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Vienna Acoustics The Music floorstanding loudspeaker
|The more time you spend in and around the audio industry, the more apparent it becomes that some companies are noisier than others, forever trumpeting a new model, a new technology, or a ground-breaking advance ...read more -
Markaudio-Sota Viotti One standmount loudspeaker
|Every now and then, we get a product that claims to be international in outlook, which normally means it’s designed in one part of the world, and built in another. The Viotti One from Markaudio-Sota ...read more -
Vivid Giya G4
|The day after these little Giyas arrived designer Lawrence ‘Dic’ Dickie was off to Durban in South Africa to set up a test and measurement facility in Vivid’s new factory. But the company was not ...read more -
Focal Sopra No.3 Loudspeaker
|Focal's elegant, striking, and strikingly different Sopra No.2 has quickly established a reputation as the sweet spot in the entire Focal range. Offering the right size, at the right price, with more than a hint ...read more -
Purist Audio Design 30th Anniversary USB Cable
|Back in the mid 1980s, nuclear physicist and audiophile Jim Aud had a smart idea: why not use fluid or gel dielectrics in audio cables? Despite an early ‘huh?’ factor from some, the Purist Audio ...read more -
Clearer Audio Silver-line Optimus Reference interconnect cable
|Optimus Reference does sound like something exploding from one of Michael Bay’s abysmal yet lucrative Transformers movies, but it’s the current flagship of Clearer Audio’s range, topping out the best-of-breed Silver-line group of pure silver ...read more -
APL DSD-S digital converter
|Comparatively little known outside its native Bulgaria, APL Hi-Fi, Ltd has actually been around since 1988. The company’s chief designer, Alex Peychev, exploits his decades working in professional and broadcast electronics to create a comprehensive ...read more -
Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum Integrated amplifier
|The Dan D’Agostino Master Audio Systems Momentum Integrated amplifier is effectively two boxes in one. The lower, base chassis doubles up as the power supply, and a short, green, braided, four-pin connector cable connects this ...read more -
T+A Elektroakustik AMP 8 power amplifier
|T+A’s awesome HV electronics are mighty beasts, but like most might beasts in audio, they are not exactly ‘cheap’. You do get your money’s worth with the HV series amplifiers, but you still need a ...read more -
Innuos ZENith MkII music server
|Portugal is not a country that gets on the audio map very often so it’s great to find Innuos, a company with a Portuguese founder and an assembly and distribution base in that part of ...read more -
Westone ES60 Custom-Fit In Ear Monitor
|When asking non-audiophile friends and colleagues for their impressions, if any, of Westone Laboratories, I have discovered many think the firm focuses primarily on selling components and supplies for the global hearing aid industry. This ...read more -
Cyrus Audio Phono Reference phono stage and PSX-R2 power supply
|Cyrus Audio – home of the ‘singing shoebox’ – is synonymous with good quality audio at a fair price. Occasionally though, it knocks one of its products completely out of the park. That’s what happened ...read more -
Aavik U-300 Unity integrated amplifier
|When you attend audio shows around the world, you get to see distinct patterns and trends in system matching. When Product X works so well with Product Y and Product Z that they are used ...read more -
Trilogy Audio Systems 931 headphone amplifier
|We loved the Trilogy Audio Systems 933 headphone amplifier when we tested it back in issue 94. It is the company’s first ‘serious’ headphone device; a two-box amplifier that can drive anything with ear cups ...read more -
conrad-johnson GAT Series 2 preamplifier
|For the last decade, high-end audio has been on a seemingly inevitable trajectory, its controls set for the heart of the luxury market sector, propelled by the twin impetus of soaring prices and the influx ...read more