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Townshend Seismic Speaker Bars
|Like many things associated with Max Townshend, how the Seismic Speaker Bars work sounds eminently sensible when it’s Max explaining things, and complete gobbledegook when that explanation is passed on to someone else. Here’s the ...read more -
Audiomica Europa Ultra Reference and Genimides Ultra Reference
|If we’re honest, when we describe a cable as ‘very good’ or even ‘excellent’, all we’re really saying is that it spoils the performance of the system less than the alternatives. Whether you agree or ...read more -
Eclipse TD-M1
|The humble desktop loudspeaker often gets short shrift among audio enthusiasts. Our traditional obsession with a stereo system in the listening room now has a challenger in the headphone and CIEM environment, but there’s little ...read more -
Heretic Audio Huron 3SV floorstanding loudspeakers
|Note Audio, the company behind Heretic Audio, also runs a shop in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire called Deco Audio. Deco Audio is one of those rare audio stores that supplies extremely high performance single-ended triode amplification, and ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Aeromax 6 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Cambridge Audio (fast becoming just 'Cambridge') has used balanced mode radiator (or BMR) mid/treble drive units in its loudspeakers since the launch of its Minx range, but it was the company’s Aero models of 2013 ...read more -
Oppo HA-1 desktop headphone amplifier/DAC
|Best known for its high-performance, high-value universal disc players, Oppo has expanded into the high-end headphone and personal audio electronics marketplace. First came the firm’s flagship PM-1 planar-magnetic headphones (reviewed in issue 115 and 116), ...read more -
EAT E-Flat turntable and tonearm
|One of the big problems in 21st Century audio is a lack of long-term memory. A good product may have a life-cycle stretching a decade or more, but just a few short months after it’s ...read more -
Noble Audio Kaiser 10 custom-fit in-ear monitor
|For those not familiar with the terminology, ‘custom-fit in-ear monitors’ (CIEMs) are very high performance in-ear headphones whose earpieces have been custom-moulded to fit the exact contours of their owners’ ears. When properly made, CIEMs ...read more -
Russell K Red 100
|Russell K loudspeakers is the brainchild of Russell Kauffman, a man well known in the UK audio world. Russell has been involved in many of the country’s best-known loudspeaker brands in one capacity or another ...read more -
Brodmann F2
|When you go to a live concert, where do you sit? Are you a stalwart occupant of the first five rows, keen to hear everything the conductor hears, including the rustling as he turns the ...read more -
Naim mu-so
|Back in the 1970’s Naim Audio was the outsider; the hair-shirt amplifier manufacturer so beloved of the then nascent ‘Flat Earth’ school of audio. Today, despite some fairly considerable changes to both the company and ...read more -
Hegel H160 integrated amplifier
|On its website, Hegel says of its new H160 integrated amplifier, “Connect whatever you want and make it sound as good as it can”. I think Hegel might not have had any idea just how ...read more -
Resolution Audio Cantata Music Center/m100/Pont Neuf system
|When first I proposed this test, I was keen to see the new Resolution Audio Cantata m100 amps, but thought we’d sideline the Cantata ‘Music Center’ CD-streaming-USB-DAC-preamp. The Cantata Music Center is far from old ...read more -
Kudos X2 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Kudos’ avowed aim is to bring many of the qualities of its high-end Cardea range to a lower price point, and the firm has created a new series to that end. The X2 is the ...read more -
Crystal Cable Arabesque Minissimo standmount loudspeaker
|The Crystal Cable Arabesque Minissimo could be thought of as ‘The Little Loudspeaker that Could’. In the Arabesque Mini of a couple of years ago, Crystal Cables moved away from the all-glass floorstanders design of ...read more