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Audio Research Corp. Reference 80S Stereo Power Amplifier
|From the Absolute Sounds/Audio Research press release: The Reference 80S stereo amplifier continues Audio Research’s latest design effort in creating a vacuum-tube amplifier that not only redefines ultimate music reproduction, but does it in an ...read more -
True Colours Industries Cobra II and II SE interconnect cables
|It’s been a while since we last looked at a True Colours Industries (TCI) product (Issue 49 in fact), and getting to grips with the latest versions of the Cobra interconnect (the original of which ...read more -
Focal Stellia circumaural closed-back headphones
|Only a scant few years ago Focal was exclusively a loudspeaker and raw driver manufacturer, but they have expanded to embrace the headphone market with a passion. Sitting at the apex of their current model ...read more -
Wilson Audio TuneTots with TuneTot stands
|“I love the way you love me, I love the way you comb your hair…” Keb Mo, a wonderful blues singer whose career I have followed closely, sings into my small listening room. His voice ...read more -
Triangle Borea BR08 floorstanding loudspeaker
|A few issues ago (Issue 180), we looked at the new high-value two-way floorstander from Triangle, the Borea BR03. Now it’s the turn of its bigger brother, the Borea BR08. If the BR03 represented great ...read more -
Emma Swift: Blonde On The Tracks
|Australian-born country singer-songwriter Emma Swift’s Blonde On The Tracks is a collection of covers of some of her favourite Bob Dylan songs and it’s perfectly timed. Bob is back with his best album in years, ...read more -
Cardas Audio Clear Reflection power cord
|The Clear Reflection range is completed (probably… there’s always dedicated phono and digital links to contend with) with the new power cord in the line. Clear Reflection is the upper-middle of the Cardas range, sitting ...read more -
Audiovector R3 Signature floorstanding loudspeakers
|Audiovector’s R series loudspeakers represent the company’s core. Yes, there is the more affordable QR series and in-wall models, and technically the Big Three – the R11, R8, and R6 floorstanders – all stand apart ...read more -
Staying in is the new going out
|One of the first statistics published in January, the country’s main music industry body – the British Phonographic Industry – is keen to tell the world just how many records, CDs, downloads, streamed songs and ...read more -
Arcam SA30 Network streaming system
|Some audio equipment functions absolutely perfectly, sounds amazing, and represents excellent value for money – which makes reviewing it pretty straightforward. Some audio equipment functions only spasmodically, sounds rough, and represents questionable value for money ...read more -
Living Voice Auditorium R25A floorstanding loudspeaker
|Longevity is an increasingly rare commodity when it comes to audio equipment. The lifespan of high-end digital products can be measured in months, while product revisions are seemingly now an annual event – or in ...read more -
Electromod takes over UK distribution of high-end audio accessories brand MS HD Power
|MS HD Power is the high-end audio trading name of Winbo Industries, a well established Hong Kong-based company with more than 45 years’ experience of designing and manufacturing high performance and safe power accessories for ...read more -
ReQuest Audio The Raptor music server
|Although for much of the audio world, streaming has all but replaced the physical digital disc, for the highest of high-end, those 1% or the 1% that both take music really seriously and have the ...read more -
Effect Audio Code 51 headphone cable
|The high-end cable was something of a late starter in the personal audio world, but companies like Singapore’s Effect Audio have made up for lost time. Code 51 is the company’s flagship design, using its ...read more -
Going to Ground
|Editor’s Note: In the development of his highly respected digital audio components, Scott Berry of Computer Audio Design discovered the impact of High Frequency ground noise. Later, he found this signal ground noise also impacted ...read more