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Meridian Audio Ultra DAC digital converter
|Meridian has always had a reputation for thinking outside the box, dating right back to the strikingly original 104 series amps. More recently, Meridian is compatible with MQA, which in case you haven’t heard, rolls ...read more -
Focal Kanta No.2 floorstanding loudspeaker
|The 2017 Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver was due to start in a couple of hours. Audio fans were already queueing up at the door waiting to wade into the annual milieu of many ...read more -
Magico S3 Mk II floorstanding loudspeaker
|Magico is a perfectionist brand, run by perfectionists, for perfectionists. If you read this as a vague insult or back-handed compliment, Magico clearly isn’t the brand for you. Magico folk pride themselves in their perfectionism. ...read more -
Nordost Heimdall 2 and Blue Heaven headphone cables
|Nordost needs no introduction in the high-end audio world, but now the Massachusetts-based company is offering two ranges of specialised headphone signal cables. The top offering is the Heimdall 2 headphone cable (or headphone cable ...read more -
Bowers & Wilkins 702 S2 floorstanding loudspeaker
|At £3,300 per pair the 702 S2 is a very clever loudspeaker indeed. On the one hand, it replaces the top model from the CM-series. On the other, it trickles down much of technology from ...read more -
CAAS Elysian preamplifier and mono power amplifiers
|It works like this: you get into hi-fi in your teens/twenties, toil away at a decent job for twenty or thirty years, and then realise that life is finite and that if you’re ever going ...read more -
Questyle Audio QP2R high‑resolution portable digital audio player
|Serious headphone enthusiasts are by nature an inquisitive lot and so it happens that at industry gatherings such as the CanJam event held each year at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest we do a lot ...read more -
Ecosse Master Reference DCT interconnect cables
|Our cable benchmarks are easily destroyed by working for Hi-Fi+. You begin by having the same sense of wonder at performance and shock when it comes to the prices, but pretty soon that all goes ...read more -
Gutwire Perfect Ground grounding cable
|OK, I need to admit to some deep bias against this product from the outset. Try as I might, I just can’t get my head around the concept of something with a 13A mains plug ...read more -
GamuT Zodiac floorstanding loudspeaker
|For good or ill, when it comes to audio, we live in a time of flagships and statements. There is a drive in many manufacturers to build the biggest and the best product they can, ...read more -
Roon for Devialet
|The phrase “as we went to press” is often a euphemism for something happening close to the date of publication, but in the case of the latest update for the Devialet Expert 1000 Pro, it ...read more -
Ultrasone NAOS portable headphone DAC
|Clicking on the Ultrasone website is an unexpectedly pleasant experience that plunges the browser by way of video on a fly-by journey into the sunny green countryside of Bavaria. The score to The Sound of ...read more -
Vitus Audio SS-103 power amplifier
|Every so often an amplifier arrives at my home for review and after a healthy period of listening I realise that this one is going to be difficult to write, purely because there are no ...read more -
PS Audio DirectStream Memory Player
|In an era of streaming network-attached digital music sources you might think the time for listening to music as played from spinning silver discs is past, but that isn’t necessarily the case. In fact, if ...read more -
Brinkmann Audio Nyquist digital to analogue converter
|Many reviews are harder to write than this one. The Brinkmann Nyquist DAC is the most inviting-sounding DAC I have heard, or at least the most inviting-sounding converter this side of the Nagra HD DAC. ...read more