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Spendor A4 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Back when I was just getting interested in audio, ahem mumble years ago, the Spendor BC1 was one of the darlings of the hi-fi press, and rightly so. But to some Spendor is a brand ...read more -
Brainwavz B400 earphone
|For the past couple of years, the Brainwavz B200 universal in-ear monitors have been one of my go‑to earphones for the gym due to their compact footprint, excellent fit, and good all-around sound. When Brainwavz ...read more -
Exposure XM CD Player
|While BOGOF has an undeniable ring to it, BOGTF is just so much better – even if it is unpronounceable. That might have stood in the way of the wider advertising industry, but it hasn’t ...read more -
KEF LSX active stand-mount loudspeaker
|Reviewers both love and hate in equal measure reviews that basically write themselves. We love them because they are so easy to write – words fall onto the page without a care. We hate them ...read more -
Chord Electronics Hugo TT 2 DAC/M Scaler upscaler
|As many music lovers know, the legend of Chord Electronics’ Hugo family of products started several years back with the first generation Hugo, which was a wildly overachieving portable headphone amp/DAC that took the marketplace ...read more -
Constellation Audio Pictor preamp and Taurus Stereo power amplifier
|Constellation Audio needs little introduction but a lot of explanation. The products were famously made by a ‘dream team’ of designers given a blank sheet and the lone requirement of “make the best one you ...read more -
Naim NDX 2/XPS DR Music Streamer and PSU
|I used to wonder why Naim persevered with DIN connections when the rest of the audio world had given up on them decades ago. They’re not particularly nice things and must be a pig to ...read more -
Advanced Sound GT3 universal-fit earphones
|The Advanced Sound Group is not necessarily a well-known brand in earphone circles, but with the GT3 earphone the company shows it is ready to make its name and is jumping right in the ring ...read more -
Wire on Wire Experience880 interconnects
|We review a lot of cables in Hi-Fi+. Most of them differ from one another by virtue of materials science, type and number of conductors, connectors, or the way those conductors interact and intersect with ...read more -
Quadraspire QPlus Reference Acoustic Interface Feet
|Last year, equipment support expert Quadraspire took a long, hard look at the world of audio furniture. With the move to downsize systems and many audio enthusiasts turning in dozens of products for a single ...read more -
Goldring Ethos moving-coil cartridge
|In 1906, two Czech brothers – Heinrich and Julius Scharf – formed a company called Gebrüder Scharf in Berlin to make parts for the highest of high-tech devices of the age; the gramophone. The company ...read more -
Westone WX1 universal‑fit earphone with Bluetooth dongle
|I know one audio industry pundit who is convinced that wireless Bluetooth earphones will become so pervasive that you will be hard-pressed to find wired models in a few years. That could well be. Even ...read more -
Marantz PM-KI Ruby integrated amplifier
|Editor’s Note: This review was commissioned and originally published before Ken Ishiwata’s recent departure from Marantz! I thought I was doing well to get 30 years under my belt in this business but Ken Ishiwata ...read more -
ATC SCM100SE floorstanding speaker
|Acoustic Transducer Company (ATC) has been making drive units and loudspeakers since 1974 and building a fan base in the hi-fi market for the performance quality of its systems for over two decades. Modelled on ...read more -
Stirling Broadcast LS3/5a V3 stand-mount loudspeaker
|There can be few more iconic loudspeakers than the LS3/5a. Designed by the BBC in the early seventies for use as a outside broadcast monitor it has been licenced by all manner of companies over ...read more