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System Feature: Naim Audio NAC-N 272 network preamplifier and ATC SCM40 active floorstanding loudspeakers
|It seems that we live in an age where less (in the way of audio equipment) is seen as more (in the domestic acceptability sense). Linn has been using this approach and has honed almost ...read more -
Computer Audio Design CAD 1543 MKII Digital converter
|When Scott Berry brought me the first incarnation of his CAD DAC, I chided him for only including a USB input and not having a removable mains cable: it seemed like single-minded madness. But the ...read more -
Mad Scientist YANAM interconnect cable
|This isn’t the mixologist Mad Professor nor the dub maestro Scientist. Mad Scientist turns out to be Bob Prangnell, a British expat who lives in New Zealand and clearly likes to tweak audio. He makes ...read more -
Townshend Audio Seismic Podium
|One of the biggest problems in the pursuit of high fidelity is establishing what exactly is in the signal and what the reproduction equipment adds to that signal. Essentially, this is ‘distortion’, and many forms ...read more -
Entotem Plato
|Entotem is not your average hi-fi start-up. Rather than the one man and his dog in the garden shed that has been the traditional beginning for many in this business, Entotem consists of 10 men ...read more -
The Kennedy Collection
|Like most reviewers, I listen to about a shop’s worth of great audio kit in an average year, but inevitably some of it is just that bit better than the rest, making me wish that ...read more -
PMC twotwo.6 active standmount loudspeaker
|Strange name for a loudspeaker twotwo.6. But it has a logic of sorts: it has a two-way design that can be used in two ways, and it has a six inch main driver (well almost). ...read more -
Wadia 321 Digital Converter
|Wadia was one of the first companies to make a decent CD player back in the early nineties. It achieved this by identifying that jitter was a major source of problem for digital audio, a ...read more -
Benchmark Media Systems DAC2 HGC digital converter
|Benchmark was the brand that introduced the first serious small scale digital to analogue converter. Before the original DAC1, most converters were either full width or not taken seriously. All that has changed with a ...read more -
Fostex PX5-HS active standmount loudspeakers
|Fostex is one of those brands that we’ve all heard of but rarely see. This is primarily because despite having been around for quite a while (over 60 years in fact) it is best known ...read more -
Gigawatt PC-4 EVO power conditioner
|Not satisfied with taking over the UK building trade, Poland now has its sights set on your audio system, and Gigawatt, with its range of power products, is in the vanguard. In 1998, Adam Schubert ...read more -
Metrum Acoustics Pavane DAC
|Metrum has always done things a bit differently. For a start, all its products are NOS (non oversampling) types, which removes a stage of filtering, and they all have ladder DACs built with discrete components ...read more -
Modwright Instruments PH-150 phono stage
|Modwright’s founder, Dan Wright, started out modifying third party components, which makes the company’s name entirely appropriate. But while Modwright still modifies products, today it is better known for its own range of electronics that ...read more -
Linn Majik DSM integrated streaming amplifier
|Linn products always seem expensive for what you get. There are various reasons for this, including the fact that they use switched-mode power supplies that make its products relatively light, and that Linn builds them ...read more -
GamuT D3i preamplifier and D200i power amplifier
|I have some history with the GamuT D200 power amplifier; the original version was my reference amplifier for many years and powered at least two generations of Bowers & Wilkins 802 Diamond speakers. I liked ...read more