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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 -
AudioSolutions Announces Virtuoso Loudspeaker Series
|AudioSolutions, the leading European loudspeaker manufacturer, was thrilled to host the world premiere of the Virtuoso loudspeaker series at the Munich High End show in Germany, which ran from May 9-12. The Virtuoso series employs ...read more -
How to spend over a million bucks in Lisbon
|I had barely unpacked from Munich after High-End 2019 when it was time to nick off to Lisbon in Portugal for a spot of ultra-high-end listening. Lisbon is a beautiful city, but this was one ...read more -
Focal Maestro Utopia Evo floorstanding loudspeaker
|In a worId where fashions and faces change with alarming regularity, Focal’s distinctive Utopia series loudspeakers are about as close to a permanent fixture as you can get. Of course, there have been massive evolutionary ...read more -
Elipson Prestige Facet 24F floorstanding loudspeaker
|Elipson is France’s oldest speaker brand. Founded in 1938, it ran as an independent company until 2008 and during that time never exported its products. Which says a lot for the strength and patriotism of ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Introduction and Loudspeakers of the year
|Toward the end of every year, the Hi-Fi+ team gets together and discusses the finest products we have seen over a range of categories in the last 12 months. This short-list gets whittled down until ...read more -
Raidho XT-5 floorstanding loudspeaker
|The XT-5 is a Raidho speaker, but it’s a Raidho speaker with a difference. If you think you know how it’s going to sound, best think again. When Alan Sircom reviewed the company’s flagship model, ...read more -
Neat Acoustics Ultimatum XL6 loudspeaker
|Neat Acoustic’s Ultimatum range is a three-strong expression of Bob Surgeoner’s distinctive take on loudspeaker design. It comprises a stand-mount Ultimatum XLS, the flagship XL10 tower, and this, the XL6 floorstander. The logic behind having ...read more -
Audiovector R8 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Audiovector has something of a gap problem. The Copenhagen-based brand has a couple of ranges of superb loudspeakers that cover the entry-level and attainably-priced regions of the audio market, it has the R11 flagship that ...read more