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Linn Majik DSM integrated streaming amplifier
|Linn products always seem expensive for what you get. There are various reasons for this, including the fact that they use switched-mode power supplies that make its products relatively light, and that Linn builds them ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ visits the Schiit Show
|There are perhaps no bigger fans of feisty, puckish humour in all of high-end audio than Jason Stoddard and Mike Moffat, co-founders of the Valencia, California-based firm Schiit Audio. Yes, that really is the company’s ...read more -
iFi Audio Retro complete system
|A spin-off from the well-regarded British high‑end audio company Abbingdon Music Research, in a few short years iFi has earned a reputation for building affordable, palm‑sized components whose room-filling sound belies their modest size. Given ...read more -
Naim SuperUniti network integrated amplifier
|It's almost impossible for a British audio enthusiast to escape some exposure to Naim Audio, but I have come off relatively lightly. Until now: a white box containing a Naim SuperUniti turned up chez Ripley. ...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 -
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 -
Krell Vanguard integrated amplifier
|A few years ago, Krell stood at something of a crossroads. There had been a public and somewhat acrimonious split between the company founder and its new owners, and the ideas behind the brand were ...read more -
Revox Joy S120 integrated amplifier and network audio player
|Revox is a name with the full weight of history behind it; a brand that was once among the most highly regarded in this business, but somewhere along the line it seemed to diminish. Revox ...read more -
Jeff Rowland Design Group Continuum S2 integrated amplifier
|Jeff Rowland is one of those brands that audio people like to show off to non-audio people. The company’s products go some way to quiet the “it cost HOW much?” cries from non-audiophiles, thanks to ...read more -
Naim mu-so
|Back in the 1970’s Naim Audio was the outsider; the hair-shirt amplifier manufacturer so beloved of the then nascent ‘Flat Earth’ school of audio. Today, despite some fairly considerable changes to both the company and ...read more -
Hegel H160 integrated amplifier
|On its website, Hegel says of its new H160 integrated amplifier, “Connect whatever you want and make it sound as good as it can”. I think Hegel might not have had any idea just how ...read more -
B.M.C. Audio CS2 integrated amplifier
|A few issues ago, we raved about the B.M.C. Audio BDCD 1.1 CD player/transport and DAC1 DAC/preamplifier. We liked these products because they represented some of the truest aspects of high-end audio as it used ...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 -
AVM Inspiration CS2.2 system
|Back in the late 1970s, the music centre (as it was once called) was the popular choice among non-audio enthusiasts. This was a time before ‘small’ and ‘minimal’ were the orders of the day, so ...read more