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Hi-Fi+ Awards: Amplifiers
|Power amplifier Vitus Audio SS-103 Replacing the awesome Vitus Audio SS-102 power amplifier, the SS-103 now stands at top of the company’s Signature series. This £30,000 stereo power amplifier is an imposing 90kg beast, and ...read more -
CAAS Elysian preamplifier and mono power amplifiers
|It works like this: you get into hi-fi in your teens/twenties, toil away at a decent job for twenty or thirty years, and then realise that life is finite and that if you’re ever going ...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 -
Raising the Bar (a preview): AudioNet Stern preamplifier and Heisenberg monoblock power amplifiers
|Early in 2017 I took two opportunities to hear a very special audio system located in the large listening room at the GTT Audio facility in Long Valley, New Jersey, USA. The system was comprised ...read more -
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (Part One of Two)
|Hi-Fi+ dispatched a team of reviewers to Denver to cover this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. The show, bigger than ever, falls into two distinct camps; the original audio show and CanJam – the headphone ...read more -
Lejonklou Sagatun Mono 1.3 preamplifier and Tundra Mono 2.2 power amplifiers
|A surface look at Lejonklou’s top amps would likely file them under ‘quirky’. A fully dual-mono preamplifier and power amplifier, with a relatively low power output, the kind of minimalism that borders on outright nihilism, ...read more -
Phison A2.12 stereo power amplifier
|It’s pronounced like ‘bison’ because it’s a combination of the founder’s forenames; Philip and Sonny, and they’re Danes. But you can tell that from the understated elegance of the Phison design, of course. There are ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Amplifiers
|The usual parade of vast extravagances in audio electronics seemed more subdued than usual this year, and – while there were a few experiments in pushing the frontiers of price-tag technology – this year, the ...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 -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Amplification
|Integrated Amplifier of the Year Ayre Acoustics AX-5 Twenty In making the AX-5 Twenty, Ayre Acoustics pulled together many important elements of design from existing higher-end Ayre amps into what has become the company’s only ...read more -
T+A Elektroakustik AMP 8 power amplifier
|T+A’s awesome HV electronics are mighty beasts, but like most might beasts in audio, they are not exactly ‘cheap’. You do get your money’s worth with the HV series amplifiers, but you still need a ...read more -
Audio Alchemy DDP-1 DAC/preamp, PS-5 power supply, and DPA-1 power amplifier
|Those of us with long audio memories might recall Audio Alchemy. Back in the mid nineties, Audio Alchemy was the main protagonist in providing no-nonsense, low-cost DACs in basic boxes. At a time when DACs ...read more -
McIntosh C52 preamp and MC301 mono power amplifiers
|McIntosh has been around for so long that it must be viewed in the home market in much the same way that the British view Quad. Both have been around seemingly forever and have a ...read more -
Amplifiers – A Baker’s Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|Munich High-End is a hot-bed of amplifier activity, and that is reflected in the sheer diversity of products on display each year. Not all are in demonstration – many appear in the main halls and ...read more -
Spread Spectrum Technologies Son of Ampzilla II power amplifier
|High-end audio as we think of it today is about fifty years old. Some brands from the early days are still around and iconic today. Others have faded into fond memories of beautiful musical moments ...read more