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Mellow Acoustics FrontRo hybrid electrostatic loudspeaker
|Mellow Acoustics FrontRo is a very unusual looking — make that ‘unique’ looking — loudspeaker. That’s partly because it’s a hybrid electrostatic, but that is only one contributing factor. Designed by Josh Ford, the FrontRo ...read more -
Arya Audio Labs RevOpod vibration reduction feet
|The world is a funny place sometimes. Arya Audio is a British based company that makes high performance cables and damping feet (and an innovative drive unit in search of a loudspeaker!). The products are ...read more -
Computer Audio Design Ground Control-Reference grounding box
|When it comes to audio, it seems to be hard to get majority agreement on anything, but the one exception to that rule is the broad concept that less is (generally speaking) more. But even ...read more -
Townshend Audio Allegri Reference Line-stage passive preamplifier
|Max Townshend is not the sort of guy to make a product and then focus on marketing and selling it; he is an engineer to the core and cannot stop thinking of ways to improve ...read more -
Moon Audio Black Dragon cable system
|America’s Moon Audio is located in Cary, North Carolina in proximity to North Carolina’s famous research triangle. Living in and around the sophisticated vibes created by some of America’s top tier universities has rubbed off ...read more -
Ansuz Darkz Record Stabilizers
|If you ask three audiophiles their opinion, you’ll get four answers. When it comes to playing a record, the number of opinions rises exponentially. Take the notion of placing something atop an LP, for example; ...read more -
PMC fact.12 Signature floorstanding loudspeaker
|The three-strong fact range from PMC covers a lot of ground. Originally launched in the ‘teens’, the first fact-trio consisted of a fact.3 stand-mount, the fact.8 floorstander and the flagship fact.12 tower. Times have changed, ...read more -
Focal Arche Headphone Amplifier/DAC/Preamplifier
|Focal are known principally for their transducers, both great and small. Given that fact, the Arche headphone amplifier/DAC/preamplifier/headphone stand may seem like a major departure from their usual offerings. But when you consider what can ...read more -
Innuos PhoenixUSB reclocker
|Innuos is best known as the music server champion; the company’s ZEN line of dedicated media servers that are loved as much for their platform-agnosticism as they are for their excellent performance. They range in ...read more -
Naim Audio Nait XS 3 integrated amplifier
|Note: This review was written in April during the initial COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK. Rather It’s 2020 and it’s a lockdown. That gives one time and impetus to ponder nonsense past, present and future. ...read more -
Blue Horizon Professional Rack System
|It is truly remarkable how segmented the practice of hi‑fi has become. From the obsession with individual product reviews to the narrow assumption of silver bullet solutions, from the digital arms race to the one ...read more -
Ausounds AU-Flex-ANC wireless neckband earphone
|We’ve been following the wireless personal audio market with interest. When the Apple iPhone waved ‘goodbye’ to the ubiquitous mini-jack connector, the personal audio world went into a temporary meltdown, then quickly got its act ...read more -
ENGSTRÖM ARNE integrated amplifier
|ENGSTRÖM’s minimalist, high-performance and high-end valve amplifiers have some surprisingly human names; the ERIC and LARS power amplifiers, the MONICA preamp, and these are now joined by the ARNE integrated amp. With the exception of ...read more -
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