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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 -
Dynaudio Special Forty standmount loudspeaker
|In retrospect we may look back on 2017 as the year that a bumper crop of affordable yet extremely high performance standmount monitors arrived. Within the past ten months or so, a number of veteran ...read more -
VPI Prime Scout turntable
|The VPI Prime Scout is the entry-level model in VPI’s core ‘Prime’ range of turntables, which consists of three models: the Prime Scout, Prime, and Prime Signature, the other two of which have already been ...read more -
Kalista Dreamplay CD transport and DAC
|Not perhaps the most exciting way to start a review of more than £70,000 worth of CD player, but taxonomy is important here. Métronome Technologie is a French company that makes digital players. Its top ...read more -
Chord Electronics Hugo2 transportable headphone amp/DAC
|When Chord Electronics released the first-generation Hugo headphone amp/DAC in 2014 it started a revolution in more ways than one. First, the Hugo proved that a headphone amp the size of a paperback novel could ...read more -
Naim Audio Uniti Nova integrated streaming amplifier and Uniti Core music server
|This was a LONG time coming! Naim Audio announced the new versions of the Uniti products in the middle of 2016, with a view to rolling out the first products in October or November. And ...read more -
Audiovector QR Sub subwoofer
|The new QR subwoofer is actually the second of two models in the Audiovector line-up, although in the spirit of other Audiovector SR models, the SR Sub is available in Super, Signature, Avantgarde, and Avantgarde ...read more