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conrad-johnson ET7 line preamplifier
|One of the foundation stones of American high-end, conrad-johnson has returned to its core recently. The company built its reputation on high-performance tube (valve) amplification, and although subsequent diversions into solid-state, and digital audio have ...read more -
Focal Elear headphones
|In hindsight when Focal released its new pairing of Utopia and Elear headphones simultaneously in 2016 from Saint-Etienne in France, Focal seemed to have intentionally bound the lauded cost-be-damned Utopia and the oft overlooked Elear ...read more -
Mobile Fidelity Studiodeck turntable with Studiotracker cartridge
|It seems like every time you leave the grocery store these days you find yourself looking in your shopping bags on the way home thinking, “I certainly didn’t get much for that £100 did I?” ...read more -
MartinLogan Impression ESL 11A hybrid electrostatic loudspeaker
|Impression ESL 11A is part of the sextet of top-end floorstanding loudspeakers (as well as a duo of centre-channel speakers) that form MartinLogan’s Masterpiece Series. This is a series with true scope, ranging from the ...read more -
Cary Audio DMS-500 music streamer
|The last time I had a Cary Audio product in the system it was a valve amplifier. Cary still builds a lot of valve designs to this day, but the North Carolina-based company also makes ...read more -
Hegel H190 integrated amplifier
|Will there come a time when everything is in one box and that isn’t a compromise? If you look at some of the bigger names in the business this looks like the way the market ...read more -
iFi Audio Nano iDSD Black Label headphone amp/DAC
|iFi’s diminutive and cost-effective Nano iDSD Black Label headphone amp/DAC ($199/£200) beckons with an extensive list of features and functions, but it creates an even stronger impression once listeners hear the device in action and ...read more -
Rotel RCD-1572 CD player
|We all got very excited when the compact disc came along, the scratch resistant, jam-proof “perfect” medium for the first digital music format, but it seems that the gloss has well and truly worn off ...read more -
Moon Neo MiND streaming UPnP renderer
|The streaming world has all but been cracked, but there are still many audio enthusiasts who have a good, existing system with a range of fine digital products from a previous generation. They have no ...read more -
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