Articles
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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 -
German Physiks Borderland Mk IV floorstanding loudspeaker
|The German Physiks range of floorstanding omnidirectional loudspeakers is large, both in terms of scope and the physical size of the biggest models. The really big ones – like the awesome Gaudi Mk II – ...read more -
Revel Concerta 2 F35 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Shipping speakers to the UK might once have seemed as rewarding as carting coals to Newcastle, but the times they are a changing. Not so long ago the number of established, imported loudspeaker brands could ...read more -
Audiovector QR3 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Just before the Munich High-End show this year, Hi-Fi+ was invited to Copenhagen to have an exclusive preview of Audiovector’s new QR1 standmount and QR3 floorstanding loudspeaker. Recently we took delivery of the QR3. And ...read more -
Vandersteen Audio Treo CT floorstanding loudspeaker
|Back in the early 1980’s I had a chance to listen to a pair of Vandersteen Model 2’s. What attracted me to them was great sound and a price tag that was actually reachable for ...read more -
Vienna Acoustics The Music floorstanding loudspeaker
|The more time you spend in and around the audio industry, the more apparent it becomes that some companies are noisier than others, forever trumpeting a new model, a new technology, or a ground-breaking advance ...read more -
Exclusive First Listen – Wilson Audio Specialties WAMM Master Chronosonic
|There are several things worth noting here. In our 1,000th posting on our website, we’d thought we’d come up with a sneak preview of one of the most significant high-end loudspeakers of 2017: The Wilson ...read more -
Vivid Giya G4
|The day after these little Giyas arrived designer Lawrence ‘Dic’ Dickie was off to Durban in South Africa to set up a test and measurement facility in Vivid’s new factory. But the company was not ...read more -
Focal Sopra No.3 Loudspeaker
|Focal's elegant, striking, and strikingly different Sopra No.2 has quickly established a reputation as the sweet spot in the entire Focal range. Offering the right size, at the right price, with more than a hint ...read more -
Coffee and Stethoscopes
|If you want to encapsulate all that Magico represents, ask the company’s founder Alon Wolf about coffee. Or photography. Or guitar playing. Or practically anything in which Alon Wolf expresses an interest. But try it ...read more -
GoldenEar Technology Triton Five floorstanding loudspeaker
|If ever there was a speaker that best encapsulates ‘affordable excellence’ in audio, it would be the GoldenEar Triton Five. This tall, elegant floorstander is priced to compete with two- and three-way tower speakers, yet ...read more -
Rosso Fiorentino Certaldo floorstanding loudspeaker
|Rosso Fiorentino was a Florentine painter from the 16th Century. Rosso Fiorentino is also a Florentine loudspeaker manufacturer from the 21st Century. If you are expecting a critique of Rosso Fiorentino’s masterful 1521 oil-on-wood altarpiece ...read more -
First Listen: YG Acoustics’ flagship Sonja XV four-tower loudspeaker system
|This past weekend I had the privilege of representing Hi-Fi+ at a very special private demonstration of YG Acoustics’ new flagship Sonja XV (XV stands for ‘eXtreme Version’) four-tower loudspeaker system, which was held in ...read more