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Eclipse TD-M1
|The humble desktop loudspeaker often gets short shrift among audio enthusiasts. Our traditional obsession with a stereo system in the listening room now has a challenger in the headphone and CIEM environment, but there’s little ...read more -
First Listen: Aurender Flow portable headphone amp/DAC/preamp
|Most audiophiles associate the name Aurender with the firm’s range of highly accomplished music servers, and rightly so. More than many competitors in the field, Aurender has demonstrated that it is keenly attuned to the ...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 -
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 -
Meridian Audio DSP7200SE loudspeakers
|Meridian is not your average hi-fi company by any means. It has always been technologically advanced, a state of affairs that became apparent to the world at large when MLP or Meridan Lossless Packing was ...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 -
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 -
First Listen: Oppo HA-1 desktop headphone amplifier/DAC/preamp
|As Hi-Fi+ readers know, we have been closely following Oppo Digital’s ongoing expansion in the high-end headphone and personal audio electronics marketplace. First came the firm’s flagship PM-1 planar magnetic headphones (reviewed in issue 1xx), ...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 -
B.M.C. Audio BDCD1.1 CD player and DAC1PreHR DAC/preamp
|Once upon a time, high-end audio meant products that were markedly superior in build and performance than their more entry-level counterparts. It also used to mean products that retained a good resale value even a ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Azur 851D & 851W
|Cambridge Audio may no longer operate in the collegiate city that gave the brand its name, but the product design and engineering is still very much British. Now based in Bermondsey in the heart of ...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 -
Musical Fidelity V90 DAC
|When it comes to computer audio, I must confess to being a bit of a novice. I really haven't felt the need to get into it in a serious way. For some time, I've been ...read more -
Astin Trew Concord DAC 1 digital converter
|There are only so many audio engineers in the world, so some names keep cropping up. It’s in the essential nature of the engineering psyche that self-promotion and marketing go against the grain, so these ...read more -
Norma Revo DS-1
|The REVO DS-1 by NORMA is very much a ‘now’ product. It’s the link between the world of spinning discs and the world of computer audio. We’ve long considered computer audio to be an extra ...read more