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ELAC Uni‑Fi FS U5 Slim floorstanding loudspeaker
|Not only is white the new black, but speakers are getting skinnier. The pressure to be thin is not limited to us humans, it seems. That appears to be the ethos behind ELAC’s Uni-Fi Slim ...read more -
MONITOR AUDIO LAUNCHES NEW CUSTOM INSTALL PRODUCTS AT CEDIA 2017
|Monitor Audio is delighted to showcase their new custom install ranges for the first time at this year’s CEDIA show in San Diego. The new speakers and amplifiers benefit from Monitor Audio’s forty years of ...read more -
Burmester Audiosysteme B18 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Outside of its native Germany, Burmester is perhaps best known for its audio electronics and, more recently, its automotive audio systems inside some of the world’s best cars. Although the company has made loudspeakers for ...read more -
Magico S1 Mk II floorstanding loudspeaker
|Magico is perhaps best known for its huge, multi-driver floorstanding loudspeakers that cost as much as a really good car. The S1 Mk II is the first rung on the Magico ladder, as it’s a ...read more -
Mark Levinson, Vienna Acoustics, Chord Company system
|Hi-fi, just like any other arcane (and borderline obsessive) activity has generated its own set of ‘rules’. One that pretty much everybody seems to agree on is that the shortest route to sonic suicide is ...read more -
Monitor Audio Expands On Outdoor Entertainment
|CLG160 steps up the sound quality for open air living. Monitor Audio, the renowned British loudspeaker specialist, is ensuring installers can provide their customers with a premium quality, ‘al fresco’ audio experience, by adding a ...read more -
Linn Products Klimax system
|In a world filled with complete audio systems, Linn’s latest range-topper is perhaps the most ‘systemic’ of them all. The Klimax system does not have a high degree of mix-and-match potential; the streamer feeds the ...read more -
GamuT RS5i floorstanding loudspeakers
|What makes a speaker “High End”? At the moment, the press definition seems to be a price point over £20,000 a pair. While there are many exceptionally good speakers coming in well under that lofty ...read more -
JBL S9300 loudspeakers
|Are you feeling musically emasculated, the result of a bass driver that’s barely bigger than a self-respecting midrange unit? Are you suffering musical malnutrition due to a lack of meat in your diet? Is your ...read more -
Wilson Audio WAMM Master Chronosonic loudspeaker
|One of the most important attributes in a reviewer of anything is a spot of cognitive dissonance: you need to simultaneously be yourself and distance yourself. In the case of the Wilson Audio WAMM Master ...read more -
Pearl Acoustics Sibelius SG loudspeaker
|Once upon a time, audio used to march to its own beat. Now, it seems to march to the beat of the smartphone world. Launch a piece of hi-fi today, and by the end of ...read more -
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