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RCM Audio theRIAA MkII phono stage
|Back in Issue 102, I reviewed the RCM Audio theRIAA. It was a two-box, extraordinarily flexible MM/MC phono stage, that used ICs in place of discrete components in critical parts of the circuit. I liked ...read more -
Hegel V10 phono preamplifier
|It’s a testament to the success of the vinyl revival that a company that has been making audio electronics for nearly 30 years has decided to make a product specifically to use with this remarkably ...read more -
Naim Audio Solstice turntable – not quite a review
|While everyone is lining up to experience the Naim Solstice turntable for the first time, and people are finally able to start both hearing it and reading previews (and our own review), for me… this ...read more -
Naim Audio Solstice Special Edition turntable system
|Editor's note: We have one of the only samples of the Naim Solstice to have left the factory thus far in for review. The review will be published in our Issue 197, available soon. Suffice ...read more -
Primare R35 solid-state, MM/MC phono stage
|Load settings on a phono stage are rather like filter settings on DACs; not everyone bothers to try them out, yet their effects can be pretty dramatic. The degree of effect is often more apparent ...read more -
Zanden Audio Systems Model 1200 Signature phono preamplifier
|Zanden Audio Systems’ top-of-the-tree Model 1200 phono preamplifier has been through several iterations over its long and illustrious career, but arguably none so significant as the move to the new Model 1200 Signature. The two ...read more -
Primare 15 Series electronics
|If ever there was a set of audio components that best fit the maxim of ‘different paths up the same mountain’, those components are Primare’s entry-level 15 Series of products. We received four elegant and ...read more -
Chord Electronics Huei phonostage
|Huei is not the first phono stage from Chord Electronics, but it does have a number of ‘firsts’ in its own right. Specifically, this was something of a labour of love by Chord Electronics designer ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: CH Precision
|This has been a long time coming. I visited CH Precision’s small, efficient manufacturing and design facility in the middle of last year. CH Precision was named after the first letters of the surnames of ...read more -
Zesto Audio Andros 1.2 Vacuum Tube Phonostage Preamplifier
|Back when you could conceivably do such a thing, walking the halls of any audio show of size can be a bit exhausting. After three days and over one hundred rooms navigating the crowds and ...read more -
Rega Aura phono stage
|In these days when amplifiers (and pre-amplifiers) often have line-only inputs, there are several ways of dealing with a phono cartridge, and indeed several types of phono cartridge. Ignoring specialist devices like strain gauge and ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Alva TT turntable system
|It’s a bold manufacturer who underestimates the appetite amongst audiophiles for pain and aggravation. The belief that optimum sound is truly worth suffering for – in fact, can’t be achieved withoutsuffering – is all too ...read more -
Boulder Model 508 phono preamplifier
|Boulder Amplifiers, Inc. of Boulder Colorado, USA has established, over its nearly thirty-five years, a history of truly mountaintop performance. Designs can be on the market for over a decade as their individual excellence may ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Analogue Components of the year
|Turntable of the Year: Kuzma Stabi R Kuzma’s latest turntable is a fully modular integrated design, with an internal power supply, and spaces to mount a number of arm wings and additional arm balconies, in ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Kazutoshi Yamada, Zanden Audio Systems
|We spoke to Kazutoshi Yamada – President of Zanden Audio Systems – during a recent brief tour of Europe. Unlike many manufacturers and designers in the audio business, Yamada-san didn’t take the usual route of ...read more