Articles
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The Complete Guide To Loudspeakers
|A loudspeaker is untimately just a balance of compromises: ask any experienced listener, engineer, or reviewer! This is because the process of transducing an electrical signal into an acoustic one is, despite over a hundred ...read more -
ART Alnico 8 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Derek Dunlop and his late father Peter used to make one the greatest affordable turntables on the market. It was called the Systemdek and it sounded fantastic in almost any system. Unfortunately, Sony and Philips ...read more -
Introduction to streaming
|Streaming is not a new format, nor even new technology, but it has taken the place of the CD in many enthusiasts systems, so has the characteristics of a format in our world. In fact ...read more -
Bugge Wesseltoft
|Late last year, Norwegian keyboard player Bugge Wesseltoft released Trialogue, an album he made with laptop beat-meister Henrik Schwarze and former est (Esbjorn Svensson Trio) bass player Dan Berglund. Wesseltoft made his name as the ...read more -
Hegel HD12 DSD-compatible DAC
|Hegel is one of a small but consistently impressive band of Norwegian audio electronics companies, and it’s probably the youngest to have made an impression on the British market place. Its philosophy is to “offer ...read more -
Penaudio Sara S floorstanding loudspeaker
|The last speaker I remember with the name Sara was made by Linn in the 1980s, and you don’t come across them very often any more. But it seems that Finnish speaker maker Sami Penttilä ...read more -
Triangle Comete Ez
|Esprit Ez was launched last year, more than 20 years after the release of Triangle’s first Esprit range. The Cométe Ez was added to the range at the end of 2014 and is the largest ...read more -
Revox Joy S120 integrated amplifier and network audio player
|Revox is a name with the full weight of history behind it; a brand that was once among the most highly regarded in this business, but somewhere along the line it seemed to diminish. Revox ...read more -
Focal Aria 905 standmount loudspeaker
|I have not always found Focal’s more affordable models to be entirely to my liking. This is partly because metal tweeters are rarely that smooth, and because Focal’s inverted domes seem a little obvious in ...read more -
Trilogy Audio 908 preamplifier and 992 mono amplifiers
|Trilogy Audio makes great amplifiers in the UK, and puts them in world-class casework. Until recently, this meant the products made by Nic Poulson and Simon Dart were relatively expensive, but this latest combination of ...read more -
Townshend Seismic Speaker Bars
|Like many things associated with Max Townshend, how the Seismic Speaker Bars work sounds eminently sensible when it’s Max explaining things, and complete gobbledegook when that explanation is passed on to someone else. Here’s the ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Aeromax 6 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Cambridge Audio (fast becoming just 'Cambridge') has used balanced mode radiator (or BMR) mid/treble drive units in its loudspeakers since the launch of its Minx range, but it was the company’s Aero models of 2013 ...read more -
Transfiguration Phoenix S MC cartridge
|When a hi-fi company, or any company for that matter, doesn’t have a website today, you can draw one of two conclusions: it hasn’t got around to making a website, or it doesn’t need a ...read more -
Roksan K3 CD player
|For Roksan’s latest K3 electronics range, head honcho Tufan Hashemi chose a rather different style of finish to grace the front panels. It seems he’s bored of the matte black and brushed silver that is ...read more -
Rogue Audio Cronus Magnum
|The Rogue Audio logo includes a silhouette of a bird that I am told is a raven, the largest member of the crow family. This was chosen because the raven is an intelligent bird that ...read more