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Innuos ZENith SE Mk II music server
|Noise. That’s what’s wrong with digital audio reproduction. Yet how could this be? CD introduced the silent background, the hiss free ‘inky blackness’ that allowed the music to stand out. But it didn’t... it just ...read more -
STST Motus II turntable
|If you judge your books by their covers you’d not be inclined to give this German turntable a second glance. The STST Motus II looks like yet another solid plinth design with a medium mass ...read more -
Auris Audio Fortino 6550 integrated amplifier
|If we are being truly honest with ourselves, buying a valve amplifier in 2018 is a bit of an anachronism. And we should bask in that! Yes, there are good sonic reasons for buying a ...read more -
HiFiMAN Susvara planar magnetic headphone
|If we turned back the calendar to 2016 and took stock of HiFiMAN’s headphone offerings, we would see that the firm had moved forward from its critically acclaimed HE 1000 model to create the even ...read more -
Chartwell LS6f floorstanding loudspeaker
|The LS6 was a two-way standmount of the post BBC design school. It was a Rogers design and the Chartwell-badged floorstanders shares little bar the name. This is probably a good thing; although it was ...read more -
YG Acoustics Sonja 2.2 floorstanding loudspeaker
|In mid-2017 Hi-Fi+took the opportunity to audition and review YG Acoustics’ flagship Sonja XV (for eXtreme Version) four-tower loudspeaker system and found it to be a world-class and state-of-the-art product in every way. At the ...read more -
Kuzma 4Point 9 tonearm
|OK, so regular readers already know the score here. We’ve loved the Kuzma 4Point tonearm in all its guises since first we saw it. And the 4Point 9 – the latest, smallest, cheapest, and possibly ...read more -
Feliks Audio Euforia headphone amplifier
|In the vacuum tube audio world, perhaps the most rarefied air is reserved for OTL or ‘output transformerless’) designs. As the name suggests, an OTL design directly couples the output from the tubes/valves to the ...read more -
IsoTek EVO3 Ascension power cord
|As makers of power products that reach from the high-value to the high-end, it would be obvious to expect IsoTek to have followed suit with its range of power cords. But, in fact, most of ...read more -
Meridian Audio Ultra DAC digital converter
|Meridian has always had a reputation for thinking outside the box, dating right back to the strikingly original 104 series amps. More recently, Meridian is compatible with MQA, which in case you haven’t heard, rolls ...read more -
Focal Kanta No.2 floorstanding loudspeaker
|The 2017 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver was due to start in a couple of hours. Audio fans were already queueing up at the door waiting to wade into the annual milieu of many ...read more -
Magico S3 Mk II floorstanding loudspeaker
|Magico is a perfectionist brand, run by perfectionists, for perfectionists. If you read this as a vague insult or back-handed compliment, Magico clearly isn’t the brand for you. Magico folk pride themselves in their perfectionism. ...read more -
Nordost Heimdall 2 and Blue Heaven headphone cables
|Nordost needs no introduction in the high-end audio world, but now the Massachusetts-based company is offering two ranges of specialised headphone signal cables. The top offering is the Heimdall 2 headphone cable (or headphone cable ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 floorstanding loudspeaker
|At £3,300 per pair the 702 S2 is a very clever loudspeaker indeed. On the one hand, it replaces the top model from the CM-series. On the other, it trickles down much of technology from ...read more -
CAAS Elysian preamplifier and mono power amplifiers
|It works like this: you get into hi-fi in your teens/twenties, toil away at a decent job for twenty or thirty years, and then realise that life is finite and that if you’re ever going ...read more