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Cyrus Audio One integrated amplifier
|This Cyrus has been a long time coming. When Cyrus launched its flagship X300 power amplifiers, I recall mentioning that the cast alloy case – one that has adorned virtually all Cyrus products since the ...read more -
PS Audio BHK 250 hybrid power amplifier
|I am always curious how a great piece of gear comes to be. Was it a singular vision of a talented engineer? Perhaps a group effort guided by an experienced team leader. In this case, ...read more -
Roksan Audio Blak integrated amplifier
|2016 was a tumultuous year. Musicians fell like flies and voters confounded pollsters on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile for Roksan, it closed the year in the hands of Monitor Audio. Roksan co-founder and ...read more -
Lavardin Model ISx integrated amplifier
|One of my last real jobs in audio was to let down what would become Lavardin. I was working in a well-known audio retailer at the time, and we already had more than our fair ...read more -
Avantgarde Acoustics Zero - Teil Aktiv loudspeaker
|We collectively missed the boat when it comes to the clever Avantgarde Acoustics Zero XD, a fully active, complete system built into two loudspeakers. We missed the boat on this because when it was launched, ...read more -
Westone Laboratories W80 universal-fit earphone
|Long-term Hi-Fi+ readers will know that Westone Laboratories, a Colorado Springs, Colorado-based firm, is a quiet giant in the world of hearing and music-related in-ear devices and technologies. With good reason the company’s slogan is, ...read more -
Exclusive Munich Preview: Nordost QKORE grounding system
|Sometimes we as journalists are privy to items way prior to their launch. Such is the case with Nordost’s QKORE trio of ground units. I was told about these at CES this year, but was ...read more -
Boulder Amplifiers 865 integrated amplifier
|Integrated amplifiers are a favourite category of kit for me. For many audiophiles, it is simply not practical to find a home for a huge power amplifier along-side an expensive pre-amp and then outlay a ...read more -
Munich Preview Exclusive: Gryphon Diablo 120 Amplifier and Mojo S Loudspeaker system
|There may well be more than one way to skin a cat but there are only two ways to build a hi-fi system: by far the most common is to mix and match components in ...read more -
Markaudio-Sota Tozzi Two standmount loudspeaker
|A small loudspeaker has the advantage of being almost a point source. It’s one of the great advantages the UK audio industry exploited to its fullest extent from the 1960s onwards. But there’s a great ...read more -
Hegel Röst integrated system amplifier
|Hegel Music Systems has come up against the Law of Unintended Consequences with its new Röst integrated amplifier. The flexible, easily networkable, white-fronted integrated amplifier came as a result of direct requests from the iChummy ...read more -
Magnepan Magneplanar .7 floorstanding loudspeakers
|“Hey, come here! You have to hear these things!” So said one of my friends in our early audio days. “These” turned out to be the Magnepan Magneplanar Tympani full-range quasi-ribbon big-as-a-room-divider flat panel speakers ...read more -
Questyle Audio Engineering CMA600i headphone amp/preamp/DAC
|More than many manufacturers of high-end audio electronics, Questyle is an engineering-driven firm led by the talented audio technologist Wang Fengshuo (whose anglicised name is Jason Wang). Thus far, Mr Wang’s greatest single contribution to ...read more -
Copland DAC215 headphone DAC/amplifier
|There are two distinct avenues for headphone amplification today – either buying a product from a brand with a well-established reputation for making headphone-based products, or from a brand that makes traditional two-channel audio that ...read more -
Base Audio Reflex G7 headphones
|The headphone market is in a constant state of flux. The old-school ‘big guns’ (Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, Sony) have been challenged, first by Beats, and more recently by smaller start-ups with maybe just one or two ...read more