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Trilogy 906 Phono Stage
|Vinyl’s timeless musical appeal is very close to the heart of Trilogy. The 907 Phono Stage remains one of Trilogy’s most loved and popular designs. The Trilogy 906 Phono Stage has a very close bond ...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 -
Analogue Sources – A Baker’s Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|At Munich High End 2016, one of my key coverage topics was Analogue source components. However, given that I visited over 110 manufacturers at the show, it quickly became apparent that doing a brand-by-brand show ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Products of the Year: Analogue
|Turntable of the Year: Kronos The Kronos turntable turned the tables on vinyl – literally. The floating top-down suspended turntable (hanging from four towers by means of more than 300 silicone o-rings) features two platters: ...read more -
Karan Acoustics PH1 phono stage
|The Karan Acoustics Phono Reference phono stage is one of the very best we have ever tested in the pages of Hi-Fi+. It is extremely quiet, is capable of being used with unfeasibly demanding cartridge ...read more -
Modwright Instruments PH-150 phono stage
|Modwright’s founder, Dan Wright, started out modifying third party components, which makes the company’s name entirely appropriate. But while Modwright still modifies products, today it is better known for its own range of electronics that ...read more -
Clearaudio Absolute Phono Inside phono stage
|People have been coming up with new ways to build a better record player for over a century, so somebody must have thought of it before. But only now has the technology advanced sufficiently that ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Dan D'Agostino interview
|Dan D’Agostino of Dan D’Agostino Audio is one of the easiest designers to interview. Basically, you ask him a question, then ten minutes later when he's stopped talking about that first question, ask him another!. ...read more -
Baker’s Dozen – Audio Electronics at the Munich High End 2015
|Perhaps understandably, Munich’s High End show seems to generate a lot of interest for high-end audio enthusiasts, and as a consequence, manufacturers with new high-end products to launch see this as a golden opportunity to ...read more -
Baker’s Dozen - Analogue Sources at the Munich High End 2015
|High-End Munich has emerged as the dream show for serious audiophiles, but as a consequence it has also become not merely large, but downright huge. Spanning four large exhibit halls, two of which have elaborate ...read more -
Allnic AUT-2000 step-up transformer
|The Allnic AUT‑2000 is a step‑up transformer (SUT), designed to boost the output of a Moving Coil cartridge for use with a Moving Magnet phono stage. It sounds like a terribly old‑fashioned concept – phono ...read more -
First Listen: iFi Audio Retro Music System
|We’ve been talking expectantly about iFi Audio’s Retro Audio System in our reports from the last several trade shows we’ve attended, but now the Retro System has finally arrived. We’re quite excited by the system’s ...read more -
Zanden Audio Systems Model 120 Phono Stage
|There are certain brands that exist somewhere in the hi‑fi firmament, visible to all but attainable by very, very few. These objects of desire, so often at the centre of vociferous debate, are (seemingly inevitably) ...read more -
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