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Marantz PM-KI Ruby integrated amplifier
|Editor’s Note: This review was commissioned and originally published before Ken Ishiwata’s recent departure from Marantz! I thought I was doing well to get 30 years under my belt in this business but Ken Ishiwata ...read more -
ATC SCM100SE floorstanding speaker
|Acoustic Transducer Company (ATC) has been making drive units and loudspeakers since 1974 and building a fan base in the hi-fi market for the performance quality of its systems for over two decades. Modelled on ...read more -
Stirling Broadcast LS3/5a V3 stand-mount loudspeaker
|There can be few more iconic loudspeakers than the LS3/5a. Designed by the BBC in the early seventies for use as a outside broadcast monitor it has been licenced by all manner of companies over ...read more -
NAD D3045 hybrid digital DAC/integrated amplifier
|Back in the 1970’s, NAD created what turned out to be a modest-looking, sensibly priced, wildly overachieving, and downright unlikely high-end giant killer in the form of its legendary 3020 integrated amplifier. The little amp ...read more -
Audeze LCD-4z planar magnetic headphone
|A few years ago, I got a call from the late Arnie Nudell, perhaps the best designer of high-performance loudspeakers in history. He raved about how good the Audeze LCD-4 planar magnetic headphone was and ...read more -
Wire on Wire Experience880 interconnects
|We review a lot of cables in Hi-Fi+. Most of them differ from one another by virtue of materials science, type and number of conductors, connectors, or the way those conductors interact and intersect with ...read more -
Melco Audio N10 music server and D100 ripper
|This is always going to be a bit of a hard sell, but we should be celebrating that we are in the finest times for music servers and streamers. We have finally – in many ...read more -
Kanto TUK active Bluetooth loudspeaker
|Such is the delta of change within the audio industry that products like the Kanto TUK weren’t so much a rarity as functionally non-existent just a few years ago. Then, there were a few difficult ...read more -
Exclusive: Stack Audio Link USB streaming bridge
|Stack Audio is a small British company that does things to sources! It makes a series of clever upgrades for the ever-popular Linn LP12, but recently it turned to the digital side with the Link. ...read more -
AudioQuest DragonFly Cobalt DAC/headphone amp
|Note: this is the first of a two-part review, concentrating on the DAC in its home audio capacity. The second part – as a headphone DAC/amp in its own right – will be published in ...read more -
Monitor Audio Gold 200 floorstanding loudspeakers
|In the same way that BMW will probably always have a big executive saloon car range called ‘5’, Monitor Audio will probably always have an aspirational loudspeaker range called ‘Gold’. The latest is the fifth ...read more -
Leema Sirius digital music streamer/server
|Leema missed a trick when choosing the name for this their first digital streamer/server. It seems clear to some of us that it should have been called the Leema Prima Streamer. As it is the ...read more -
European Audio Team Prelude turntable
|You have to imagine that dinner round the Lichtenegger table must be a fun experience. In the blue corner, you have Heinz, top dog at Pro-Ject, in the red corner, you have Josefina, the boss ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 603 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Try guessing the price of this decent size loudspeaker, and I’ll warrant you’ll overestimate it by around 50%. Certainly £1,250 does seem very modest in view of the complement of eight drive units, two floorstanding ...read more -
Campfire Audio Atlas universal-fit earphones
|Campfire Audio entered the high-end earphone market in 2015 with three models (the Jupiter, Orion, and Lyra), which were followed in 2016 by four more models (the flagship Andromeda, Lyra II, Dorado, and Vega). Then, ...read more