Articles
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Devialet Ensemble system
|Devialet has received a lot of (mostly extremely positive) press since its launch. The company’s continual development and an increasing range of designs has made it one of the most successful newcomers in high-end audio ...read more -
Sim Audio Moon 260D Neo and 250i Neo
|Some products arrive with a bang. Suddenly they seem to be everywhere. They are flavour of the month, the new big thing, on the front cover of every magazine, and in the window of every ...read more -
First Listen: Peachtree Audio Nova 220SE integrated amp/DAC/headphone amp
|Recently I received and installed in my reference system a pair of GoldenEar Triton One loudspeakers, which by any rational standard would have to be considered ‘giant killers’ of the first rank. Priced at £5,000 ...read more -
Audio Research VSi75
|One of the best-sounding power amplifiers I’ve heard in years was the Audio Research Reference 75. I’m not alone in that; it’s one of those ‘sweet spot’ amplifiers about which nobody has a bad word, ...read more -
Cyrus Audio Lyric 09
|Cyrus Audio is no stranger to UK readers, but its half-width ‘singing shoeboxes’ sometimes struggle to make their mark outside of the British Isles. This, coupled with the significant changes in the type of product ...read more -
First Look - Burmester 101 amplifier
|The Burmester 101 is the German company’s ‘entry-level’ amplifier product, although at £5,088 ‘entry level’ is possibly stretching things somewhat. Let’s say instead it is the cheapest way to get a new amplifier with a ...read more -
Devialet 250
|I’ve had a Devialet D-Premier more or less since the get-go. Which, on reflection, is only about four years. In that time, it went from being a stylish, thought-provoking piece of audio technology, via genre-bending ...read more -
Roksan Oxygene (integrated amplifier / bluetooth DAC)
|Roksan Audio's Oxygene integrated amplifier will anger reactionary audio enthusiasts as a result of it being nothing like an amplifier from a bygone age. It does not have a big, comforting volume knob on the ...read more -
ELAC AIR-X active loudspeaker system
|Along with companies like Audiovector, ELAC has looked to the future of audio and concluded it lies in active loudspeakers driven by small digital hubs. This is known as AIR-X in ELAC parlance. However, although ...read more -
Peachtree Audio nova125 integrated amplifier/DAC
|Some years ago, Peachtree recognized that a seismic shift in the high-end audio universe was at hand—a shift wherein PCs would step outside of their traditional roles as office tools to become full-fledged digital audio ...read more -
McIntosh MA5200 integrated amplifier
|You know where you are with a McIntosh Labs product. And it’s probably middle America. The brand is hugely popular in the United States, but also has a strong following across most of the world. ...read more -
CES 2014: Electronics (Amplifiers)
|OK, there is an elephant in the room when it comes to audio amplification this year – Naim Audio. By upping the ante by an order of magnitude, to make its Statement NAC S1 preamp ...read more -
Raven Audio Nighthawk integrated amplifier news and comment
|Raven Audio is perhaps best known for its all-tube pre and power amplifiers. It is not, however, well known for those amplifier products being considered 'highly affordable' (Raven's cheapest preamp might cost $5,995, but the ...read more -
Roksan Oxygene integrated amplifier
|Roksan Audio’s Oxygene integrated amplifier will anger reactionary audio enthusiasts as a result of it being nothing like an amplifier from a bygone age. It does not have a big, comforting volume knob on the ...read more -
Norma Revo IPA-140
|There are a lot of audio products at all prices out there. Some of them, let’s be honest, don’t deserve their place in the audiophile pantheon but hold on by some minor miracle. At the ...read more