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Hegel Röst integrated system amplifier
|Hegel Music Systems has come up against the Law of Unintended Consequences with its new Röst integrated amplifier. The flexible, easily networkable, white-fronted integrated amplifier came as a result of direct requests from the iChummy ...read more -
Music First Audio Classic Headphone Preamplifier
|Music First Audio is a British company best known for making a range of high-performance passive magnetic preamplifiers. It has recently branched out to make phono stages with active gain stages. The new Classic Headphone ...read more -
Bel Canto Design DAC 2.7 DAC and REF600M power amplifiers
|The Bel Canto Design that is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year is a long way from the original firm founded in 1991. Debuting as a tube amp manufacturer noted for their SET designs Bel ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Amplification
|Integrated Amplifier of the Year Ayre Acoustics AX-5 Twenty In making the AX-5 Twenty, Ayre Acoustics pulled together many important elements of design from existing higher-end Ayre amps into what has become the company’s only ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Analogue Audio
|Turntable of the Year Origin Live Sovereign The Origin Live Sovereign is a belt-driven turntable design featuring a high tolerance bearing, and a non-suspended chassis sitting on three adjustable towers. The platter is a composite ...read more -
iFi Audio Pro iCAN balanced, hybrid valve/solid state headphone amp/preamp
|My very first exposure to the iFi Audio brand, which is a spin-off of the British high-end audio electronics manufacturer Abbingdon Music Research (AMR), came at an audio show a number of years ago. I ...read more -
Densen Releases Its First Streamer: The CAST AMP
|From the Densen press release, via Elite Audio UK ltd: Danish manufacturers Densen have launched their brand-new CAST AMP Streamer, the first in their brand-new Dino range of products. The CAST AMP is the first ...read more -
Pathos Inpol Remix MkII HiDac EVO integrated amplifier
|This product – I hesitate to use the word amplifier because it’s a lot more than that – may have a name that reads like a compilation of dance floor anthems, but that name is ...read more -
Rothwell announce release of advanced discrete transistor moving coil phonostage.
|Lancashire based audio specialists Rothwell Audio Products Ltd have announced the release of their Signature Two discrete transistor moving coil phonostage, and within the phonostage itself, there are neither transformers nor op-amps resulting in a ...read more -
Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum Integrated amplifier
|The Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum Integrated amplifier is effectively two boxes in one. The lower, base chassis doubles up as the power supply, and a short, green, braided, four-pin connector cable connects this ...read more -
T+A Elektroakustik AMP 8 power amplifier
|T+A’s awesome HV electronics are mighty beasts, but like most might beasts in audio, they are not exactly ‘cheap’. You do get your money’s worth with the HV series amplifiers, but you still need a ...read more -
Cyrus Audio Phono Reference phono stage and PSX-R2 power supply
|Cyrus Audio – home of the ‘singing shoebox’ – is synonymous with good quality audio at a fair price. Occasionally though, it knocks one of its products completely out of the park. That’s what happened ...read more -
Aavik U-300 Unity integrated amplifier
|When you attend audio shows around the world, you get to see distinct patterns and trends in system matching. When Product X works so well with Product Y and Product Z that they are used ...read more -
conrad-johnson GAT Series 2 preamplifier
|For the last decade, high-end audio has been on a seemingly inevitable trajectory, its controls set for the heart of the luxury market sector, propelled by the twin impetus of soaring prices and the influx ...read more -
Questyle Golden Reference DAC/preamp/headphone amp system
|Back in Issue 133, we reviewed Questyle’s excellent CMA800R headphone amplifier. At the time, we suggested there would be a follow-up review of a pair of CMA800Rs for balanced operation. But then, an idea was ...read more