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Arcam SR250 integrated amplifier
|Audiophiles have a somewhat justified reputation for being conservative in nature. This can be a good thing: we are the people who kept vinyl alive before it was fashionable, and we are the people who ...read more -
YG Acoustics Sonja XV multi-cabinet loudspeaker system
|The Arvada, Colorado-based firm YG Acoustics is widely considered to be one of the three leading producers of true top-tier loudspeakers in the United States (the other two being, of course, Magico and Wilson Audio). ...read more -
Helius Designs Alexia turntable and Omega tonearm
|One of the great woes of this period in the audio industry is that we seem to be coming to the end of the Age of the Personality. The audio world used to be littered ...read more -
Moon Audio Black Dragon Premium V2 headphone cable
|One sign of the growing maturity of the high-end headphone marketplace is the number of cable manufacturers now offering specialised headphone signal cable sets. One such manufacturer is the Cary, North Carolina-based firm Moon Audio, ...read more -
AURALiC POLARIS wireless streaming integrated amplifier
|AURALiC titles its new POLARIS convergence device a ‘Wireless Streaming Amplifier’, which is shorthand for a wireless Roon-ready PCM/DSD streaming DAC with moving magnet phono preamplifier integrated amplifier. It can also be purchased with a ...read more -
PMC twenty5.22 standmount loudspeaker
|For the vast majority of music lovers the rectilinear shape of a loudspeaker is what defines its purpose; a box with square corners and round drivers is a speaker. So when PMC launched the twenty ...read more -
Clearer Audio Silver-Line Optimus Reference 75 digital cable
|Perhaps one of the most underrated cables in audio, the good ol’ 75 Ohm coaxial digital interconnect is beset on the one hand by those who think it a ‘legacy’ connection, and on the other ...read more -
Audio Fidelity Improvement Flat record flattener
|As long as records have been stamped out of vinyl, warps and irregularities in their supposedly flat surfaces have been a problem – and devices claiming to deal with the issue are nearly as old ...read more -
Systemdek 3D precision turntable
|History is a funny thing. It can be positive – or it can be negative. Generally speaking, saying that you “have history” with someone, isn’t good. Nor is it a fixed or finite truth, famously ...read more -
Onix DNA-50 integrated amplifier
|Cast your mind back to the heady days of the 1980s, an era of bright clothes, dubious haircuts, and even worse synth-driven pop. However, the 1980s also saw the birth of the indestructible compact disc ...read more -
Burmester 099 line preamplifier
|There are two current schools of thought when it comes to high-end audio. The first is a series of regular changes to the line (the Mk I becomes the Mk II and so on), and ...read more -
Cyrus Audio One integrated amplifier
|This Cyrus has been a long time coming. When Cyrus launched its flagship X300 power amplifiers, I recall mentioning that the cast alloy case – one that has adorned virtually all Cyrus products since the ...read more -
PS Audio BHK 250 hybrid power amplifier
|I am always curious how a great piece of gear comes to be. Was it a singular vision of a talented engineer? Perhaps a group effort guided by an experienced team leader. In this case, ...read more -
Roksan Audio Blak integrated amplifier
|2016 was a tumultuous year. Musicians fell like flies and voters confounded pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile for Roksan, it closed the year in the hands of Monitor Audio. Roksan co-founder and ...read more -
Lavardin Model ISx integrated amplifier
|One of my last real jobs in audio was to let down what would become Lavardin. I was working in a well-known audio retailer at the time, and we already had more than our fair ...read more