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Rosso Fiorentino Certaldo floorstanding loudspeaker
|Rosso Fiorentino was a Florentine painter from the 16th Century. Rosso Fiorentino is also a Florentine loudspeaker manufacturer from the 21st Century. If you are expecting a critique of Rosso Fiorentino’s masterful 1521 oil-on-wood altarpiece ...read more -
Sonus faber Venere S floorstanding loudspeaker
|Sonus faber’s reputation is predicated on elegant loudspeakers made in Italy. The brand’s recent Venere models were its first loudspeakers not built in its northern Italian factory. They still look good, represent great value, use ...read more -
The EC Living concept by Electrocompaniet
|Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, the fact the audio world has changed almost unrecognisably recently can’t have passed you by. CD and even download sales are in ...read more -
Sennheiser HD 630 VB headphones
|The top HD range from Sennheiser is the brand’s home audiophile range, but the pivotal word is ‘home’. Open backed designs that need good upstream amps and DACs to drive them, the HD 500, HD ...read more -
ENIGMAcoustics Dharma D1000 hybrid dynamic/electrostatic headphone
|Most audiophiles first learned of ENIGMAcoustics through the firm’s Sopranino self-biased electrostatic supertweeter (reviewed in Hi-Fi+ Issue 99), which was developed as an add-on enhancement for use with high-end loudspeakers. Later, applying Sopranino technology in ...read more -
Dynaudio Emit M20 standmount loudspeaker
|Dynaudio is in its 40th year, with a product range that includes speakers for cars and pro audio alongside all manner of domestic designs. The Danish company also expanded into wireless technology back in 2012, ...read more -
Cro Audio Turntable Stone Weight and Record Mat
|The audio accessories world has gone a little bit loopy of late. The fact you can spend more money adding the right cables and equipment supports to hook up an £80,000 dCS Vivaldi four-box stack ...read more -
AudioQuest DragonFly Red and DragonFly Black DACs
|AudioQuest has been making the DragonFly portable DAC since 2012. The DAC’s appearance hasn’t changed much, but it’s been through two iterations, and now there are two new models vying for your readies. Up until ...read more -
Moon Neo ACE integrated streaming amplifier
|I’m not even going to resist temptation here. The Moon Neo ACE is audio’s Swiss Army Knife – even though it’s made in Canada. This all-in-one amplifier-meets-media player is on the very cutting edge of ...read more -
Synergistic Research system tuning (Part 2)
|Last month, we discussed the first of a two-part feature on Synergistic Research’s innovative system tuning components. At that point, we began by discussing the company’s Unified Energy Field system. The next step was to ...read more -
DS Audio DS-W1 Optical cartridge and equaliser
|Despite the total dominance of electro-magnetic pick-up technology – be it fixed or moving-coil in nature – there has always been a steady stream of alternative offerings or variations on the theme when it comes ...read more -
Fono Acustica Virtuoso loudspeaker cables
|In a way, the most obvious part of the Virtuoso loudspeaker cable is probably going to be the pivotal aspect of how Fono Acustica’s top cable is received. The cable’s terminations, in particular the ornately ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 803 D3 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Most loudspeaker companies tend to take an evolutionary approach to product development; they use the same basic design and refine it over time, a bit like a BMW 3 Series car. This is what B&W ...read more -
Roksan Pug arm and VSC phono stage/PSU
|The Roksan Xerxes is a known quantity, in part because it’s been around since the 1980s. It might have undergone several changes over the years, and in fact bears scant resemblance to the original deck, ...read more -
Audiomat Aria integrated amplifier
|Some things just work and one of them is the 25-30Watt, push-pull Class A tube amp, based around single pairs of EL34 output tubes. It’s a topology that’s been around since the year dot – ...read more