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Roksan Xerxes.20Plus Turntable System
|Although our reviews are existential in nature (“I feel…” rather than “it does…”), we do try to take the personal element out of the story behind the product, but this time, it’s difficult. You see, ...read more -
Guru Junior Loudspeaker
|At the Bristol show in February the Guru distributor had pictures of a girl ‘chillaxing’ with a pair of Guru Junior speakers under the slogan ‘Swedes have more fun’. I guess if Ingmar Bergman had ...read more -
Apex Hi-Fi Glacier Portable Headphone Amp/DAC
|You can’t judge books by their covers or audio components by their cosmetics, but some products look so cool that they all but demand an audition and in my eyes one such component is the ...read more -
Marten Django L Loudspeaker
|Marten speakers run like a red thread woven through much of the magazine’s history, so it’s fitting to celebrate our century with a review of one of the magazine’s best-loved brands. Most loudspeaker companies would ...read more -
Electrocompaniet EMP3 Blu-ray/Universal Disc Player
|For an audio company that isn’t the size of Sony, making a universal disc player is fraught with difficulties today. Despite it being not the rip-roaring success it was hoped to be (Netflix, LoveFilm and ...read more -
Cavalli Audio Liquid Glass Hybrid Valve/Solid-State Headphone Amplifier/Preamplifier
|Cavalli Audio is a USA-based manufacturer of world-class headphone amplifiers. They are ‘bespoke’ products, since the amps typically allow at least some degree of customization to meet buyers’ requirements. But the underlying qualities that typify ...read more -
Stillpoints (Part One)
|(Words, Chris Thomas; Photography, Simon Marsh) Sometimes, late at night, I sit alone and quiet in the house with the loudness of the day behind me and pick away at my acoustic guitar. It’s a ...read more -
Funk Firm Little Super Deck turntable
|A couple of decades ago, the must-have affordable turntable was the Pink Triangle Little Pink Thing. Alongside the standard PT and the Anniversary, the entry-level LPT turntable was a simple design, but one that in ...read more -
Sennheiser HD700 Headphones (Hi-Fi+)
|The Sennheiser HD800 is one of the best headphones money can buy, but it’s not without its detractors. It’s not cheap, is demanding of headphone amplifiers (Sennheiser has recently re-entered the headphone amplifier game as ...read more -
Snake River Audio Cables (Hi-Fi+)
|Based in Riggins, a town in the Pacific Northwest region of the USA, Snake River Audio is a small specialist company, hand-crafting high quality audio cables. It is near Hells Canyon, the deepest gorge in ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Web Exclusive – Arcam rBlink, rLink, rPAC review
|In issue 102 of Hi-Fi+, we will be reviewing the Arcam FMJ A19 integrated amplifier. But when the A19 arrived, it came with a second, smaller box full or Arcam goodies – the rBlink, the ...read more -
Dared RD-1 table radio
|Speaking as an audiophile, radio as a hi-fi source kind of passed me by. Sure, I owned a hi-end tuner (the legendary Yamaha CT-7000, no less), but in thirty years it never saw much use. ...read more -
Conrad-Johnson LP125sa Power Amplifier (Hi-Fi+)
|Back in Issue 95, AS reviewed cj’s ARTsa power amplifier, a 140 W/ch stereo chassis, loaded with eight KT120 output tubes and enough planes and angles on its casework to qualify as modern architecture. He ...read more -
Final Audio Design Adagio III and FI-BA-SS Earphones (Hi-Fi+)
|Final Audio Design is a Japanese firm that has been creating high-end audio products since 1974, and has—for the past two decades—been actively working to produce and perfect very high-performance earphones. For this review, we ...read more -
ELAC FS407 Loudspeaker (Hi-Fi+)
|ELAC’s new 400 series models are designed from the outset to tick the boxes. They are elegant, slimline floorstanders in rich, modern finishes, the kind of thing that wouldn’t send an interior designer into apoplexy. ...read more