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Roksan Blak CD player
|Many people have written off CD today. However, reports of the death of the polycarbonate disc are greatly exaggerated. True, it’s getting ever harder to find players, especially new players, and increasingly the audiophile zeitgeist ...read more -
PMC twenty5.26 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Formula One is, on the one hand, a magnificent waste of money and resources, but on the other, it’s a hot-bed of technological advances, which trickle down into the vehicles that we mere mortals drive. ...read more -
conrad-johnson CAV-45 integrated amplifier
|A couple of issues ago, we looked at the latest in the Classic line from conrad-johnson’s power amplifier range. At that time, we focused on the SE versions of the Classic Sixty-Two and Classic One-Twenty. ...read more -
Spendor D9 floorstanding loudspeaker
|Spendor may be one of the oldest (and most respected) names in the UK audio industry, but since its acquisition by Philip Swift (once of Audiolab) its products have been anything but old-fashioned. Admittedly, the ...read more -
TechDAS Air Force III turntable and SAT tonearm
|The very top end of turntsablism is dominated by a few great names, but perhaps the biggest one at this time is the Japanese brand TechDAS. Coming from good high-end stock (chief designer and CEO ...read more -
AudioQuest NightOwl headphones
|AudioQuest used to be best known for a vast range of high-performance audio cables. It still makes those cables – covering every base from ‘cheap as chips’ to ‘I’ll collect them in my Friday helicopter’ ...read more -
IsoTek EVO 3 Genesis One power regenerator/EVO 3 Titan One power conditioner
|IsoTek has made the whole subject of power conditioning and regeneration more understandable with the launch of its EVO3 Titan One and EVO3 Genesis One products. Forming a core part of the company’s penultimate Mosaic ...read more -
Rega "A Vibration Measuring Machine" book
|Rega Research knows its way around a turntable. After more than 40 years of building high-quality and often very reasonably priced turntables, tonearms, cartridges, and even phono stages, the company has earned its vinyl spurs. ...read more -
Kimber Axios headphone cable
|The audiophile community is slowly but surely coming to embrace headphones as serious high-end audio components and with this change a market for high-performance upgraded headphone signal cable has emerged. But some will surely question ...read more -
B.M.C. Audio CS3 integrated amplifier
|A couple of years ago, we raved about the B.M.C. Audio CS2 integrated amplifier, for a number of good reasons. Like the CD player/transport, DAC, and power amps – and supposedly like the phono stage ...read more -
Lejonklou Sagatun Mono 1.3 preamplifier and Tundra Mono 2.2 power amplifiers
|A surface look at Lejonklou’s top amps would likely file them under ‘quirky’. A fully dual-mono preamplifier and power amplifier, with a relatively low power output, the kind of minimalism that borders on outright nihilism, ...read more -
Jeff Rowland Design Group Capri S2 preamplifier
|I wonder if Jeff Rowland ever read EF Schumacher’s popular tome Small is Beautiful, a guide of sorts to the benefits of keeping a business small, a state of affairs that many audio manufacturers have ...read more -
Merrill Audio Christine line-stage preamplifier
|Bringing really high quality audio into your home requires a number of things to come together. Firstly you need the money, and as I used the term “Really high quality” you are going to need ...read more -
Plinius Hiato integrated amplifier
|I’m not sure if it’s the climate in New Zealand or the Lord of the Rings effect, but if the Plinius Hiato is anything to go by, they like to go large down under. The ...read more -
Noble Audio Kaiser Encore universal-fit earphones
|I first encountered Noble Audio a number of years ago when the firm’s reigning flagship was the Kaiser 10 custom-fit in-ear monitor, which I reviewed in Hi-Fi+ issue 119. As it turns out, the Kaiser ...read more