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Mellow Acoustics FrontRo floorstanding 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 -
Canor AI 1.20 integrated amplifier
|A few years back I visited Canor in Slovakia, their facility in Prešov is pretty impressive, modern and well organised, and as we looked round it became clear that a number of well know British ...read more -
Gryphon Audio Designs Essence preamp and power amplifier
|By most normal standards, the Essence pre/power amplifier combination would represent the uppermost tier of product performance, size, weight and price. In Gryphon Audio Design’s world, Essence is the starting place in its pre/power line. ...read more -
Franco Serblin Accordo stand-mount loudspeaker
|Designers come and go, but the true artisans and masters of an art... they are the ‘once in a generation’ folk. People talk about Stradivarius violins not just because of the output of generations of ...read more -
ATC SCM7 stand-mount loudspeaker
|The third compact, sealed box two-way loudspeaker to come my way in a month is also the longest established and most affordable. The SCM7 is Gloucestershire based ATC’s smallest model at only 12 inches high, ...read more -
CH Precision L10 line-stage preamplifier and M10 twin-chassis power amplifier
|You might well think we’re getting pretty good at this hi-fi thing. After all, we’ve been at it a while and, reading the press, you could easily conclude that, as the parade of ‘latest, greatest’ ...read more -
Raidho TD1.2 Standmount loudspeaker
|You reach a point in the track ‘Trans-Am’ (on the album Sleeps With Angels) when Neil Young’s guitar takes solo flight, a coda rather than a middle eight, the emotional release valve for the steady, ...read more -
Bricasti Design M3 DAC
|I am going to go out on a bit of a limb here, but the Bricasti Design M3 DAC is very probably The Shape Of Audio To Come. This clever design is incredibly flexible; starting ...read more -
Michi P5 preamplifier and S5 power amplifier
|Rotel is one of those companies that doesn’t often grab the headlines much these days yet it has a heritage stretching back over 50 years. In the late 1980s, its entry level integrated amplifiers had ...read more -
German Physiks Pion N3 ZF power cord
|There’s always a spot of trepidation when a company with a commanding reputation in one sector decides to branch out. Many of the best brands in audio are highly specialised, and the skillset required to ...read more -
B.audio B.dpr one preamplifier and B.amp one power amplifier
|Only a Frenchman would have the audacity to build an amplifier with a volume control that’s essentially the wrong way round, that is, the level goes up as you turn it anti-clockwise. You get some ...read more -
Audiobyte Hydra.VOX DAC and Hydra.ZAP power supply
|Audiobyte is the best digital audio company you’ve never heard of. In fact, Audiobyte is a subsidiary of Romanian digital experts Rockna Electronics and if you follow the digital audio world closely, you’ll definitely know ...read more -
PureLow LO Subwoofer
|It’s not often that you come across something genuinely new in audio. From contra-rotating turntable platters to tangentially correcting headshells it’s all been done (or at least attempted) before. In one sense, the same is ...read more -
Zanden Audio Systems Model 1200 Signature phono preamplifier
|Zanden Audio Systems’ top-of-the-tree Model 1200 phono preamplifier has been through several iterations over its long and illustrious career, but arguably none so significant as the move to the new Model 1200 Signature. The two ...read more -
Xavian Corallo Esclusivo standmount loudspeakers
|Infinite baffle loudspeakers seem to be a bit like buses, you wait literally years and then two come along at once. First the cast iron Jern11 and now the aesthetically more conventional Xavian Corallo Esclusivo. ...read more