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Bel Canto Design Black EX integrated amplifier
|Bel Canto Design has been producing terrific sounding gear for over twenty years. Based in the heart of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, the firm began as a tube specialist yet has evolved into a premier solid-state ...read more -
Insights from AXPONA 2018 part two
|As discussed elsewhere, AXPONA has moved to a new venue, the spacious Renaissance Hotel and Convention center in Schaumberg, IL. near Chicago. The extra space was well used as this was the largest AXPONA ever ...read more -
Focal Kanta No.2 floorstanding loudspeaker
|The 2017 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver was due to start in a couple of hours. Audio fans were already queueing up at the door waiting to wade into the annual milieu of many ...read more -
Peachtree Audio Nova 300 integrated amplifier
|To some, hi-fi is about ‘WAF’ vs ‘The Stack’ and the fun of seeing your mates faces when they come over to see and hear your new amazing system. Should you go with the lifestyle ...read more -
What is Roon?
|Over the last year or so many articles have been written that include something like “Roon Ready” or “Roon compatible” If you are a new or even an experienced audiophile you may be wondering what ...read more -
GamuT RS5i floorstanding loudspeakers
|What makes a speaker “High End”? At the moment, the press definition seems to be a price point over £20,000 a pair. While there are many exceptionally good speakers coming in well under that lofty ...read more -
AURALiC POLARIS wireless streaming integrated amplifier
|AURALiC titles its new POLARIS convergence device a ‘Wireless Streaming Amplifier’, which is shorthand for a wireless Roon-ready PCM/DSD streaming DAC with moving magnet phono preamplifier integrated amplifier. It can also be purchased with a ...read more -
PS Audio BHK 250 hybrid power amplifier
|I am always curious how a great piece of gear comes to be. Was it a singular vision of a talented engineer? Perhaps a group effort guided by an experienced team leader. In this case, ...read more -
Boulder Amplifiers 865 integrated amplifier
|Integrated amplifiers are a favourite category of kit for me. For many audiophiles, it is simply not practical to find a home for a huge power amplifier along-side an expensive pre-amp and then outlay a ...read more -
AXPONA 2017: Digital Audio and Amplification (Part Two)
|Continuing my ‘beat’ covering digital audio and amplification (with an awful lot of loudspeakers, analogue sources, and cables thrown in for good measure), April’s AXPONA event in Chicago is fast becoming one of the main ...read more -
AXPONA 2017: Digital Audio and Amplification (Part One)
|The Axpona (Audio Expo of North America) show in Rosemont Illinois has become the largest Audio show in the US. Occupying 8 floors and 140 rooms the show dominates the Westin O’Hare for a three ...read more -
Magnepan Magneplanar .7 floorstanding loudspeakers
|“Hey, come here! You have to hear these things!” So said one of my friends in our early audio days. “These” turned out to be the Magnepan Magneplanar Tympani full-range quasi-ribbon big-as-a-room-divider flat panel speakers ...read more -
Bel Canto Design DAC 2.7 DAC and REF600M power amplifiers
|The Bel Canto Design that is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year is a long way from the original firm founded in 1991. Debuting as a tube amp manufacturer noted for their SET designs Bel ...read more -
PS Audio Directstream Jr digital to analogue converter
|Two years ago PS Audio made a bold statement in the DAC world with the release of the universally hailed and much awarded DirectStream DSD DAC. The DirectStream converts all inputs to one-bit DSD and ...read more -
Vandersteen Audio Treo CT floorstanding loudspeaker
|Back in the early 1980’s I had a chance to listen to a pair of Vandersteen Model 2’s. What attracted me to them was great sound and a price tag that was actually reachable for ...read more