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YG Acoustics Sonja XV multi-cabinet loudspeaker system
|The Arvada, Colorado-based firm YG Acoustics is widely considered to be one of the three leading producers of true top-tier loudspeakers in the United States (the other two being, of course, Magico and Wilson Audio). ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Loudspeakers over €15k
|I’m not making excuses for the sound at the Munich High-End show. It was uniformly awful, with a few exceptions. This actually works in our favour because we can concentrate on products of interest rather ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Loudspeakers €15K and below
|Most Promising Newcomers ELAC Adante floorstander prototype ELAC loudspeaker design guru Andrew Jones brought newly assembled prototypes of his upcoming Adante floorstanding loudspeakers (to Munich and we found their sound promising to say the least. ...read more -
Australe EZ - The latest offering from Triangle
|Discover Australe EZ, the new reference of the Esprit range. Using the identity of the Esprit EZ range, Australe EZ radiates its own unique character. A great leap forward, Australe EZ boasts unmatched technological innovations ...read more -
Avantgarde Acoustics Zero - Teil Aktiv loudspeaker
|We collectively missed the boat when it comes to the clever Avantgarde Acoustics Zero XD, a fully active, complete system built into two loudspeakers. We missed the boat on this because when it was launched, ...read more -
XT-7: a new Italian Soundscape
|FIRENZE, Italy: Gold Note - the Italian High-End manufacturer based in Firenze – is introducing XT-7, the new full-range, 3 way speaker with anti-turbulence bass reflex and ribbon tweeter available in Black Glossy, White Glossy, ...read more -
Magnepan Magneplanar .7 floorstanding loudspeakers
|“Hey, come here! You have to hear these things!” So said one of my friends in our early audio days. “These” turned out to be the Magnepan Magneplanar Tympani full-range quasi-ribbon big-as-a-room-divider flat panel speakers ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Neat Acoustics
|250 miles north of London, near where the Yorkshire Dales meet the North Pennines, is the delightful Teesdale town of Barnard Castle. The town’s largest employer is the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKlein. With a team of ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Loudspeakers
|Digital Loudspeaker of the Year Devialet Gold Phantom A wholly new category for this year, so why not pick the leader of the pack? The rise in wired or wirelessly connected, active loudspeakers has been ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Innovation of the Year
|Magico M3 floorstanding loudspeaker It might seem strange giving any first-of-its-kind of ‘innovation’ award to a loudspeaker, as they are typically some of the most resistant to change products in any audio system, but the ...read more -
Magico M3 floorstanding loudspeaker
|It’s a harsh truth of the audio business, but a truly honest loudspeaker is as rare as a truly honest politician. The Magico M3 is a truly honest loudspeaker. And it’s only when you hear ...read more -
Pearl Acoustics
|A new British loudspeaker manufacturer enters the market After more than thirty years of development, Pearl Acoustics have finally launched their Sibelius range of loudspeakers onto the market. The philosophy behind the Sibelius design is ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Mark Fenlon, from Markaudio-SOTA
|Some engineers are best described as ‘laconic’. Some take that a stage further and are effectively monosyllabic. This is completely understandable, as their job does not necessarily include a social interaction element. However, Mark Fenlon ...read more -
Bristol: Best in Show!
|We don't have much to go on photographically, but there were some outstanding sounds at Bristol Sound & Vision. Some of them were outstanding for all the wrong reasons, but there were some really, really ...read more -
Audioplan Kontrast V floorstanding loudspeakers
|I wonder to what extent my own personal taste influences me when I write about a product. It would be great to be able to come to each and every review with a mindset free ...read more