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Cambridge Audio Alva TT turntable system
|It’s a bold manufacturer who underestimates the appetite amongst audiophiles for pain and aggravation. The belief that optimum sound is truly worth suffering for – in fact, can’t be achieved withoutsuffering – is all too ...read more -
Goldring Ethos moving-coil cartridge
|In 1906, two Czech brothers – Heinrich and Julius Scharf – formed a company called Gebrüder Scharf in Berlin to make parts for the highest of high-tech devices of the age; the gramophone. The company ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Awards: Analogue Components of the year
|Turntable of the Year: Kuzma Stabi R Kuzma’s latest turntable is a fully modular integrated design, with an internal power supply, and spaces to mount a number of arm wings and additional arm balconies, in ...read more -
The Hi-Fi+ Directory of High-End Audio Manufacturers, 2019
|We’ve selected and showcased the work of 32 of the finest manufacturers in high-end audio in our exclusive guide. Regardless of price, product type, or brand name, we’ve uncovered the most exciting and innovative companies ...read more -
Kuzma CAR-60 moving coil cartridge
|They say that nothing lasts forever and, judging by the standards of hi-fi fashion, that certainly seems to be true. How long did it take for diamond tweeters, suddenly the must-have audio bauble, to lose ...read more -
Burmester Audiosysteme 175 turntable system
|It took 41 years for Burmester to make its first turntable, so the 175 had to be something really special. The company showed the world the 175 in prototype form in Munich 2017, with a ...read more -
Rega Aphelion MC cartridge
|Rega published a book last year, an autobiography of sorts that charts the oft challenging history of the company and its products; they called the book A Vibration Measuring Machine (reviewed inHi-Fi+ Issue 149).This tells ...read more -
Mobile Fidelity Studiodeck turntable with Studiotracker cartridge
|It seems like every time you leave the grocery store these days you find yourself looking in your shopping bags on the way home thinking, “I certainly didn’t get much for that £100 did I?” ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Analogue Audio
|Turntable VPI Prime Signature With the Prime series, VPI has really hit something of a modern-day sweet-spot for turntable users. The products have that right combination of authoritative sound quality coupled with great modern style, ...read more -
Clearaudio Maestro V2 moving magnet cartridge
|It is difficult to make a convincing argument that the upper echelon of the analogue cartridge world is represented by anything outside moving coil design. If you have plans to take a scenic drive through ...read more -
Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (Part One of Two)
|Hi-Fi+ dispatched a team of reviewers to Denver to cover this year’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. The show, bigger than ever, falls into two distinct camps; the original audio show and CanJam – the headphone ...read more -
Rega "A Vibration Measuring Machine" book
|Rega Research knows its way around a turntable. After more than 40 years of building high-quality and often very reasonably priced turntables, tonearms, cartridges, and even phono stages, the company has earned its vinyl spurs. ...read more -
D is for diamond: Transfiguration creates special limited ‘D’ edition of flagship Proteus phono cartridge
|Hand-crafted in Japan by Immutable Music's Seiji Yoshioka, Transfiguration moving coil (MC) phono cartridges have been hailed as being among the world’s most musically honest. This is no accident, since their design has always been ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Analogue Sources
|Most Promising Newcomers Acoustic Signature Merlin turntable & tone arm In the pantheon of fine turntable/tone arm rigs from the German firm Acoustic Signature, the entry-level models have traditionally been affordable, but not too many ...read more -
Gold Note Giglio turntable with B-5.1 arm and Donatello Red cartridge
|In the oft-parochial world of audio, some good brands can go almost unnoticed. So it is with Gold Note: the Italian company commands a strong reputation in many parts of the world as a ‘stem ...read more