Articles
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AudioQuest Niagara 1000 power conditioner
|AudioQuest’s Bill Low takes a long-term approach to product development. He’s been in the industry longer than many and seems to have figured out what counts (and what doesn’t) when it comes to creating accessories ...read more -
PMC cor integrated amplifier
|When PMC announced the cor amplifier at the 2017 Munich show, you could have knocked me down with a ball peen hammer. Why on earth would a loudspeaker company that distributes two ranges of electronics ...read more -
Exogal Comet DAC and Ion stereo power amplifier
|It’s refreshing to come across a deeply engineered and well-made product that doesn’t arrive with swathes of sales guff to seduce prospective buyers. Exogal is that rare thing; an audio company that is more interested ...read more -
AURALiC VEGA G2 streaming DAC with LEO GX clock
|It can’t be many years since AURALiC’s first cute and curvy ARIES streamer appeared on the market, but since that time the company has created some very interesting digital audio products and last year unveiled ...read more -
Dutch & Dutch 8c stand-mount loudspeaker
|DSP in active speakers is not a new thing, but arguably until recently, it is not a technology that has realised its full potential. This was proved convincingly by the Kii Three that I wrote ...read more -
Vivid Audio Kaya 45 floorstanding loudspeaker
|While some markets like shiny white or yellow loudspeakers, the majority of the hi‑fi market appears to prefer rectilinear boxes with a wood veneer. It has ever been thus and only slowly will it change, ...read more -
Kii Three active loudspeaker system
|Put Bruno Putzeys’ name into a search engine and you get plenty of results. He is ranked among such audio engineering luminaries as Nelson Pass and Siegfried Linkwitz, yet his name has yet to enter ...read more -
Trilogy Audio 903 preamp and 993 power amp
|Trilogy Audio specialises in making valve amplifiers for people who don’t want to look at valves. At least that’s the way it seems when you consider the latest amplifiers in the range. The 903 preamplifier ...read more -
Rotel T14 tuner/streamer
|Stop me if I’m being presumptuous but I suspect that most of the readers of this august journal can remember a time when the only way to listen to music without paying for it was ...read more -
IsoTek EVO3 Nova One & EVO3 Genesis One
|When was the peak for the potential of high fidelity audio systems in the home? As audio systems have steadily improved, the amount of noise in the powerlines and even in the air has increased ...read more -
Aqua La Scala digital converter
|There are several ways of skinning the proverbial digital rabbit and turning it into a tasty analogue stew. The most popular one is to use a chipset from one of a small number of large-scale ...read more -
Neat Acoustics Iota Xplorer floorstanding loudspeaker
|We first saw Neat’s Iota as a cute compact loudspeaker that anyone could live with and grow to love. It then became the Iota Alpha, which is a bit bigger but still diminutive, and does ...read more -
Black Rhodium Overture/Polka/Stream cables
|In pro audio the answer to the question what’s the best cable? Is “the one that is the right length to make the connection.” In domestic audio, as we know, it’s not quite that straightforward! ...read more -
Chord Electronics DAVE DAC/SPM 1050 MkII stereo power amplifier
|I think it was Krell that got the ball rolling on heavy duty chassis construction for audio. Many have picked up this ball since the 1980s but no company (in the UK at least) has ...read more -
Exposure XM5 integrated amplifier
|Way back in the day when Exposure were the only real competitor that Naim had in the UK, both companies made a lot of half width black boxes. They were all ugly and, in the ...read more