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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 -
Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum
|The Rogue Audio logo includes a silhouette of a bird that I am told is a raven, the largest member of the crow family. This was chosen because the raven is an intelligent bird that ...read more -
Peachtree Audio nova 220SE
|Three essential insights have driven Peachtree Audio from the beginning. First, the firm was quick to grasp that computer audio would likely become the preferred music delivery vehicle for growing numbers of music lovers, young ...read more -
Burmester 101
|The standard audio industry autumn roll-out of shows and factory visits had a strange, unexpected side-effect. It made me understand something fundamental about the Burmester 101 integrated amplifier, and Burmester products in general. You see, ...read more -
Peachtree Audio nova220SE Integrated amplifier/DAC/headphone amplifier Competition
|Hi-Fi+ has teamed up with Peachtree Audio to bring one lucky winner the company's outstanding nova220SE integrated amplifier with DAC and headphone amplifier, worth £1,499. Tested in issue 117, the nova220SE wowed our Publisher Chris ...read more -
Peachtree Audio Nova 220SE integrated amplifier/DAC/headphone amplifier
|Three essential insights have driven Peachtree Audio from the beginning. First, the firm was quick to grasp that computer audio would likely become the preferred music delivery vehicle for growing numbers of music lovers, young ...read more -
Atoll IN200 integrated amplifier
|The French audio brand Atoll began building electronics in the late 1990s, which was a tough time to carve out a niche in the audio marketplace. Simply surviving the last decade and a half means ...read more