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Magico S1 Mk II floorstanding loudspeaker
|Magico is perhaps best known for its huge, multi-driver floorstanding loudspeakers that cost as much as a really good car. The S1 Mk II is the first rung on the Magico ladder, as it’s a ...read more -
Mark Levinson, Vienna Acoustics, Chord Company system
|Hi-fi, just like any other arcane (and borderline obsessive) activity has generated its own set of ‘rules’. One that pretty much everybody seems to agree on is that the shortest route to sonic suicide is ...read more -
Monitor Audio Expands On Outdoor Entertainment
|CLG160 steps up the sound quality for open air living. Monitor Audio, the renowned British loudspeaker specialist, is ensuring installers can provide their customers with a premium quality, ‘al fresco’ audio experience, by adding a ...read more -
Linn Products Klimax system
|In a world filled with complete audio systems, Linn’s latest range-topper is perhaps the most ‘systemic’ of them all. The Klimax system does not have a high degree of mix-and-match potential; the streamer feeds the ...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 -
JBL S9300 loudspeakers
|Are you feeling musically emasculated, the result of a bass driver that’s barely bigger than a self-respecting midrange unit? Are you suffering musical malnutrition due to a lack of meat in your diet? Is your ...read more -
Wilson Audio WAMM Master Chronosonic loudspeaker
|One of the most important attributes in a reviewer of anything is a spot of cognitive dissonance: you need to simultaneously be yourself and distance yourself. In the case of the Wilson Audio WAMM Master ...read more -
Pearl Acoustics Sibelius SG loudspeaker
|Once upon a time, audio used to march to its own beat. Now, it seems to march to the beat of the smartphone world. Launch a piece of hi-fi today, and by the end of ...read more -
YG Acoustics Sonja XV multi-cabinet loudspeaker system
|The Arvada, Colorado-based firm YG Acoustics is widely considered to be one of the three leading producers of true top-tier loudspeakers in the United States (the other two being, of course, Magico and Wilson Audio). ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Loudspeakers over €15k
|I’m not making excuses for the sound at the Munich High-End show. It was uniformly awful, with a few exceptions. This actually works in our favour because we can concentrate on products of interest rather ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Loudspeakers €15K and below
|Most Promising Newcomers ELAC Adante floorstander prototype ELAC loudspeaker design guru Andrew Jones brought newly assembled prototypes of his upcoming Adante floorstanding loudspeakers (to Munich and we found their sound promising to say the least. ...read more -
Australe EZ - The latest offering from Triangle
|Discover Australe EZ, the new reference of the Esprit range. Using the identity of the Esprit EZ range, Australe EZ radiates its own unique character. A great leap forward, Australe EZ boasts unmatched technological innovations ...read more -
Avantgarde Acoustics Zero - Teil Aktiv loudspeaker
|We collectively missed the boat when it comes to the clever Avantgarde Acoustics Zero XD, a fully active, complete system built into two loudspeakers. We missed the boat on this because when it was launched, ...read more -
XT-7: a new Italian Soundscape
|FIRENZE, Italy: Gold Note - the Italian High-End manufacturer based in Firenze – is introducing XT-7, the new full-range, 3 way speaker with anti-turbulence bass reflex and ribbon tweeter available in Black Glossy, White Glossy, ...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