Articles
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How to spend over a million bucks in Lisbon
|I had barely unpacked from Munich after High-End 2019 when it was time to nick off to Lisbon in Portugal for a spot of ultra-high-end listening. Lisbon is a beautiful city, but this was one ...read more -
Astell&Kern A&futura SE100 digital audio player
|Astell&Kern almost singlehandedly created the market for high-end portable music players. Currently they have players priced from less than £600 (for the AK70 MkII) to more than £3,000 (for the SP1000). The SE100, which is ...read more -
Node Audio Hylixa stand-mount loudspeaker
|Node Audio is a brand-new operation that’s both radical and unusual. Situated a few miles south of Cambridge, Node shares an advanced manufacturing facility with a hi-tech engineering company. Its two key principals are Ashley ...read more -
Lumin X1 music streamer
|Lumin sprung out of nowhere a couple of years ago. The Hong Kong-based brand was initially dismissed by the audio industry’s xenophobes as some kind of a rip-off of a well-known popular streamer from the ...read more -
Munich High-End 2019: A tale of two Magicos
|Our coverage of audio shows is now more commonly placed within the confines of the magazine itself, rather than published online. However, the short-form show report doesn’t fully represent some important aspects of audio that ...read more -
Audioquest Niagara 7000 power conditioner
|Walk the corridors of any recent hi-fi show and you’ll have noticed a creeping, almost insidious presence, the first visible evidence of a (not so quiet) rise in audio’s dark side: mains conditioners, and chief ...read more -
WyWires Platinum headphone cable
|Alex Sventitsky of WyWires has been hand crafting high-end cables for audiophiles for many years. They took the personal audio world by storm in 2014 with their RED series headphone cables. At a mere three ...read more -
SIMAUDIO ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH HIGHRESAUDIO
|Simaudio is delighted to announce a new partnership with premium high-resolution audio music streaming and download service, HIGHRESAUDIO. The combination of Simaudio’s industry-defining MOON products and HRA’s high-resolution audio files guarantees a truly unforgettable listening ...read more -
Introducing Pulse Cinemas - IsoTek’s new distributor for the UK!
|IsoTek are pleased to announce the appointment of Pulse Cinemas as the new official and exclusive UK distributor for IsoTek and IsoTek’s new SMART Power product line as from 1 May 2019. IsoTek is the ...read more -
Issue 170 and Hi-Fi+ Playlists
|Our bumper 20thanniversary issue is about to hit the streets in the US, and as a taster of what is on offer, we’ve decided on something wholly new. We have just created a Spotify playlist ...read more -
Revel Performa M126Be stand-mount loudspeaker
|Revel is the high point in Harman’s extensive range of loudspeaker brands; it has the luxury of sharing facilities with JBL, but doesn’t have to make mass market products in the way that behemoth does. ...read more -
Boulder Model 508 phono preamplifier
|Boulder Amplifiers, Inc. of Boulder Colorado, USA has established, over its nearly thirty-five years, a history of truly mountaintop performance. Designs can be on the market for over a decade as their individual excellence may ...read more -
Wired to the MOON? Moon 780D v2, Moon 700i v2 + Nordost
|It’s a triple product launch weekend at Loud & Clear on Friday 26th & Saturday 27th April. We have two stonking new heavyweights from MOON by Simaudio – the 700i v2integrated amplifier and 780D v2 ...read more -
Marantz SA-KI Ruby CD/SACD player
|When Ken Ishiwata was lured into working for Marantz in 1978 he had already been at Pioneer Japan for ten years. The story goes that the European base that Superscope had created for Marantz in ...read more -
Chord Electronics Étude stereo power amplifier
|From the get-go, Chord Electronics’ amplifiers pushed the technology envelope. The company was making amplifiers with switch-mode power supplies when every other audio brand had barely even heard of a switch-mode power supply. That ability ...read more