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Sonner Legato Duo Floorstanding Loudspeaker
|What is ‘real’? Does that question take you back to philosophy lessons, watching The Matrix, or perhaps a college dorm room far past midnight? Please let me clarify, then; in a hi-fi context, what constitutes ...read more -
MrSpeakers VOCE electrostatic headphones
|MrSpeakers is led by its headmaster Dan Clark, a keen-eared headphone enthusiast and an engineer’s engineer. The company takes its name from an earlier phase in Clark’s career where he served as an accomplished loudspeaker ...read more -
Beyerdynamic Aventho Wireless headphones
|Beyerdynamic is a German company with a long history of headphone manufacturing. It has a strong position in the pro headphone market, but has always offered consumer models that are worth checking out. Beyerdynamic has ...read more -
HiFiMAN Ananda open-back planar magnetic headphone
|HiFiMAN is arguably the most prolific producer of high-quality headphones in the world with several new designs introduced each year. In the previous Ultimate Headphone Guide (Summer 2018), I had the pleasure of reviewing HiFiMAN’s ...read more -
Ultrasone Pro 900i headphones
|Ultrasone is a veteran in the personal audio community. Based in Germany, its been building high-performance headphones for over twenty-seven years. Its Edition 7, introduced in 2006, became an instant classic among headphone enthusiasts due ...read more -
Gutwire SV-12, SV-16, and SV-22 power cords
|Gutwire has recently changed its top power cord range. While its Clef and Cube range remains unchanged, its SP series quietly morphed into the SV range, and three of the top four models – the ...read more -
FiiO M7 portable digital audio player
|Off the cuff, most people who know their way around the personal audio scene would say £200 seems like quite a reasonable jumping-off point for a decently equipped, good sounding DAP. FiiO’s M7 portable high-resolution ...read more -
dCS Bartòk Network DAC
|We are now well into what I might describe as the second-age of high-end steaming and dCS has completed its renaissance by discontinuing all its older models, leaving the company with three distinct product levels. ...read more -
Hana MH and ML moving coil cartridges
|If you are into vinyl and haven’t been holed up in an Ecuadorian embassy for the last few years, the name ‘Hana’ will probably not have escaped your attention. A small, Japanese expert brand making ...read more -
DiDiT DAC212SEII DAC & AMP212 power amp
|Small is Beautiful was EF Schumacher’s advice to the world in 1973 and it seems that many of us have taken up the idea and started to make artisan gin among other things, some of ...read more -
Vienna Acoustics Haydn Jubilee stand-mount loudspeaker
|If there is an immutable law in modern-day audio, it’s that special editions don’t come cheap. If there is a second immutable law, it’s that cheap only happens in far-away places. So if Vienna Acoustics’ ...read more -
Campfire Audio Equinox custom-fit in-ear monitors
|One driver… While many custom-fit in-ear monitors use two, three, four, or more balanced armature drivers, Campfire Audio has forged a different path, choosing to refine and perfect a single full-range dynamic driver design. The ...read more -
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