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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 -
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