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Magnum Dynalab MD807T
|The biggest problem with some products these days is placing them into the right category. The Magnum Dynalab MD807T is a perfect example of this. It’s a DAB/FM tuner that’s also a valve 24/192 upsampling ...read more -
ADL X1 Portable DAC and Headphone Amplifier
|Someday in the future we will be able to carry round and play our entire musical collection, on a device smaller than credit card. And while the hardware isn’t that miniaturised yet, the £395 ADL ...read more -
Meridian Director DAC
|Meridian Audio is a complex brand. The firm is at once a high-end audio company, a luxury label, and a champion of new audio technology, so it has feet in many camps. Recently, though, Meridian ...read more -
Cambridge Audio Minx Xi
|In the time before it fell under the auspices of Audio Partnership, Cambridge Audio was an audio innovator of note. Back in the early 1980s, Cambridge Audio’s founder Stan Curtis launched the first multi-box CD ...read more -
Cavalli Audio Liquid Gold fully-balanced headphone amplifier
|Over the past several years Dr. Alex Cavalli, a gifted consulting physicist and engineer, quietly has been developing some of the most ambitious and best sounding headphone amplifiers ever made. First came the hybrid valve/solid-state ...read more -
Timestep T-01MC phono stage
|Although it’s easy to follow the alternate line of reasoning, high-end audio is supposed to be all about the sound quality. Inch-thick front panels and glitzy finishes are fine, but the end result is supposed ...read more -
Lumin A-1 Audio Streamer
|One of the most consistent messages that came out of CES 2014 was the importance of DSD support. Never mind that the actual number of albums on DSD that have any real commercial appeal could ...read more -
Wilson Audio Duette Series 2 loudspeaker
|Launched almost nine years ago, the original Duette was a combination of entry-point and Swiss Army Knife for Wilson Audio. The standmount two-way was designed to work in as many ways as possible (vertical, horizontal, ...read more -
Peachtree Audio nova125 integrated amplifier/DAC
|Some years ago, Peachtree recognized that a seismic shift in the high-end audio universe was at hand—a shift wherein PCs would step outside of their traditional roles as office tools to become full-fledged digital audio ...read more -
AVM Ovation PA8 preamp and SA8.2 power amplifier
|From the outside, the AVM Ovation Series PA8 preamp and SA8.2 power amplifier look like any other big and beefy high-end duo, in the manner of true Americana, but with a softly spoken German accent. ...read more -
GIK Acoustics Room Kit Package 3 room acoustic treatment
|It sounds so utilitarian – ‘Room Kit Package 3’ could be something Winston Smith might receive from the Ministry of Plenty in exchange for a smaller Victory Gin ration in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. But GIK ...read more -
The Duevel Enterprise loudspeaker
|Now, here’s something you don’t see too often; an omni-directional loudspeaker. The Duevel Enterprise features two drive units that point upwards, with the high frequency unit having a cone-like device immediately above it to help ...read more -
AMI Musik DDH-1 DAC/headphone amplifier
|AMI (Audio Music Interface)Musik is a young Japanese design, Korean build company. The compact DDH-1 is the first of two products out of the starting gates (the other being the DS5, a DSD supporting DAC ...read more -
Albarry M1108 power amplifiers
|Okay, so I was wrong. In my review of the M608 amps for issue 90 I cited Albarry’s designer, Neil Burnett, saying “He thinks its 60 Watts output is enough for most situations when you’ve ...read more