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Lindemann 800 Audio System (Hi-Fi+)
|Audio systems are mostly built by informed experimentation. Assembling components from different manufacturers, sitting them on something suitable and hooking everything up with well-chosen cabling. Structuring the whole installation from the ground up often comes ...read more -
Oppo BDP-105EU Universal/Blu-ray Player & DAC (Hi-Fi+)
|Over recent years, Oppo Digital has followed a simple recipe for success: just build universal disc players that offer greater versatility, more audiophile-friendly features, and better all around sound and picture quality than your competitors, ...read more -
NAD Announces C 516BEE CD Player
|Pickering, Ontario, February 13, 2013 — NAD Electronics, the highly regarded manufacturer of high-performance audio/video components, announces their new C 516BEE Player, an affordable, high performance CD player engineered for musicality and simplicity true to ...read more -
Wilson Audio Alexia: Michelangelo got it right... (Hi-Fi+)
|One of the more fascinating demonstrations at the CES in Las Vegas at the beginning of the year wasn’t actually at the CES. There are always off-piste demonstrations that run concurrently with the show, and ...read more -
CES 2013 In Retrospect: Audio Electronics (Hi-Fi+)
|Overview Taking a considered view over the whole audio electronics showing at CES is no easy task. There were new products at all prices; some good, some not so good. There are also a host ...read more -
Krell Cipher SACD Player (Hi-Fi+)
|Krell has been a steadfast supporter of the SACD format longer than anyone, first with the Standard, then the Evolution and now the Cipher player, which will probably see out the SACD era. New models ...read more -
First Look: Oppo BDP-105 Universal/Blu-ray Player & DAC (Hi-Fi+)
|Looking back over the last four or five years, you could build a strong case for the claim that Oppo Digital has worked harder than any other firm to produce versatile, affordable, audiophile-friendly, and undeniably ...read more -
MSB Technology Platinum Signature DATA CD IV & DAC IV (Hi-Fi+)
|When I reviewed MSB’s last Platinum transport and DAC, the mkIII iteration of these components, I spent a paragraph bewailing the gulf between their appearance and their sonic capability. It used to be acceptable to ...read more -
Rega Isis CD Player/DAC & Osiris Integrated Amplifier (Hi-Fi+)
|To say that it was a shock to discover that Rega had created a high end CD player and amplifier is an understatement. After all, Rega is a bastion of affordable, no nonsense hi-fi. It ...read more -
Electrocompaniet EMP 1/S, EC4.8 and AW250-R (Hi-Fi+)
|Resplendent in a thick acrylic front panel, gold anodized switchery and blue-lit display, the overall effect of this trio of components from Electrocompaniet’s covetable Classic Line is rather more pleasing, and rather less ‘footballers wives’ ...read more -
dCS Puccini CD/SACD Player (Hi-Fi+)
|[This review originally appeared in issue 65 of Hi-Fi Plus magazine, which is published in the U.K.] Some years ago I was driving late at night, listening to Late Junction on Radio 3. A piece ...read more -
Cairn Tornado CD Player (Hi-Fi+)
|I admit, I became so attached to the Cairn Fog3 CD player, that when it came time to hand it back, Cairn’s distributors had to distract me with a shiny new toy, giving them enough ...read more -
Burmester CD 089 CD Player (Hi-Fi+)
|In some quarters Burmester has gained an unfair reputation in the UK for being expensive German audio bling, due partly to their highly polished chrome fascias no doubt. They design and manufacture, largely in-house, an ...read more -
Marantz SA-KI Pearl SACD Player & PM-KI Pearl Integrated Amplifier (Hi-Fi+)
|Marantz in the UK--its signature designs anyway--has long been dominated by one man, Ken Ishiwata, whose listed skills include being a violinist, an electronics engineer, a fashion photographer, an audio designer, and who is widely ...read more -
Micromega CD10, CD20, and CD30 CD Players (Hi-Fi+)
|When Micromega relaunched in the UK I immediately telephone Absolute Sounds and requested a review sample of one of the new players. I was pleasantly surprised to be asked if I would prefer to receive ...read more