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Cambridge Audio Edge A integrated amplifier
|Cambridge Audio celebrated its 50th Birthday in 2018. While most of us turning 50 might look to ever-expanding waistlines and the occasional mid-life crisis, Cambridge Audio has instead gone to the gym and got ripped. ...read more -
Acronym Acquisition Syndrome (AAS)
|There is a shadow hanging over the audio industry ATM. IMHO, the problem is compromising the sales of some extremely good consumer electronics, not only in traditional audio electronics, but in the worlds of AV, ...read more -
Shunyata Research Delta NR and EF power cords
|I don’t generally like to cross-reference reviews from other categories and I especially don’t like to start a review in the middle, but this deserves saying: the review for the Devialet Pro Expert 140 would ...read more -
REL T-Zero V2 subwoofer
|One of the last subwoofers we looked at was the REL T-Zero. In fact, we looked at two of them. This year, the company subtly changed the T-Zero. So subtly you’d hardly notice at first ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Kazutoshi Yamada, Zanden Audio Systems
|We spoke to Kazutoshi Yamada – President of Zanden Audio Systems – during a recent brief tour of Europe. Unlike many manufacturers and designers in the audio business, Yamada-san didn’t take the usual route of ...read more -
Devialet 140 Expert Pro integrated amplifier
|As someone who has been watching the whole Devialet thing evolve over the last decade, it’s been one hell of a rush. The French company – started by a couple of ex-Nortel engineers with a ...read more -
RME ADI-2 DAC digital converter/headphone amplifier
|In all honesty, most domestic DACs fall somewhere between ‘inadequate’ and ‘woefully inadequate’ when it comes to telling the world what they are doing. There are exceptions of course – Chord Electronics and its colour-coded ...read more -
Transparent Reference PowerIsolator power conditioner
|It’s not so long ago that power conditioners were not a ‘thing’, especially in the UK and many European audio circles. We used to pride ourselves on having ‘clean’ power, as the juice coming into ...read more -
Dynaudio Xeo 20 active stand-mount loudspeaker
|Dynaudio is that rare combination of industry titan and innovator. Typically, brands get large, then they get hide-bound by their own conventions, and smaller, more agile companies come along and develop new concepts for the ...read more -
Neat Acoustics Ultimatum XL6 loudspeaker
|Neat Acoustic’s Ultimatum range is a three-strong expression of Bob Surgeoner’s distinctive take on loudspeaker design. It comprises a stand-mount Ultimatum XLS, the flagship XL10 tower, and this, the XL6 floorstander. The logic behind having ...read more -
Audiovector R8 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Audiovector has something of a gap problem. The Copenhagen-based brand has a couple of ranges of superb loudspeakers that cover the entry-level and attainably-priced regions of the audio market, it has the R11 flagship that ...read more -
AKG N5005 earphones
|Victoria Station to Ealing Broadway, on the District Line of the London Underground. At around 9:15 on the evening of Thursday 23rd August, 2018. That was the precise moment I understood why the AKG N5005 ...read more -
Gold Note Pianosa turntable with B-5.1 tonearm
|The Italian company Gold Note has a seven-strong range of turntables, although two are limited edition, made-to-order, super-high-end extravaganzas. Of the five main turntables in the company’s range, the Pianosa hits dead centre, with the ...read more -
Interview: Wes Berwise of WBSSmedia
|Wes Berwise is a clever man. He has been passionate about his music for as long as he can remember, and was an avid collector from his school days. His love of music in all ...read more -
Sonus faber Sonetto V floorstanding loudspeaker
|A few years ago, Sonus faber made the somewhat bold move of switching some of its production out of Italy. This was a great idea and gave the world speaker lines like the successful Principia, ...read more