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Meze Audio Empyrean planar magnetic headphone
|Until now the Romanian firm Meze Audio has been best known for its excellent and affordable 99 Classics headphones, which offer incredible value for money. However, for over two years Meze has been hard at ...read more -
Primare I25 Prisma integrated amplifier
|A few issues ago (Issue 163 to be specific), I was wowed by the excellent I35 from Primare. We deliberately chose the denuded version (without its clever Prisma media renderer platform) because we wanted to ...read more -
Magico A3 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Magico is well known as one of the world’s best high-end loudspeaker brands, but when it comes to that world where the high-end meets the word ‘attainable’, things get a little sketchy. This is a ...read more -
VooDoo Cable Stradivarius Amati signal cables and Dynasty power cords
|Calling a cable brand ‘VooDoo’ is at once asking for and shutting down trouble from audio’s Angry Brigade. Those who think audio cables are all voodoo anyway are going to be angered by the name ...read more -
Sony DMP-Z1 Signature Series Digital Music Player with headphone amp and DAC
|When Sony unveiled the DMP-Z1 it drew the attention of the audiophile press like a perfectly cooked steak in a room full of starved Paleo dieters. But it was not so much its looks or ...read more -
Cayin N5iiS digital audio player
|Cayin is a Chinese high-end audio electronics manufacturer best known for its full-sized amplification and source components. In recent years, though, the firm has worked to create an ever-expanding range of personal audio components, including ...read more -
Triangle AIO 3 Bluetooth loudspeaker system
|Like many audio brands – especially, it seems, audio loudspeaker brands – French loudspeaker manufacturer Triangle is up for a spot of diversifying. The new AIO system is the result. There are two AIO products ...read more -
Rega Aura phono stage
|In these days when amplifiers (and pre-amplifiers) often have line-only inputs, there are several ways of dealing with a phono cartridge, and indeed several types of phono cartridge. Ignoring specialist devices like strain gauge and ...read more -
Kimber Kable AXIOS AG headphone cable
|Ray Kimber is a pillar of the high end audio community and his cables are beloved by audiophiles across the globe. He founded Kimber Kable in 1979, and his designs have garnered praise from such ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Alva TT turntable system
|It’s a bold manufacturer who underestimates the appetite amongst audiophiles for pain and aggravation. The belief that optimum sound is truly worth suffering for – in fact, can’t be achieved withoutsuffering – is all too ...read more -
Spendor A4 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Back when I was just getting interested in audio, ahem mumble years ago, the Spendor BC1 was one of the darlings of the hi-fi press, and rightly so. But to some Spendor is a brand ...read more -
Brainwavz B400 earphone
|For the past couple of years, the Brainwavz B200 universal in-ear monitors have been one of my go‑to earphones for the gym due to their compact footprint, excellent fit, and good all-around sound. When Brainwavz ...read more -
Exposure XM CD Player
|While BOGOF has an undeniable ring to it, BOGTF is just so much better – even if it is unpronounceable. That might have stood in the way of the wider advertising industry, but it hasn’t ...read more -
KEF LSX active stand-mount loudspeaker
|Reviewers both love and hate in equal measure reviews that basically write themselves. We love them because they are so easy to write – words fall onto the page without a care. We hate them ...read more -
Chord Electronics Hugo TT 2 DAC/M Scaler upscaler
|As many music lovers know, the legend of Chord Electronics’ Hugo family of products started several years back with the first generation Hugo, which was a wildly overachieving portable headphone amp/DAC that took the marketplace ...read more