAC and clock with the thought ...read more -
Roon Nucleus+ music server
|Streamed music always seemed to me like a great idea, but one that, over the years, I have had begun to have serious doubts about. I know that, in many households, music has been somewhat ...read more -
The Chord Company ChordMusic Cables
|As anybody who has put together a music system of separates will tell you, cabling is not just important, its vital. Cables are the arteries of the system, carrying anything from potentially deadly voltages to ...read more -
Vitus Audio SS-103 power amplifier
|Every so often an amplifier arrives at my home for review and after a healthy period of listening I realise that this one is going to be difficult to write, purely because there are no ...read more -
Estelon YB floorstanding loudspeaker
|We want our systems to speak in many voices. We want to understand what the music is about and to hear how it is being played and recorded, regardless of its genre or specific character. ...read more -
Stillpoints Ultra 6 resonance control filters
|I have been using Stillpoints as a fundamental part of my home system now for around a decade. I say ‘fundamental’ because I think that sums up the nature of their application and musical effectiveness ...read more -
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