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CES: Highlights from Venetian Floor 30 – Electronics, Source Components, and Servers/Streamers
|Most CES high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the aforementioned upper floors of the Venetian Hotel, although by tradition some high-end headphone manufacturers continue to exhibit in the LVCC’s South Hall. Added to this, there ...read more -
Karan Acoustics KA Phono Reference
|Not so long ago, phono-stages were small, anonymous boxes with one input, one output and little else. When the style and functionality of the ground terminal gets noticed in reviews you know you are in ...read more -
Pure Audio Phono preamplifier
|Pure Audio sounds like the sort of name that we all must have heard before, yet it turns out that this is only because it’s such an obvious brand name. The surprising thing is the ...read more -
Jean C. Verdier, 1938-2014
|Jean C. Verdier, French turntable pioneer, passed away earlier this week. Verdier was born in 1938. He started to manufacture turntables in 1963, during his time with the French company ERA. In 1972, Jean Verdier ...read more -
Constellation Audio Perseus phono preamplifier
|It would be easy to say Constellation Audio hit the ground running, but I don’t think this is a brand that has any connection with the ground. It’s out there somewhere in hyperspace. The brand ...read more -
MiZiK dVin phono preamp, dPlay (and dStream) preamplifier
|On the surface, all may be well in the land of audio. OK, prices of top-end equipment are now reaching the stratosphere, but the performance of good high-end equipment of 20 years ago can be ...read more -
Timestep T-01MC phono stage
|Although it’s easy to follow the alternate line of reasoning, high-end audio is supposed to be all about the sound quality. Inch-thick front panels and glitzy finishes are fine, but the end result is supposed ...read more -
CES 2014: Analogue
|Given all the fuss about the ever-increasing interest in all things vinyl, you might have expected CES to be packed full of turntables. This wasn’t quite the case. Where two or three years ago, manufacturers ...read more -
RCM Audio THERIAA phono stage
|RCM Audio might not be the first name you reach for when it comes to up-scale phono stages. The company is a small six-man affair out of Katowice, in Poland. When not making phonostages, RCM’s ...read more -
Roksan Xerxes.20Plus Turntable System
|Although our reviews are existential in nature (“I feel…” rather than “it does…”), we do try to take the personal element out of the story behind the product, but this time, it’s difficult. You see, ...read more -
Rega Announces Aria MM/MC Phonostage
|(From a Rega press release flyer) Design Housed within our latest half width custom designed case are two entirely separate high performance phono stages. One fully adjustable dedicated moving coil and one moving magnet. Each ...read more -
Zanden Model 1300 Phono Stage (Hi-Fi+)
|As a reviewer, the equipment in your system becomes an ever-changing landscape. There are products that come and go almost unnoticed, there are those that linger in the memory, some longer than others. Occasionally, a ...read more -
Follow-Up: Pass Labs XP-25 Phono Preamp (Hi-Fi+)
|This is in part an apology. In issue 94, we got the price of the Pass Labs XP-25 phono stage mixed up with another product’s price tag. However, it is a good enough product to ...read more -
Timestep launches out-of-this-world T-01MC phono stage (Hi-Fi+)
|Timestep are not your average hi-fi manufacturer, they are also internationally renowned designers and manufacturers of state-of-the-art weather satellite systems. It is this that leads to their obsessive attitude toward noise in audio product design. ...read more -
Pass Labs XP-25 Phono Preamp (Hi-Fi+)
|Pass Labs is a firm favourite among our US counterparts. One of our sister title’s mainstay reviewers – Tony Cordesman – owns several Pass Labs products in his system, including this – the XP-25 flagship ...read more