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dCS Vivaldi upsampler and master clock (part 2) (Hi-Fi Plus)
|Last issue, in the first part of the review, I spoke mainly of the Vivaldi as a two-box CD player and what a profound improvement it was on the four-box Paganini system I had grown ...read more -
GoldenEar Technology Triton Seven loudspeakers
|I enjoy über-high-end audio equipment as much as the next fellow, but I nevertheless have an abiding fondness for overachieving products that deliver high levels of performance for reasonable sums of money. I suppose this ...read more -
Devialet 170 integrated DAC/amplifier
|A few years ago, a then-unknown French company by the name of Devialet launched its one and only product… and the high-end audio world changed. The slim, powerful D-Premier combined innovative amplifier and high-grade DAC ...read more -
dCS Vivaldi CD/SACD Transport and DAC (part 1) (Hi-Fi Plus)
|Discuss the technicalities of the four-box Vivaldi system with the engineers at the dCS factory and it is very easy to be overwhelmed with the whole thing. They talk with confidence, enthusiasm and real depth, ...read more -
Exclusive - Meridian Prime headphone amplifier/DAC/preamplifier
|Meridian Audio has been spreading its wings recently (with the move into in-car with Jaguar Land Rover, and the recent Explorer and Director USB powered units), but no-one really expected the Prime. This is Meridian ...read more -
Norma Revo IPA-140
|There are a lot of audio products at all prices out there. Some of them, let’s be honest, don’t deserve their place in the audiophile pantheon but hold on by some minor miracle. At the ...read more -
Cardas Audio EM5813 Ear Speakers
|While Cardas Audio’s EM5813 Model 1 Ear Speaker is a relatively new arrival in the marketplace, it has been under development for years. To his great credit, company founder and Ear Speaker developer George Cardas ...read more -
Ayon Audio CD-3s CD player
|Ayon Audio is an Austrian electronics brand with three distinct attributes. First, the products are built to a level of fit and finish that is rare even among big ticket audio (our sister title, The ...read more -
KEF R900 Loudspeaker
|It is hard to believe that anyone with even a passing interest in things audio could have remained either ignorant of or indifferent to KEF’s Blade loudspeaker. “Job done”, might be the conclusion. After all, ...read more -
Electrocompaniet ECD 2 DAC
|No company has a completely ‘score’ product line. There are good guys and bad guys in every line-up. The art of a good designer is to limit the number of bad guys and make the ...read more -
Conrad-Johnson HD3 digital-to-analogue converter
|The conrad-johnson HD3 DAC defines how the audio business is changing in perfect microcosm. The DAC is a 24-bit, 96kHz design that sports just one input – a USB socket – and will be sold ...read more -
Atacama Elite Eco Rack
|Bamboo is one of the buzzwords in the world of audio racks at the moment. In the never-ending search for new and interesting materials bamboo is receiving much attention. But, as Dennis Greenaway of Atacama ...read more -
Nightingale Concentus CTR2 loudspeaker
|I’ve heard the Nightingale described as an Italian variation on the panel theme. Like classic panels, it’s a dipole design, though it differs from most current models in using conventional moving-coil drive units, and housing ...read more -
Magico S1 loudspeaker
|In just a few years, Magico has gone from being a brand no-one had heard of, to being a brand that helps shape today’s high-end audio industry. Although this comes down to many factors, it’s ...read more -
Primare DAC30 digital to analogue converter
|The up-market DAC market (broadly priced from about £1,500-£3,000, but centred around the £2,000 mark) is getting very contended, and for good reason. It’s the point where the designer can work to a set of ...read more