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ATC SCM7 stand-mount loudspeaker
|The third compact, sealed box two-way loudspeaker to come my way in a month is also the longest established and most affordable. The SCM7 is Gloucestershire based ATC’s smallest model at only 12 inches high, ...read more -
Michi P5 preamplifier and S5 power amplifier
|Rotel is one of those companies that doesn’t often grab the headlines much these days yet it has a heritage stretching back over 50 years. In the late 1980s, its entry level integrated amplifiers had ...read more -
B.audio B.dpr one preamplifier and B.amp one power amplifier
|Only a Frenchman would have the audacity to build an amplifier with a volume control that’s essentially the wrong way round, that is, the level goes up as you turn it anti-clockwise. You get some ...read more -
Xavian Corallo Esclusivo standmount loudspeakers
|Infinite baffle loudspeakers seem to be a bit like buses, you wait literally years and then two come along at once. First the cast iron Jern11 and now the aesthetically more conventional Xavian Corallo Esclusivo. ...read more -
Blue Note Re:imagined
|It says something when arguably the most important label in jazz comes to London to find artists to cover classic tunes from its enviable back catalogue. And what it says is London is where it’s ...read more -
Norma HS-IPA1 integrated amplifier
|At the time of writing (in late March 2020), coronavirus was wreaking havoc across the world, but in Italy the situation was more extreme than average, which must have made the production of audio electronics ...read more -
Jern11 stand-mount loudspeaker
|If you look at the world of loudspeaker design it is very crowded and the diversity of materials used in cabinet construction is wider than it has ever been, yet up until recently no one ...read more -
Totem Skylight stand-mount loudspeaker
|Every time I hear Totem speakers, which is usually at international audio shows, they sound bigger and more extended than they should. It’s not unusual to be impressed by bass extension from small speakers, but ...read more -
English Electric 8Switch streaming audio network switch
|English Electric was once a titan of 20th century British engineering, building trains, steam turbines, guided missiles and even mainframe computers. It was formed out of several companies after the first world war and went ...read more -
The Who: Who’s Next (Deluxe Edition) HR
|Anyone who saw the trailer for the movie American Beauty will have been struck by the brilliance of ‘Baba O’Riley’, the track chosen to accompany it and which effectively doubled the impact of the clip. ...read more -
Townshend Audio Allegri Reference Line-stage passive preamplifier
|Max Townshend is not the sort of guy to make a product and then focus on marketing and selling it; he is an engineer to the core and cannot stop thinking of ways to improve ...read more -
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Stephen J Malkmus: Traditional Techniques [Domino, LP]
|Stephen Malkmus, the J is optional, has been making music with a variety of line ups since his teens but got his commercial break in the early 90s when he formed the band Pavement with ...read more -
Lana del Ray: Norman F***ing Rockwell!
|I am late to the Lana Del Rey party I know but when Hi-Fi Choice alumni Del Gentleman played the first track of last year’s fellow NFR! the combination of fabulous production and potty mouthed ...read more -
ATC CD2 CD player
|Seeing a CD player launched at this stage in the game makes me wonder what’s going on. Does it symbolise an upwelling of desire for simplicity or perhaps a yearning to engage with a physical ...read more -
Rupert Neve Designs Fidelice Precision Digital to Analog Converter
|If you saw Dave Grohl’s documentary about the Sound City studio in LA, the hallowed ground where Rumours, Nevermind, Damn the Torpedoes and many, many great albums were made, you will have realised that the ...read more