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NAD D3045 hybrid digital DAC/integrated amplifier
|Back in the 1970’s, NAD created what turned out to be a modest-looking, sensibly priced, wildly overachieving, and downright unlikely high-end giant killer in the form of its legendary 3020 integrated amplifier. The little amp ...read more -
Melco Audio N10 music server and D100 ripper
|This is always going to be a bit of a hard sell, but we should be celebrating that we are in the finest times for music servers and streamers. We have finally – in many ...read more -
Kanto TUK active Bluetooth loudspeaker
|Such is the delta of change within the audio industry that products like the Kanto TUK weren’t so much a rarity as functionally non-existent just a few years ago. Then, there were a few difficult ...read more -
WIN! A Melco N100 digital music library worth £1,800
|We have collaborated with our friends at Melco to bring you a fantastic competition for a chance to win a N100 digital music library worth £1,800. Our Editor Alan Sircom recently did a web exclusive ...read more -
Exclusive: Stack Audio Link USB streaming bridge
|Stack Audio is a small British company that does things to sources! It makes a series of clever upgrades for the ever-popular Linn LP12, but recently it turned to the digital side with the Link. ...read more -
AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt DAC/headphone amp
|Note: this is the first of a two-part review, concentrating on the DAC in its home audio capacity. The second part – as a headphone DAC/amp in its own right – will be published in ...read more -
Leema Sirius digital music streamer/server
|Leema missed a trick when choosing the name for this their first digital streamer/server. It seems clear to some of us that it should have been called the Leema Prima Streamer. As it is the ...read more -
Web exclusive: Melco N100 networked music server
|If you get ten computer audio experts drunk – I mean really, tongue-looseningly, inhibition-dropping, just pre-unconscious honesty drunk – you’ll likely hear the same complaint; the problem is the computer. A computer has amazing advantages ...read more -
AURALiC VEGA G1 network streaming DAC
|I’ll be the first to admit it – Hi-Fi+has covered a lot of AURALiC products in recent years. Even though this is my first review of the brand’s products, practically every product the company has ...read more -
Astell&Kern A&futura SE100 digital audio player
|Astell&Kern almost singlehandedly created the market for high-end portable music players. Currently they have players priced from less than £600 (for the AK70 MkII) to more than £3,000 (for the SP1000). The SE100, which is ...read more -
Lumin X1 music streamer
|Lumin sprung out of nowhere a couple of years ago. The Hong Kong-based brand was initially dismissed by the audio industry’s xenophobes as some kind of a rip-off of a well-known popular streamer from the ...read more -
Wired to the MOON? Moon 780D v2, Moon 700i v2 + Nordost
|It’s a triple product launch weekend at Loud & Clear on Friday 26th & Saturday 27th April. We have two stonking new heavyweights from MOON by Simaudio – the 700i v2integrated amplifier and 780D v2 ...read more -
Marantz SA-KI Ruby CD/SACD player
|When Ken Ishiwata was lured into working for Marantz in 1978 he had already been at Pioneer Japan for ten years. The story goes that the European base that Superscope had created for Marantz in ...read more -
WIN! A Lumin D2 Music Server worth £1,845
|We have teamed up with those bright sparks from Lumin to bring you an exciting competition for a chance to win a D2 Music Server worth £1,845! Lumin is one of the most important brands ...read more -
CEC TL5 CD transport
|Okay, I admit it: I still listen to CD. But far from apologising for that fact; instead, I’d argue that CD doesn’t just remain relevant: for a number of reasons CD users have never had ...read more