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CH Precision A1.5 two channel power amplifier
|Steve Earle’s ‘Copperhead Road’ opens with a monster chord that sounds like a something big and very dead, crashing to the floor of the studio. It’s the sort of heavily compressed thud to send a ...read more -
Vertere Acoustics DG-1 turntable
|Vertere Acoustics is a British high-end audio manufacturer whose founder and CEO is none other than the famous audio designer/entrepreneur Touraj Moghaddam, who also co-founded the firm Roksan. Moghaddam is among other things a veteran ...read more -
YG Acoustics Vantage floorstanding loudspeaker
|The Vantage is the newest floorstanding loudspeaker from the Arvada, Colorado-based firm YG Acoustics—a model many of us did not see coming. I say this because the Vantage is in essence a three-way, three-driver, tower-type ...read more -
Métronome Audio Le DAC digital converter
|In case you may have missed it, Métronome Audio is French; calling its digital converter Le DAC is a bit of a clue. Also, in case you missed it, Métronome Audio is the more attainable ...read more -
ATC CD2 CD player
|Seeing a CD player launched at this stage in the game makes me wonder what’s going on. Does it symbolise an upwelling of desire for simplicity or perhaps a yearning to engage with a physical ...read more -
Purist Audio Design Diamond Revision HDMI cable
|The audio world is a conservative one. We tend to be dismissive of the new and those products we think unconnected to audio. As a result, HDMI gets a bad press from audio enthusiasts, as ...read more -
Chord Electronics Huei phonostage
|Huei is not the first phono stage from Chord Electronics, but it does have a number of ‘firsts’ in its own right. Specifically, this was something of a labour of love by Chord Electronics designer ...read more -
Synergistic Research Foundation Series cables
|Synergistic Research’s Foundation Series cables uses 6N purity pure silver conductors using Synergistic’s own handmade Air String geometry with the company’s UEF (Uniform Energy Field) Matrix shielding. This last is pulled from the more up-scale ...read more -
conrad-johnson ART27A stereo power amplifier
|The conrad-johnson ART27A stereo power amplifier is a somewhat peculiar and non-standard product within the amplifier portfolio coming from the Virginia, US manufacturer. And it’s peculiar for several reasons. First and foremost, c-j amplifiers were ...read more -
Shunyata Research Delta NR v2 power cord
|Good audio doesn’t sit still; there is continual assessment and revision needed to keep relevant and current. While this would be a blindingly obvious statement in the face of devices like streamers – which are ...read more -
Hegel H190 integrated amplifier and Amphion Argon 7LS floorstanding loudspeakers
|We’ve put together a pairing for this review of the substantial yet understated Amphion Argon 7LS, floorstanding loudspeakers and the Hegel H190 integrated amplifier which, with its built-in DAC and generous 150W output offers pretty ...read more -
Meze Rai Penta universal-fit in-ear monitors
|Romanian personal audio experts Meze are known for making headphones. For good reason, as the excellent original 99 Classics and the no-compromise Empyrean are highly prized and extremely well-loved by personal audio enthusiasts. Now, it ...read more -
AURALiC SIRIUS G2 Universal Upsampling Processor
|We’ve blown more than a few column inches on AURALiC’s G2 system, and for good reason; the ARIES G2 Wireless Streaming Transporter, VEGA G2 Streaming DAC and LEO GX Master Reference Clock work together to ...read more -
REL Acoustics S/510 subwoofer
|We’ve taken a little bit of a hiatus with subwoofers of late, for an odd reason. Of recent years, our reviews have tended to be mostly of REL subwoofers (and a few notable exceptions like ...read more -
Nordost Valhalla V2 tonearm cable
|Anyone familiar with Nordost’s bottom-up cable hierarchy could be forgiven for wondering why we should invest heavily in a tonearm cable. Nordost, like most cable specialists, started by promoting the primacy of quality loudspeaker and ...read more