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Totem Acoustic Tribe Tower floorstanding loudspeaker
|Totem Acoustic makes some wonderful loudspeakers that don’t break the bank, but sometimes – like most loudspeaker designs – they don’t tick as many aesthetic boxes as they do sonic ones. Relative to the rest ...read more -
8MM proudly present LINGA speakers
|We are proudly presenting " LINGA " – latest product from 8MM audiolab team. True incarnation of live-like musicality, acoustic and design perfection. LINGA speakers strike with majestic 2-meter tall cabinets allowed us to achieve ...read more -
Coming Soon (maybe): Magnepan's compact '30.7 for Condos'
|I have just returned from an audio pilgrimage to Magnepan headquarters in White Bear Lake, Minnesota (a small community on the northeast side of the Minneapolis/St. Paul 'Twin Cities' area). What was the reason for ...read more -
Sonner Legato Duo Floorstanding Loudspeaker
|What is ‘real’? Does that question take you back to philosophy lessons, watching The Matrix, or perhaps a college dorm room far past midnight? Please let me clarify, then; in a hi-fi context, what constitutes ...read more -
Magico A3 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Magico is well known as one of the world’s best high-end loudspeaker brands, but when it comes to that world where the high-end meets the word ‘attainable’, things get a little sketchy. This is a ...read more -
Sound Tasting, KEF style
|While the collective audio industry rolls out endless analogies with cars, watches, and cameras, there is also a lot of commonality between the world of good audio and that of good wine. We both have ...read more -
Spendor A4 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Back when I was just getting interested in audio, ahem mumble years ago, the Spendor BC1 was one of the darlings of the hi-fi press, and rightly so. But to some Spendor is a brand ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Pete Thomas, PMC loudspeakers
|Founded 28 years ago, PMC was born out of a desire to make better loudspeakers. While I doubt there’s a loudspeaker brand on the planet that wouldn’t lay claim to that statement, in PMC at ...read more -
ATC SCM100SE floorstanding speaker
|Acoustic Transducer Company (ATC) has been making drive units and loudspeakers since 1974 and building a fan base in the hi-fi market for the performance quality of its systems for over two decades. Modelled on ...read more -
PMC enhances UK distribution business with addition of Martin Logan
|From the PMC Press Release BIGGLESWADE, ENGLAND: PMC’s recently formed division, PMC UK Distribution, has today announced it has become the distributor for the prestigious US brand of loudspeakers, Martin Logan, significantly enhancing the company’s ...read more -
Monitor Audio Gold 200 floorstanding loudspeakers
|In the same way that BMW will probably always have a big executive saloon car range called ‘5’, Monitor Audio will probably always have an aspirational loudspeaker range called ‘Gold’. The latest is the fifth ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 603 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Try guessing the price of this decent size loudspeaker, and I’ll warrant you’ll overestimate it by around 50%. Certainly £1,250 does seem very modest in view of the complement of eight drive units, two floorstanding ...read more -
Technics SL-1200GEG-S turntable, SU-G700E integrated amplifier, and SB-G90E loudspeakers
|It’s hard not to think about Technics without thinking about THAT turntable. Although the brand has a long and illustrious career in domestic audio (and home-grown ultra high-end in Japan), it’s the SL-1200-series direct drive ...read more -
Russell K Red 120 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Russell Kauffman has been in this industry for as long as I can remember; he has worked for Bowers & Wilkins, Morel, and was a regular on Paul Messenger’s legendary blind listening tests in the ...read more -
Audiovector QR5 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Audiovector is a company that gets a lot of coverage but still doesn’t get the recognition it deserves! I guess some of that is because there are still a lot of Danish speaker makers and ...read more