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Riva Audio Arena wireless loudspeaker
|Since Riva first hit the streets with its Turbo range of Bluetooth speakers, there has been something of a buzz about the company. Part of that might be the backbone of Audio Design Experts, Inc. ...read more -
Gold Note PH-10 phono stage
|Gold Note’s extensive range of products are less well known than they deserve to be. After you read this review of the Gold Note PH-10 phono stage – and especially when you read the price ...read more -
GoldenEar Technology Triton Reference floorstanding loudspeaker
|Sandy Gross is widely acknowledged as an audio legend in large part because he has played a central role in launching three major loudspeaker-manufacturing companies: Polk Audio, Definitive Technology, and most recently GoldenEar Technology. As ...read more -
Final E3000 earphones
|Hold the phone! Please place your mobile device on the table and back away slowly. Do not process that order in your Amazon virtual checkout cart for those cheap, crappy, generic replacement ear buds. You ...read more -
Sonus faber Guarneri Homage Tradition stand-mount loudspeaker
|Whenever you think of Sonus faber, you tend to think of standmount loudspeakers. The company has made some good (make that ‘outstanding’) floorstanders and most of its range today is made up of extremely good ...read more -
Clearer Audio Silver-Line Optimus Reference Power Cord
|Clearer Audio Optimus Reference Power Cord features Clearer Audio’s 99.9999% oxygen-free, Ohno Continuous Cast silver conductors (99.99% pure for the earth), each of which are shielded with a six-layer copper-silver hybrid active shield, and then ...read more -
JH Audio Lola hybrid custom-fit in-ear monitor
|JH Audio is led by its founder and chief technologist Jerry Harvey, and the firm specialises in one thing: namely, creating some of the world’s finest custom-fit in-ear monitors and universal-fit earphones. Harvey began his ...read more -
Sennheiser Momentum In-Ear Wireless earphones
|There has been a profound change in the portable audio market, thanks to Apple abandoning the headphone jack in the iPhone 7. The result is – understandably – sales of wired headphones have fallen away. ...read more -
Pathos InPol Ear headphone amplifier
|Pathos and its innovative InPol amplifier circuit has been around for some time – in fact, the Inseguitore Pompa Lineare circuit was patented by Pathos back when the company was founded in 1994 – but ...read more -
Onkyo DP-S1 digital audio player
|The Onkyo DP-S1 is the second of two collaborative digital audio players between the brand and its stablemate Pioneer. The first pairing – the Onkyo DP-X1 and Pioneer XDP-100R – were larger, Android-based players originally ...read more -
Stax SRS-3100 electrostatic 'earspeaker' system
|Stax holds a special place in the music lover’s heart. It’s the high-performance electrostatic headphone that even those who don’t like headphones enjoy. But, goes the logic, only a select few can get to enjoy ...read more -
iFi Audio Micro iDSD Black Label portable headphone amp, preamp, and DAC
|iFi Audio is a spin-off from the well-respected British high-end audio company Abbingdon Music Research (or AMR for short). Leveraging design know-how drawn from AMR, the iFi team has set as its mission the creation ...read more -
Weiss Engineering DAC501 digital converter and renderer
|In a way, this is not a review of one Weiss device, but two. You see, the Weiss Audio DAC50x platform is made up of two almost identical products; this one, the half-sized DAC501 streaming ...read more -
Fostex TH610 headphones and HPA4BL DAC/Headphone amplifier
|Fostex is a name which conjures up professional audio, and, in my particular audio experience, Reel-to-Reel machines! In fact, Fostex was formed as an offshoot of the Foster Electric company in 1973, the parent company ...read more -
HiFiMAN Shangri-La electrostatic headphone system
|I first met Fang Bian (now Dr Fang Bian), the founder and President of HiFiMAN, a number of years ago and our interactions at the time centred on the firm’s early-generation HE-5LE planar magnetic headphones. ...read more