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QED Supremus loudspeaker cable
|Back in the 1990s, QED was the UK’s ubiquitous cable brand. The company’s iconic and affordable 42 strand and 79 strand loudspeaker cables are still available and still sell at a prodigious rate. The proceeds ...read more -
Thorens TD-907 turntable
|Thorens has a history of turntable manufacture that runs unbroken back to the first days of turntables. OK, so the company ownership has changed hands, it now concentrates solely on turntables, and the products today ...read more -
Neat Acoustics Iota Alpha floorstanding loudspeaker
|There are a couple of fundamental problems with the Neat Acoustics Iota Alpha loudspeakers; they are small, and they are cute. Precisely why this is a problem becomes clear when you move them out of ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: The Listening Suite
|Most of our Meet Your Dealer sessions are relatively standard issue. They revolve around a series of answers to a stock set of questions. Occasionally though, this concept is abandoned because what the dealer in ...read more -
Charley Hansen 1956-2017
|November 2017 has been a tough month for the audio industry: we lost some of the greats in our little world. Arnie Nudell of Infinity fame, Dick Shahinian of Shahinian Acoustics Ltd, and Charley Hansen ...read more -
Riva Audio Arena wireless loudspeaker
|Since Riva first hit the streets with its Turbo range of Bluetooth speakers, there has been something of a buzz about the company. Part of that might be the backbone of Audio Design Experts, Inc. ...read more -
Sonus faber Guarneri Homage Tradition stand-mount loudspeaker
|Whenever you think of Sonus faber, you tend to think of standmount loudspeakers. The company has made some good (make that ‘outstanding’) floorstanders and most of its range today is made up of extremely good ...read more -
Clearer Audio Silver-Line Optimus Reference Power Cord
|Clearer Audio Optimus Reference Power Cord features Clearer Audio’s 99.9999% oxygen-free, Ohno Continuous Cast silver conductors (99.99% pure for the earth), each of which are shielded with a six-layer copper-silver hybrid active shield, and then ...read more -
Meet Your Dealer: Deco Audio
|Deco Audio in Aylesbury is perhaps the most traditional audio store opened recently in the UK, but that’s perhaps understandable, as it extends the long and significant tradition of having fine audio stores in the ...read more -
Zagreb AV Show
|Run by the Croatian hifimedia magazine, the Zagreb AV Show is one of the secret regular fixtures on the audio calendar. In its 23rd year, this is a comparatively small show, reflecting both the size ...read more -
Sennheiser Momentum In-Ear Wireless earphones
|There has been a profound change in the portable audio market, thanks to Apple abandoning the headphone jack in the iPhone 7. The result is – understandably – sales of wired headphones have fallen away. ...read more -
Pathos InPol Ear headphone amplifier
|Pathos and its innovative InPol amplifier circuit has been around for some time – in fact, the Inseguitore Pompa Lineare circuit was patented by Pathos back when the company was founded in 1994 – but ...read more -
Stax SRS-3100 electrostatic 'earspeaker' system
|Stax holds a special place in the music lover’s heart. It’s the high-performance electrostatic headphone that even those who don’t like headphones enjoy. But, goes the logic, only a select few can get to enjoy ...read more -
Weiss Engineering DAC501 digital converter and renderer
|In a way, this is not a review of one Weiss device, but two. You see, the Weiss Audio DAC50x platform is made up of two almost identical products; this one, the half-sized DAC501 streaming ...read more -
The Hi-Fi Show Live 2017, Windsor
|In hindsight, attempting to cover an audio show while recovering from (albeit mild) pneumonia was possibly not my best move. As a result, what should have been a complete report of a whole event quickly ...read more