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Munich Preview Exclusive: Gryphon Diablo 120 Amplifier and Mojo S Loudspeaker system
|There may well be more than one way to skin a cat but there are only two ways to build a hi-fi system: by far the most common is to mix and match components in ...read more -
Markaudio-Sota Tozzi Two standmount loudspeaker
|A small loudspeaker has the advantage of being almost a point source. It’s one of the great advantages the UK audio industry exploited to its fullest extent from the 1960s onwards. But there’s a great ...read more -
Hegel Röst integrated system amplifier
|Hegel Music Systems has come up against the Law of Unintended Consequences with its new Röst integrated amplifier. The flexible, easily networkable, white-fronted integrated amplifier came as a result of direct requests from the iChummy ...read more -
Magnepan Magneplanar .7 floorstanding loudspeakers
|“Hey, come here! You have to hear these things!” So said one of my friends in our early audio days. “These” turned out to be the Magnepan Magneplanar Tympani full-range quasi-ribbon big-as-a-room-divider flat panel speakers ...read more -
Questyle Audio Engineering CMA600i headphone amp/preamp/DAC
|More than many manufacturers of high-end audio electronics, Questyle is an engineering-driven firm led by the talented audio technologist Wang Fengshuo (whose anglicised name is Jason Wang). Thus far, Mr Wang’s greatest single contribution to ...read more -
Copland DAC215 headphone DAC/amplifier
|There are two distinct avenues for headphone amplification today – either buying a product from a brand with a well-established reputation for making headphone-based products, or from a brand that makes traditional two-channel audio that ...read more -
Base Audio Reflex G7 headphones
|The headphone market is in a constant state of flux. The old-school ‘big guns’ (Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser, Sony) have been challenged, first by Beats, and more recently by smaller start-ups with maybe just one or two ...read more -
Music First Audio Classic Headphone Preamplifier
|Music First Audio is a British company best known for making a range of high-performance passive magnetic preamplifiers. It has recently branched out to make phono stages with active gain stages. The new Classic Headphone ...read more -
HiFiMAN HE1000 V2 and Edition X V2 planar magnetic headphones
|Long term Hi-Fi+ readers know that we hold several of the top-tier planar magnetic headphones from the Chinese firm HiFiMAN in very high regard—most notably the flagship HE 1000 (reviewed in issue 126 and recipient ...read more -
Arcam rHead headphone amplifier
|The audio business is a bit creepy: it suffers from mission creep and price creep. Brands start out with good intent and a fine product at a fair price, but then slowly begin to add ...read more -
Nordost Sort Kone, Füt, and Lift
|We’ve often discussed Nordost in terms of a complete, systemic, and systematic approach to audio, but that message sometimes gets lost against the company’s complete, systemic, and systematic approach to cables and power. In fact, ...read more -
Bel Canto Design DAC 2.7 DAC and REF600M power amplifiers
|The Bel Canto Design that is celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this year is a long way from the original firm founded in 1991. Debuting as a tube amp manufacturer noted for their SET designs Bel ...read more -
Gold Note Giglio turntable with B-5.1 arm and Donatello Red cartridge
|In the oft-parochial world of audio, some good brands can go almost unnoticed. So it is with Gold Note: the Italian company commands a strong reputation in many parts of the world as a ‘stem ...read more -
Noble Katana Universal-Fit and Custom-Fit In-Ear Monitors
|Over the years Hi-Fi+ has covered a number of multi-driver-equipped, custom-fit in-ear monitors (CIEMs) from Noble Audio, including the then flagship Kaiser 10 (issue 119), the 4S (issue 127), and the Savant (issue 137). The ...read more -
REL T/9i subwoofer
|On the one hand, this is a review of the REL T/9i subwoofer. On the other hand, this is a review of the REL T/9i subwoofer. Because this is a review of two REL T/9i ...read more