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Burmester Phase 3 system
|Most of the systems we assemble are from multiple brands. The logic behind this goes as follows: no one manufacturer excels in every department. Burmester is the loyal opposition to that concept. The company’s new ...read more -
The Bespoke Audio Company passive magnetic preamplifier
|The process of reviewing audio equipment is well documented. In some respects, it’s all about the bit before the review, which could be likened to a dating agency. As the reviewer is going to live ...read more -
Scansonic M-6 BTL Bluetooth-enabled loudspeaker
|It’s important to get the name absolutely correct; it’s a Scansonic M-6 BTL, not a Scansonic M6. The problem is the company makes so many audio products sometimes names blur into one another, and while ...read more -
Schiit Audio Yggdrasil DAC and Ragnarok headphone/integrated amplifier
|Schiit Audio is the brainchild of two high-end audio veterans: Jason Stoddard, former design chief of Sumo Electronics, and Mike Moffat, founder of Theta Digital. As you might expect from their company’s unorthodox name (which ...read more -
Amplifiers – A Baker’s Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|Munich High-End is a hot-bed of amplifier activity, and that is reflected in the sheer diversity of products on display each year. Not all are in demonstration – many appear in the main halls and ...read more -
Analogue Sources – A Baker’s Dozen from Munich High End 2016
|At Munich High End 2016, one of my key coverage topics was Analogue source components. However, given that I visited over 110 manufacturers at the show, it quickly became apparent that doing a brand-by-brand show ...read more -
Spread Spectrum Technologies Son of Ampzilla II power amplifier
|High-end audio as we think of it today is about fifty years old. Some brands from the early days are still around and iconic today. Others have faded into fond memories of beautiful musical moments ...read more -
Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista 800 integrated amplifier
|When it comes to amplifiers, Musical Fidelity can probably claim a unique authority over almost all their rivals, past and present, having offered just about every option known to man. So it was perhaps unsurprising ...read more -
Luxman C-700u preamp and M-700u stereo power amplifier
|Luxman long had more cachet than many rival Japanese audio brands. It sits in a relatively underpopulated strata it shares with Accuphase, positioned above the mainstream of Yamaha, Pioneer, etc., but more widely known than ...read more -
Benchmark AHB2 power amplifier
|Benchmark made its mark on the audio fraternity in the late 2000s with the unusually compact, yet full featured, converter and preamplifier... the DAC1, the latest DAC2 incarnation of which I reviewed in these pages ...read more -
Tron Atlantic integrated tube amplifier
|High-end audio is a fairly specialised field, but there are those within that field that show just how specialised this can get. Take Graham Tricker, for example – he’s the grande fromage at Tron, a ...read more -
System Feature: Naim Audio NAC-N 272 network preamplifier and ATC SCM40 active floorstanding loudspeakers
|It seems that we live in an age where less (in the way of audio equipment) is seen as more (in the domestic acceptability sense). Linn has been using this approach and has honed almost ...read more -
Audio Research GSi75 integrated amplifier
|If I were writing the recent history of hi-fi, one thing would dominate the tale – the rise of the ‘one box solution’. Although the market for discrete components in the audio chain is still ...read more -
Ayre Acoustics AX-5 twenty integrated amplifier
|If you have been writing about audio for a long time, there’s a delicate trade-off, between spinning a tale out of every product, and starting your next review with “this is the 374th amplifier I ...read more -
Boulder Amplifiers 2110 preamplifier and 2160 stereo power amplifier
|At the top end of any discussion about high-end audio, there is Boulder. The 2110 preamp is currently the biggest and best preamplifier the company makes, but the new 2160 is about middle of the ...read more