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Nordost QPoint harmonisers and QSource power supply
|Although several cable brands have branched out into other fields in audio, Nordost was the first to extend its coherent cable ethos out to products that work throughout a good audio system. These have included ...read more -
Audiovector R1 Arreté stand-mount loudspeaker
|Audiovector’s popular core SR range has been with us for some time, but things move on. Although upgradable, the SR models had reached a point where the next generation of technology developed in top-end models ...read more -
Pangea Audio HPBDSS1 headphone hanger
|This review covers a product so useful and so intuitively right that it falls squarely in the ‘Why-the-heck-didn’t-I-think-of-that?' category. What is it? It is Pangea Audio’s simple, smart, and sturdy clamp-on headphone hanger—a device that ...read more -
Pathos Acoustics Kratos integrated amplifier
|The Italian firm Pathos Acoustics is well-known for several things. First, it makes some beautiful-looking electronics, all chrome and wood and shiny metal. Second, it uses hybrid circuits in many of its best-known designs. Also, ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins Formation Duo active stand-mount loudspeakers
|It’s been almost three years now since the Munich High End Show when the audio world discovered that Bowers & Wilkins had changed hands. Long-time owner Joe Atkins had sold to a Californian entrepreneur with ...read more -
EMM Labs DV2 digital converter
|There are few people in the audio world with a reputation like Ed Meitner’s. He made turntables without platters, he made digital converters that were used by recording engineers for Sony, Philips, and Telarc. He ...read more -
Technics SL-1000R turntable
|For all the talk about the wonderful return of the Technics SL-1200 turntables, the tale masks aspects of the bigger story. The tale highlights the significance of the DJ's delight, skipping somewhat over the fact ...read more -
Critical Mass Systems QXK Rack
|There used to be one inviolate rule in audio; racks – like fine wine – don’t travel. There was good reason for this; they are heavy and tended not to be in the same high-end ...read more -
Fyne Audio F702 floorstanding loudspeakers
|Fyne Audio is a relatively new kid on the hi-fi block, formed in 2017 by several former Tannoy staff, following the takeover of Tannoy by a conglomerate a couple of years earlier. They’ve not wasted ...read more -
Mark Levinson No. 5805 integrated amplifier
|Here is one of the true survivor brands. Mark Levinson Audio Systems began life in the early 1970s, from the outset as the highest of high-end companies. The company separated from Levinson himself, went out ...read more -
FinkTeam Borg floorstanding loudspeaker
|There are two types of loudspeaker designer: those that come up with a loudspeaker design and create a whole company around it, and those who take a more ‘hired gun’ approach. Often, the skill set ...read more -
darTZeel NHB-18NS preamplifier and NHB‑108 Model Two power amplifier
|Regardless of how much high-end audio you have heard, when you experience something exceptional, the music lets you know all about it. It might all start with a small spark of revelation. But it will ...read more -
Cleer FLOW noise cancelling Bluetooth wireless headphone
|Friends and colleagues often approach me with inquiries like this: “I’m looking for noise cancelling Bluetooth headphones and have tried the Bose QuietComfort models (hasn’t everyone?), but are there other good models I ought to ...read more -
HiFiMAN Jade II electrostatic headphone system
|I first became aware of HiFiMAN roughly eleven years ago, when I sought to review one of the firm’s earliest planar magnetic headphones. However, in the course of reaching out to the firm I learned ...read more -
Shunyata Research Alpha USB cable
|If there’s one fixed point in the audio firmament, it’s that nothing stays the same for too long. Models refresh, new products come along, and benchmarks move with the times; so it is with cables. ...read more